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"text": "love waking up to a screen full of notifications that my 6am flight is delayed to 5pm \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f",
"html": "love waking up to a screen full of notifications that my 6am flight is delayed to 5pm <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F\">\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f</a>"
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It’s Bandcamp Friday! 100% of purchases go to the artists today. I picked up Sucré, Starkisser; Starflyer 59, Vanity; and Fine China, Eyes in the Water and Trees at Night
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"text": "It\u2019s Bandcamp Friday! 100% of purchases go to the artists today. I picked up Sucr\u00e9, Starkisser; Starflyer 59, Vanity; and Fine China, Eyes in the Water and Trees at Night\n\n\n\u00a0",
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I was reminded of the April Fools joke I posted in 2005. I was a holdout on getting a cellphone and posted that I finally got one. So many blog comments from friends. I miss those days.
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"text": "I was reminded of the April Fools joke I posted in 2005. I was a holdout on getting a cellphone and posted that I finally got one. So many blog comments from friends. I miss those days.\n\nI did finally get one in 2006, though.",
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"text": "Happy don't-believe-anything-you-read-on-the-internet day! \n\nTho come to think of it, that's becoming increasingly true for the other 364 days of the year as well now.",
"html": "Happy don't-believe-anything-you-read-on-the-internet day! <br /><br />Tho come to think of it, that's becoming increasingly true for the other 364 days of the year as well now."
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Yes I do realize the irony of paying someone to add a tip jar to my iOS app. But I've been putting off submitting the update to the App Store because my attempt at a tip jar was unsuccessful, so maybe this will finally get it out the door.
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"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/13397-Instrumental-album-release-party",
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"text": "Hey y'all, since I have the album coming out on Monday, I figure Sunday night would be a good time to actually try out Bandcamp\u2019s \u201clistening party\u201d biz. It\u2019s Sunday, March 31 at 5:30 PM PDT (GMT-0700).\n\nAlso I\u2019ll be attending a music listening party on VRChat tomorrow night (March 30) at 6:30 PM PDT (GMT-0700) and hopefully my album will be one of the things that gets played there too! The easiest way to join that would be to send me an invite request; here\u2019s my VRChat profile if we aren\u2019t friends already. (Unfortunately searching for my username from within VRChat is pretty difficult but you could try pasting this: flu\ufb00y \u2014 note the funky unicode!)",
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Because there are 88 keys on a standard piano, the 88th day of the year was established as a day to “celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener”.
I appreciate that Piano Day is on an ordinal day of the year (88th) rather than a Gregorian date (e.g. 8/8 or August 8th) which is subject to leap year variances. The 88th day of the year is the 88th day regardless whether it is a leap year or not.
From a standards perspective, we can express today’s Piano Day as 2024-088, an ISO ordinal date², however there is no standard date format for just "the 88th day of a year" without specifying a year (yearless).
There is (was) a way to specify a yearless month and day, like you might see as a birthday displayed on a social media site, without disclosing the year, or an annual holiday like May Day³, that is May 1st, without a specific year:
--05-01
This yearless date format (--MM-DD or shorthand --MMDD) was supported in the ISO 8601:2000 standard, but then dropped in the 2004 revision. This omission or deliberate removal was an error, because there are both obvious human visible use-cases (communicating holidays, and yearless birthdays as noted above), and other standards already depended on this yearless date format syntax (e.g. vCard⁴ and specs that refer to it like hCard and h-card).
Every version of ISO 8601 since 2000 has this flaw. Fixing (or patching) #ISO8601 is worth a separate post.
Returning to yearless ordinal dates, since they lack an interchange syntax, we can define one resembling the yearless month day format, yet unambiguously parseable as a yearless ordinal date:
---DDD
e.g. Piano Day would be represented as:
---088
We have to use three explicit digits because there's also pre-existing "day of the month" and "month of the year" syntaxes which are very similar, but with two digits:
--MM ---DD
This yearless #ordinalDate syntax (---DDD) is worth proposing as a delta "repair" spec to ISO 8601 (use-cases: Piano Day and others like Programmer’s Day⁵), alongside at least a restoration of the --MM-DD yearless month day syntax (use-cases: publishing holidays and yearless birthdays), perhaps also the ---DD day of the month and --MM month of the year syntaxes (use-case: language independent numerical publishing of Gregorian months and days of months), and propose adding a NewCal bim of the year syntax --B (numerically superior replacement for Gregorian months and quarters).
