Support got back within 5 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Pretty impressive stuff.

Hey @fly.io! Would love if customers could manually increase their own machine limits ("i.e. I know what I'm doing"). Requiring an email to support is preventing us from taking advantage of fly's fantastic scaling :)

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp

I’ve long said that a major factor in my choice of airline is WiFi. The fact that Air France now offers fast (and free!) Starlink means it’s now my usual go-to for flights to Europe. Fantastic work!

I wrote about the economics of same-day delivery: eliothertenstein.com/notes/unihop

Ellsworth Kelly, “Black Relief” (2006)

Remember that content moderation is a miserable job: viewing the worst parts of the internet on repeat for 8 hours a day. The less humans have to intervene the more ethical content moderation becomes.

Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone

This is why we need Bluesky for Biking! bikepacking.com/plog/when-we...

⚡ We teamed up with Meta to deliver precompiled iOS builds in 0.81/SDK 54. You get: ◆ Faster builds: Compile RN once per release ◆ Smoother integrations: Easier to add RN into brownfield apps ◆ Future-proof: Prepares RN for migration from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager expo.dev/blog/precomp...

Carto Tchoo by @nicolaswurtz.bsky.social is one of the coolest sites I've ever seen. Doing a rail tracking website well is really hard, and from what I can tell, he nailed every aspect of the experience. carto.tchoo.net/map

There are so many reasons to love the Paris metro, but one of them is how quick stops are. The doors are open for less than 10 seconds at some stations. This is what platform doors and high frequency enables! If trains are arriving every 4 minutes, missing a train isn’t a big deal.

Update: it's just okay. Not worth it for $90 IMO and the battery life isn't great. It's also much larger than I expected. But, I'm going to keep giving it a go and see what the one-week update is!

Currently transported back to the 90s on my United flight — there’s a credit card reader built into the seat back and they’re showing the trailer for “Clueless (1995)” which is wonderfully dated.

Anyone know why the Seattle Metro has such wide corridors in their stations? Possibly to accommodate a future express track or something?

Claude running a vending machine proceeds to sell several tungsten cubes at a loss and then have an existential crisis. www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

STINSON BEACH: At 9:58 p.m. a woman said she was in hiding after learning "spiritually, through her tum tum," that a man was stalking and trying to kill her.

Ordered a tinypod (thetinypod.com) and will report back how it feels. I'm excited – I have basically stopped wearing my apple watch thanks to my Oura ring, but wish I could stop carrying my phone around. It *should* be able to do everything I want (Music, iMessage, etc.) but no YouTube or Twitter.

Can someone from the bsky team (maybe @jaz.bsky.social?) explain why uploading a string (5mb) as a blob just doesn't work on a PDS? I have PDS_BLOB_UPLOAD_LIMIT=104857600 in my pds.env. Recreation: gist.github.com/eiiot/fce125...

Having a day

I wrote about the news (and me). eliothertenstein.com/notes/news

FOREST KNOLLS: At 10:12 a.m. someone peeking through blinds saw a man with clothes strewn on the ground running around and yelling at passersby near the coffee shop.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The court ruling in Epic v. Apple now allows iOS apps to include in-app links to external payment pages—with just your payment processor’s fee and no modal—if your app is distributed in the U.S. This blog post is about what this means for Expo developers: expo.dev/blog/mobile-...

just setting up my pds

For this build, I’m running Shimano Ultegra Di2 (R8170). Ultegra is in the upper-middle tier of Shimano’s offerings, with 105 being the lowest and Dura-Ace being the highest. Di2 means the shifting is electronic — rather than running a cable, the shifters communicate wirelessly with the derailleur.

Building a new bike and figured I'd document the progress here! Something I love about cycling is the standardization across the industry – with some caveats, most components are compatible with most frames. This build begins with a Pinarello frame, the K10s.

Phoebe Bridgers as a linguist: "There are no words in the english language"

Instead of using “et al.” in writing I now use “and friends.” Adds a warm touch to my papers.

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excited about twitter 2.0