Matt

The #Crew96 have changed coaches in the middle of a season five times: 1996, 2001, 2005, 2013, and 2026. I got curious to see how the team's fortunes changed across those seasons, and this chart is the result.

This whole thread. Change is possible, even against really daunting problems with high stakes. It isn't easy, for both technical and political reasons, but it _is_ possible. (Posting to remind myself, as much as anyone else, that fatalism does not align with our lived experience.)

I didn't particularly _need_ to get more hyped about the Open Cup Final tonight, but damn if this article from #crew96 storyteller @stevesirk.bsky.social didn't get the job done anyway.

Got a chance to feel like I was back in studio this week, working on a sewing project for YoungMorphosis. The goal was a surcoat, so pretty simple (no decorations or emblems), but making it still got us to make five different fabric prototypes to figure out how we wanted to do different connections.

So if I'm following along correctly... A Zacharia is a demi-Scaramucci, and a deca-Truss. A Scaramucci is a bi-Zacharia, and a quinti-Truss. A Truss is a deca-Zacharaia, and a penta-Scaramucci. Yes, these units don't all align. I'm using an Ingrassia as my margin of error.

So is a Zacharia a Decitruss or is a Truss a Decazacharia?

There's been a lot of momentum to ban anonymous crawling and scraping, as web providers struggle under traffic surges. But anonymous crawling and scraping is the backbone of a HUGE amount of internet activity--everything from investigative journalism, to price comparison tools, to basic cybersec.

Filing this away, along with some other personal experiences when digging into a specific question with language models. simia.net/wiki/Checkin... (In this case, using an LLM as part of a research quest, along with a bit of asking a model to discuss its own past responses)

Just left an Astronomy on Tap event, hearing a talk about exoplanets (history of detections, details about methodologies behind the process, what each method can tell us, etc) I freaking love hearing smart people talk about their fields. More of that, please!

If all I had to worry about was cringe from 2022... (Not me still remembering things from the late 80s that make me shudder...)

To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.

Didn't find anything (via the exhaustive lit review of "asking bluesky", lol) so I wrote all about what I'm thinking about LLMs, which is not how to write code but what tools and processes do we need for teams to thrive if people are churning out code very fast andromedayelton.com/2026/09/30/t...

I've seen a ton of AI dev stuff to the effect of "here's my personal toolchain, model selection, etc." but much less to the effect of "here is how our team uses AI and still achieves PR review / does shared architectural thinking / avoids cognitive debt". Is anyone writing on that?

Call 'em out, coach. I'd particularly love to see the phrase "bring the game into disrepute" when you do. There are dark arts, and there are clowns. Miami was the latter in this game, IMO. It was cathartic to watch #Crew96 win.

This is the rule interpretation I'd support. Delaying a restart is a yellow card already, so why not the same standard when an entire team delays kickoff? Either allow the kickoff with only one team on the field, or caution those who delayed the game.

I am once again fascinated by what manages to become The Topic Of Today's Conversation on this platform. Not in a bad way, just in a "huh" way. (Or maybe there's more than one topic, and I'm just seeing a lot of people talk about one thing among a sea of ongoing conversations)

Saw this today, and it reminded me of what I've seen @guilfoos.com talk about recently about inclusion and the need to make sure everyone can contribute. www.instagram.com/reel/DdZlEHT...

Probably the biggest game of the season for #Crew96 (so far). The team hasn't won the Open Cup since 2002, and this is currently our last hope of any sort for a trophy.

I couldn't decide, so went with two. Both aired in 1995.

Would that everyone could have a senator like mine.

Throw-back Thursday to an article that my team at work read together during the pandemic, and I think is worth returning to. Understanding one's own caucus score (there's an instrument in the article for this) has helped me to calibrate how often I'm speaking in meetings versus listening.

I'm not the only person who cringes every time the ChatGPT commercial comes on in an #MLS broadcast with the elderly woman who appears to have an entire conversation with the tool, not realizing that she isn't talking to another person - right? This feels like a confidence con as a service - right?

I'm always surprised when #Crew96 name two backup goalkeepers on the game day squad. Particularly when there are folks like Herrera and Sejdic who get left off. At least Thiaré is back on the bench for the first time since before Leagues Cup.

BRB, gotta plan a coffee run to Halifax.

Just finished my second election as a ballot inspector. It was a long day (setup started at 6AM, polls closed at 8 PM and I didn't finish my cleanup until after 9 PM) but very, _very_ worth it. I cannot recommend getting involved highly enough.

HI are you an engineering manager? Do you want to manage MY TEAM and do mission-focused work helping people get college degrees? I have been dual-classed as our lead and our manager for the last few months so I'm happy to answer questions about how awesome the team is. www.ithaka.org/job/47282830...

It is not up to the president what the Kennedy Center is called. It is not up to the president what the Department of Defense is called. It is not up to the president what the Gulf of Mexico is called. It is not up to the president what Lake Ontario is called.

#Crew96 look more dangerous against the leading team in Liga MX than we have against most MLS teams in the last two weeks. And yet we're down 0-1, have seen a penalty kick saved, and Schulte has twice needed to pull out highlight reel stops.

Damnit, not again.

In the last four games, #Crew96 have earned one point and conceded ten goals. When is Bailly going to be available for selection again?

#Crew96

I'm glad that #Crew96 got Gazdag and Giaccone on the field rather than parking the bus with a late lead - but there's also part of me that was morbidly curious how it would go to give Christopher Rogers a professional debut under these conditions.

I note with some shock and no small amount of surprise that, shortly after posting this, #Crew96 now enjoy a 2-1 lead, having taken two shots on target.

Northeast folks, still trying to find a home for a pair of cats whose person passed away

Quote skeet with a game released in the year you were born.

It turns out that going for a two mile run-walk in the evening and trying to push myself during the "sprint" portions is a good way to work through the frustrations of watching my sports team lose a game.