Daniel Morrison

Building with signs for Kalamazoo VAPOR and Holland COIN that makes it look like “VAPOR COIN”

Is today a good day to post one this random (old) photo of local signage?

Traffic Fatality in Holland  

PSA: Don't put your trash bins in the bike lane!

I drove past this last night moments after it happened. Tragic. Dark, rainy, terrible visibility. 😢

Protected bike lakes would be even better, but in the meantime, keep your trash bins out of the bike lanes!

www.cityofholland.com/CivicAlerts....

Zillow push notification with example text.

Even big companies can make simple mistakes.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot on Apple Music Song · 1976 · Duration 6:29

This song used to come on the radio at night when I was a kid and scare me a bit.

Anyway, good night to put it on repeat.

music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Dad Rock Essentials on Apple Music Playlist · 100 Songs

This looks like a solid playlist, and I’m not sure how that makes me feel. 🤣

music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Book: “Badass Making Users Awesome” by Kathy Sierra on my office bookshelf with a Tangarine iBook in the background.

This book has had a place of prominence on the @collectiveidea.com bookshelf since it came out because Kathy Sierra is awesome and y’all should read her.

Posting for no reason whatsoever.

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what oc...

in light of rubycentral.org/news/rubygem... I'm suddenly suspicious of gem.coop as being primarily a data play.

wait, what?

Michigan studies east-to-west passenger rail route The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) plans to begin a study in spring 2026 to explore potential routes.

It is criminal that this doesn't exist already, with the number of people hopping between them daily. This would be fantastic. www.wilx.com/2025/09/29/m...

Bring Ranked Choice Voting to Michigan | Rank MI Vote Ranked Choice Voting is a simple upgrade to voting — an easy, nonpartisan, reform that ensures elections reflect the will of the people.

Just signed the Ranked Choice Voting petition at the farmers market. Get out there Michigan and sign it! rankmivote.org

a client wants to work with an AI marketing company and part of the JS snippet they provided loads jQuery.

This cracks me up, because "rewrite this without jQuery" is something that the LLMS are actually pretty good at.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Missing the crew at #RailsConf this week. I planned to be there but had a family thing come up. Have fun for me, and see you at the next thing!

people still don't understand the zipper merge. Got a middle finger and an aggressive lane straddler today.

YouTube video by FBIVideo1 Kids In The Hall - Head Crusher: Rival

I’m picturing it like the fight scene in this. youtu.be/PM5_dgKDsrc

Chatting with Wix tech support about working around their DNS setup limitations.

So how's your day going?

8th Street in Holland, from above, without cars.

Took the cargo bike down a closed-to-cars 8th Street this morning to drop off seats for the parade. So pleasant. Let’s close this all the time!

Photo from a voting place with a Vote Here sign juxtaposed with a pest control company truck.

Vote those pests out!

(Actually just a couple millages, but still go vote!) #ivoted

Congrats, Broncos!

Text message from Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow talking about never having to fill out online petitions again.

Text message from Senator Schumer telling me how important it is to sign an online petition.

Spot the difference

YouTube video by Institute for Local Self-Reliance How Holland, Michigan, Explored Every Community Broadband Model

Go watch this 9-minute documentary on Holland, Michigan’s citywide fiber-to-the-home project, if you're interested in what we did here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5A...
#hollandfiber

currently writing a Cucumber file and wow it has been a while. 🥒

We’ll be there! Come join us!

I only learned about the insanity that is the Barkley Marathons a year ago, and I’m happy I can follow it here.

The outside space at Midwest House with lots of sunshine and fun.

Beautiful day at #MidwestHouse at #sxsw. Michigan day! Come hang out!

www.midwesthouse.org/sxsw-2025-1

Starting #sxsw right: coffee, breakfast tacos, nerd time.

Landed in Austin for #sxsw. Been 12 years, so feels a bit surreal.

Having some annoying Tailscale issues for the last hour. Anyone else?

“You have already activated cocaine 0.4.2, but your Gemfile requires cocaine 0.5.8.”

Time to stop for a bit.

Things I should do on this project:
* Work on features

Things I want to do on this project:
* Convert all the CoffeeScript to plain JS
* Kill all the haml