Walnut Creek's Design Review Commission is reviewing a new apartment building on Botelho Drive across from the Habit this evening. Like every project proposed in Walnut Creek recently, it cannot be built under the city's normal zoning code, so it is using state density bonus law to waive laws around...

I read this and then had trouble finding it for a year, I'm writing about it so I have a way to find it... The proposal here is so obviously correct that it's shocking it doesn't come up more often when people discuss the NBA Draft... basically the idea is that you assign a high […]

*This post originally appeared on Shyp's engineering blog in July 2015. It has since been deleted. It is reproduced as closely as possible here. The original is accessible on the Wayback Machine. Eight months ago when I ran our core API tests at Shyp, it took 100 seconds from starting the test to se...

Most browsers have the ability to launch different browser profiles. Each profile can come with a different theme and a different set of website logins (cookies, application state, etc). This can be helpful if you want to segregate browsing behavior. For example, I have different browser profiles se...

One of the first ever Redis libraries for Go was hosted at github.com/garyburd/redigo. It has been deprecated for some time and has now been finally removed altogether from Github. If you still have a dependency on this project, this means that will be broken now. github.com/gomodule/redigo should b...

Source: CSPAN Transcript was generated using OpenAI Whisper and then cleaned up using ChatGPT o1 pro. All errors are mine. Volodymyr Zelensky Do you, and now I’m talking with my friends in Poland, and they are worried that you align yourself too much with Putin. What’s your message for them? Donald ...

Most PG&E ratepayers don't understand how much higher the rates they pay are than what it actually costs PG&E to generate and transmit the electricity to their house. When I looked into this recently I was shocked. The average PG&E electricity charge now starts at 40 cents per kilowatt hour and goes...

Every day we learn more about the importance of good air quality. Here are some tips to help you improve air quality inside your house. How to Measure First, you are going to want to be able to measure air quality in your house. There are a few different things you want to measure: PM2.5 […]

The San Francisco Chronicle charges for subscriptions. How much does a subscription cost? This is an impossible question to answer, even for current subscribers. The Chronicle advertises several different prices for new subscribers. The only public information the Chronicle shares about its permanen...

I have a sweet tooth and one candy I really enjoy is Strawberry Sour Punch. Unfortunately after twenty years of having the same formula it seems that the company has decided to change the formula for Sour Punch. The new candy has more of a cherry flavor and isn't as sour. It does not taste […]

On Sunday morning at 1am I had a lot of stomach pain. I am a One Medical customer, had heard that they offered urgent care, and so I searched on their website for information. Unfortunately their urgent care option does not show up in the list of care options on their website: I concluded that […]