Frank Noirot

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

The end of the blog post "An app can be a home-cooked meal" by Robin Sloan, discussing his "home-cooked messaging app" for his family, BoopSnoop. This messaging app I built for, and with, my family, it won’t change unless we want it to change. There will be no sudden redesign, no flood of ads, no pivot to chase a userbase inscrutable to us. It might go away at some point, but that will be our decision. What is this feeling? Independence? Security? Sovereignty? Is it simply … the feeling of being home? Update, February 2022: Two years later, my family still uses BoopSnoop every day. I have added one (1) feature, at my mother’s request. Update, February 2023: Yep, still using it every day! Update, February 2024: Still booping. Still snooping. TestFlight build 26. Update, February 2025: I have changed literally nothing in the app, and it’s glorious. TestFlight build 30!

The update footnotes at the end of "An app can be a home-cooked meal" fill my heart with joy.

www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

Pass legislation to limit the pardon powers. Laws—especially amendments—supersede Supreme Court rulings. You are one of like 500 people in the country who can actually fix this problem, please do it

Oh damn I've never made the connection between that concept and "overstatement of harm" from Conflict Is Not Abuse until just now, thank you.

Boom! collections.mfa.org/objects/1425...

Thanks so much, sorry for doubting. Incredible.

It’s breaking my brain though bc like she has the car with actual damage? The delivery is camp, but is it like a joke to soften the embarrassment and point it out at the same time?

Could you link to the collection entry for each of these on their site? I don’t see them anywhere when trying to search here: collections.mfa.org/advancedsearch, so I’m afraid they might be fake.

Killer alt text btw

one must imagine sisyphus thankful

Google map roughly centered on the intersection in the preceding post but zoomed-out and showing the nearest (not nearby though) two polic precincts.

Oh man that area's such a bad combo of far from a precinct and utterly Carworlded. Enforcement is (per usual) not gonna cut it.

I actually went down to the historical library and did some proper research! franknoirot.co/posts/agreem...

In 1870 the Flatbush Railroad Company signed an agreement with the City of Brooklyn to convert all its trains to at-grade. I didn't know they ever weren't at-grade!

That’s so rad. I’m a tiny bit bummed “yinz” or “yous” didn’t win out—for the silliness of it all—but so cool that people are aligning on something.

Saving this to play at whatever hearings about letting these things in NYC eventually come our way.

Such cool tech, so fun to ride in. Absolutely valid as a niche form of transport. Absolutely not worth reshaping public policy around, because this is what you get.

Yeah we gotta have an American plural you, cmon.

A sheet that reads "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

this would go unspeakably hard as a lower back tattoo

Worst most correct pareidolia, you should get a prize

Damn that is awful.

I still have my copy to read to my kid someday. Looking through each scene was such a curiosity builder imho

That’s crazypants that this is buried in a comment

Ayo I’ll remove my Arc Boost I’ve been using at night!

My favorite subgenre of pull request are ones whose titles sound like psychotic breaks or sublime experiences.

This is awesome. What's it mean to be smoothly between a triadic and a split complementary? I only understand those as categorical palette types.

Can't make this shit up.

wtf lol this is devastating

Just watched the full Oval Office press briefing and I and just so stunned, truly one of the most effective personal politics moments in my life. Mind boggling. Gobsmacked.

@chaimaster3000.bsky.social

Technological progress has a dangerous tendency towards optimizing for *engages Shaggy voice* “it wasn’t me”

Looks good! Is the “ear” what the long split is called?

Are you simulating 1998 era PHP shared hosting? That sounds interesting

I like the capybara example that’s fun!