What hath God wrought Samuel Morse - First telegraph message, May 24, 1844 On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out this message from the Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol to his partner Alfred Vail in Baltimore. The words came from Num...
What happened in 2026: Balcony solar did not become legal in Washington this year. The House Environment & Energy Committee reworked HB 2296 into a much longer, utility-driven bill, and the substitute that passed the House floor removed every refe...
Join the conversation on Hacker News. As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear. I get it. Rebase has a reputation for d...
For the past year, I’ve been leading the development of Maglev, a complete rewrite of the OneBusAway server. The original system was built in Java over a decade ago, and while it still works, it’s showing its age. Maglev is a greenfield project in...
Once, I was leading engineering on a product caught in multiple overlapping crises. Our biggest customer was breaking the database simply through their size and usage patterns. Other customers threatened to churn unless we could provide new featur...
