linhpham.org
Linh Pham
My personal website and blog where I post stuff about my work on the Wait Wait Stats Project as well as posts about using Linux, working on my home lab, and video games. I try to post monthly, but it mostly depends on spare time outside of work and events.
August 2026
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Today, I am officially launching a search engine for the Marsupial Gurgle audio archive called "Hey Gurgle".
After I published my "Wait Wait Stats Wrapped 2024" project on my Mastodon, Bluesky, and (now-deleted) Instagram accounts, I started building reports based on "Wait Wait Stats Wrapped", as well as a few new reports that I have been meaning to build. Those new reports and a number of other changes are now published...
Back in February 2021, I published a blog post title, "That's So… Randomizer", on the old Wait Wait Stats Project Blog announcing a new feature I added to the Wait Wait Stats Page with the ability to view a random Not My Job guest, host, location, panelist, scorekeeper or show from the corresponding pages. In the...
After receiving my Steam Deck OLED and getting my games installed on it, my old 256 GB Steam Deck started to collect dust. I originally thought about having it permanently docked and connected to my TV as an emulation system, but I ended up falling back to the MiSTer or playing older games on original hardware.
With 2024 coming to a close, I wanted to provide a couple of updates from the past couple of months from the Wait Wait Stats Project and my continuing adventure into daily driving Linux.
After I stood up my own Mastodon instance, linh.social, I started work on creating a Python script that would create and publish posts when new episodes pop onto a couple of podcasts that I listen to. The project, mastodon-podcast-bot pulls down and processes each feed and uses the Mastodon.py library to publish...
Earlier this year, I migrated the Wait Wait Stats Page and the Wait Wait Graphs Site from the Materialize frontend toolkit to the Bootstrap frontend toolkit. Today, I announce that the Wait Wait Reports Site version 3 has been released and uses Bootstrap.
Version 2.13.0 of the Wait Wait Stats Library has been published, and it includes new show methods for retrieving show information and details for Best Of, Repeat, and Best Of Repeat shows.
Just a quick update to announce that Wait Wait Graphs version 3 has been published. Similar to version 6 of the Wait Wait Stats Page, the new version of Wait Wait Graphs replaces the Materialize frontend toolkit with Bootstrap.
It was about 2.5 years ago that I published version 5.0 of the Wait Wait Stats Page, which two significant changes behind the scenes: migrating to version 2 of the Wait Wait Stats Library (wwdtm) and using Flask Blueprints.
Due to their donations and support for both Hyprland and Omarchy, along with their poor response of wanting to "create a big tent" when members of the community voiced their concerns, I cannot recommend Framework for laptops and computers.
Due to their donations and support for both Hyprland and Omarchy, along with their poor response of wanting to "create a big tent" when members of the community voiced their concerns, I cannot recommend Framework for laptops and computers.
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