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"text": "Happy World Piano Day\u00b9!\n\nBecause there are 88 keys on a standard piano, the 88th day of the year was established as a day to \u201ccelebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener\u201d.\n\nThere are multiple websites about Piano Day:\n* https://www.pianoday.org/\n* https://www.worldpianoday.com/\n\nAnd related #socialMedia and other profiles:\n* https://www.instagram.com/pianodayofficial/\n* https://linktr.ee/PianoDay\n* Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2v022joEJ1ZUPi99NHDVNm?si=mmT4rDchTzW60KC3lsTksQ&nd=1&dlsi=2a348a57822c4217\n\nI appreciate that Piano Day is on an ordinal day of the year (88th) rather than a Gregorian date (e.g. 8/8 or August 8th) which is subject to leap year variances. The 88th day of the year is the 88th day regardless whether it is a leap year or not.\n\nFrom a standards perspective, we can express today\u2019s Piano Day as 2024-088, an ISO ordinal date\u00b2, however there is no standard date format for just \"the 88th day of a year\" without specifying a year (yearless).\n\nThere is (was) a way to specify a yearless month and day, like you might see as a birthday displayed on a social media site, without disclosing the year, or an annual holiday like May Day\u00b3, that is May 1st, without a specific year:\n\n--05-01\n\nThis yearless date format (--MM-DD or shorthand --MMDD) was supported in the ISO 8601:2000 standard, but then dropped in the 2004 revision. This omission or deliberate removal was an error, because there are both obvious human visible use-cases (communicating holidays, and yearless birthdays as noted above), and other standards already depended on this yearless date format syntax (e.g. vCard\u2074 and specs that refer to it like hCard and h-card).\n\nEvery version of ISO 8601 since 2000 has this flaw. Fixing (or patching) #ISO8601 is worth a separate post.\n\nReturning to yearless ordinal dates, since they lack an interchange syntax, we can define one resembling the yearless month day format, yet unambiguously parseable as a yearless ordinal date:\n\n---DDD\n\ne.g. Piano Day would be represented as:\n\n---088\n\nWe have to use three explicit digits because there's also pre-existing \"day of the month\" and \"month of the year\" syntaxes which are very similar, but with two digits:\n\n--MM\n---DD\n\nThis yearless #ordinalDate syntax (---DDD) is worth proposing as a delta \"repair\" spec to ISO 8601 (use-cases: Piano Day and others like Programmer\u2019s Day\u2075), alongside at least a restoration of the --MM-DD yearless month day syntax (use-cases: publishing holidays and yearless birthdays), perhaps also the ---DD day of the month and --MM month of the year syntaxes (use-case: language independent numerical publishing of Gregorian months and days of months), and propose adding a NewCal bim of the year syntax --B (numerically superior replacement for Gregorian months and quarters).\n\nGlossary:\n\nhCard\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/hcard\nh-card\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card\nNewCal\n\u00a0 http://newcal.org/\n\nReferences:\n\n\u00b9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day\n\u00b2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date\n\u00b3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day\n\u2074 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350#section-6.2.5\n\u2075 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day",
"html": "Happy World Piano Day<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_note-1\">\u00b9</a>!<br /><br />Because there are 88 keys on a standard piano, the 88th day of the year was established as a day to \u201ccelebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener\u201d.<br /><br />There are multiple websites about Piano Day:<br />* <a href=\"https://www.pianoday.org/\">https://www.pianoday.org/</a><br />* <a href=\"https://www.worldpianoday.com/\">https://www.worldpianoday.com/</a><br /><br />And related #<span class=\"p-category\">socialMedia</span> and other profiles:<br />* <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pianodayofficial/\">https://www.instagram.com/pianodayofficial/</a><br />* <a href=\"https://linktr.ee/PianoDay\">https://linktr.ee/PianoDay</a><br />* Spotify playlist: <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2v022joEJ1ZUPi99NHDVNm?si=mmT4rDchTzW60KC3lsTksQ&nd=1&dlsi=2a348a57822c4217\">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2v022joEJ1ZUPi99NHDVNm?si=mmT4rDchTzW60KC3lsTksQ&nd=1&dlsi=2a348a57822c4217</a><br /><br />I appreciate that Piano Day is on an ordinal day of the year (88th) rather than a Gregorian date (e.g. 8/8 or August 8th) which is subject to leap year variances. The 88th day of the year is the 88th day regardless whether it is a leap year or not.<br /><br />From a standards perspective, we can express today\u2019s Piano Day as 2024-088, an ISO ordinal date<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_note-2\">\u00b2</a>, however there is no standard date format for just \"the 88th day of a year\" without specifying a year (yearless).<br /><br />There is (was) a way to specify a yearless month and day, like you might see as a birthday displayed on a social media site, without disclosing the year, or an annual holiday like May Day<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_note-3\">\u00b3</a>, that is May 1st, without a specific year:<br /><br />--05-01<br /><br />This yearless date format (--MM-DD or shorthand --MMDD) was supported in the ISO 8601:2000 standard, but then dropped in the 2004 revision. This omission or deliberate removal was an error, because there are both obvious human visible use-cases (communicating holidays, and yearless birthdays as noted above), and other standards already depended on this yearless date format syntax (e.g. vCard<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_note-4\">\u2074</a> and specs that refer to it like hCard and h-card).<br /><br />Every version of ISO 8601 since 2000 has this flaw. Fixing (or patching) #<span class=\"p-category\">ISO8601</span> is worth a separate post.<br /><br />Returning to yearless ordinal dates, since they lack an interchange syntax, we can define one resembling the yearless month day format, yet unambiguously parseable as a yearless ordinal date:<br /><br />---DDD<br /><br />e.g. Piano Day would be represented as:<br /><br />---088<br /><br />We have to use three explicit digits because there's also pre-existing \"day of the month\" and \"month of the year\" syntaxes which are very similar, but with two digits:<br /><br />--MM<br />---DD<br /><br />This yearless #<span class=\"p-category\">ordinalDate</span> syntax (---DDD) is worth proposing as a delta \"repair\" spec to ISO 8601 (use-cases: Piano Day and others like Programmer\u2019s Day<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_note-5\">\u2075</a>), alongside at least a restoration of the --MM-DD yearless month day syntax (use-cases: publishing holidays and yearless birthdays), perhaps also the ---DD day of the month and --MM month of the year syntaxes (use-case: language independent numerical publishing of Gregorian months and days of months), and propose adding a NewCal bim of the year syntax --B (numerically superior replacement for Gregorian months and quarters).<br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />hCard<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/hcard\">https://microformats.org/wiki/hcard</a><br />h-card<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card\">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card</a><br />NewCal<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"http://newcal.org/\">http://newcal.org/</a><br /><br />References:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_ref-2\">\u00b2</a> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_ref-3\">\u00b3</a> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_ref-4\">\u2074</a> <a href=\"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350#section-6.2.5\">https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350#section-6.2.5</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5WA1_ref-5\">\u2075</a> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day</a>"
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