Getting used to the new interface

Even though I wrote this thing, the new editor interface is so radically different from the old one that it will take getting used to. Also, the new blog engine uses Markdown instead of HTML, which makes writing quicker with a lot less formatting.

And because I wrote it to the simplest standard of good software that I know ("it does what it's supposed to and it's easy to change"), if when I find something clunky, I file a bug on Jira and then I fix it.

If only we could apply the rule to the current administration, which does not do what it's supposed to, and is not easy to change:

• Yesterday, some flunky in Health & Human Services cut $2 billion—basically all the funding—from 2,000 substance-abuse and mental health programs, and quietly restored fundng this morning.
• Amanda Nelson says we should stop thinking about ICE as the American Gestapo because, really, it's more like the slave patrols of the antebellum South.
• Paul Krugman credits the impatience and incompetence of the OAFPOTUS and his droogs with giving us the best chance to resist authoritarianism in the US.

Also, today is the 25th birthday of Wikipedia. The free online encyclopedia has a special birthday mode that will remain available through mid-February. Today is also the 45th anniversary of Hill Street Blues, which you should watch if you haven't already seen it. I think it holds up, as a snapshot of life in 1980s Chicago.