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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 28/09/2026

I spent my time mostly not coding at our Maine van camp, but I cracked a couple beers and hammock camped one night and worked by the fire “for fun”, and I must say it felt rad.

Reviewing a PR on GitHub from a hammock by a fire under a full moon.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 14/09/2026

Unintentionally funny tagline for the birthplace of white flight suburbs

Cleveland promotional hat vending machine in the airport, with a graphic accent that reads “the Land of redefining city limits”

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 12/09/2026

Ohio has a terrible ground game but its skies are still the best

A soulless strip mall under a wonderful sunset

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 01/09/2026

I know people laud RBG but WTF is this?

Quote from NYT, “Still, the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, just a few years later, provides a clue: Her Supreme Court papers went, a her direction, to the Library of Congress on the condition that no case file would be opened until every justice involved in the matter had died, a restriction that could lock away many documents for decades.”

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 23/08/2026

Looks like I missed a wild after party @atproto.nyc

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 29/06/2026

Lakoff and Johnson are the world's most dangerous drug dealers

Mark Johnson and George Lakoff superimposed crudely onto the duo from Breaking Bad.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 29/06/2026

You can just get high on metaphors

A slide from Softbank's investor deck about "The True Source of Value" being the "Golden Egg factory inside the goose".

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 20/06/2026

I want to contribute 3D models to social platforms like MakerWorld but the whole reason I have a 3D printer is so that I can make very niche things that I could never buy and therefor would be of no use to anyone else. Like a shitty little latch for this janky cabinet I slapped together.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 16/06/2026

Why is Hakeem Jeffries running unopposed?

District 08, my district, and Rep. Jeffries, is not listed under the “Meet the Candidates” on votenyc.org

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 05/06/2026

You thought it too, alright?

3D print for “Alphabet Letters – Thick & Kid–Friendly 3D Letters”, but the sample photo looks suspiciously like the word “PENIS”

Ope it’s just “DENIS” after the second photo is zoomed out, I hate my brain.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 01/05/2026

You might not like it, but this is what peak ergonomics looks like.

Add from the Wideluxx camera website where the person is holding the camera in just the strangest way I've ever seen a camera held before, leading me to ask if this camera requires this kind of hold to shoot its panoramas, and if so.......why?

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 29/04/2026

This is like asking Claude to format your code for you. youtu.be/Gen8rG40ntA?...

A Claude + Fusion prompt from their launch video of their connector: "Let's focus on the bottom casing. Can you hide other components?" Which there are UI buttons for in Fusion, and (I believe) keyboard shortcuts for.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 10/04/2026

Just merged my 1000th career PR

GitHub "my pull requests" view showing 9 open PRs, and 1000 closed.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 30/03/2026

I continue to be baffled by @github.com's decision to collapse "large" diffs in PRs, including this +95/-168 file, which doesn't seem large to me? It's like it's trying to make me miss the most important changes.

A close-up of the diff count on a file I'm reviewing for a pull request on GitHub.com, with 95 lines added and 168 lines removed, that GitHub has preemptively collapsed and requires clicking a "Load Diff" button to show. Some explainer text says "Large diffs are not rendered by default."

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 20/03/2026

I only write code so that jtran will think I’m competent, I can die happy now.

@jtran’s review of my PR on GitHub, with a comment on a utility I wrote, which is just the Jurassic Park “clever girl” meme because it optionally type narrows while filtering

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 23/02/2026

Great Blizzard of 1888 vs Blizzard of 2026. Clinton & Fulton, Brooklyn.

Slide image by Adrian Vanderveer Martense from Center For Brooklyn History, showing a horse-drawn carriage on the corner of Clinton and Fulton, with huge snow drifts on either side.

My photo from today from what I believe is the same vantage, looking southbound down Clinton from the NE corner of Clinton x Fulton. Large, though notably smaller, snowdrifts adorn the corners of the frozen street.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 21/02/2026

Having a real "dead internet" day

Screenshot snipper from my Spotify feed for a single called "You" by someone named "Spencer Murphs". It's listed as "Getting buzz" with "Sponsored recommendation" in small text underneath. It has absolutely atrocious, suspiciously tasteless album art...

Looking at "Spencer Murphs" discography I see 3 singles: "You", "Rev Up The Engine", and "Pacific Highway". All with similar but otherwise thoughtless and tasteless album art...

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 07/02/2026

figuring out the app's architecture is just

That villain from the 2001 Tomb Raider movie basically orgasming about to put the Triangle of Light together but not realizing he's about to get his ass sent to the grave

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 28/01/2026

I just landed this in Zoo Design Studio so that we can remove the rounding on our toolbar when it's the full-width of its pane. github.com/KittyCAD/mod...

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 28/01/2026

CSS container query magic trick 🪄: setting border-radius (or any value that takes a percentage-length) based on how close to the width of its parent it is. codepen.io/franknoirot/...

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 25/01/2026

This is supervillain shit

Alex Honnold doing friction-only pull-ups in prep for Taipei 101

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 22/01/2026

Applications to join your community board are open until February 6th!

