the flying squirrel

Darcy Casselman's weblog. Just like old times.

Logo for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest hosted in Vienna, with the ironic byline 'United by Music'
Eurovision Song Contest 2026

Eurovision 2026 Favourites

This was a big week. Not only were two lost episodes of Doctor Who found, but also the last few Eurovision 2026 songs were announced.

2026 is kind of a sad year for Eurovision owing to some poor management decisions. But I won't go into that here. I've decided to continue deepening my love of this weird bit of nonsense. And this year, I ended up watching a whole pile of national final shows, which many of the countries use to pick their entrants.

So most of these haven't been introduced to me this week. I've been enjoying them for a while. And I've also been enjoying songs that didn't win their national finals, and those I've been adding to my ongoing "Almost Eurovision" YouTube Music playlist, which I started a couple years ago.

This list isn't who I think will win. The odds are saying Finland right now. I don't really believe them, but I don't think I have any particular insight into who will actually win Eurovision. Instead, after the cut, these are songs I just like, that speak to me, or I think are special in some way.

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Stack Overflow: The Key Macropad. A novelty 'keyboard' with three keys, C, V and a key with the Stack Overflow logo.
Probably not enough keys for a reasonable prompt.

The Ultimate Evolution of Copying and Pasting Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is a website where you used to go to ask questions about computer programming and get answers from people who knew what they were doing. It gamified helping people, and, for a while, was cool and fun.

It became a joke that programming was just copy-and-pasting code samples from Stack Overflow. I even recall a mass email from management where I was working warning people to knock that off.

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The world's largest rubber duck in Hong Kong harbour.
The World's Largest Rubber Duck by chan yiu hao. CC BY 2.0

The World's Best Rubber Duck

I've been mulling over an "AI" post for a while now and I'm not sure how I want to approach it. Something grand and all-encompassing just isn't going to happen. I want to put much into it, weigh costs and benefits, pontificate broadly and cover all the bases. It's getting in the way of my vague goal of maybe writing more blog posts.

And no, I'm not going to have ChatGPT write it for me.

So maybe more of a blog series. I'll talk a little bit about how I'm using these exciting new technologies at work.

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