aaronbrethorst

I’ll save my money for the 2030 Speedwagon.

I'm continuing to build out OneBusAway Cloud (Heroku for public transit), just like last month. https://onebusawaycloud.com. Since last month, the overall polish and feature completeness of the product has improved substantially, and we're starting to see meaningful inbound interest.

Beyond that, I've been plugging away on improving the user experience of the OneBusAway iOS app, and plan on launching a major overhaul of the stop page experience later this week: https://bsky.app/profile/onebusaway.bsky.social/post/3mqj4ua...

I also recruited a new Android app maintainer who has been doing amazing work!

If you want to explore our new transit API server, I wrote up a blog post a couple months ago to walk you through the basics: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up... (data for your location can be found at https://www.transit.land/operators)

You can find all of our OSS work at https://github.com/onebusaway — we have projects written in SvelteKit, Go, Swift, Kotlin, and much more.

I have an almost-four year old child and not a lot of downtime. I used to listen to podcasts when I was doing dishes, cleaning the house, walking the dog, etc. I've mostly abandoned podcasts in favor of audiobooks. It didn't feel like they were benefiting me in any meaningful way—almost like they were just empty calories for my ears.

I finally made it all the way through The Power Broker recently, which I've wanted to read for years, and am now on Jennifer Pahlka's really insightful Recoding America, which features heavily in the chapter "Govern" in Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance. The three are actually quite interesting to read back to back.

Audiobooks are definitely slower to get through than just reading, but I find that I can stick with them in a way that books just haven't allowed me to do in years.

Let's find the seam.

[2023]

And New York was new Amsterdam before the USA and a lot more people came through new Amsterdam

Why they changed it, I can't say, people just liked it better that way.

Museums have come to rely on KAWS as a bankable artist whose unabashed merchandising is integral to the experience

Exit Through the Gift Shop remains integral to our moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Through_the_Gift_Shop

All from well-known brand SheilaDegisn

Those pictures make me think of Attack on Titan for some reason.

Awesome, thank you for the feature run-down

I'm building something that is only pointed at Claude, and I don't anticipate moving away from the Anthropic ecosystem. Does RubyLLM offer me an advantage over directly using Anthropic's Ruby SDK?

To put it differently, is this more like choosing between Fog and aws-sdk-s3, or choosing between Active Storage and aws-sdk-s3?

Costco sells D3+K2 softgels! Great price, of course.

I started taking them at the recommendation of my podiatrist after I broke my foot last winter (third metatarsal fracture, specifically, ouch).

The giant banana was spotted in West Seattle yesterday! https://westseattleblog.com/2026/06/seen-in-west-seattle-the...

Forget the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace Seven, I'm still waiting for a Sandbenders.

Plus, too many companies don't spend their money in a logical fashion. As a manager, you can direct your $200,000/year engineer in any way you want, but try to spend any amount of money on a new SaaS product and procurement might huffily demand hours of your time and weeks of delay to authorize even $40/month, let alone $400/month.

That said, I think the path Brandur is describing is well-trodden and proven out by projects like Sidekiq.

Then the guacamole. Then nuclear armageddon?

The knowledge is in the YAML

Exactly why I hate CloudFormation, K8S, GitHub Actions, etc. yaml is a terrible format for the knowledge encoded in these artifacts.

Happy to chat about it with you. Email me at aaron@onebusaway.org

They really missed out by not calling it Neuromancer.

I’m still building OneBusAway Cloud, which you can think of as being Heroku for public transit.

https://onebusawaycloud.com/

It’s a project of the non-profit Open Transit Software Foundation that we’re using to fund our other initiatives, like bringing real-time transit information to billions of people around the world.

Since last month, I've added a layer of polish to the product, added support for deploying a SMS and phone gateway to realtime transit information, and built out the marketing website to include solutions pages for higher education, SMS, and more.

All of this depends on a bunch of really cool open source projects we’re building, like Maglev, a Golang server that can power realtime transit apps. Maglev is already being used in production, and you can set up a local install in about 15 minutes: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up...

The other OSS projects we have include: building data products, iOS and Android apps, web apps, a Pebble watch app(!), and too many others to list. See them all here: https://github.com/onebusaway/

We’re always looking for volunteers, especially people outside of the engineering disciplines: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...

xda-developers.com vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_Xda

Go: A server and client for managing webhooks in development environments: https://github.com/onebusaway/hooks

Ruby on Rails: A volunteer 'jobs' board for OSS projects (ironically): https://ossvolunteers.com

JavaScript (client side+Cloudflare Worker): A map showing stop-level usage of OneBusAway across the Puget Sound region, updated daily: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/onebusaway/visuali...

Swift/iOS: An app that helps me track how much time I spend in the five heart rate zones, so that I can better focus my workouts. I'm working on version 2 right now, which will take advantage of some new features in iOS 27 and has an all new UI. https://www.zone2.app

nice, done

it's 3 products: a widescreen iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator. Are you getting it?

Neat. Now do it for gluten free flour[1] :)

this is the go-to recipe in my home. You can sub in GF flour (Bob's 1:1) and they're consistently excellent. https://smittenkitchen.com/2011/06/blueberry-yogurt-multigra...

[1] so I can enjoy it!

Crystalline Entity? Q? Guinan?

Lwaxana is very unusual. How haven't they guessed yet?

I've been using calendar versioning quite happily with my mobile apps for a while now. It reduces the amount of angst and bike-shedding that comes along with otherwise rev'ing a major version number.

William Gibson's writing really fell off a cliff post-Trump. Agency was one of the dullest reads I've encountered in a long time.

Speaking of Fall, after a couple hundred pages I ended up just skipping the chapters about Bitworld.

I didn't bother reading Termination Shock and if Gibson ever finishes Jackpot, I doubt I'll pick it up either. What a bummer.

Totally agree.