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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 13/07/2026

Not bad for the first bike ride longer than 10min in almost a year

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

Less than twenty minutes to High Street/ Brooklyn Bridge and here we are! Just a quick walk away from the office now

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

And now NYC! Gonna skip the beauty of the Moynihan train hall today and instead take the LIRR concourse directly to the subway. Either the A or the E will get me where I'm going, but the A (express) is faster

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

I know it's so uncool, but I always like looking at the progress on the new portal bridge because it reminds me that this country can actually build things and solve problems when we decide to give a shit

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

We're running ahead of schedule! A little over an hour since departing philly we're now through Newark! Next up is a very long tunnel and then Penn

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

"Trenton Makes The World Takes"

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

And now we chill! Gonna get some work done and start caffinating for the day ahead

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

But once it starts boarding is very quick! Pro tip: skip the escalator and take the stairs (if you can). You can probably walk faster than the escalator and seating is first come first serve

A picture of an Amtrak train from the platform with people preparing to board the train.

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

Now for the best part of the trip (/s): waiting in line for the Amtrak for twenty minutes. Amtrak doesn't let you wait on the platform like you do everywhere else in the world, and this train is popular with commuters, so people line up thirty or more minutes before the track is officially announced

A picture of a line of about 50 people heading off into the main hall of the station. The picture is taken from one of the side rooms off the main station looking towards the front of the line in the main hall

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

But, a quick walk down the connecting ramp, dodging the people that stop in the middle to stare at the departure board, and the views do not disappoint. This probably is the most beautiful train station in the country

A photo of the main hall of Philadelphia 30th street station. Two large art deco chandeliers are visible on the left and right. The far wall us made up of floor to ceiling windows and the ceiling has an inlaid lattice pattern. Directly in front is a monument to railway workers, a 10ft tall bronze statue of an angel with swept back wings

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

Twenty two minutes later we're downtown at Philadelphia 30th street station! The famous part of the station (beautiful, elegant, art deco) is the Amtrak side. The SEPTA side of the station is a bit... less grand

A picture of the busy train station concourse. The ceiling is low and the floors are a bit dirty and there are lots of people walking in every direction

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

Never a good sign when you can literally see the humidity

A photo from a bridge over the Schuylkill River looking towards the Philadelphia Art Museum. Everything is grey and there is a haze in the air from the humidity

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

I've seen this train be standing room only before, but today there's plenty of space! More importantly though there's AC on all the trains, which is critical when it's already 76° and 60% humidity at 7am

Photo from the interior of a SEPTA train. Everyone is seated and it's not too crowded. A sign says the next stop is called East Falls

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

First step of this journey is the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown line. At this time of day, the train comes every half hour and usually runs on time. 20min and $6.50 later and I'll be downtown

A SEPTA train arriving at the Manayunk train station platform

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

For context, I live in Manayunk, a neighborhood of Philadelphia in the far northwest of the city. My company's office is in downtown Brooklyn. Despite Google's pessimistic prediction here, it will not take almost 3hrs to get there, and I can be confident of that because I'm traveling by train!

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026

Good morning! It's time for my once-a-month commute from my home in #Philadelphia to my company office in #NYC! This month I figured I'd try live posting my way through it and see what happens, so follow along if you'd like!

A picture of main street in my town, with an arch bridge over the road in the background

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/05/2026

In my heart of hearts I believe every person on this earth deserves to live with a little creature who gets unreasonably excited whenever you come home

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 03/04/2026

Opening my phone's notifications to respond to messages after three days in a depression fugue

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 25/03/2026

Not to brag, but I got 10/10 correct in the game of "pokemon or cloud native", which is where you guess whether a funny nonsense word is the name of a cloud native computing project, or the name of a pokemon. hubwoop.github.io

Screenshot of the end game screen showing 100% correct for a 10 round game

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 03/03/2026

why do all vibe coded apps look Like That?

Screenshot of the homepage of leadsfromurl.com, a vibe coded app with a blue-gradient neo-cyber aesthetic

Screenshot of paperdraw.dev, a vibe coded app with a blue-gradient neo-cyber aesthetic

Screenshot from reddit of the app Tabularis, a vibe coded app with a blue-gradient neo-cyber aesthetic

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 15/01/2026

Another day, another train. This time for work, and this time to NYC

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 19/12/2025

This view with Massive Attack playing in the background is both my dream rainy day, and also my reality

A picture through a rain covered window overlooking a small street with row houses and a stone church steeple in the background. The sky is overcast and grey with spots of blue poking through.

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/12/2025

"Our distributed hybrid architecture assures global geographic distribution, automated multi-uplink redundancy, and five nines of uptime" The architecture:

An abstract painting made by throwing gobs of paint at the canvas, resulting in overlapping squiggles, dots, and lines in many different colors

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 02/12/2025

When your local train breaks down, you end up running forty minutes late, but you still make your connection because the express train is also running late

A Microsoft Windows XP dialog box that says "task failed successfully" and has an "OK" button

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 18/10/2025

Philadelphia no kings marching to Independence Hall is honestly perfect

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 18/10/2025

I've lived in Philly for all of two weeks so far, but I think we'll get along just great #nokings

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 09/10/2025

Before: broken, unreadable, wallowing in my own failings After: genius, indomitable, literally smarter than god

A screenshot of lowes.com. The site looks normal, except that the background color is a dark grey while all the text is black and the images are white. This makes the site entirely unreadable visually.

A screenshot of lowes.com. The site looks normal, except that it only looks normal because I added custom settings to undo the dark text on a dark background shown in the first screenshot.

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 02/10/2025

Relevant @xkcd.com imgs.xkcd.com/comics/insta...

XKCD 1367 "Installing". Someone saying to their friend "Installing things has gotten so fast and painless. Why not skip it entirely, and make a phone that has every app 'installed' already and just downloads and runs them on the fly?". The caption underneath then comments "I felt pretty clever until I realized id invented webpages."

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 02/10/2025

Reading "The Power Broker" again

Me using a trombone to unnecessarily blast everyone I know with facts about Robert Moses

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 27/04/2025

This is the only way I want to be advertised to

A plain printed black and white laminated sign on a deli counter that says "We have hash browns now, just $1.00"

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 13/02/2025

Whenever I see the swiss railways name all I can read it as is "ess be be, see ef ef, for fucks sake"

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 13/01/2025

Me showing my partner my Cities Skylines 2 city

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 17/11/2024

Got pooped on by a pigeon

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 05/11/2024

Rare instance of a democratic vote also being a vote for democracy

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 14/10/2024

All my kingdom for a Northside bilevel with clear windows #mbta

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 19/09/2024

Without downloading new pics where are you mentally?

A drawing of a screaming, flaming skeleton skitting at a desk with a computer, a cup of coffee, and some memos. The skeleton is typing a message that says "I hope this email finds you well".

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 10/08/2024

SEPTA must have the widest gap between coolness of its name and coolness of its logo of any transit system. I mean, look at this logo: it's beautiful, unique, iconic, and distinctive. And then it refers to "SEPTA" which sounds like some tech company that makes internet connected scissors or whatever

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 15/04/2024

I love how the T spent a zillion dollars on these new fare gates at North Station just to keep them open most of the time

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 02/04/2024

REI is to me what Food and Stuff is to Ron Swanson

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 10/02/2024

2024 is ushering in a new year of peace and hope

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