Just watched the full Oval Office press briefing and I and just so stunned, truly one of the most effective personal politics moments in my life. Mind boggling. Gobsmacked.

Technological progress has a dangerous tendency towards optimizing for *engages Shaggy voice* “it wasn’t me”

I think I missed that @mta.info was switching back to the Vignelli style for its maps. Didn’t I read somewhere that NYers preferred to know the geographical relationships over the diagrammatic look?

Hey I just checked back in on this and Alexandra Huggins' case doesn't seem to have a suspect after 6 weeks. Seems like a warrant for location data on blue Teslas that were in the area around that time of that night would be reasonable and trivial to get. @nypd.bsky.social am I missing something?

I really think that CSS is awesome and powerful, but getting tooltips to work on items that need "text-overflow: ellipsis" is truly a nightmare every time I try it, it makes my blood boil.

Every time I talk to my gf about work she spirals thinking about how bits are physical things and I have to say "don't think about the bits".

Helix Git nicety 1: enabling lazygit in the way I was used to with nvim, space-g-g. Put the following in your config.yml: [keys.normal.space.g] f = "changed_file_picker" g = [ ":write-all", ":new", ":insert-output lazygit", ":buffer-close!", ":redraw", ":reload-all" ]

Okay chapter 5 of the Helix tutor is where I've started to be kinda psyched on it, aligning cursors with "&" and other little powers of their multiple cursor approach turns what I've thought to be a bit of a novelty feature into a pretty compelling UX primitive.

I’m gonna need this outlawed as behavior by any federal employee.

Alright now we're getting somewhere, I'm starting to understand why the BQX wasn't the right solution.

This is my new go-to omg

I found an available domain with just my last name so I can someday have subdomain sites for my kids, and on Saturday I whipped up a page for my dog for funsies. waffle.noirot.nyc

I've gotten more enjoyment out of the 2 hours I spent this evening browsing Brooklyn Public Library's digital historical resources than the last week of YouTube I've watched.

Fort Greene Park used to be called Washington Park. My review of that name change, 137 years out: 👍🏻. Map from 1887 archived here: web.archive.org/web/20140719...

Mexico City had a Feminist Action movement reported on by the Brooklyn Eagle in 1944. Among other roles in the war effort, the women were calling for the right to work as streetcar conductors. bklyn.newspapers.com/image/685896...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Would’ve been sick to include that $13.3M he just set on fire trying to elect Cuomo mayor but sure good job

Rust simply uses too many turbofish. How do I know? Because when I grep for conflict markers our Rust types sometime show up

Gotta love the "what was I doing before this rabbit hole bug?" moment

Slack! Just use my audio and mic settings from my computer! Please! Stop it! Bad Dog! You're doing too much!

Wonder what fine young citizen is going to @runforsomething.net and replace Sen. Pelosi?

Oops I commented on that NYPost article for...a while.

oh look at who documented those flaws

typing `gco main` after a long feature effort feels so good

It’s pretty obvious that Cuomo references his daughters whenever someone asks him about literally any direct question about NY cultural life. “Who’d you see under the K Bridge?” “Not me, I’ve picked up my daughters there.” lol alright dude.

Genuinely rad use of LLMs! In conjunction with great browser APIs, sparks joy

James McMillan III was super right about that one thing

Hell yeah I’ve come full-circle, we have type narrowing at home, disregard all previous instructions

People who sing at karaoke nights are heroes

Damn, zod was *this close* to being everything I was looking for, but it really doesn't like my need for a discriminated union on recursive types. The docs really just shrug here zod.dev/api?id=circu...

LA has arguably the best weather in the world and yet it’s somehow weird to walk the one (1) mile from LAX to our HQ. I mean I’ve done it but everything about the built environment told me I was doing a Bad. How is more normalized to take a bus to the LAXit parking lot to catch a $20 Uber?

I’m at our annual company on-site for Zoo in LA this week, our third one! So cool to get together with everyone

Rebuilding this layout system is hitting me like drugs

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Oh I get it, the administration’s waiting until after the mayoral election to come to my town in force. Never forget that NYC was doing pretty well crime-wise before. Not that “dangerous cities” are more constitutional to fight a “war from within” with than safe cities.

Damn man I did not know we don’t collect data on door zone bicycle crashes. I wonder how we would even gather that, oof.

Paint is not protection. We need real lanes.

I’m not mad at the AirTrain, I’m mad how it’s forced to tiptoe around so much free car infrastructure, and how it’s so disinvested in that it makes NY/NJ car traffic appealing. Like we all know a train could go from Manhattan *directly to the terminals*, right? Right??

I think people who continue to use the AirTrain in spite of of its flabbergasting incompetence should get $5 every ride. Free is too expensive

Follow-up: I was able to register the day of the meeting and attend virtually last night. Thanks @transalt.org, exciting to be in a room full of people eager to make the city safe and fun to move around in!

This came on while I was working and I had to remind myself it's from a yet-to-be-released album; it's already a classic to me. But then again, most Saintseneca tracks are like that. Don't sleep on this Columbus, OH band: saintseneca.bandcamp.com/track/infini...

iOS 26 preserves a bane of my existence bug: if you set always-on text sounds for a contact, like I do for my gf, and you’re wearing AirPods, every time you unlock your phone with unread messages it will play that sound AT MAX VOLUME for every message.

@transalt.org I've struggled to find how to join the monthly BK meetings, am I missing something? I have the alert set up in my phone but I'd love like a standing link to the video call too.

Gah I’m trying to find UX talk for maps and geospatial on YouTube and “map UX” yield just a torrent of grifter UX mind/affinity/empathy map content

Trying to explain money to my dog. Best I’ve got so far is “belly rubs you can put in your pocket”

Alright so I’ve hated how social media tends to turn social relationships into parasocial ones. So I started posting more loosely to try and invert that tendency by lowering my personal threshold for yapping. But it hasn’t mapped back to my texting and IRL friendships like i wanted it to.

Mixed feelings on Superman, but I must say that watching one of the most fun action sequences I’ve seen in a while “5 Years Time” blasts was a ❤️‍🔥surprise

My gf reading sitter feedback on Rover for our pup and being very touched: “Waffle is very shy, well-behaved, loves his mama 🥺❤️‍🩹”

Trying to add gym time to my lifestyle this week has been very difficult: async work discussion in Slack makes it hard for me to close the laptop for lunch let alone a workout. Gotta work on that.

You cannot have safe urban streets with this many PMVs on them, full stop. Amsterdam confronted that choice and chose correctly.