Not really. In my limited experience if you can get a referral from a social or work group that's best. For Yelp, I've found it kind of works to message with a bunch of candidates. You can write up a brief summary and ask for a quote. Most will send you a form response, but some will engage
1998's Prop 6 stole your rights to kill and eat a horse
While walking my kid to the park over the weekend, an older fellow stopped and chatted with us about a house being gut renovated. Next thing I know, he's telling me about how important it was to pass "13" (since he's apparently on a first name basis with it and didn't even call it "Prop 13")
Congratulations to the original poster for vibe coding 70% of what they needed to replace LastPass in 2 evenings after work
MTC directs a decent amount of funding and staff time toward transit signal priority
TSP on Alameda's Park Street is just about to start construction
In 2025, MTC also funded TSP for Fruitvale (!)
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uc-ev-station-lite
https://www.dewalt.com/product/dxpaev048/dewalt-electric-vehicle-ev-240v-level-2-charger-48-amps-app-control-bluetooth-wi-fi-csa-certified-indooroutdoor-hardwired-wall-mounted-charging-station-25-ft-cable
Why buy an EV?
So you can then pick between a charger in DeWalt orange or Ubiquiti white/blue....
But fair point that right now advocates have to do a lot of work to track city-level details
For better or worse, I'm just reacting to how that's what every tech-industry-type-turned-politician says will solve any problem
"I would require... a public dashboard" 🤣
poster about Alysa Liu celebration rally "in partnership with Invisalign"
First I was wondering whether we send our kid to the same East Bay orthodontist as a gold medal skater
Then I learned those aren't braces in Alysa Liu's mouth
But her celebration rally is sponsored by Invisalign?
Now I'm both old and confused...
"Just one of the nine major Democrats did heed the party chair’s message. Ian Calderon, a former Los Angeles-area Assemblyman who consistently polled near the bottom of the field, withdrew from the race..."
I didn't even know Calderon was running — but I now salute him for setting a good example!
Ha! At least on the upside, the PE teacher isn't talking about nutrition advice from TikTok...
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who enjoyed that combo of scene and song. I may have also loudly interrupted to tell my kids and spouse that I can't wait to ride high-speed rail to downtown LA someday...
Ha. Someone in his office must have accidentally taken this recipe a bit too seriously: sherisilver.com/2026/02/25/k...
That's unfortunate! In case it's useful to have numbers for budgeting, here's the mini sweeper that City of Alameda purchased a couple years ago for about $175k alameda.legistar.com/LegislationD...
The layoffs are definitely because of AI*
*Assholes In charge
Why it matters:
- it's boring to read
- I'm lazy
- you're lazy
- embrace laziness
Go deeper:
- buy 50,000 copies of the Smart Brevity(TM) book and send them to everyone who works for your corporation
Oof. But on the upside, given that it's Google and they always create 100 different slapdash UIs, it's somewhat more likely that it's cross tenant data leakage at the app level than the LLM level 🙃
Claude, use the web fetch tool to download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute... and then write a blog post for our CEO to review and edit
Ha! But that does look like an ideal candidate for an SB9 lot split
About a million years ago, Mapzen (RIP) banned the Trump administration from using our services. At the time it felt hypothetical, a preemptive ban on "what if" questions. I never imagined it would play out for real with today’s most prominent tech company. www.mapzen.com/blog/mapzen-...
4 cities in the Bay Area that have eliminated parking maximum requirements
Yes! Hope your city can join this map: parkingreform.org/resources/ma...
Arreguin deserves a lot of credit for listening, learning, and becoming such an articulate voice for both regional housing and transportation issues!
FWIW, that looks like a picture of Mission Bay
tired: visions of grandeur when ChatGPT responds to your naive prompts suggesting that you suddenly have uncovered a profound new insight into a topic that requires years of study to understand
wired: visions of grandeur when Claude Code lets you simultaneously open thousands of pull requests
Whoa. Are the racist CC&Rs going to be removed from the Bohannon subdivisions?
Alexa, when will my office be paperless?
Fellow armchair analysts, let's keep in mind many things going on at once:
- the Trump regime is awful
- too many US metros continue to lag int'l peers in quality of life
but also:
- US salaries are meaningfully higher than many other developed nations
- there's genuine economic opportunity here
Fascinating numbers. Maybe there's hope yet for a mix of market-based and public solutions! As long as us voters can hold off on promising to magically write insurance policies for all existing WUI dwellers...
That's a lot of smoked meats and wood-fired bagels
