thecristen
@thecristen.net
👩🏻💻software engineer in public transit ✨ geospatial, planning, building tech, maps, front-end webdev, dataviz, civic tech
Finally got around to adding a little gallery showing parts of some nice web things I’ve made. www.thecristen.net/gallery/
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Things I've designed & built
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November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Finally got around to adding a little gallery showing parts of some nice web things I’ve made. www.thecristen.net/gallery/
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
accidentally navigated to a random bookmark today and it was this talk ahahahah fuck
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
accidentally navigated to a random bookmark today and it was this talk ahahahah fuck
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Earlier this week I flew to Oslo and gave a talk at Y-Oslo. It’s a talk about the human spirit, believing in yourself, how AI is bullshit, and how capitalism robs us of our confidence. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea or whatever makes you happy and enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...
Y Oslo - How to draw an orange, Mike Monteiro
YouTube video by Y Oslo
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October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Earlier this week I flew to Oslo and gave a talk at Y-Oslo. It’s a talk about the human spirit, believing in yourself, how AI is bullshit, and how capitalism robs us of our confidence. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea or whatever makes you happy and enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...
Three more weeks until Brooklyn 🥰
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Three more weeks until Brooklyn 🥰
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
using random desktop apps to batch download media off the internet like it's the early 2000s fuck yeah
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
using random desktop apps to batch download media off the internet like it's the early 2000s fuck yeah
Saw dahlia flowers for the first time. I understand why people are named after them now, these look awesome
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Saw dahlia flowers for the first time. I understand why people are named after them now, these look awesome
"why isn't this web map I'm building showing up"
(a) forgot to load the map library CSS
(b) forgot to set a height on the map HTML element
(c) it's never any more complicated reason it's probably just (a) and/or (b) 🙃
(a) forgot to load the map library CSS
(b) forgot to set a height on the map HTML element
(c) it's never any more complicated reason it's probably just (a) and/or (b) 🙃
September 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"why isn't this web map I'm building showing up"
(a) forgot to load the map library CSS
(b) forgot to set a height on the map HTML element
(c) it's never any more complicated reason it's probably just (a) and/or (b) 🙃
(a) forgot to load the map library CSS
(b) forgot to set a height on the map HTML element
(c) it's never any more complicated reason it's probably just (a) and/or (b) 🙃
I still hate moving, but I'm hopeful this (temporary) move will be worth the hassle! 🛤️
My kid's been excitedly telling everyone we'll be able to see the Red Sox stadium from our window! Let me clear the record that this is not true. 😂
Be back soon!
My kid's been excitedly telling everyone we'll be able to see the Red Sox stadium from our window! Let me clear the record that this is not true. 😂
Be back soon!
June 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I still hate moving, but I'm hopeful this (temporary) move will be worth the hassle! 🛤️
My kid's been excitedly telling everyone we'll be able to see the Red Sox stadium from our window! Let me clear the record that this is not true. 😂
Be back soon!
My kid's been excitedly telling everyone we'll be able to see the Red Sox stadium from our window! Let me clear the record that this is not true. 😂
Be back soon!
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
Watching an AI spend hundreds of tokens generating some code, just to be wrong, feels so deeply wasteful and offensive to me... I grew up way too poor to want to play slot machines here UGH
June 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Watching an AI spend hundreds of tokens generating some code, just to be wrong, feels so deeply wasteful and offensive to me... I grew up way too poor to want to play slot machines here UGH
“We’re in this together, but we *must* be apart.” the social distancing announcement on the Atlanta streetcar cuts deep 😩
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“We’re in this together, but we *must* be apart.” the social distancing announcement on the Atlanta streetcar cuts deep 😩
conference workshop organizers are losing the recipes, we're all trying to download Flutter (2GB) over a terrible venue wifi connection and it's going terribly. whereas if someone had downloaded it onto a USB we'd probably all be good by now..
June 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
conference workshop organizers are losing the recipes, we're all trying to download Flutter (2GB) over a terrible venue wifi connection and it's going terribly. whereas if someone had downloaded it onto a USB we'd probably all be good by now..
as someone who loved Windows Vista um YES I am very excited about Apple’s new liquid glass nonsense, haters can step aside
June 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
as someone who loved Windows Vista um YES I am very excited about Apple’s new liquid glass nonsense, haters can step aside
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I beg of you all to write CSS
June 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I beg of you all to write CSS
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Man every time the "LLMs are a rounding error for water use compared to industrial ag" shit comes up I am baffled at the idea someone thinks I can't be a hater on multiple fronts
June 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Man every time the "LLMs are a rounding error for water use compared to industrial ag" shit comes up I am baffled at the idea someone thinks I can't be a hater on multiple fronts
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(Public and shared infrastructure, whether mobility, energy, housing etc—is not about cost in discrete items but investment across broader systems. Gov can direct and deliver such things for public good, capturing and distributing returns equitably and strategically ie. don’t be asleep at the wheel)
@kue.glitch.paris 🗣️: "When raising the concept of a funding source decoupled from the farebox and instead tied to a region's economic output, I've had some American urbanists brush it off as idealism. But this is a concrete reality to the millions of transit users in French cities."
May 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
(Public and shared infrastructure, whether mobility, energy, housing etc—is not about cost in discrete items but investment across broader systems. Gov can direct and deliver such things for public good, capturing and distributing returns equitably and strategically ie. don’t be asleep at the wheel)
At the airport battling the ever present urge to buy a Moleskine notebook
May 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At the airport battling the ever present urge to buy a Moleskine notebook
www.reddit.com/r/TransitDia... as someone whose day job involves communicating transit routes to humans, these particular routes make me wanna cry 😭
From the TransitDiagrams community on Reddit: Share your silliest bus routes in your area.
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May 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
www.reddit.com/r/TransitDia... as someone whose day job involves communicating transit routes to humans, these particular routes make me wanna cry 😭
feeling like I need a sticky note or something which says, "You can just say things, Cristen"
April 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
feeling like I need a sticky note or something which says, "You can just say things, Cristen"
well damn man
Hey! You're a cartographer! You've heard of John Snow, of course! And you, of course, know about his awesome map that HE made that is a great example of SPATIAL ANALYSIS, right?! WRONG. Learn how everything you know is a lie 👇
April 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
well damn man
I likely won't post much here because I'm enough of a nobody such that posting online feels too much like emitting messages into The Void and that feels gross and terrible for reasons I haven't been able to fully articulate but if you meet me IRL I'll probably be normal I guess
April 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I likely won't post much here because I'm enough of a nobody such that posting online feels too much like emitting messages into The Void and that feels gross and terrible for reasons I haven't been able to fully articulate but if you meet me IRL I'll probably be normal I guess