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I take back every negative feeling I've had about Elon Musk. Starlink is amazing and the vision + execution to make it work so seamlessly is astounding. Now I can work from the cabin my great-grandpa built 90 years ago. Grateful!

I own a Sunfish, and life is good.

I haven't posted in a while. Been too busy making sheet pan dinners!

The latest at Shovels: analyzing the EV contractor market. TL;DR -- it's growing at an increasing rate all over the state. We can quantify this using building permits. More detail here: shovels.ai/blog/the-growt…

The power of AI to surface ideas previously hidden is just getting started. Super exciting

Is anybody interested in trends for SB-9 lot split data? We have it 🤓.

Who sees the impact of SB-9 on the number of lot splits in California?

Me: The Smile sure sounds a lot like Radiohead ... Me: Oh, snap

Watch me write SQL live on LinkedIn :) linkedin.com/events/shovels…

PSA: Yelp kinda sucks for finding building contractors. Why? Yelp treats them like restaurants, and they're the furthest thing from restaurants. I'm making this slide for our first big enterprise deal 💪

Weezer's Blue Album dropped 30 years ago this week... So me playing Weezer for my kids is just like my mom playing the Beatles for me. damn.

Haha, now I'm a philosopher too: rbucks.com/2024/06/11/a-s…

I took a year off of X. No regrets, didn't miss much. But now I'm back because enough friends and contacts told me there's a legit community of climate, RE, and policy folks here. Still will lean most on LI but let's try X again too. My LI: linkedin.com/in/rbuckley

What happens when you cross permit data with precinct vote file data? Who knows! We're about to find out.

What's the best tool for tracking clicks and users on a web app? Used to be Mixpanel (I think) but man I can't figure that shit out anymore.

On behalf of the shovels.ai team, we're more than happy to support this great work.

What's the best cheapest API for property photos?

- Pacific Palisades has higher fire sprinkler requirements (4.3-6.6%) compared to Beverly Hills (2.8%) and West Hollywood (3.9%) - Higher likelihood of needing grading permits (26-36%) - Relatively efficient approval process (155 days) - Higher costs in RE20-1-H and RE15-1-H zone

Not actually sure what this means or how useful of an analysis this is. But it is interesting to see the disparity in fire sprinkler mentions in new construction permits across all the cities in LA County. Palisades is the red bar.