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Brian Michalski @bamnet

Engineering @GMapsPlatform, @GoogleEarth, & friends. Thoughts mine, not work's.

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Brian Michalski@bamnet
14 Nov 2018
"if you've seen it on a webpage, we can also do it on our webpage." Another one of my great insights during meetings.
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Meanwhile at Secaucus Junction, @NJTRANSIT commuters are climbing around barriers after Train 6647 missed the platform by 2 cars. I think we were pretty close to just skipping the station all together.
Two commuters climb up stairs which have been blocked off by yellow tape.

ALT Two commuters climb up stairs which have been blocked off by yellow tape.

A photo of an NJTransit train with 2 cars extended past the platform.

ALT A photo of an NJTransit train with 2 cars extended past the platform.

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Aisle seat common courtesy: You must clear and raise your tray table when you get up. Sincerely, Middle and Window seat passengers
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Concerto 3.0.0-rc1 is officially here! πŸŽ‰ 18 years after our first screen went live at @rpi, we’ve rebuilt Concerto from the ground up for the modern web. - Pinned Content πŸ“Œ - OIDC/SSO πŸ” - Rails 8 & Vue 3 ⚑️ Read more and try the demo: concerto-signage.org/blog/20…

Concerto 3.0.0 - rc1

The first release candidate for Concerto 3 is here. A ground-up rewrite of the digital signage system, 18 years after the first screen went live.

concerto-signage.org
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really wanted to like @interserver, but their VPS admin panel is super dated πŸ˜₯
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"Amtrak dispatch has lost control of all signals and switches between Secaucus and New York Penn Station" That's a new one for @NJTRANSIT and @Amtrak.
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The ad placement on @nytimes homepage really makes me question my subscription.
Screenshot of NYTimes homepage, with a large banner ad for cargo containers above the webpage. It's pretty tall.

ALT Screenshot of NYTimes homepage, with a large banner ad for cargo containers above the webpage. It's pretty tall.
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XCode Cloud builders seems to be having a hard time seeing the internet this evening. `Could not resolve host: storage.googleapis.com` pretty sure that's your problem, not mine
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A brief retrospective on some of the challenges Concerto 2 ran into - concerto-signage.org/blog/20…

Concerto 2: The Good, The Bad, and The Over-Engineered

A retrospective on 10 years of Concerto 2 development β€” frontend framework choices, plugin architecture pitfalls, and lessons learned.

concerto-signage.org
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TIL Friendly's Ice Cream is not made with egg. Why did I not know about Guar and Xanthum gum?
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Me: I don't need a 5090 I don't need a 5090 I don't need a 5080 Also me:
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Feature Request: Claude and Gemini should let you bank a few good tokens for emergencies like late night debugging, production deployment, etc. I pinky promise to only break glass once or twice a month, and only for a few minutes while I wrap up.
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I wish there was a cross platform mobile password manager that had the same solid UX as the native Google & Apple ones. Everyone adds extra features which kills the usability [for average users]. Your competition are notes, photos, and pen & paper, not other pw managers.
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Every time it feels like the Rails ecosystem has finally matured, something completely unpredictable appears. `bundle update kamal` bumps a minor version 2.10.0 -> 2.10.11 You'd probably approve that PR without a second glance. I certainly did. But on Rails 8.1 it... 1/2
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But on Rails 8.1 it also updates your minitest dependency from 5.27.0 to 6.0.0. That's not just a major jump, but a major jump Which Fails Silently by executing 0 tests! CI will say it's totally safe, all checks pass.... because 0 of them ran anymore. Le sigh
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If you're following me because you're interested in Concerto Signage: 1. Thank you for sticking around. 2. I've been doing stuff again. Looking forward to sharing soon. concerto-signage.org/blog/20…

Branch Update

I sent the following email to the Concerto team mailing last week, and wanted to share it here as well. It’s also a great test to see if we can still post new content to this blog or not. Stay tuned!

concerto-signage.org
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I have been mostly using Sonnet 4.5, but I finally gave Opus a try with a pretty open-ended but practical problem statement on a medium sized Rails code base. Lots of complicated tool use later, I was completely underwhelmed by the response. It was on par with Gemini 2.5.
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Maybe it's just my self selected set of merchants, but FedEx seems to be dominating this holiday shipping season. I haven't had something shipped via UPS in weeks.
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Spotify Wrapped is a blue bubble green bubble moment for everyone who uses a non-Spotify music streaming service
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"If it takes us 10 months to figure out where 90 chicken wings went, we have bigger problems" - Today's meeting insight
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Is there a mobile app to remotely manage all these AI coding agents? I like running Claude Code and Google CLI on my desktop and letting them cook, but I don't like having to walk back to my desktop every time I want to read the progress / add to the chat.
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