Sanders Lauture

Brief intro: I like tech, bikes, housing, and urbanism. I run @seattle.carinbikelane.com am co-lead for Downtown Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, and a member of Seattle YIMBY.

Just saw a Tesla drive the wrong way on a road with a Do Not Enter sign. I maintain that Tesla drivers are the worst drivers on the road.

Interesting way to "block" Reader Mode from going around a paywall. Reverse the text and then fix it with JavaScript. Wonder if it is still like this when paying.

🎵 late nite ballot drop off 🎵 Passed by OK Broomer (the all electric bike lane sweeper) on my way here

Almost got run over by a truck while on my bike yesterday because the driver decided to merge into me. The annoying part wasn't really nearly getting run over, it's needing to bike the rest of the way home while my adrenaline was pumping. Not a fun time.

The weather outside might actually be perfect fall weather right now.

All the posturing from councilmembers on the budget is funny because they literally can just change it. It's funny but also sad. They're just doing it for political brownie points.

I LOVE SEATTLE

If you need to work with AI you must fight daily to ensure you don't accidentally microwave your brain.

Guy who made the CivicTide website seems to have had his brain microwaved by AI. Won't be surprised if during this budget season we get clips of people quoting the site and saying some wacky stuff.

New Seattle budget page is up. 735 pages www.seattle.gov/city-budget-...

Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now

Growing SPD to match Denver, SF, or Boston's officer numbers would grow SPD's budget to be anywhere from 31-39% of the bugdet (from 24%). Considering the budget deficit this would mean that the rest of the budget would need to shrink anywhere from 15-24%. Nearly a 25% cut is insane!

Getting a 3 car train on the 2 Line is just so much roomier once you hit Seattle

Cars In Bike Lanes will soon have a mobile app! If you want to help beta test please fill out this form forms.cloud.microsoft/r/xZu20QWE00

I'll link the form in the morning.

The AIs are still dumb sometimes

If Wilson had this kind of history the Seattle Times would be shouting this from the heavens. Kang shares ideology with the opinion board though so they don't care.

Note that the country is so safe that fights have to land in Cap-Haïtien rather than the capital because gangs control the main airport and shoot at planes.

Is there a local news outlet that has gotten better on the ground coverage of the new bus lane than this? Put a TV crew on a 8 bus, ask Metro if drivers on the route feel like it's faster It seems like all they want to cover is theoretical complaints from car drivers.

Bus lane in progress

I do wonder if the AI code maximalists inspect the code frontier models produce. I literally use Opus 5 and Sol 5.6, all day, every day, at work and it still produces incorrect things sometimes. Letting incorrect info into a repo quickly becomes garbage in -> garbage out for future code.

bsky.app/profile/golf...

Results are up, I'm blaming the delay on the new PDF format

There needs to be a word for the 5 - 15 minute wait in Seattle once it hits 8 PM on Election Day but results aren't out yet.

Train down, I repeat, train down (photo from reddit www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...)

While this sounds like a lot the city settled with a different officer who sued for $950k and former Chief Diaz's suit hasn't been resolved yet. $700k for a police chief to go away with no lawsuit is cheap relatively speaking.

ROUTE 8 and DENNY WAY: starting on Saturday, buses and cars merging onto Interstate 5 won’t compete for the same lane of Denny Way. To keep traffic flowing, people driving to I-5 south from eastbound Denny Way will turn right on Boren Ave and left on Howell St instead of using Yale Ave.

Unfortunately the panel wasn't brave enough to ask my question.

Seattle has to do another Chief of Police search?

This is a good statement. Takes accountability for gaps in messaging going out to the public. Tells us what's going on and what to expect going forward. Thank you Mayor Wilson!

So...when's the press briefing about the police chief probably being fired? It's already past 9 AM.

Got my fare inspected literally 3 seconds after stepping onto the train at SeaTac. The doors were still open!

In Phoenix for a bachelor party and every group picture we asked to be taken was taken vertically. Apparently horizontal pictures are dead and I didn't know.

Crazy that between Harrell and Wilson, Wilson will need to be the responsible one with the budget.