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https://www.biking.city/, a leaderboard for Citibike / other Lyft-based bikeshare systems (currently NYC, Boston, and Chicago)

https://www.waitwhensyourbirthday.com/

a small social network to keep track of your friends birthdays

wait, when's your birthday?

https://www.waitwhensyourbirthday.com/

something I am working on to help people keep track of birthdays. many people I know use facebook only to keep track of birthdays, so this hopefully will be a replacement

I always enjoy seeing Olin Shivers name come up in threads about Northeastern. I had him for Fundies and have many fond memories of his lectures, I was truly inspired. It's no exaggeration to say that class and those lectures helped me find a passion and a career I enjoy. It's a shame they're phasing out Fundies, hopefully whatever they come up with will still be able to have that same impact on young students.

I feel like I'm in the minority here as a tech worker, I can't wait to return to office full time and hopefully will be able to work in the office 5 days a week. WFH has just never worked well for me personally. I enjoy the physical separation between work and home, and even given the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world, I would still choose to live where I currently do (nyc).

I preordered the Pixel 4 XL at launch, upgrading from a 2 XL. I lost the 4 XL in April, when I unknowingly dropped it at some point during a bike ride, so I reverted to the 2 XL. This made me realize what a completely unremarkable phone the 4 XL was, and in some ways, it was actually a step _backwards_ from the 2 XL. I really did miss the fingerprint scanner on the back of the 2 XL, and for me face unlock will always be a gimmick. The camera on the 2 XL is still really good, even by today's standards.

Every smartphone I've had since the gnex days has been Google. I really want Google to make the best Android phones. The appeal of Nexus was that it was so cheap. With Pixel, prices have gone up, and the increase in functionality between generations has gone down. Maybe that's a general smartphone trend, but I think for the first time in a long time, my next Android phone won't be from Google.

Kongregate, what a trip. I saw 'Kongregate' in the title and thought 'hey, I have games published there!' As a teenager, using MochiAds to get paid for some flash games was absurd - this was something I was just "good at", and honestly, what really introduced me to software development as both a passion and a career.

It always amazes me reading about the novel techniques N64 devs used to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of such a hardware / storage constrained platform. Nowadays I get excited if a Call of Duty patch is under 10gb....

Building a mobile analytics platform for tracking daily / monthly active / new users, etc. similar to Fabric (thankfully they extended the shutdown). Not a big fan of the Firebase console.

I suspect we don't have those because it's politically unpopular. The disregard for traffic laws is so deeply ingrained and I also believe single occupancy vehicle is still the main mode of commute here. Also, the comments "what about the jaywalkers", "what about those pesky cyclists always blowing red lights", etc. come up ad nauseam.

We have the same problem in Boston. There is no one traffic enforcement division for the BPD, and it instead done on a district-by-district basis, often being tasked to just one or two officers [1]. We, too, have plenty of bus-only lanes where the red paint has completely faded, and they are back to general purpose lanes. One of my favorite examples you can clearly see the faded red paint, "bus only" signs, yet plenty of regular cars on Google Streetview [2].

As someone who lives and walks to work in downtown Boston, it is also a cultural issue. During rush hour, there is effectively no such thing as a moving violation. I walk through some of the busiest intersections on a daily basis, and just about every single time, some traffic law is broken.

No right on red is a complete joke. People will actually honk at you if you are stopped at a red light with a "no right on red" sign. Don't block the box? If you don't block the box, traffic coming from the other way will, and you won't make it through the _next_ light cycle. Red lights are just a suggestion at many intersections, with 2, even 3 cars running through _after_ the light has turned.

The joke I always say is that if BPD enforced all moving violations for just one day downtown, they'd raise enough revenue to fund another Big Dig. Not true, of course, because even the cops themselves don't follow the traffic laws. Why should they?

[1] https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2019/03/13/boston-city-...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3524301,-71.0622098,3a,75y,5...