Alex

a baby Live Oak tree that has just been planted

Very excited and proud to have planted a Live Oak tree this morning. Thanks to Austin Tree Folks for the free tree and planting guidance!

Github alerts are so fun when your co-dev is your husband

"Alex created an issue"

Like yeah, lemme tell ya Github. This is not the first time

I believe in you🫂

TxDOT: Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan.

This jaw-dropping article discusses TxDOT's recent statements in support of public transit across Texas. Happy Monday, y'all!

www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

> The Texas Constitution mandates that most of the agency’s budget must be spent on building and expanding freeways.

—https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/texas-public-transit-plan/

Texas in a nutshell. I hope things can change in the future.

Big update to Smoke Signal just dropped! We've redesigned event pages, added ATProtocol facets support, cryptographic RSVPs, private content controls, and AI agent integration.

About The Other Night... How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

The dude in this hot tub and the climbing scene were particularly cute

I finished Big Rock City from Magic Puzzle Company with original art by Annika Brandow.

I loved the art of this puzzle, and it makes use of some fantastic shapes for the pieces. A highlight in this collection for sure 👌

Just finished reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler. Just wow.

This feels like required reading in 2025—a premonition of our current political situation and possible future environment due to climate change.

This is part of APL's Innovation Lab: library.austintexas.gov/makerspace

I didn't get a copy of the .stl file, but I'll share a photo once I have the print

Tinkercad Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

I attended an introduction to 3D printing at the Austin Public Library last night. It was fantastic and a very gentle introduction with a focus on 3D modeling in tinkercad.com. They are printing our creations—bat decorations for halloween—and I'll be able to pick mine up soon!

Not Boring by Packy McCormick Tech strategy and analysis, but not boring. Click to read Not Boring by Packy McCormick, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

A very worthwhile read: The Electric Slide on Not Boring.

I’m looking forward to Noctua developing iPhone cases to help maximise that chassis cooling effect! 😆

It's hard to drone a solar panel The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters