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📹 Famous TikToker/YouTuber 💼 Staff Eng @Modular 🏡 Lead @yimbyeastbay 🗳️ Delegate @CA_Dem 🌐 ex-Fuchsia/Chrome Eng @ Google - ChatGPT wrote this bio.
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I did a video on why Apple designed their mouse to charge from the bottom. Let me explain. I know it looks odd but there is an absolutely valid reason. Several actually.
1) the mouse charges rapidly. A single full charge will often last over a month. 5 minutes of charging is
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After 7 years at Google, it appears I got laid off. Just got logged out of all my devices.
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12 years a tech recruiter with reached out about a job. Not to be rude I heard them out. They warned about “the environment” there. They were speaking of course about the office environment being around porn shoots all day but I thought they were talking
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The irony here is this "GIMBY" (green in my backyard) urban sprawl nonsense, that this pseudo-intellectual advocates for, is everything the opposite of "green." Destroying more of the actual environment and farmland to build sprawl so you can be a hermit in a car-dependent
GIMBYISM: THE CASE FOR _REDUCING_ URBAN HOUSING DENSITY
You've all heard the YIMBY story: increasing population density in cities will lower housing costs, reduce inequality, and save the planet. In this thread I'll make the case for its opposite. No, not NIMBYism. GIMBYism.
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Is anyone looking for:
(1) An ex-Google engineer who worked on one of the most infamous attempts to build a modern operating system (Fuchsia), the first in likely 20 years, from scratch, to compete with the likes of Linux ...
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Me: fuck cars. Build better cities. EVs aren’t a solution.
Also me: I still have to drive sometimes and I want this AMC Gremlin looking
@Rivian
R3. I’m so happy a car maker has the courage to release a small EV hatchback instead of just huge SUV in the US assuming it’s all we
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This reporter is getting dragged in the comments and rightly so. He can’t see the bigger story here and that his assignment needs to change. So focused on trying to find B roll of bikers not stopping he can’t see the much more dangerous cars not stopping in the same video. This
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If these businesses think the removal of just 40 parking spots across several blocks so we can dramatically improve bus service for thousands is going to do them in for good, then they are either teetering on the edge of failing anyways and want to blame something, or they are
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And only allow one chair per table so 3 folks have share a single chair. Deny any new chairs even for the people already there. Declare that “adding chairs will encourage more people and create more traffic. We need open space between chairs. Humans aren’t pack animals”
#alamtg
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@Pmgraham86
I would be more concerned with calling the authorities on whoever did your vinyl wrap because there are hella bumps and lines on the back.
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I hear people claim something is "luxury housing" just by looking at the aesthetics of the interior and that we should be building "affordable housing" not so luxurious. Can someone show me an example of the interior of any new apartment that shows what we should be building
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@PicturesFoIder
There is no Apple Store in Oakland. This is in Emeryville California. This has been corrected the 9 million other times this has been posted.
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Post google layoff I ran out and bought a my own MacBook. Dusting off my GitHub. No more Byzantine processes to just hack on some open source code anymore. Need to brush up on how to vanilla git again. Break my brain away from google’s bespoke source control and build systems.
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It's increasingly becoming impossible to buy new homes without an HOA. We need a bill to take on and reform HOAs as they proliferate. Something that gives protection to homeowners.
- Make HOA boards publicly auditable with open record requirements when they get to a certain
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We need legislation to ban cities from doing this. People ask why new housing isn't affordable. It's nonsense like this. Making new residents pay to maintain parks because existing residents aren't paying their share thanks to Prop 13. We need equitable back-pressure measures to
WTF, Redwood City?
$47,414 park impact fee to build a house?
And the same for an ADU the same size as the house?
Only $33,257.60 for a 10 room hotel though!
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Hilarious how wild this nonsense is to try and blame YIMBYs. I looked it up and this happened in June 2015! No YIMBYs advocated for this because there were no YIMBY groups here back then. YIMBYs in fact fight+sue to protect tenant projections, no net loss, and right to return.