Slide inviting people to apply to their community board above the speakers while they answer questions

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 22/01/2026

I get made fun of for having “fuck Robert Moses” on the tip of my tongue all the time. Well TIL that the very idea of NYC community boards were a response to the autocratic control of the Urban Renewal movement, formed by a pilot program in 1951. Fuck Robert Moses, democracy rules lmao

A slide from a presentation at The Center For Brooklyn History, shown above a community board speaker panel. It charts the history of NYC community boards, starting from a pilot program in 1951, made citywide in 1963.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 12/01/2026

Shoutout to whoever just added the keyboard shortcuts to @github.com's nav buttons here

The "Pull Requests" button in the GitHub nav being hovered, showing a tooltip that now includes the hotkey sequence "G P"

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 09/01/2026

Love it when different-sounding artists do similar things with their album art

"Some Rap Songs" by Earl Sweatshirt. A simple photo of the artist smiling and looking above the camera, but taken in a long exposure while zooming or panning, distorting his face into something like a goblin

"The Art of Loving" by Olivia Dean. A photo of the artist resting her head on the back of her hand and smiling with her eyes closed, in something like a daydream look. The photo is slightly out of focus and taken with a long exposure while moving, warping her face in a woozy and strange way.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 28/12/2025

I'm excited by the prospect of declarative, JS-free tooltips by combining the new Interest Invoker API with the Anchor Positioning and Popover APIs, but it seems like the popover property doesn't work with anchor positioning ☹️. Even MDN shows overflow here: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Screenshot of the demo from the MDN docs showing a tooltip using the interest invoker and popover APIs, which contains two buttons in the upper-left corner of the demo area. I am hovering the first button, and the tooltip is appearing below it using the anchor positioning API. However, it is being cut off and is not doing the most important thing (in my opinion) that the anchor positioning API affords: positioning without overflow. This is not corrected by making the body "position: relative" in the playground.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 14/12/2025

I’ve been thinking about this since I read it.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 08/12/2025

The fact that GitHub degrades to viewing one file at a time on large PRs is hella jarring. I don't think it'd be so bad if other normal things continued to work like auto-advancing to the next file after you mark the current one as read, or selecting multiple lines to comment on, but they don't.

An admittedly enormous PR for our Sketch Mode revamp first pass, which stands at a +27,810 and -827 diff line count, with a warning message that says "Due to the large number of changes in this pull request, only one file is being shown at a time."

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 03/12/2025

The update footnotes at the end of "An app can be a home-cooked meal" fill my heart with joy. www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

The end of the blog post "An app can be a home-cooked meal" by Robin Sloan, discussing his "home-cooked messaging app" for his family, BoopSnoop.

This messaging app I built for, and with, my family, it won’t change unless we want it to change. There will be no sudden redesign, no flood of ads, no pivot to chase a userbase inscrutable to us. It might go away at some point, but that will be our decision. What is this feeling? Independence? Security? Sovereignty?

Is it simply … the feeling of being home?

Update, February 2022: Two years later, my family still uses BoopSnoop every day. I have added one (1) feature, at my mother’s request.

Update, February 2023: Yep, still using it every day!

Update, February 2024: Still booping. Still snooping. TestFlight build 26.

Update, February 2025: I have changed literally nothing in the app, and it’s glorious. TestFlight build 30!

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 26/11/2025

Oh man that area's such a bad combo of far from a precinct and utterly Carworlded. Enforcement is (per usual) not gonna cut it.

Google map roughly centered on the intersection in the preceding post but zoomed-out and showing the nearest (not nearby though) two polic precincts.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 16/11/2025

I think I missed that @mta.info was switching back to the Vignelli style for its maps. Didn’t I read somewhere that NYers preferred to know the geographical relationships over the diagrammatic look?

A diagrammatic subway map in place in a subway car, in the style of Vignelli / Unimark. Most of the ones I see are this now it seems.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 12/11/2025

Helix Git nicety 3: open GitHub remote URL at selection: [keys.normal.space.g] O = ':sh open $(git config --get remote.origin.url)/tree/$(git branch --show-current)/%{buffer_name}#L%{selection_line_start}-L%{selection_line_end}'

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 12/11/2025

Helix Git nicety 2: copy GitHub remote URL for your current selection. [keys.normal.space.g] Y = ':sh echo "$(git config --get remote.origin.url)/tree/$(git branch --show-current)/%{buffer_name}#L%{selection_line_start}-L%{selection_line_end}" | pbcopy'

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 12/11/2025

Helix Git nicety 1: enabling lazygit in the way I was used to with nvim, space-g-g. Put the following in your config.yml: [keys.normal.space.g] f = "changed_file_picker" g = [ ":write-all", ":new", ":insert-output lazygit", ":buffer-close!", ":redraw", ":reload-all" ]

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 11/11/2025

It takes your multiple cursors/selections and vertically aligns them. It's niche enough that I probably won't ever use it, but it made me feel like the selections concept they've made has power.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 11/11/2025

I’m gonna need this outlawed as behavior by any federal employee.

Snippet from reporting by blockclibchicago.org:

On Monday, morning at the Bean, Bovino warns the agents that a media member was present during their phot op, saying to “mask up”.

