cool blogposts/papers/whatever
- cal peterson — an oral history of Bank Python
- bits about money — charitable donations and the infrastructure supporting them — a fascinating article about donor advised funds (time travel mechanism for rich people to do more tax deductions)
- an essay about planner programming (which is kind of like logic programming)
- allowing bicyclists to follow leading pedestrian signals is safe, according to nyc dot
- access to gender-affirming healthcare (statistically significantly) reduces suicidality (archived on tris.fyi, updated 2023-09-08)
- open transclude for networked writing — a neat way of using iframes to cite other content
- erase your darlings — applying immutable infra principles to stateful systems
- how ACH works: a developer perspective (Gusto engineering blog)
- how we saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database, an interesting lesson (?) in general vs. special-purpose databases
- the Job Accommodation Network, an incredibly detailed resource for applying the Americans with Disabilities Act at your workplace
recipes
- chicken and rice soup
- turkey chili, but you can substitute the turkey for ground pork or beef and it works even better imo
- jambalaya
- red beans and rice
- cornbread — needs a few minutes longer to bake imo, can substitute half the sugar with honey
- oatmeal raisin cookies — no need to change oven racks though
- chocolate chip cookies — underbaking is less of a risk than you think!
- pumpkin bread — add some molasses for flavor depth + moistness
- cinnamon raisin bagels — use 3tsp yeast and proof with the brown sugar
- banana bread — use 2 8-inch loaf pans or half the recipe. the position of the oven rack is really important for this one!
- dinner rolls
music
-
adele mcallister — come to the water
don't you know we were made to nurture the earth?
to feed the hungry and to bind up the hurt
to fight injustice, to aid, not to judge
and above everything else, we were made for love
and keep a candle burning - miles morkri — ventifact — pretty cool mostly instrumental album! hard to pick a favorite track
- aivi & surasshu — the black box (10th anniversary deluxe edition) — some really cool bonus tracks! i remember listening to the original album on the bus in high school. makes me feel kinda old. honestly check out all of the infloresce records stuff. aivi does not miss
- emperor x — suggested improvements to transportation infrastructure in the northeast corridor — very cozy memories from when i heard the first and last tracks on this one for the first time, at a college radio station. hopefully y'all know who you are, thanks for a great birthday <3
sidequests
- surveying all boston fire department fireboxes (medford/somerville boxes included too, but the medford list isn't complete because i haven't found any authoritative-looking list)
data
- every geodetic marker in one arcgis feature service (ngs)
- mbta speed restrictions dashboard (direct link)
- county fips codes
- american community survey data table IDs explained (census, acs)
- (ftp://) 2021 american community survey data down to blockgroup geography, 5-year averages (census, acs)
- descriptions of tables and fields in the above dataset (census, acs)
- huntsville, al arcgis rest endpoint
helpful openstreetmap tools
- opening_hours evaluator
- taginfo, check if you're using a tag correctly, discover new tags
- notesreview, find nearby notes that have been open for a long time
- osmcha changeset validation tool
places
gender
all of my other weird jokes (in alphabetical order)
- bisexual (dot) lighting
- corn on the c (dot) observer (corn on the cob server) — pretty sure this domain name is yafah's fault
- entirely (dot) red
- hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (dot) website
- jeff sessions (dot) online
- nothing (dot) delivery
- ransomware (dot) link
- rotating (dot) fish
- rotating (dot) horse
- turquoise (dot) website
- zero is a natural number (dot) party
random other stuff
- asmad – amtrak status map archive database
- that one time i went to yell at legislators about trans rights, learned that only one person was going to be allowed to speak per issue, and then went uhhhhh, trans... portation policy! transportation policy. (32:53)
- nist srm catalog (2023-05-15)
- policy on the naming of mbta stations (updated 2018-08-13)
- metrofire mutual aid running cards (archived on tris.fyi, updated 2023-08-09)
- changes to transit service in the mbta district, 1964-2023 (archived on tris.fyi, updated 2023-08-09)
- atkinson hyperlegible, the font used on this very page!!!
- tortellini.gif (mine)
- blackboard transact charge protocol reveng docs (mine)
- mit guide to lock picking
- radio station call origins
- johnvertising
- the 12-bit rainbow palette
- light pollution atlas 2020 (david lorenz)
- a toki pona dictionary (nimi.pona.la)
- Intelligent Mail Barcode (iMB) decoder