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This HBO Max rebranding to Max is not only dumb but was rolled out in the most dumb way. They pushed it out as a separate app. I downloaded videos for offline while traveling but I can get to them because it want’s me to download the new app. USE A FEATURE FLAG FOR YOUR
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Omg who did the vendor procurement at
@SFBART
?! How could you buy a system built on Windows. Security nightmare alone, what is the expected lifespan of the new faregate? 10 years until obsolescence before needing a tech overhaul. Current gates have lasted what, 40 years?, on the
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Had a box of new business cards made just last month. Not sure what I’m going to do with these now.
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Thanks everyone for your well wishes. Still processing everything. It’s never fun but I should be fine. Looking forward to starting fresh somewhere else and to work on some new tech. Been building Fuchsia for 6 years and before that worked on Chrome. I want a new challenge.
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With some of the terrible vetos by
@GavinNewsom
in his run up for his eventual presidential run to look more centrist we need to revive the veto override process. Many of these bills passed with a majority of the legislature with wide support. We haven’t had a successful veto
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I feel like Bernie's staff failed him here. The absolute bare minimum of research (a little Google search) would uncover how awful his record is and the thousands of affordable housing units he denied or even that he is a millionaire who cosplays as a socialist. Do better Bernie.
We need leaders like Dean Preston in every state, at all levels of government - leaders who not only stand up to special interests, but also have the courage to address striking levels of inequality at their core.
That's why I'm endorsing Dean for the SF Board of Supervisors.
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@kinglygoats
@IDoTheThinking
You aren’t going to pick up on school yard racisim from a simple visit. That doesn’t become apparent for a long time
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I wonder how long it took Amazon after watching the logs before they decided to add this feature for clueless users.
http://t.co/khQqpwWEZ3
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Street tacos imply the existence of stroad tacos
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It is shocking how so many candidates this election season are running without a basic understanding of how housing works.
I've been to several candidate forums so far and so many can't even answer basic questions on why housing costs are as high as they are, what actually
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(6) someone who holds a software patent on a technology to remove background fart noises from Zoom calls ...
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@amyforsandiego
@WesSDCali
@paulkruegersd
How are you going to get housing more affordable by mandating unnecessary cars to take up excess space that could go to more housing and drive up costs? Also why are you pushing more inefficient climate killing car dependency in 2023?
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Huntington Beach City Council meeting is wild. A log cabin republican with “gays against groomers” tore up a pride flag and stepped on it. We heard someone give a full 3 minute Shen Yun ad. Lots of residents speaking against LGBTQ inclusiveness. HB is really California’s Florida
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Huntington Beach NIMBY councilmembers think they can pass an ordinance that state law, specifically the Builders Remedy, doesn’t apply to them in their city and you can’t use that express remedy just because they out of compliance. Also to fight their RHNA two years too late 😂
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While everyone is here, I am running for election as delegate in the California Democratic Party to fight to protect workers within a slate of other labor folks. If you are Dem living in Oakland, Emeryville, or Alameda you can vote for me! Come meet me at the Albany voting site!
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As a grassroots YIMBY housing organizer for almost 6 years, I'm really starting to wonder when my real estate industry checks will start coming in. Does anyone know who specifically is supposed to be funding me to advocate for affordable housing?
@SFGate
I am convinced yimbys are nothing but an underground marketing arm of the commercial real estate development industry.
who is funding them?
I don't believe a single one of them is genuine about anything other than securing lucrative development contracts.
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The Google layoff was abrupt and the timing stinks but it was perfectly timed to run out and get a MacBook Pro M2 Ultra on launch day when you actually need your own personal laptop for the first time in 8 years.
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@jake_gotta
Diverging diamond interchanges are a boon for cars, but the crosswalks and organ-donor bike lanes are subpar.
