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Kurt Raschke
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Transit and technology, mostly. Prone to ranting.

Reposts and favorites are not endorsements. Posts are solely my own.

ABATE NOXIOUS STIMULI.
So, I've gone and built another widget: Data Lake Merritt, real-time stringlines for BART.

data-lake-merritt.choochoo.systems
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I was recently in the Bay Area again, and each time I find it a little bit harder to leave behind.
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Does it still count as a “burrito taxi” if it’s a robot?
July 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
They’re moving in herds!
July 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I try generally to be civil online. But this...this just pisses me off. To be clear, this sentiment is not directed at the commenter, but rather the circumstances which have led people to think this way.

You see, I use em dashes and en dashes, and words like "delve".
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In 1999 a Fujitsu task force formed to reduce the backlog of outstanding defects in the software found code which they described as follows: "[w]hoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming"
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I neglected to mention this in the blog post, but writing code to parse the "Location" field into semi-structured data led to quite a bit of fun with regular expressions.

(I actually really enjoyed this! Really!)
June 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We generally call this a “bus”, and have since the days of Blaise Pascal.
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shared autonomous rides? They’re called SkyTrain, and the DLR, and a whole host of other GoA3/4 systems.
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Transportation Hub”
May 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
To give you a sense of the impact this has had on me, I registered a domain and spent several weeknights fixated on building oddsfavorprogress.now, despite my great distaste for CSS!
April 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Well, how else are you supposed to get your BLÅHAJ home?
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is why I do what I do. This city is what it is because of transit. It exists because of, not in spite of transit. Without mass transit, this city would not exist. It’s simply impossible to move the volume of people who travel in this city without mass transit.
April 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/51#...

It was Muni, not BART, and anyway, the Second Generation VCC can boot just fine off a floppy emulator (this was proven on JNUP), and...oh well.
December 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
now I somewhat want to figure out how to make a time series out of this...

(maybe with a slider for different vintages?)
October 14, 2024 at 5:10 PM
The lesson here is "if you really care, make your own copy".
September 30, 2024 at 6:05 PM
"Microtransit" is not transit, it's not an "upgrade", and it's not how you "get riders back on board".

instagram.com/p/C-blPhiN8fM/
September 4, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Well, this should be fun!

www.rssb.co.uk/standards-ca...
July 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
What?
June 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
foaming at sunset
March 23, 2024 at 10:49 PM
I guess it's a bit soon to expect computer science curricula to be on board with the White House report on memory safety?

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I had a PC Engines apu2 and a spare NVMe SSD sitting around, and eventually realized I could put the SSD in the apu2 with an M.2 to mini-PCIe adapter...or not. It's decidedly unhappy. It'll work for a short while, then drop off the PCIe bus.
March 16, 2024 at 12:32 AM
My first thought upon seeing this (aside from “what the heck is that”) was “is that a Bookland EAN?”.

Dear reader, that is indeed a Bookland EAN (i.e. ISBN-13).
February 25, 2024 at 1:32 AM
I'm glad to see civil servants aren't the only ones thrust into absurd situations by their organizations' gift policies...

www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/m...
November 30, 2023 at 12:02 AM
Oh, so does this mean that IPv6, which has been broken since the _last_ outage, a few weeks ago, might start working again?
July 18, 2023 at 11:33 PM