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Update: The SFMTA board voted to implement the new protected side-running bike lanes starting early 2025. There were many people in support of the center bike lane at the November 2024 meeting, and a few supporters of the side-running lanes too, but it had likely already been decided on. If you’ve come here and still want to save the center, it can’t hurt to make your opinion known. Send this …

MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump prefers to keep his options open. One unanticipated benefit of this approach is that Republicans have spent much of the last year engaged in intensive but open debates over policy. Ambitious politicians, congressional offices, and think tanks have laid …

This appears to be getting out of hand.

Donald Trump is a gross villain and a traitor to our country. He’s a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and head of a criminal organization; he works with criminals and he pardons criminals; he’s a narcissist and violent insurrectionist, racist and misogynist; he’s the master of lies and corruption and self-serving. He plans to rule as a fascist dictator, and this time has the backing to do so, for the benefit …

Kris Jenkins of Developer Voices spoke to me on his podcast! We talked about KittyCAD and its language, which I'm building for my work at Zoo. You can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it on YouTube. Thanks so much for having me on your podcast, Kris! Developer Voices has become my favourite tech podcast and I really love the range of people he talks to. …

I thought it’d be fun to celebrate spooky season with a little stats punny plot. We’re going to turn a normal distribution into a paranormal distribution! HA! Ok first let’s get some packages. library(tidyverse) library(tweenr) library(gganimate) Now let’s generate our Normal data: We’re doing this twice in the data frame because we need to have the same number of data points as the paranormal data, which has a little wiggly …

I’ve been a self-published author for over a decade now, but I’ve only been particularly serious about it since 2022. By “serious” I don’t mean “making nontrivial revenue,” but I do mean I’m making an effort to write in a series, market in a basic way, and maintain some data about my books so I’m not relying on, e.g., logging into KDP to figure out what file’s currently published for …

The 2024 Washington wildfire season is thankfully behind us. However, wood burning for residential heating is a concern during the cold seasons when temperature inversions and light winds cause smoke to stagnate. Valley communities are more prone to this and often experience impaired air. Thus, air quality burn bans may be called for your area in the coming months. Local air quality contactsHave questions about smoke or air quality issues …

TL; DR: Critique and review are different. Critique is simply about making the work better. Review is about assessing readiness for the next stage in the process. Healthy critique requires psychological safety. To make the work better means being able to discuss it openly, and frankly, warts and all. To do so in a constructive fashion requires that everyone involved know there will be no retribution for their work or …

Can I Call You Rose? is one of my favourite recent soul tracks. Its by San Diego's Thee Sacred Souls. A great write up HERE in the Guardian on the Low-Rider soul scene, and this band.

on creative practices & how i work today I want to share two modes of working that have formed the backbone of my creative, digital, and business practices: working in ongoing rituals vs. in intensive, focused sprints. I describe this as the difference between the daily (sometimes tedious) practice of tending to a garden — versus the focused (often adrenaline-infused high) of riding an energy wave to complete a creative …

We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use.User-facing documentation is an important element of good software. Sure, good software should always be as easy to use as possible, but making software perfectly intuitive is challenging when building something as powerful as the Corso app.Our software offers a highly-customizable experience for customers and merchants alike across returns, exchanges, warranties, registrations, …

Japanese otaku artist Mr. to open debut solo exhibition in LondonExhibition Details

So many hours of our lives are wasted worrying about what other people think. How many times have you had an interaction with someone and immediately wondered, “Did I do something wrong? Are they upset at me? If I do this thing for this person, will it bother this other person?” These worry cycles are counter-productive. Still, our brains can’t resist. They’re happy to keep us awake at night spinning …

A disclaimer first: we were involved in a little background work (figuring out e.g. dates of parties) for this documentary, so what you are about to read is a little biased. I had been looking forward to Aaron Trinder’s documentary for a long time, and even though I had heard plenty of positive feedback from others, nothing could replace experiencing it for myself. It was well worth the wait. This …