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@DaveJohnson8585
@MatthewBerry
@Dodgers
Sir, that is an insult the right uses to attack people who ask for human rights. I’m just appropriating it back.
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@YIMBYLAND
@pradnico
The Cruise travel in packs when near danger or when it's mating season.
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@AdamBressler
@BrantlyWx
@CheezieBreezie
All these people trying to point out you don’t actually understand socialism and help you out...
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Why are Atherton and Menlo Park two different cities? We need some legislation to defrag our cities. Oakland should get to annex Piedmont. Don't get me started on Southern California.
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It’s been a wild day. After exposing on my TikTok a DSA lead and former staffer of Dean Preston is being paid $56k+ to campaign against affordable housing, I’ve gained 200+ twitter followers overnight. Even a state assembly member is subtweeting about this
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Finally! After fighting local NIMBYs for 4+ years between ballot initiatives to rezone this property to stop this project and obstruction attempts with fake historic claims, one of the buildings on this site in Alameda is finally coming down. Having a little celebration as I
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Correction: 31 parking spots over 2 miles will be removed. About one parking spot per block.
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@katewillett
We literally are Kate.
Have you ever attended a city council meeting where YIMBYs fight for housing or read some of our letters? Dozens of YIMBY groups are fighting for housing in every part of this state, including every rich exclusionary community. I meet with many of them
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@gpanger
😂says who? I can offer unsolicited good business advice to companies all day. Especially when they put on a clown show, carry a casket effigy, and demand the city do something unethical for their supposed benefit over something that will actually benefit everyone, including them
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I’m fairly sure that half of Alameda knows I was laid off from Google. Even the mayor came up and said something. Such a weird little loving city this is.
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@driftwood876
@Pmgraham86
Exactly. And that tweet would prove possible criminal mischief/collusion if the police didn’t act now so if we he really does this probably forces their hand to act. If they didn’t it could open them up to a civil suit or investigation by civil grand jury/state police (depending
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The San Francisco highway system once planned but never fully built.
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@zhuowencui
Saying it’s badly designed because it’s not trying to be a wired mouse and that charges from the bottom to prevent wired usage is like saying a fork is a badly designed spoon. You keep trying to look it like it’s a spoon. Apple wasn’t trying to make a spork which is neither a
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Actually, there used to be a shuttle between Oakland and San Francisco airport via hovercraft
At top speed
@sfbart
could shuttle passengers directly between SFO and OAK airports in 8 minutes.
This is faster than the 11 minutes it takes to ride on the SFO AirTrain from Terminal 3 to the Rental Car Center.
Therefore SFO and OAK should be one airport connected by BART.
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It’s my last day officially as a Google employee after nearly 8 years. I wanted to send things off by raising a glass in my Google SF wine glass but it shattered immediately when I picked it up. The universe is really good a metaphor.
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@readDanwrite
The context box on this is incorrect. I received my email at 9:18am PST. Hours later.
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This is absolutely wild. Not only does Huntington Beach want to ban builder's remedy in the city by not simply passing a compliant housing element, but they want to quadruple down and also ban SB9, SB10, and ADU developments in the city. This is right after banning any pride flag
The Huntington Beach City Council must reject a new proposal aimed at undermining CA housing laws.
We need partners in building more affordable housing, not more political grandstanding.
It’s past time to work together to put our people first.
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This is probably the most user hostile dark pattern you find in iOS apps. Dialogs like this where there is no escape. If you hit no you get hit with another dialog taking you to a support chat or a long form asking for more survey input and if you hit yes you get hit with the App
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It’s time that I formally announce that I’m running for Alameda County Democratic Central Committee! If you live in Alameda, Oakland, or Emeryville, chances are I will be on your March ballot. We need more folks serving who truly understand how to fix California’s housing crisis!
