Show Your Stripes: Michigan

Multicolored graphic displays temperatures from 1895 to 2022 as lines, stacked left to right. Alternating blue, white, and red lines dominate majority of graphic, except for approximately the past 30 years where shades of red and deep red lines dominate.

If you’re someone interested in weather news, you may have seen or heard people talking this week about showing your stripes.

Today is the sixth Show Your Stripes Day, held the first day of summer.

The annual event raises awareness for climate change and rising global temperatures by sharing “warming stripe” graphics, which display how average temperatures have changed since 1895.

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First Looks at Day One for Journaling

Screenshot of Introducing Day One on the Web blog post announcement.

I’m always been interested in different platforms for publishing my writing on the web.

But it can be hard to find a platform that lets you focus on your writing, without getting overwhelmed with features, configuration, etc.

Which is what first led me to create an account on Posterous in 2010, a simple blogging platform which shut down in 2013 (after Twitter bought it).

What I loved about Posterous was its quick setup (little configuration) and the many ways I could publish a post, including sending an email with text, photos, videos, etc.

In recent years, I took a look at Day One, one of the most popular platforms for private journals.

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