Peter Hesse @[email protected]

Everyone's worked with a helpdesk like this

@davezatz @capitalweather thanks! hope you're well!

@pmhesse @capitalweather Gift article link, until safety matters. ;) wapo.st/4pXxOwJ

❄️ 🥁Drum roll, our first snowfall map is out — here's what to know After days of watching the pieces come together, we’re ready to share our first detailed snowfall forecast for this weekend’s storm. And yes… this has the potential to be a big, high-impact event across the region. Here’s what we’re projecting right now: • Beltway area: 5 to 10 inches • Southeast of D.C.: 4 to 8 inches • Well northwest of the Beltway: 8 to 14 inches, where snow should last longer before mixing The wild card is sleet. From the Beltway southward, snow is likely to mix with and change to sleet, and that sleet accumulation could be substantial, creating a thick, heavy, difficult-to-shovel mess. • This is not a final call • Expect this to change as we get better information Finally, just because of the interest, here's the storm timeline (we posted this in earlier as well), also subject to change: 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday: Chance of light snow, developing from southwest to northeast. A coating possible, especially from D.C. south. Temperatures: 16 to 20. 10 p.m. Saturday to 4 a.m. Sunday: Snow increases in coverage and intensity from southwest to northeast. Accumulation begins immediately once snow is steady. Temperatures: 16 to 20. 4 to 10 a.m. Sunday: Snow, heavy at times. Rapid accumulation of up to 1 to 2 inches per hour. Snow may gradually mix with and change to sleet, especially south and east of the Beltway. Temperatures 15 to 20. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday: Snow north and west of the Beltway may mix with or change to sleet. Mostly sleet near the Beltway, mixing with snow at times. Mainly sleet south and east of the Beltway, with some freezing rain also possible. Temperatures: 18 to 24. 4 to 10 p.m. Sunday: Mixed precipitation gradually diminishes from southwest to northeast. Temperatures: 20 to 25. 10 p.m. Sunday to 4 a.m. Monday: Lingering areas of mixed precipitation or freezing drizzle possible. Temperatures: 17 to 22. We’ll be refining this map/timeline and updating often as the storm gets closer. Link to full briefing in reply.

@capitalweather When will the paywall be lifted for storm coverage? That has been the tradition, right?

Link to full briefing: washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/0…

I will be at RSA for first time in a couple years. Would love to see friends.

@warodhan Dr. Al-Shalan - so happy this message resurfaced for you. I am hopeful your daughter is healthy and happy. I have a nearly-16 year old myself and I knew my wife would want me to be home rather than at a conference :)

في عام 2008م، كنت ألقى عرضًا عن إحدى أوراقي البحثية في مؤتمر الهوية الرقمية الأضخم في العالم IDTrust في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. حينها كنتُ انتظر قدوم ابنتي الأولى (جود) في إنجلترا. لا أعرف كاتب هذه التغريدة التي اكتشفتها اليوم بالصدفة، لكن أشكره لتذكيري بتلك الأيام الجميلة.

@jayhawk4life519 Add rushing yards, rushing TDs, and wins to your graphic and maybe you'll see.

Same stats, different narratives. One’s a ‘bust,’ the other’s ‘generational.’ Media bias or fan delusion?

Thinking of trying to lobbycon today or tomorrow at #shmoocon...

well... that's not good

@MatthewVanHoos1 are you by chance in the stadium Saturday? My organist spouse @squiffer1 will finally join me for a game!

@wynaliu today's connections #467... There's a flat out misspelling. It's never spelled with a Y, it's always IE. Refer to any comic book or novelization. (Not saying more for spoilers sake)

@funnydanny twice baked potatoes...

@DisneyPlus can you please fix your Android app so that it handles no internet connection? I carefully downloaded content last night to watch on a plane today, and couldn't launch the app without an internet connection.

The most common 4-digit PINs from an analysis of 3.4 million leaked PINs. #dataviz source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

Can we scan the brains of all out politicians? I would suspect this is not the only one with partially eaten brains.

Amazing photo in the @washingtonpost article on the Mt. Ruang eruption in Indonesia. wapo.st/3WlOfrJ

I, for one, do not fear our AI overlords because of their vunerbabilities or vuenerabilites or vuneerabillitys or voilnerabilities

Hey @washingtonpost editors are important

There is only one @StanleyCup and every time those overpriced tumblers get mentioned it makes me sad.

Sad!! cnn.com/2023/10/28/ent…

@robertgraham 200/20 Cox Business Internet, Ubiquiti USG, Wifi

Could you do me a favor? Start a "ping 8.8.8.8" in a window (or "ping -t 8.8.8.8" if on Windows). Then, go to Speedtest.net and do a test of speed. Show me the ping times from when it was downloading. This is a test of "buffer bloat". If you don't have a problem, then ping times shouldn't change much, but you should get timeouts (dropped ping packets). But if you have a buffer bloat problem, ping times increase dramatically, ping after ping. When I tried this at home, pings jumped to 700ms for all the pings during the download (Ubiquiti router). When I just tried this at a bar, who uses Comcast provided router, only a couple pings jumped in latency.