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(5) someone that ported all of Swift to Fuchsia and tried to convenience all the other devs on the team it was a good idea to use Swift outside of iOS just because he didn't want to write or debug any more new C++. Even getting
@clattner_llvm
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There is literally ZERO reason why a fare gate appliance like this should be running Windows. Time to send off a dozen PRA requests now to dig into this at
@sfbart
to figure where things went wrong here. This is pretty bone headed. Something to raise with BART supervisor board
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My video on the
#SanMateoInsurrection
is now up to 200k views across platforms. Everyone is watching now just as
@amourence1
said. She deserves to be the next mayor of San Mateo.
When
@amourence1
stated: “Everyone is watching. Everyone is watching this moment,” during the
#SanMateoInsurrection
, she wasn’t kidding. Between my and
@zbowling
’s TikToks over 150k people have seen what
@lisadiaznash
and Rob Newsom are doing to the city of San Mateo.
#shameonyou
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Then when folks ultimately end up chairless, you, as a single chair owner, claim that you feel for the chairless but if they work like you did they would be able to have a chair but also that someone should jail them or ship them to another house because the chairless pose a risk
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Code that I wrote is currently running on Mars. And, albeit that code is minor and very inconsequential to that mission, I still wrote it, and it's running on another fucking planet. That fact just hits me from time to time, and it blows my fucking mind. Open source is amazing.
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(7) someone who is a complete policy wonk about California state housing law. And who has sued the state and won for not following the law with respect to housing projections ...
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Photo of
@t3dotgg
telling everyone why “real” engineers should only be using notepad++, PHP, and SVN at OpenSauce. Even
@ThePrimeagen
had to look away. Truly shocking.
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I wrote this tweet, dead tired, at midnight not expected it to do numbers. I would have fixed the grammar errors
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This is probably the best compliment that I’ve received since I got laid off from google
@zbowling
NIMBYs should be advocating for you to get your job back. Scary to think how much damage you will cause with all this new extra time on your hands.
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(2) someone who is a so-called "influencer" with over 100,000 subscribers across YouTube and TikTok ...
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Amazon Video doing ads is a joke right? How did we repeat history so fast? How did we reinvent cable with extra steps? I predict a lot of people are going to go back to piracy because it’s a better user experience, even paying prime members.
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(4) someone who once competed in over 120 hackathons and was both featured in the print version of Wired Magazine and was made famous in the Netherlands by appearing in a documentary that ran over and over on Dutch public television ...
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Get on my level.
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This isn’t true. You can absolutely be progressive and be a YIMBY. I’m endorsed by Progressive Delegate Network too, I helped found a YIMBY group, and I’m a member of the progressive caucus. AOC is even a YIMBY. I’m not sure where that narrative started.
Progressives Delegates Network have made it clear what is a
#CorporateDemocrat
and has guided me on how to remain
#corporatefree
in
#Emeryville
. This list includes
#YIMBY
.
#ADEMS
#AD18
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A whole lot of hot takes:
1) A building being old isn’t reason enough for it to be historic.
2) Something historic should be significant for a large group of people.
3) Too many things claimed historic diminishes the value of all other really historic things. (Ever been to
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Wild. I abruptly lost access to my primary care doc of 3 years because of the
#googlelayoffs
. Like just physical access to him for in person visits. Google contracted with
@onemedical
to have facilities on site for us and that is where my primary care doc works. Can’t badge up.
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@pryoritymusic
Basic functions aren’t working like play and pause. They picked the wrong app to branch from.
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I’m in Texas for
@YIMBYtown
but I first had to drive out to see the urbanist nightmare known as
@bucees
. This place is an abomination and affront to climate change. It’s kind of like Trader Joe’s but if Trader Joe’s was an oil-pilled mega gas station. Not gonna lie, though, that
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@alex_reilly_pro
I want to work on something interesting but that pays enough to cover my Bay Area mortgage :)
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@_VishwajitPatil
@PicturesFoIder
How are people just learning this? our school system is failing us
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I was at a meeting with former Mayor of San Mateo
@RickBonilla
and he gave his “new” card. Inspired me. 😂
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