programming, baseball, and walkable cities -- all in chicago typescript & react (+native) developer, elixir & liveview (+native) admirer cubs fan, strong towns advocate, and nuance enjoyerhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3mouxl3obyc2lChicago's alleys are underutilized.22 Jun 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mouxl3obyc2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3mjumevotkk2pThis is huge. IMO Gleam has the potential to completely take over, and the main thing holding it back is ecosystem size & stability. So hyped to see how things progress. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Apr 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjumevotkk2phttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3mdnpralu3k2aICE out here wearing masks because they know first hand how you easily you can be targeted with nothing but a photo of your face. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnpralu3k2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3mcrxw5jys22sAn under appreciated benefit of a North American high speed rail network is how sick it'd be for regional sports. A two hour train line from (for example) Chicago to Detroit means thousands of Bears/Lions fans get to do a simple daytrip, drink as much as they want, and not fuck up local traffic.19 Jan 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrxw5jys22shttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3mc4qx4nxfc23That's my QB11 Jan 2026 05:06 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc4qx4nxfc23https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3m5gvyj3bvc24Fueled up with coffee and a breakfast burrito before my flight. Awake enough to be feeling the excitement for @syncconf.bsky.social!12 Nov 2025 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5gvyj3bvc24https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3m4lq7bvo3s24Go Ireland 🇮🇪01 Nov 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4lq7bvo3s24https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3m22ga2ywak233:30am for me [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22ga2ywak23https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lynfodxiik2hMaybe Chicago actually is a warzone? It's just a war on cars. I dodge traffic every day but I've never had to dodge a bullet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynfodxiik2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lync6hg4vs2fFYI to whoever is in my network. Side note: It's always bizarre to me to see EVs lumped in with e-scooters and e-bikes. The cost EVs are so much more costly on all fronts (purchase price, public infrastructure build, etc.) it strikes me as silly to treat them as even vaguely similar. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Sep 2025 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lync6hg4vs2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lyj6t4as222kGun deaths are tragic. They happen far too often in the USA and it's a travesty more hasn't been done to prevent them.10 Sep 2025 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyj6t4as222khttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lydfj25hj22j@chicagocta.bsky.social I think you should rework your fare payment guide to make contactless payments more obvious as an option: https://www.transitchicago.com/howto/pay-for-your-fare/ The current page seems to imply a Ventra card is required. IMO it should be made obvious to newbies that they can simply tap a CC08 Sep 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydfj25hj22jhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lxrpy2kt5k26Cities aren't loud, cars are loud. We chose to make our cities noisy & polluted asphalt jungles. We can also choose to change our cities into something better. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxrpy2kt5k26https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lxp75wo7yk2hYes!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxp75wo7yk2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lxk4tyobmc2uI think Gleam is a really interesting language for municipal code. Strong full-stack type guarantees & low maintenance costs are an obvious win for tax-funded orgs. And given you have a finite number of users clustered together, a single BEAM server deployed nearby would scale extremely well. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxk4tyobmc2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lxdatnvtgc2426 Aug 2025 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxdatnvtgc24https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lwaa2csymk2tReading the @strongtowns.org housing trap book & leaning on Claude a bit to just to help me understand difficult concepts. I keep getting responses like: "Excellent question! You’ve identified a crucial vulnerability that gets to the heart of systemic risk in the mortgage system." Are we cooked?12 Aug 2025 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwaa2csymk2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lw553ywals25Shout it from the rooftops! We NEED local, city-led financing of affordable starter homes. The current bank-led financing system doesn't view the home as the product, but the homeowner. It's a system that cares only about creating 30 years of mortgage payments, not about building shelter. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2025 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw553ywals25https://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lw4x7clvgk2cYouTube discussions are hilarious. @t3.gg: "I'm biased, account for my bias." YT comment with hundreds of likes: "Theo is biased!! 😡"11 Aug 2025 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw4x7clvgk2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lvlfslq7sk2wReminds me of CDOT swiftly removing @ctaction.org's fantastic traffic calming planters. Cities should actively support this stuff. Publish specs, make it easy for citizens to do it right. Solution to the underfunding problem hiding in plain sight. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/8/4/what-happens-when-residents-act-and-cities-shut-it-down04 Aug 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlfslq7sk2whttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lvj4iqikc22qWhile this is a bonkers take, I do empathize. When the only meaningful housing projects the system finances are massive and transformative, it's only natural for communities to resist. We need to find a way to replace high rise units with granny flats and duplex conversions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2025 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvj4iqikc22qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3ltrfk67d322dNCDOT is spending $1.8B to make people's lives worse. This is what government waste ACTUALLY looks like: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/7/11/this-18b-project-shows-why-state-dots-need-a-new-playbook12 Jul 2025 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltrfk67d322dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lsjfahkfgc2oIt genuinely blows my mind just how unforgiving our cities are. Too infirm to make it make it to the other end of the pedestrian crossing before the timer runs out? Boom, you’re now playing real life frogger, and if you get squished by a semi-truck it’s your fault. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jun 2025 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjfahkfgc2ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/h14h.com/post/3lsecesf3qk25Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it might grow indoors on wood chips: https://youtu.be/jI2LC3WTryw?si=J8U8VrfEA5VSCfrZ24 Jun 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:dyrmgkxlwinjywt72ud56kp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsecesf3qk25