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Castro Trinket Trade
On a quiet residential street not far from the center of the historic Castro District is a decorated box attached to a post. At first glance it appears to be one of those familiar Little Free Library boxes or the similar Little Free Pantry boxes — but this is something different. This is a trinket…
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Flower Bathroom
For all the uniquely decorated bathrooms in San Francisco, this mural of oversized flowers is in an unexpected place: Roxie Theater’s small-screen “Little Roxie” theater. This mural has a way of jumping out at you as you use the restroom on your way out of the theater; not only have you gone from a dark…
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Carnaval San Francisco 2026 parade
This year’s theme for San Francisco Carnaval was “La Copa del Pueblo,” celebrating soccer, as a sort of prelude to the upcoming World Cup. Needless to say, soccer is a big deal in the Latin American communities that throw the annual Carnaval events and grand parade. After a week of chilly temperatures it was…
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Empire Park
Just off to the side of the 600 block of Commercial Street, a small alley in the Financial District near Jackson Square, is a plaza with seating, gardens, and a water feature. This privately-owned, public open space (or POPOS) is named Empire Park and features a stone plaque dedicated to Emperor Norton. Muddying the waters…
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Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries at the Asian Art Museum
My most recent museum visit was to see “Two Home Countries” from Japanese/German artist Chiharu Shiota at the Asian Art Museum. This large scale multimedia installation takes up the back half of the museum’s lower floor. The first piece in her exhibit, Diary, is a passageway through a hall of an intricate mesh of red…
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Exploratorium After Dark, 2026 edition
Returning to the Exploratorium for the first time in several years (before the pandemic!) was like coming home to a familiar place. It was long overdue. One of my favorite aspects of the Exploratorium is the series of exhibits on perception: persistence of vision, optical illusions, differences between sight and motion, etc. To that end,…
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The Bay Lights, version 3
It seems like just yesterday that The Bay Lights first illuminated San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. But it wasn’t yesterday; it was thirteen years ago. Crazy, right? Since the original temporary installation was first switched on, it was removed and replaced with a more permanent version that lasted about a decade. As of Friday evening the…
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The Nintendo Store in San Francisco
Until recently Nintendo didn’t operate their own stores — at least, not in the US — but now they have two: one in New York City and one in San Francisco. After the initial opening crowds died down a little, I went to check out the SF store on a weekday afternoon. Directly across…
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Not-so secret passages: San Francisco’s walkways hidden in plain sight
Like many urban environments, San Francisco has a plethora of walkways that are incredibly useful, yet for whatever reason are just off the beaten path enough to avoid large crowds. Many of them are hidden due to unclear signage, others are quite obvious yet are widely overlooked. Now there are many I could place on…
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MuniMet.ro
Over the holidays I took my first real crack at “vibe coding” a project I’d wanted to build for a while: a webapp that lets you know if San Francisco’s Muni Metro subway is working or not. Using Claude Code, I had it build an image classifier and a script that scrapes the live snapshot…
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