I was recently in the Bay Area again, and each time I find it a little bit harder to leave behind.

I use they/them pronouns now. Yes, I know what today is.

I literally owe my career in transportation to TransportationCamp, and helping organize the revival of TransportationCamp DC is the least I can do. If you're interested too, please express your interest!

I had an insight this morning: the way I am coming to feel about autonomous vehicles is a lot like the way I feel about nuclear power. kurtraschke.com/2025/10/nucl...

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh, the irony of a clanker trying to tell me that "clanker" is considered a derogatory slur...

nothing more freeing than pushing absolutely terrible nondescript commit messages to a private repo only you are in

AI weirdos can pry em dashes and sparkle emojis from my cold, dead hands

You can say that machines don't have a soul, but the motor in this elevator made it to the very last trip before flashing over, just as the decommissioning process was about to begin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFxR...

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

Does it still count as a “burrito taxi” if it’s a robot?

They’re moving in herds!

I try generally to be civil online. But this...this just pisses me off. To be clear, this sentiment is not directed at the commenter, but rather the circumstances which have led people to think this way. You see, I use em dashes and en dashes, and words like "delve".

This is thoroughly incredible in many ways. But perhaps the most jaw-dropping thing for me was the apparent IPC mechanism between the guest OS and the page's JavaScript. I kept scrolling down, playing with the emulators, looking for some hint as to how it worked. bsky.app/profile/ares...

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

How to live with cats and model trains

20 years ago (back when I was in high school), I wrote a primitive screen-scraper to generate an Atom feed from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Event Notification Reports.

The Therac-25, widely regarded as one of the worst catastrophes in safety-critical software design, only killed three people (and severely harmed several others). Horizon, by contrast, killed at least 13, and has harmed thousands, if not tens of thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

Greater Vancouver: home to first-rate fully-autonomous trains since 1985, and now...this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmx...

I wrote about Linus Media Group's car reviews back when they were just reviewing EVs. I wasn't keen on it then, and I'm not keen on it now. bsky.app/profile/kurt... But now, they've gone and reviewed a gas-powered SUV: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyCl...

A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems

“Transportation Hub”

Bus.

Well, I guess I won't be buying another Synology NAS! kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tu...

Good Board discussion today on Metro’s initial concepts on rail automation & regional bus priority. Automated rail systems are global standard to enhance safety, capacity, reliability, & cost efficiency & we will have a Business Plan in Dec. See slides: wmata.com/about/news/u...

Found a PATH schedule from 1966. Off-peak service was way better than today: 1. Midday headways of 10 minutes on every line. 2. 4-line service at 15 minute frequencies on weekends. 3. Service doesn’t transition to the overnight pattern (2-line service at 30 minute headways) until almost 1 AM.

I am once again BEGGING transit agencies to understand that putting GTFS-rt feeds (or any API, for that matter) behind Cloudflare with its default settings COMPLETELY DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MACHINE-READABLE DATA.

Seeing Sarah describe struggling with dyscalculia in the latest @connectionsmuseum.bsky.social video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h5w...) almost had me shouting at the computer. There's very little representation of dyscalculia out there, and I think we tend to just get written off as "bad at math".

To give you a sense of the impact this has had on me, I registered a domain and spent several weeknights fixated on building oddsfavorprogress.now, despite my great distaste for CSS!

Recently, I've been unduly occupied by a line from New York City mayor Ed Koch's third inaugural address: "But slowly, yet steadily, we are gaining ground and the odds favor progress." THE ODDS FAVOR PROGRESS. I've been thinking a lot about that phrase lately.

Well, how else are you supposed to get your BLÅHAJ home?

This is why I do what I do. This city is what it is because of transit. It exists because of, not in spite of transit. Without mass transit, this city would not exist. It’s simply impossible to move the volume of people who travel in this city without mass transit.

When I star a project on GitHub/GitLab/etc., that is not an invitation for you to send me unsolicited bulk email. Spamming people because they starred your project is an anti-social behavior which should result in a ban from the relevant platform.

The Apollo 1 fire was 58 years ago today. It is worth taking the time to remind ourselves of what Gene Kranz had to say after the fire: toughandcompetent.space It is as true today as it was then.

had occasion to introduce this to someone for the first time, so here's the closest thing to an avant-garde film a telephone company's ever produced www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uMb...

catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/51#... It was Muni, not BART, and anyway, the Second Generation VCC can boot just fine off a floppy emulator (this was proven on JNUP), and...oh well.

Yes, it's a sappy Apple ad (save your complaints for later) but perhaps you recognize the young person in the ad? Perhaps you know someone like them? Today, and throughout the holiday season, they could use your support. Be there for them. #neurodivergent www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og63...

It's Christmas Eve, so gather 'round with a seasonally-appropriate beverage, because it's time for The Most Wonderful CVR Transcript Of The Year: airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/12/nigh...

You know how EVs have built-in noisemakers now, so they sound like they have an engine? Well, if you've installed an SSD in an old computer, there is now a gadget you can buy that will simulate the sound of a mechanical hard drive! tinkerdifferent.com/threads/smc-...

The lesson here is "if you really care, make your own copy".

There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for URL shortener links appearing in a published paper. Do better.

6 × 8" linocut relief print, CC BY 4.0

"Microtransit" is not transit, it's not an "upgrade", and it's not how you "get riders back on board". instagram.com/p/C-blPhiN8fM/

The Medium Is Not The Message: alternative serialization formats for GTFS-realtime kurtraschke.com/2024/08/gtfs...

I expected this week's issue of the Risks Digest to contain ample discussion of the CrowdStrike fiasco, which it did. What I did not expect was the following item, which seems out of place in a "Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems": catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/36#...

Today would be a good day to remember that embedded operating systems like QNX and VxWorks exist for a reason.

DYK that if you're running a Linux VM under KVM on a Linux host, you can use the ptp_kvm kernel module to get a virtual PTP device which can be used to synchronize to the host clock? kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2022/09...

Well, this should be fun! www.rssb.co.uk/standards-ca...