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It has a really nice design. Much easier to use than any other US government api I’ve used. Just some minor issues with upstream data availability leading to errors, as well as duplicate alerts.

I’m using it for a side project (https://ppg.report/41.876,-87.624)

Another good one - https://www.1800wxbrief.com/Website/interactiveMap

I really enjoyed Together We Cycle. I don’t think many people know just how close The Netherlands was to losing their cycling culture (and a safe transportation system overall), and what it took to revive it (one example being ‘stop de kindermoord’).

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/togetherwecycle

Something must be wrong on your machine. On my Mac Mini and Air (m1) Firefox scrolling is extremely smooth and feels much more native than Chrome. Overscrolling has worked great since they revamped the engine, even in nested scroll views!

Firefox's scrolling engine is so good, CSS scroll snapping feel more native than Safari's implementation (with chrome feeling the least native - too little friction and takes too long to stop moving on large scroll snap areas) [1].

[1] https://ppg.report/41.876,-87.624 for example of CSS scroll snapping that performs best on Firefox on Mac

Is the Apple watch air integrated (for scuba)?

Edit: Nope... found on https://www.oceanicworldwide.com/faqs/

Q: I have a wireless transmitter, can I connect it with the Oceanic+ app?

A: At the moment this option is not currently available.

Rain isn't really a problem with the appropriate clothing. (Speaking as someone that rides year round for transportation in Wisconsin.) The only problem I've had is downpours can soak your shoes but I just have an extra pair of shoes at work and at home.

There's definitely some data not being used. For example, OSM has the names of the bike paths, but Apple Maps doesn't use them (just says "turn left onto the bike path"). It also often says "turn left onto the bike path" (every few hundred feet or so) for no reason at all.

I have self-hosted my personal email account for years without issues. At some point early on I started relying on AWS for sending emails, but that can be easily switched out or removed at any time (and its free for my small volumes of sent emails).

if you're in a car*

*turn by turn bike directions in Madison, Wisconsin are absolutely horrid and basically unusable if you are on a bike path

It's extremely frustrating how some chrome extension apis such as chrome.tabCapture simply are no longer background context compatible, since they aren't in service workers. And they're just completely silent, don't even acknowledge the shortcomings. Just a hugely frustrating developer experience. Shame on Google, and this whole MV3 fiasco has permanently soured my view on Chrome developer Relations.

My favorite part of the 13 mini is the wallet fits so satisfyingly. It was made for it.

An Urban Arrow?

https://na.urbanarrow.com/family-bikes/

Chrome supports CSS level 4 color functions, but they're clamped to sRGB. AKA, basically useless.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106861...

Edit: Actually, I don't think Chrome even supports CSS level 4 color functions. (It sounds like it's part of interop2022 though!)

There's still some things Safari prioritizes that other vendors don't have. For example, Chrome (and FF) still haven't fully implemented CSS colors level 4.

Chrome and Firefox are still clamping all CSS colors to sRGB. You literally can't render anything outside of sRGB with CSS. And almost all modern Apple devices are capable of the display-p3 color space.

This is very noticeable when rendering reds and greens, especially.

https://webkit.org/blog/10042/wide-gamut-color-in-css-with-d...

Great to see it going open source! I hope Actual can keep development going with the community support.

Similarly, a local-first (PouchDB) budgeting app I built[1] went open source[2][3] a few years ago. It's worked out well, I love seeing what everyone does with it in their forks. Unlike Actual however, I maintain a paid subscription service while being open source.

It's worked out quite well. Luckily it's not a huge time commitment as a side project, probably due to no native apps. I've also shifted from active development to maintenance, with sporadic updates every now and then. For example, I recently moved everything from Gitlab to Github[4] and upgraded a bunch of dependencies under the hood to get everything compiling on Apple Silicon. (For example, I now run AngularJS tests with Jest, hehe.)

[1] https://financier.io/

[2] https://github.com/financier-io/

[3] https://blog.financier.io/financier-is-now-open-source-bdfe9...

[4] https://blog.financier.io/weve-moved-to-github-4617239b9fa3

Likewise, free public apis (for non-sensitive info, at least).

I appreciate NOAA's api.weather.gov, rucsoundings.noaa.gov, and other free public APIs.

Also good to see the FAA dipping their toes in free public APIs (api.faa.gov).

How about analyzing the series of dangerous conditions that failed leading to a child dying in a car? For example, why have we built a car dependent society where you need to put a child in a car to do virtually anything?

Blaming the last failure in a chain of failures -- the drunk driver, the tired parent, the 737 pilot --- prevents prevention.

There Are No Accidents.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accident...

CSS scroll snap (and thus, the demo) broken on firefox + macOS unfortunately

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1737820

> We need more trains, light rail, subways.

I'd argue we simply need more walkability, and to place shops and destinations closer to people. Public transit is great, but is not an effective way to fix our auto-centric land use.

In Strong Towns this is discussed. Transit should come to enhance and solve the transportation needs of already great, walkable places. Transit should not be created to try to induce great places.

However the US still has relatively huge trucks delivering and navigating our urban environments that have many pedestrians and bicyclists.

It's really frustrating how the US has too many urban streets designed for accommodating oversized trucks. It's really dangerous because the side affect of accommodating huge trucks is high speeds of passenger vehicles.

https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/desi...

> Launched in November 2021, our Non-Tesla Supercharger pilot will continue to expand to new sites and countries in support of our mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

The electric car is here to save the auto industry, not the planet.

This is really cool, thank you for sharing!

It would be neat if the information and links could be localized.

Postwar American suburban development is terrible for raising children, too.

https://youtu.be/ul_xzyCDT98

Yup. Urban growth boundaries are very important, and aren’t new.

I’d always wondered what would happen if the US had a city with an UGB and very unrestrictive zoning.

And kids can actually walk places by themselves, have social lives and develop some independence instead of being stuck in the backyard.

Omafiets

I highly recommend the film "Together we cycle" for those that are interested in learning about the Netherlands' struggle with car dependency in the 20th century.

It's definitely a word coined by Strong Towns. But, a "new" made up word? I guess it depends on your scale of "new."

The oldest reference to "Stroad" on strongtowns.org I've found is this[1] from January 2, 2012.

That makes the term nearly 10 years old. That being said, this term has been getting much more popular over the last couple years, especially due to Not Just Bikes.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/1/2/the-cost-of-aut...

Manifest v3 is a shit show.

https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...