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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 7h

Electricity has been available for about 2% of recorded history. What a time to be alive.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 19h

Jimmy Talafreako would be a great mafia name.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 17/10/2026

I can't believe these people are settling for just two employees per train. It should be at least four.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 17/10/2026

Shortest job was postdoc at LBNL, just about one year. The lab was beautiful but there were personality conflicts and I became more interested in making maps.

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the fool (cachinnatory) @agnoster.net · 16/10/2026

Just a reminder that “All politics is now in-group allegiance vice signaling” is total GamerGate/MAGA cultural victory We can and should resist this

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Christof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #5: The structure of US transportation funding and decision making is complicated (example: Houston.) That shapes what we build and what we don't, and it makes it harder for the public to figure out how to change things.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

My productivity has increased 5x, that is directly measurable from invoices I'm sending. But some of the puzzle solving and pride of craft is gone from my work, and I'm very anxious about the stability of future demand for services. It's a mixed bag.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

In the 1960's people were worried about communists destroying America. Nope. Destroying America is a job for Americans. No one does it better. God bless the USA.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

I love California, it's incredible. They built a hundred miles of world class mass transit and then zoned all the station areas for parking lots and detached homes.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

Apparently I was unaware that CTA recently rebuilt the Blue Line.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

Replace every Uber with auto-rickshaws. I think that would be a tremendous improvement. Yes, with 2 stroke engines.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

I changed careers because I enjoyed the craft of writing software, and that part is now gone.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Elon didn't invent the flying car, ETA did

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

Bexhill is what we did to Gaza

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

I love how Children of Men correctly predicted the 2027 gen Z iPad Kid.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

The $125/mo "Team Premium" plan available for enterprise users has about 30% of the quota of the $200/mo "Max" individual plan.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

I'm on the $200/mo plan and using 90% of quota generally, this works out to somewhere around $2500-3000/mo on metered billing.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

A little depressing that the highest and best use of my time has rapidly become "robot operator."

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/10/2026

Saw Giddens earlier this year in Lafayette and was blown away

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Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"i want locality and embedded traditions of common ppl governing themselves without a central government and living in harmony" thats afghanistan! you just invented rural afghanistan! or the antebellum south! or lots of rural latam where state control barely exists! the vacuum is filled by assholes!

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 15/10/2026

I thought http url paths had a maximum length but learn something new every day.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 15/10/2026

I hope not bc my wife is a tax CPA 🤪

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 15/10/2026

Thinking about getting an old iPod for music, or maybe digging through my old boxes to see if I still have one.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 15/10/2026

Imagine thinking $800k is an expensive house. I'd also like to return to 2012.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 15/10/2026

Me asking AI agent a question and then it comes back thinking, saying... 😅

thinking: "Clarifying user misconception ..."

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 15/10/2026

Americans are truly the world's leaders in designing and building structures that are complete failures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X_H...

youtube.com

The Phantom Skyscrapers Of Cleveland Ohio…

YouTube video by Forgotten Places

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

It's easier to use entirely different computers to work on different branches simultaneously than it is to use git worktrees.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

I try to avoid Adobe products as much as possible, but I do have to maintain an Illustrator license because some of my users need output that works perfectly in Illustrator and Inkscape (which I generally use instead) doesn't get close enough.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

It doesn't help that Adobe is not, shall we say, a sympathetic victim.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

"Czechoslovakia can end the Soviet occupation at any time."

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

I've lived through enough election cycles to subtract 5% before making any plans.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

Takes about the Adobe clone issue from someone who is not a 2 brain cell social media poster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC31...

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I Tested AI Cloning… and It’s Way Worse Than You Think!

YouTube video by Dave's Garage

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

I'm not so worried about individuals copying and re-implementing my work, that's fine and expected, the existential fear is larger companies copying and re-implementing my work and selling it through their existing relationships, which basically burns down the forest for smaller operations.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

I'd rather write software and give it all away but there are bills and stuff like that necessary for existing.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

This is mildly annoying as a person trying to make a living writing and selling software.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

Well proprietary software is becoming devalued at roughly the speed of light, so maybe we'll finally get The Year of Linux on the Desktop.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

I like this chair and have six 😖

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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Vibecoded the map rubbersheeting tool I've wished I had for ages e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet

Recreated 1972 BART map, warped to reflect actual station and bridge locations

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026

Permanent DST so that I never have to think about this bullshit ever again.

adding/subtracting a day on DST boundaries :(

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/10/2026

You can still grift if you're a mere Cultural Attaché.

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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An absolute gem from BBC Archive. Features Malcolm Southgate who was later Deputy MD of European Passenger Services (The division of BR set up to run the UK part of eurostar). Remember him wandering around Waterloo International keeping an eye on things and helping out. youtu.be/YmRqNNyhIeo?...

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1975: Time to Scrap British Rail? | The Money Programme: Beware of Trains | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/10/2026

A lot of people hate liberals more than they hate nazis.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/10/2026

Wait, wild zebras in California?

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/10/2026

A repeat performance of Downtown Target

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/10/2026

It will be unprofitable through bad location and shrink and then when it inevitably closes the city will be left with a completely dead site that can't easily be repurposed.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/10/2026

Oakland has a lot of problems and I'm not sure a CostCo makes them better, arguably worse.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/10/2026

Looks like news sites are trying to defeat Reader Mode by scrambling the text.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/10/2026

I'm glad we've established that Oakland has higher quality and lower cost than San Francisco and Los Angeles which makes it an interesting ranking.

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