Excellent piece, seemingly counterintuitive but makes a very good case. Rome has done a lot in the past couple of years to improve the bus service, not by removing stops, but by adding "platforms" that give busses priority, and informative shelters.
This is the conversation me and Sara have been having between August 2025 and now on the topic of literature and books, by iterating with posing questions and answering them by email.
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Imagine being in jail for destroying a drone that was going to be used to kill possibly 100s of innocent people.
Imagine being in jail for 421 days without being charged for anything.
Imagine being in jail for 421 days and still having to wait at least 138 days until your tr...
While I was writing “Publishing my citation preferences”, I consciously decided that the blog post should include a screenshot of the website feature described in the post – the new “Reference this post” section on my blog pages. I knew that I might change the design of the w...
I am reading Katy Hessel’s “How to Live an Artful Life”. The book has a single creative prompt each day to consider. I have the book – whose cover is beautifully designed, with a link typeface and a blue square so as to make the book stand out – in a prominent place. When I h...
A couple of days ago I noticed that 22 years before that, I had complained that one of two gizmos had proved a total bust. The Griffin iTrip was designed to transmit music from an iPod to a nearby FM receiver. I’m sure it worked, somewhere, but here in Rome there simply was ...
Big IndieWeb updates behind the scenes with Indiekit and joining Homebrew Website Club meets. Learnt Git redaction, PR merged and improve Mermaid diagrams.
This post is for future frustrated me, though if it can help someone else, that's wonderful.
Somehow when I tried to access my new Hetzner service from my laptop I got myself in a terrible muddle. Despite a lot of song and dance with ssh-keygen and all that that entails, H...
Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order: * "Take California" (https://en.wikipe...
This way, I do not have to manually
link those here, and one can follow all my posts with a single feed. If
you see a bunch of new entries, you now know it’s because I messed with my
feed.
Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, q...