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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

Screenshot of grist article with same title as in post. Image of people riding bikes in a Copenhagen bike lane.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 06/08/2026

They still run because there's no app, no cloud service, and you can find replacement parts with ease.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 06/08/2026

The fact that bikes manufactured 40-50 years ago are still running like new, is proof that bikes are the superior mode of transportation.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 06/08/2026

Daughter wants a kids music box. Me: Can I hack it?

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 31/07/2026

I have a Prusa MINI that works well but of course is limited in size and features

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 20/07/2026

Finally, what do people think about open sourcing something like this? Do I add the disclaimer it was vibe coded? Does it matter?

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 20/07/2026

I'm a bit conflicted though. The immediate results are positive but is this the right thing to do given all the negative things that come with AI generation? There was no way for me to know if the $90 a year app was also AI generated.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 20/07/2026

I looked for an open source version of the plugin before deciding to vibe code it and didn't find one. I was willing to support the project if I had found one.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 20/07/2026

Why I vibe coded this: I'm not familiar with PHP and the Woo extension architecture. Could I have learned it? Yes. Do I have better things to do with my time? Also yes

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 20/07/2026

Ok, first positive vibe coding experience. I needed a plugin to calculate real time shipping prices for one of my web stores. The shop app (Woo) charges $90 a year for this. Claude Code was able to create a replacement in a couple of hours of prompting.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 17/07/2026

Hey Rick, yeah, I'm still kind of selling the board and PM sensor over at Tindie but I'm not shipping to the UK anymore. There have been a lot of regulatory changes and I don't have the resources to keep up with it. I'd look at Pimoroni in UK

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 16/07/2026

Is it even yours if you don't have the right to repair it?

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 12/07/2026

To be fair, if you are on a yellow, you shouldn't be diving near the half line to force a yellow. Players' brains have not caught up to how playing with this kind of VAR is different.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 07/07/2026

And had the courage to shut the orange leader up

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 04/07/2026

I'm about ready to give up on PayPal for accepting payments but is Stripe any better?

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 28/06/2026

How is this still a thing in 2026? Was buying some narrow goods from Seattle Fabrics and had to reset my password.

An email from seattlefabrics@msn.com for a password reset

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 25/06/2026

This kind of stuff really upsets me. Is it too much to ask to be able to walk around and not be threatened by heavy machinery?

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 23/06/2026

Quite a few people still use the site. 11k users per month to be exact. A lot are bots, for sure, but I know real people still use it also because I get emails weekly with people pointing out something that is not working on the site. I might bring it back again in the future if I have the drive

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 23/06/2026

That's it folks. I'll decommission rpilocator.com in July. Most of the sites I track have blocked my bot (knowingly or not) and I don't have the time to get in touch with all of the sellers to get it addressed. I have looked at workarounds but the workarounds stop working after a few days/weeks

rpilocator.com

Find Raspberry Pi computers in stock - rpilocator

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 16/06/2026

It's been 4 years but I'm back making bike bags. Small batch of basket and rack bags are live on the site now. More color and options to come soon. Check it out: troutmoose.com

Troutmoose basket bag inside a Wald 139 basket

Surly ogre with a front rack and a porter bike bag

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 31/05/2026

A 20lb propane tank only has 15lb of gas in it. Got it, that makes sense.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 29/05/2026

The number of people that claim something is illegal because they *think* it should be illegal is mind boggling.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 27/05/2026

Fingers crossed it won't just die in 3-4h

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 27/05/2026

This looks really awesome and I'm very curious about the power usage.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 27/05/2026

I didn't make it clear. They are using a RockChip CPU that I expect to be similar to the Pi 5 in power usage.

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André (makerbymistake) @makerbymistake.com · 27/05/2026

Yeah, I didn't make it clear in my post that the Pi 5 is my reference and I expect the RK chip they are using to fall somewhere between Pi 4 and Pi 5.

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