Ian R Buck

I've had Nextcloud sitting at about 80% all set up for the last six months. I may never get to that last 20%.

A five-by-five bingo card with predictions of things that will happen in 2026. The top right space reads "New Bo Burnham... thing."

I had your 2021 tweet in mind when I put together my bingo card.

Until I see a published plan that includes bus lanes, I'm going to assume there won't be any.

Pretty bummed that they're not fully implementing the W 7th St plan that St Paul and Metro Transit announced last year. It might come in bits and pieces, but I'm afraid that we'll be stuck with aBRT for a long long time.

My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!

Not a high enough confidence interval, more experiments are needed.

Someone remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” but Mr. Potter believes that hoarding is morally required so he can devote resources to delivering a far future with trillions of humans while George Bailey is like, “Gosh Darnit! What if taking care of people today is what takes care of people in the future?!”

I don't think that the problem is political campaigns on the left not creating good YouTube content; the problem is with the habit of watching 3+ hours of YouTube a day.
Bowling Alone found TV watch time to be the strongest correlation with low social capital, and this seems like the modern equiv.

YouTube video by StreetsMN How Mixing Bikes And Pedestrians On Lyndale Feels

"On October 4 2025, Move Minnesota’s Livable Lyndale campaign hosted a “Stroll & Roll” rally to showcase what the experience will be like if Lyndale is reconstructed with a shared use path, as the current county design calls for. Here is a collection of testimonials from people in attendance."

Could you include a picture or link to the Stanley diagram that Todd walks us through in the episode show notes? I'm having trouble visualizing it in my head.

I was interviewed here, and did my best to remember how this all started!

john mentioned a homeowner coming out who said that putting in a path would change the character of the lake. i recognized him - it’s james, the elizabeth shaffer delegate from ward 7 convention who was the subject of a credentials challenge due to donating to republicans

bsky.app/profile/tayl...

Here's the triumphant unfurling of the banner.

Minneapolis bike pals!
Anyone looking for a 1 bedroom apartment (first floor) in a quadplex of other bike people?

Locked garage available, secure underground storage too, cat friendly, and you get to be my neighbor! Rent is approx $1,000 a month and includes water, trash, heat.

Check out the Google App Script attached to my spreadsheet, you can modify it to make the Google Maps API calls you need.

I suppose some of them are acquaintances, but "friends, family, and acquaintances" doesn't really roll off the tongue. 😆

I'm sure you have some people you hang out with more often than other people. A spectrum of friends, family, and acquaintances.
What do you mean by "accessibility" here?

How rude of them!

Brings to mind this news article from the early days of the pandemic:
minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minne...

What's creepy about this to you?

Weighted average. The way they truncated the quote for the social media post removed that important context.

That was my first instinct, but the direct distance often doesn't reflect our real-world experiences. Barriers like rivers or highways can make two points feel farther apart, and amenities like rapid transit and bike trails can make two points feel closer together.

Respect the Friend-Density Matrix Maximize your ability to hang out with friends by using this spreadsheet, which helps you match a place to live with proximity to them!

"I created a spreadsheet that allows you to put in a list of friends, their address and a weight for each. It will tell you what the average travel time by bike or transit is from each neighborhood in Minneapolis to each of your friends..." - @ianrbuck.bsky.social

You're a sneaky photographer!

Time to dig a bike tunnel under the railroad tracks!

Ian, Zack, and James gesture up at a Rue Saint-Paul O. street sign in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Saint Paul meetup on Rue Saint-Paul. @scoopsstp.bsky.social @kcazllerraf.bsky.social @ianrbuck.bsky.social

The 2025 Legislative Wrap-up Podcast Episode · Streets.mn Podcast · 06/16/2025 · 58m

We recorded this before Speaker Hortman was stolen from us. Now I can hear what we took for granted. We shared a short example of her leadership and it seemed like a given. It’s not. Nobody could have handled a tied House like she did. We owe her so much. #mnleg podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Except when you reach Snelling!

Consider that those are tasks that can be done by transit ambassadors, and it's better if those tasks aren't done by someone who is also trying to focus on operating a vehicle. That should be the goal of automating transit vehicles.

Feels like I-94 back home, eh?