Ian
I like trains, buses, cities, and maps. He/him.
My feed is photography, software development, and urban planning junk.
- Proficiency with sed, awk, jq, jo, grep, sort, find, and related commands are fundamental skills. The investment in learning these tools will be repaid 100 times. You don't need to know everything, just basic recipes and patterns.
- and regular expressions.
- All the facts of the world, lost, like tears in the rain.
- The Wyden letter is because Tulsi shut down the Factbook.
- STOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates: Walz is PERSONABLE Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED AOC is CHARISMATIC Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL Newsom Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
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- Yeah, that's where I'd place my bet today.
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- I have no investment in Newsom, but we should probably nominate someone who is considered extremely good looking in a conventional sense.
- Newsom is an amoral monster but he's our amoral monster.
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- The way to increase construction productivity is to have a long pipeline of small, repetitive projects where crews become efficient by constructing the same building over and over and over. This requires by-right approval and small scopes. The canonical example: Houston townhouses.
- ROW HOUSES
- My place in Houston was a 3 story, 2/2 townhouse over garage built in 1999, and it was a nearly perfect house (even if lots of stairs 😆). I loved it. It also cost (then, and now) about 1/3rd the cost of a comparable house in the Bay Area.
- Every townhouse in Houston is a minor variation on the same basic building, constructed in essentially the same way.
- The way out of our mess isn't perfectly designed 300 unit high-amenity apartment blocks or hand-crafted towers, but hundreds of variations of the same basic building on an 4,000-8,000sf lot, built by crews that have built a dozen already. bsky.app/profile/wool...
