Frank Noirot
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Design engineer, writing at franknoirot.co.
Design engineer, writing at franknoirot.co.
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one must imagine sisyphus thankful
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
one must imagine sisyphus thankful
I actually went down to the historical library and did some proper research! franknoirot.co/posts/agreem...
In 1870 the Flatbush Railroad Company signed an agreement with the City of Brooklyn to convert all its trains to at-grade. I didn't know they ever weren't at-grade!
In 1870 the Flatbush Railroad Company signed an agreement with the City of Brooklyn to convert all its trains to at-grade. I didn't know they ever weren't at-grade!
Notes on "Agreement with Flatbush Railroad Company", 1870 | f.noirot's garden
Transcription, image, and commentary on a historical urban train agreement between the City of Brooklyn and the Flatbush Railroad Company in 1870.
franknoirot.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I actually went down to the historical library and did some proper research! franknoirot.co/posts/agreem...
In 1870 the Flatbush Railroad Company signed an agreement with the City of Brooklyn to convert all its trains to at-grade. I didn't know they ever weren't at-grade!
In 1870 the Flatbush Railroad Company signed an agreement with the City of Brooklyn to convert all its trains to at-grade. I didn't know they ever weren't at-grade!
Saving this to play at whatever hearings about letting these things in NYC eventually come our way.
Such cool tech, so fun to ride in. Absolutely valid as a niche form of transport. Absolutely not worth reshaping public policy around, because this is what you get.
Such cool tech, so fun to ride in. Absolutely valid as a niche form of transport. Absolutely not worth reshaping public policy around, because this is what you get.
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Saving this to play at whatever hearings about letting these things in NYC eventually come our way.
Such cool tech, so fun to ride in. Absolutely valid as a niche form of transport. Absolutely not worth reshaping public policy around, because this is what you get.
Such cool tech, so fun to ride in. Absolutely valid as a niche form of transport. Absolutely not worth reshaping public policy around, because this is what you get.
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this would go unspeakably hard as a lower back tattoo
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
this would go unspeakably hard as a lower back tattoo
My favorite subgenre of pull request are ones whose titles sound like psychotic breaks or sublime experiences.
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My favorite subgenre of pull request are ones whose titles sound like psychotic breaks or sublime experiences.
Just watched the full Oval Office press briefing and I and just so stunned, truly one of the most effective personal politics moments in my life. Mind boggling. Gobsmacked.
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Just watched the full Oval Office press briefing and I and just so stunned, truly one of the most effective personal politics moments in my life. Mind boggling. Gobsmacked.
Technological progress has a dangerous tendency towards optimizing for *engages Shaggy voice* “it wasn’t me”
society will accept a death caused by a robogun
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Technological progress has a dangerous tendency towards optimizing for *engages Shaggy voice* “it wasn’t me”
I think I missed that @mta.info was switching back to the Vignelli style for its maps. Didn’t I read somewhere that NYers preferred to know the geographical relationships over the diagrammatic look?
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I think I missed that @mta.info was switching back to the Vignelli style for its maps. Didn’t I read somewhere that NYers preferred to know the geographical relationships over the diagrammatic look?
Hey I just checked back in on this and Alexandra Huggins' case doesn't seem to have a suspect after 6 weeks. Seems like a warrant for location data on blue Teslas that were in the area around that time of that night would be reasonable and trivial to get. @nypd.bsky.social am I missing something?
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Hey I just checked back in on this and Alexandra Huggins' case doesn't seem to have a suspect after 6 weeks. Seems like a warrant for location data on blue Teslas that were in the area around that time of that night would be reasonable and trivial to get. @nypd.bsky.social am I missing something?
I really think that CSS is awesome and powerful, but getting tooltips to work on items that need "text-overflow: ellipsis" is truly a nightmare every time I try it, it makes my blood boil.
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I really think that CSS is awesome and powerful, but getting tooltips to work on items that need "text-overflow: ellipsis" is truly a nightmare every time I try it, it makes my blood boil.
Every time I talk to my gf about work she spirals thinking about how bits are physical things and I have to say "don't think about the bits".
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Every time I talk to my gf about work she spirals thinking about how bits are physical things and I have to say "don't think about the bits".
Helix Git nicety 1: enabling lazygit in the way I was used to with nvim, space-g-g.
