Rode a MUNI with the wonderful old Sunset livery today. It was wildly off-schedule, so possibly using 1975 versions of both paint and timetable.

Blue skies

Riding the Coast Starlight down the California coast is super pretty, but I’m surprised at how many retired vets loudly talk about assassinating the governor, for the whole train to hear

Double pesto double mozz 🍕

Perfect 🍕 crusts on the pizza steel

Took our guineas to a guinea pig party in the park today

Coaster train

mpump: a free browser groovebox for making electronic beats sharable as links. No install, no account. Free and open source. mpump.live #music #groovebox #electronicmusic #webdev #opensource #indiedev #techno

These Apple at 50 interviews with execs from back in the day are great! It’s also the first time I’ve heard anyone from Apple publicly talk about the Fingerworks acquisition and how it was the basis for multitouch on iPhone. Still waiting for Fingerworks TouchStream 2.0! youtu.be/eCSNJgI2LFI?...

Printing on my phone case on a Eufymake uv printer

Startup founders DO NOT want to hear that what they are building today will be replaced by a Claude Code plugin tomorrow

Basil explosion 🍕

After a period of near-zero enforcement of traffic laws and increasing pedestrian deaths, San Francisco now has speed cameras apple.news/A-qnDc1BxSlu...

Bay Bridge from the top deck of the AC Transit FS bus.

Sunset Dunes

I got a two-color thermal label printer. The labels visually pop way more than black and white stickers

Here is an Internet Archive skill for Claude Code: github.com/rajbot/inter... Install it and then you can prompt Claude to: "Search Internet Archive for vintage computer manuals" and then "Download the first five of them"

I propose a new metric called Photoslop, which measures how closely an AI coding tool can one-shot Photoshop in a single prompt.

I love the pattern of compiling rust libraries and cli tools to webassembly and hosting them on a static webpage so people can easily try them out. I needed a MPEG-TS to MP4 converter library, and now you can try it here: www.bitstream.io/ts-to-mp4/

Bluesky videos don't unfurl in Slack, so I added video importing to my bluesky-helper slack app. It now both unrolls threads and imports videos into Slack for you: github.com/rajbot/blues...

I made* a Bluesky-to-Slack thread unroller: Instructions for installing it in your own Slack + aws lambda account are here: github.com/rajbot/blues... *vibecoded with Claude Code

Our NYE tradition: making donations to @aclu.org, @archive.org, @eff.org, @msf.ca, @ppfa.org, @raicestexas.bsky.social, @splcenter.org, the SF Food Bank, and @walksf.org A few more of those bsky handles resolve now compared to last year. Also, this year we are adding @propublica.org to the list!

The Suzanne Jackson retrospective at SF MOMA is wonderful. Be sure to check it out!

Holidays are a good time to check what scam App Store subscriptions your parents got suckered into. The latest one is this scam OfferUp subscription my mom has. Does she use it? No. Does she know she is subscribed to it? No. Does she get billed $20 every month by OfferUp? Yes. Total scam.

Art show / open studios in Bernal Heights tomorrow!

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

Neon Tree

Why is Sarah Kendzoir, an author and journalist who covers authoritarian regimes, suspended on bluesky? Even X and substack haven’t suspended her. So much for “Bring your own algorithm”. This is a fail for Bluesky.

We are quickly sliding past the era when you could find info on YouTube on how to fix almost anything. YouTube search results are now full of AI slop repair videos that help no one. An opportunity for ifixit or instructables to own this space perhaps.

Dr. Manhattan meme template It is 2008. Republicans are angry that a Muslim socialist born in Africa won the election It is 2012. Republicans are angry that a Muslim socialist born in Africa won the election It is 2022. Republicans are angry that a Muslim socialist born in Africa won the election

Sign of the times

The neighborhood closes the street to cars for Halloween and it results in giant costumes and pure joy!

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I didn’t believe this would work but I grabbed one of these flags before crossing the street and it actually makes a difference in getting cars to stop for you! The marigolds are part of a memorial for neighbor who was killed in a hit and run here. A project by safestreetsbernal.org

Crosswalk flags by safestreetsbernal.org at the intersection where a neighbor was killed in a hit and run. Grab a flag from one side of the crosswalk and leave it at the other. When things get this bad we probably need more safety infrastructure than diy flags, but maybe it helps…

My take on Rogan is that Spotify users are partially responsible for the global rise of deadly anti-vax nonsense and the resurgence of measles in America, and if you send me a Spotify link I will judge you as someone helping make the world a worse place.

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Did something change with the Discover feed so that it is no longer stable when logged in? Every time I refresh it to get new posts, I end up with a completely different set of posts.

Lime has figured a way around Lyft’s regulated monopoly on Bike Share in the Bay Area! They simply took the pedals off their e-bike and called it a “Glider”.

Should we all give Flickr another shot?

There is a SFBA Bench Collective bench at the bus stop near my house. It is constantly being used during the day, but sometimes gets tagged. Rustoleum “Warm Carmel” spray paint is a good way to keep these clean and keep them from being reported to the city. It dries completely in 20 min.

🍕Making pizzas for kids for the first time in a while..

New speed cameras led to a 92% drop in speeding at some intersections: www.ktvu.com/news/san-fra...

Today's #general_strike for #Palestine in Italy. Just in Palermo we were more than 30,000, marching in the streets and chanting #StopGenocide #FreeFreePalestine. 🇵🇸✊

What are these non-standard colors on this large flag? Why is the “War Department” not using DDD-F-416E? Why do they not know what our flag is supposed to look like?

EA Tetris is a lot like regular Tetris, but it involves a journalist, a bone saw, and a suitcase.

The #NoTechForICE movement started in 2018, during the first Trump administration’s illegal separation of refugee children from their parents. Unfortunately, few tech workers paid attention to the evil their tools were enabling. The AI-powered next generation of these tools is now being sold to ICE

With Star Wars and Marvel and Pixar and all the kid franchises, it feels impossible to stop spending money on Disney, but it’s not. As I wrote in 2020 on the other site: Disney is an immoral company, and always has been.

The YouTube iOS app is so, so bad that it must be intentional. But why?