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Academic Link Will Become Owlstown Profiles
In a week or two, Academic Link is being retired and rolled into Owlstown Profiles — one profile, living under your own site instead of a shared domain.
What's changing
Today your public profile lives at a shared address: https://academic.link...
Post · July 30, 2026
A New Visual Text Block with Font Sizing and Per-Paragraph Alignment
Writing shouldn't mean fighting with your formatting tools. Today we're rolling out a new Visual Text block — with independent font sizing, per-paragraph alignment, and a toolbar that stays out of your way until you need it.
What's new
The ne...
Post · July 30, 2026
Added Support for Clicky Analytics
I just added support for adding Clicky Analytics to Owlstown. Clicky is a privacy-friendly lightweight analytics service that's much easier to set up than Google Analytics. With Clicky, you can see get a quick view of your traffic.
You just add y...
Post · July 30, 2026
Tom's Tiki Triple — A Tiki-Inspired, Sugar-Free, Rum Old-Fashioned
As you can tell in this week’s post, I was attempting a world record for hyphenated words — a result of attempting titles that are a bit more descriptive and inviting. Today, we take a simple but delicious O.G. cocktail spec and make it fit for a ...
Post · July 30, 2026
A Public Contract Can Be Compliant and Still Fail the Public
A public contract can be awarded on time, pass every compliance check, and produce a respectable saving. It can also push smaller suppliers out of the market, deepen dependence on one incumbent, or leave an agency unable to respond when supply con...
Post · July 30, 2026
Rotational Phase of Asteroid (98943) Torifune During Hayabusa2’s 2026 Flyby
The Encounter
On July 5, 2026, at approximately 09:30 UTC (18:30 JST), JAXA’s Hayabusa2 Extended Mission will perform a high-speed close approach of the near-Earth asteroid (98943) Torifune. The spacecraft is planned to pass within 1 km of the as...
Post · July 29, 2026
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