The agents took a few photos, then they left the park by 7:30 a.m., some posing for photos and navigating over the slippery ice from the nights winter storm.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 10/11/2025

Fort Greene Park used to be called Washington Park. My review of that name change, 137 years out: 👍🏻. Map from 1887 archived here: web.archive.org/web/20140719...

Zoomed-in section of the 1887 map of Brooklyn showing what is clearly modern Fort Greene Park labeled as Washington Park, which explains why the street to the east of the park is even today called "Washington Park", which has baffled me. We really couldn't name enough things after Washington, could we?

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 10/11/2025

Mexico City had a Feminist Action movement reported on by the Brooklyn Eagle in 1944. Among other roles in the war effort, the women were calling for the right to work as streetcar conductors. bklyn.newspapers.com/image/685896...

Short article titled "Mexican Women Want to Drive Streetcars":

Mexico City—Women may soon become streetcar conductors in
Mexico City, if the plan submitted by Mrs. Celia Ramirez of Feminine Action to Gov. Javier Rojo Gomez of the Federal District receives consideration.

The pretty young woman who heads Feminine Action and represents her group on the Governor's civilian defense council said the Streetcar
Conduetors Union already had agreed to teach a class of women to drive
streetcars, and the only thing holding up the plan was the governor's approval.

Feminine Action likewise wants its women to receive military and flying training and radio and telegraph instruction, so that they can step into those jobs as part of their "bit" toward the war effort. Governor Rojo Gomez has promised to give Mrs. Ramirez's suggestions an early answer.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 08/11/2025

Rust simply uses too many turbofish. How do I know? Because when I grep for conflict markers our Rust types sometime show up

My NeoVim code editor with a jumplist of all my conflict markers, which are denoted by a ton of ">" characters in a row. I only searched for 4, my mistake, because some of our Rust types are four generics deep, like "Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<Result<(), KclError>>>>". I'm only kidding this is fine Rust is a neat language.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 04/11/2025

This one's my favorite that I saw

A comment on nypost.com saying "If Mamdani wins, NYC will stand for: N ow Y our C ooked"

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 01/10/2025

Oh I get it, the administration’s waiting until after the mayoral election to come to my town in force. Never forget that NYC was doing pretty well crime-wise before. Not that “dangerous cities” are more constitutional to fight a “war from within” with than safe cities.

Screenshot of The Intercept’s reporting on the recent military meeting:

Trump used his address to take aim at cities he claimed "are run by the radical left Democrats," including San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
"We're going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room," he said. "That's a war too. It's a war from within." He continued, "We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military."

"We will be a fighting and winning machine," Trump said during a stream-of-consciousness address that meandered from sleepy word salads to tirades about tariffs, President Barack Obama's ability to quickly descend stairs, President Joe Biden and the autopen, the press, his own supposed…

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 26/09/2025

Newark Airpot should really be ashamed of themselves, it’s crazy.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 26/09/2025

Me IRL posting through the pain. Terminal A flight so we get to walk even more after this 🥰

Absolutely packed train car with me derping in the selfie cam. No joke the doors closed and we are still waiting for it to move 5 minutes later.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 24/09/2025

@transalt.org I've struggled to find how to join the monthly BK meetings, am I missing something? I have the alert set up in my phone but I'd love like a standing link to the video call too.

Screenshot of the TA Brooklyn Monthly Meeting event page through mobilize.us that has a banner saying "This event is no longer available. Take a look at the feed below to find other opportunities!"

Screenshot of the TA events page that says the Brooklyn events are supposed to be the Fourth Thursday of the month at 6:30pm.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 31/08/2025

A dream of mine came true! Nabbed a @muli-cycles.bsky.social in Montreal and brought it back to NYC. Did my first “go skate in Manhattan and bring home some party supplies” trip ❤️

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 30/08/2025

Montreal’s bike infra really is in a different league than NYC. The bagels are in the same ballpark too, although I’ll take ours almost any day.

View from me driving while my partner rides up front in a Jimmy model front-loading cargo tricycle provided by Montreal rental app Mulo. We are stopped at a red light in an unprotected bike lane with a cyclist ahead, a cyclist crossing the intersection, and bike infra everywhere. At least 5x more bike locking stations, dedicated cycle traffic signals, and more.

My partner and I comparing our Fairmount bagels, one of the two most famous spots in Montreal. We are agog at the butter applied atop the unsliced, untoasted bagels, and I am enjoying my “everything” bagel’s local name of “all dressed”.

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 16/08/2025

My ferry stop is your ferry’s ferry stop

All the NYC Ferry ferries, in various stages of parking and maintenance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard ferry stop

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Frank Noirot @franknoirot.co · 09/08/2025

Everyone should ask Mr. Cuomo if he feels guilty for the 1,141 homeless families he could have helped house for a year in apartments like Mr. Zohran’s with the money from his losing primary campaign. Does he feel comfortable wasting more money like this? www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/26/c...

$31.5 million in Cuomo’s primary campaign spending divided by 12 times Mamdani’s $2,300 rent equals 1141.3 imaginary New York families that could be housed for a year. Some of them probably are veteran single mothers too, now that I’m making that up.

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