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I’m in Portland’s Oregonian today on the topic of the budget crisis affecting TriMet, the region’s transit agency. If you’ve arrived from the link on that article, welcome! This blog’s resources to help you understand transit issues are...
Went to the beach between downpours. I had already finished a roll of film so I was back to my iPhone for photos. I have the post-process filters set how I like them so even though they don’t quite have the personality of the real Fuji...
Much of my inspiration comes from Sweden these days, and last summer this included a lightweight green hammock slung between trees. I came across it during a walk in the Uddavalla district - specifically the nature reserve at...
Zwischen den Bäumen öffnet sich der Blick auf die Ostseeküste von Aegna Wer während einer Städtereise nach Tallinn auch Natur erleben möchte, denkt schnell an den Lahemaa-Nationalpark. Mir war der Ausflug dorthin ohne Mietwagen...
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email...
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Special functions often have arcane names that not very helpful without some context. The previous post goes into some reasons for this. This post will expand on a point at the end of the post about “modified” functions. Things are given...
4-star hike • 2 mile out-and-back • Moderate | Gain 590 feet • Amherst & Granby, MA | Western Region . Mt Norwottuck from Long Mountain's viewpoint. Long Mountain sits inside Mount Holyoke Range State Park, along the boundary between...
I am a distributed systems researcher. I mostly read and write about distributed systems and lightweight formal methods. But as my blog definition says, the blog is about "distributed systems broadly defined and other curiosities". The...
A lightweight and protective eyeglass case for the backcountry, with an Amazon alternative available, too. Read More ... Continue reading Gear tip – Zenni eyeware glass case at PMags.com.
I spent time in someone else’s design proposal this week. Nearly all of my comments were questions about boundaries: why the scope stops where it does, and which responsibilities belong in the new layer versus the one already behind it,...
I just watched Orson Welles’ 1952 short ghost movie Return to Glennascaul (silly but gorgeous) and was struck by the phrase “keep in” used of a fire: the narrator meets a couple of women at a crossroads, drives them to their isolated...
There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over. When Moore’s Law was in...
There are a few things wrong with the UK so I hear, and dear old Andy Burnham is trying hard to fix some of them. Fair enough. As a partial solution he's created a No10 in the North to go with the ever present No10 in the South. A quick...