Lovely to see this recent write up from Ars Electronica on our Eyewriter project. Really thoughtfully written Reflects the spirit of the project ( 15 years ago now!! ) cc @zachlieberman.bsky.social @csugrue.bsky.social @powderly.bsky.social @evanroth.bsky.social
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
Green car parked in a bike lane at the intersection of Court and Hamilton.
When people complain about the new bike lane and say, “we support a bike lane just not this way” (which we hear a lot on CB6), this is why it needs to be protected and not just a lane in traffic. The second a bike lane is not protected it becomes a secondary place for cars to park, as pictured here.
Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
can’t stop thinking about the detail in this “no skateboarding” sign
lol that is a deep cut. not even Sublime Text!
incredible. this is the hard hitting Waxy investigation I live for
Zero Cool crashes 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988
happy Zero Cool Crash Day to those who celebrate
9 versions of kermit the frog. 1 is climbing up a table helplessly, 2 is in love, 3 is eating ice cream happily, 4 is hands on cheeks shocked, 5 is flower in hand maybe poetic?, 6 is crying in fetal position, 7 is wrapped in cozy blanket, 8 is staring at a bunch of notebooks, 9 is fingers intertwined smiling at desk
how do you feel on Kermit scale today? I'm a 4
Cool 80s kid with mullet, neon pink shirt & acid-washed jeans playing video games on a CRT TV
cool cool cool
I'm still interested in browser automation, but it's not the panacea I used to imagine. Read more on my blog: jamiedubs.com/blog/compute...
Websites that want agents to use them will just expose APIs or improve their overall accessiblity. Sites that don't want bots (eg Ticketmaster) already have aggressive anti-bot tech and no API for a reason.
Makes for flashy demos but in reality it's slow, flaky, and gets blocked by always-improving anti-bot tech
Amazon Nova Act came out yesterday but I'm skipping this one. I've played with lots of "LLM controlling web browser" tools (Operator, Computer Use, Open Interpreter) and written tons of Playwright and Puppeteer code and I'm not that excited about this approach anymore.
warm weather in nyc yesterday
AI app development tools that I’ve used and recommend you check out (March 2025 edition):
- low-code: Lovable, Bolt, Vercel v0
- mid-code: Valtown, Replit
- full-code: Claude Code, Cline, Windsurf, Cursor, Aider
as I’ve been getting back into attending NYC tech events post-covid I have noticed that it is unusual for there to be alcohol. Doesn’t matter if it’s AI, crypto, b2b, whatever. Always seltzer, generally pizza, rarely beer
the LLMs are in my pull requests now, demanding explanations
just when I thought you couldn't get any cooler
RIP Miley’s Hook Up, legendary NYC computer/audio shop ❤️
would kill for an aggregator of upcoming events across these! I always hear about something cool after the fact. plus Rhizome, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works etc
my favorite use case for LLM-Spotify (DJ Claude) has been things like: could you go through this playlist and arrange it by increasing BPM? and weird things like that where it'll say, OK I need to use this other API to get BPM, then iterate over the songs, then...
been playing with this too, it's not bad! mobile only too