Tag: tech
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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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Ferry Building drone light show
This evening drones lit up the sky behind the Ferry Building along with projections on the building’s tower. All of this was part of a drone light show sponsored by something called Gamma for this year’s Tech Week. While there was no question this was an advertisement — the enormous QR codes were a dead…
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Computer History Museum
Situated roughly between downtown Mountain View and Google’s corporate campus is the Computer History Museum. I had a chance to visit for the first time the other day. The museum’s main gallery — which is quite large — begins with the abacus, and ends more or less at the modern day. As if to drive…
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Black rectangle to be removed from Moscone West
Since opening day Moscone West at 4th and Howard has been adorned by a large black rectangle on the side of the building. Careful observers might notice that this rectangle is attached to a somewhat rusty track that goes around the entire building. Soon, this rectangle will be removed. It wasn’t supposed to be this…
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Agile lunch breaks
The Product Owner added a new user story to the sprint backlog: “In addition,” the Product Owner added, “we’ll need to do a spike to investigate which food trucks are available today.”
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Recruiting via sidewalk sandwich board
Are sandwich boards a good way to hire software engineers and high-level managers? Now to be fair, Craigslist isn’t the perfect way to hire people. But this feels a little informal. Still, it’s fancier than a vinyl banner or a piece of cardboard stapled to a telephone pole. So there’s that.
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5 things Windows does right
We’ve all heard a lot of bad news about Microsoft over the past decade, especially the past few years. Security problems, broken hardware drivers, annoying interface changes, confusing security features, etc. It’s gotten to the point where it’s tough to think of anything good about Windows, aside from the fact that “it’s there” and there’s…
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