Put the following in your config.yml:
[keys.normal.space.g]
f = "changed_file_picker"
g = [
":write-all",
":new",
":insert-output lazygit",
":buffer-close!",
":redraw",
":reload-all"
]
Put the following in your config.yml:
[keys.normal.space.g]
f = "changed_file_picker"
g = [
":write-all",
":new",
":insert-output lazygit",
":buffer-close!",
":redraw",
":reload-all"
]
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Helix Git nicety 1: enabling lazygit in the way I was used to with nvim, space-g-g.
Put the following in your config.yml:
[keys.normal.space.g]
f = "changed_file_picker"
g = [
":write-all",
":new",
":insert-output lazygit",
":buffer-close!",
":redraw",
":reload-all"
]
Put the following in your config.yml:
[keys.normal.space.g]
f = "changed_file_picker"
g = [
":write-all",
":new",
":insert-output lazygit",
":buffer-close!",
":redraw",
":reload-all"
]
Okay chapter 5 of the Helix tutor is where I've started to be kinda psyched on it, aligning cursors with "&" and other little powers of their multiple cursor approach turns what I've thought to be a bit of a novelty feature into a pretty compelling UX primitive.
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Okay chapter 5 of the Helix tutor is where I've started to be kinda psyched on it, aligning cursors with "&" and other little powers of their multiple cursor approach turns what I've thought to be a bit of a novelty feature into a pretty compelling UX primitive.
I’m gonna need this outlawed as behavior by any federal employee.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I’m gonna need this outlawed as behavior by any federal employee.
Alright now we're getting somewhere, I'm starting to understand why the BQX wasn't the right solution.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Alright now we're getting somewhere, I'm starting to understand why the BQX wasn't the right solution.
This is my new go-to omg
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is my new go-to omg
I found an available domain with just my last name so I can someday have subdomain sites for my kids, and on Saturday I whipped up a page for my dog for funsies.
waffle.noirot.nyc
waffle.noirot.nyc
Waffle Bushwick Paruta Noirot
waffle.noirot.nyc
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I found an available domain with just my last name so I can someday have subdomain sites for my kids, and on Saturday I whipped up a page for my dog for funsies.
waffle.noirot.nyc
waffle.noirot.nyc
I've gotten more enjoyment out of the 2 hours I spent this evening browsing Brooklyn Public Library's digital historical resources than the last week of YouTube I've watched.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I've gotten more enjoyment out of the 2 hours I spent this evening browsing Brooklyn Public Library's digital historical resources than the last week of YouTube I've watched.
Fort Greene Park used to be called Washington Park. My review of that name change, 137 years out: 👍🏻.
Map from 1887 archived here: web.archive.org/web/20140719...
Map from 1887 archived here: web.archive.org/web/20140719...
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Fort Greene Park used to be called Washington Park. My review of that name change, 137 years out: 👍🏻.
Map from 1887 archived here: web.archive.org/web/20140719...
Map from 1887 archived here: web.archive.org/web/20140719...
Mexico City had a Feminist Action movement reported on by the Brooklyn Eagle in 1944. Among other roles in the war effort, the women were calling for the right to work as streetcar conductors.
bklyn.newspapers.com/image/685896...
bklyn.newspapers.com/image/685896...
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Mexico City had a Feminist Action movement reported on by the Brooklyn Eagle in 1944. Among other roles in the war effort, the women were calling for the right to work as streetcar conductors.
bklyn.newspapers.com/image/685896...
bklyn.newspapers.com/image/685896...
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Would’ve been sick to include that $13.3M he just set on fire trying to elect Cuomo mayor but sure good job
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Would’ve been sick to include that $13.3M he just set on fire trying to elect Cuomo mayor but sure good job
Rust simply uses too many turbofish. How do I know? Because when I grep for conflict markers our Rust types sometime show up
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Rust simply uses too many turbofish. How do I know? Because when I grep for conflict markers our Rust types sometime show up
Gotta love the "what was I doing before this rabbit hole bug?" moment
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gotta love the "what was I doing before this rabbit hole bug?" moment
Slack! Just use my audio and mic settings from my computer! Please! Stop it! Bad Dog! You're doing too much!
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Slack! Just use my audio and mic settings from my computer! Please! Stop it! Bad Dog! You're doing too much!