All course materials (slides, readings, code, data) for Introduction to Urban Science (MIT Press, also in Chinese) are now freely available on Github: github.com/lmbett/Introdu… Make them your own and keep in touch! Happy 2025!

Happy that PocketBase has a new little guide out for importing and exporting data! buff.ly/3C32J83

New blog post about cleaning up some #Wikipedia links on #OpenLibrary to replace them with #Wikidata buff.ly/40fa7VJ

Can anyone in the #Vue #VueJS or #Vite worlds tell me if there's a better way to build multiple web components? Can't use the lib option because then we can't inline dynamic imports with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. #OpenSource buff.ly/4ajvsSH

Fun to see #Wikipedia 's most viewed articles of 2024! buff.ly/4h5lxmf

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Rest in peace ⁦Donald Shoup⁩.

I think the best way to honor Donald Shoup, who just passed away at age 86, is to post 86 days in a row about the ways in which we all pay for "free" parking.

Did you know that last year England started mandating a 10% net gain in biodiversity for all new building projects? Seems like pretty great idea for nature but does anyone know how this has been panning out in projects since then?

Proud that I might actually be the reason gradients finally get fixed in Firefox :’)

Over the last year or so we've been working closely with the team at argmax to improve MacWhisper through WhisperKit. Last week we (finally) released our most requested feature; on-device automatic speaker recognition which is powered by their new SpeakerKit framework.

i love riding caltrain! it's the best

intra brooklyn transit is so cursed

🔥 Big news for Coolify and self-hosters! After 2 years and 400+ v4 releases, we're preparing for a stable release in 2025! However, there's one small problem. I developed version 4 pretty quickly - the first usable release was completed in a month - while I was learning

How in the world does Google Maps pick the top images to show for popular attractions?

Zohran Mamdani seems like a good guy!

New drawing: Hire bike

I have no idea what's involved, so this might be the easiest money ever or way under target, but I'll pay a $5,000 bounty to anyone who can claim commit credit for getting this shipped in chromium.

A new bounty is open for Importer: $2,000 to convert Notion Databases to Obsidian Bases and plain text files