NYC MTA Subway Hourly Ridership
Recently, I created some visualizations in Tableau to explore a dataset that is personally interesting to me. I am passionate about public transit and walkable cities, and will be forever disappointed that pretty much all of North America besides NYC allowed car dependency to destroy our cities from the mid 20th century on. If the previous sentence is surprising to you, Jason Slaughter has a series of video essays that are a great introduction to the subject.
Battery Management With TLP
Today, I got my Thinkpad T14s (Gen 1, running Gentoo) working with the dock in my home office for a dual monitor setup for the first time. The USB-C dock that I have uses Silicon Motion InstantView which unfortunately requires a driver whose only Linux offering is for Ubuntu. There exists an install script for Fedora however I didn’t have any luck getting this to work on my Fedora machine when I tried.
Librewolf Dark Mode
I’m sure anyone who is privacy-conscious enough to be familiar with Librewolf will also be aware of how and why resisting fingerprinting does not mix well with having your browser request dark mode by default. A quick web search will show a litany of results suggesting to use the dark browser theme in conjunction with the DarkReader extension. Personally, I never really loved how DarkReader looks out-of-the-box, and certainly didn’t care to set site-specific configs (nor do I love having tons of browser extensions … they do increase your fingerprinting potential, after all …) so in the past I just left this alone.
Librewolf and macOS Tahoe
Last night I updated a less-often used machine of mine from macOS 15 Sequoia to Tahoe 26.1. When launching Librewolf, I was greeted by this all-too-familiar error about the app being “damaged”…)
In the past, this was an easy fix by simply reinstalling with brew install librewolf --no-quarantine. However, the --no-quarantine option has been deprecated in Homebrew due to Apple dropping support for Intel macs .
Small Songs - Hey
Perhaps writing about an album from a decade ago is a little strange. However, what I will attempt to show in this essay is just how timelessly gorgeous and perfectly executed this recording is.
I must first admit to having a pretty glaring bias in writing this: Small Songs is the brain-child of Alex Burgoyne who I have had the pleasure of making music with in various formats since 2006. He is a musician that I think extremely highly of. Honestly, I can say that about all the musicians on this recording ( Fran Litterski (voice, glockenspiel), Kyle Tucker (electric guitar), Josh Bryant (electric bass), and Dan DiPiero (Drum Kit)). In fact, Alex and Dan are prominently featured in my project, Turtle Boat .
Hello, World!
This is the first post for this new blog.
Back in 2009, I created my first blog at the suggestion of Mark Flugge , who told me upon turning in my final paper for his Jazz Styles & Analysis course, “You know, you are a very gifted writer. I would encourage you to continue writing after you graduate, regardless of whether it is about music or something completely different!”