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

Joined May 2007
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"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.
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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…
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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.
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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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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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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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