Will

What are we going to do tonight, Brain? The same thing we do every night. Try to find the blasted typo in my NYT crossword solve. NARF! Such a fun puzzle. What an accomplishment!

8D really threw me off because while BART yellow line has a stop named Embarcadero, the line that runs along the shoreline is administered by MUNI

I knew there were going to be howls when Deb's column began with the "how to solve on different platforms" [Thank you for making the medium sized bucks, btw.] I am consistently in awe of what the tech team is able to do when constructors come up with a novel approach to challenging us. Managing a multi-platform, highly-visible technical delivery system used by a passionate audience is not easy. Making an update for web - ok, the js files are downloaded when the page loads. But it also needs to have a way for it to work in an app, preferably without forcing a download and update. And that takes some doing. Perhaps I am forgetting the old saw "If civil engineers built bridges the way software engineers write programs none of us would ever cross a river again." I get it. We want it to 'just work'. I'm choosing to roll with the quirkiness and the need for a little help to get to the final state for the joy of a daily challenge to start my day. Now if someone can tell me why my watch won't sync with my tv.... But I am chosing to be thank

A very enjoyable puzzle. But I must say that I am unlikely to be an investor in any business venture that Mr. Westwig proposes... ;-)

After the last couple of days, this puzzle was a breath of fresh air for me. Which is simply to say I was on the same wavelength as the constructors. Loved the cluing. Give me a good pun any day of the week.

Minor nerd nit to pick. Blame the CS degree. ASCII - AMERICAN Symbolic Code for Information Interchange which uses 8 bits to encode information. (ok, ASCII needs 7 bits and Extended ASCII needs 8, but work with me on this one) The first 31 bit patterns (0x00 - 0X1F) are non printing characters and contain control codes like SYNc, ACKnowledge, Vertical TAB, Horizontal TAB, Carriage Return, LineFeed, Bell, etc. As such, they do not represent text. ASCII has insufficient patterns (2^8 = 256) to encode the symbols of non-western languages so the current system for encoding human readable text is Unicode (<a href="https://home.unicode.org" target="_blank">https://home.unicode.org</a>/), of which ASCII is a subset. Mainly I'm salty because I really wanted the fill to be AFAIK

Absolutely delighted by this puzzle, though I know some solvers will wish to YEET it over the back fence. Had one unfair cluing advantage having grown up on NJ's barrier island, but still was blinded for far too long by thinking fiery matches were HeTDATES . My sincere apologies to the sexuality and gender theorists in our community.

Did any of you other "Modern Lovers" have DODGE in there for a bit for 63A? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o90YWFlXdk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o90YWFlXdk</a>

This puzzle was absolutely brilliant. Amazing work, Mr. Caprera!

I suspect that at least some of us harping on the PAWPAW/PAPAW distinction went to elementary school in the US before music was deemed a frivolous subject and have memories of singing Appalachian folk songs in class. Wouldn't it be great if we all sang together a little more often?

Gah! Was thinking that tech-specs were spelled tec-specs and spent far too long at the top. Never mind that I couldn't figure out what in the world PtIGS were and why they were so self-righteous.

I really enjoyed this one, though I was caught for quite a while with a wrong answer on 104A for quite a while until I began checking rotated answers. I would have loved to do the rotations myself, but I suspect the technical team was quite content to not have to add a feature under tight time constraints that could have added many bugs. Kudos to your programmers for getting the reveal to work as well as it did for many of us.

Was thrown off by, of all things, TINT. In color theory a shade is a hue mixed with black. A tint is a hue mixed with white. A tone is a hue mixed with gray. So light shade made no sense to me. Still new here. Is this one for the emus?