Thomas B

Software Engineer based in Tokyo. Ruby lover. Interested in good engineering. And "Keep IT Simple".

[Chauhan @Platypuss_10]

Here’s the size difference between the highest-selling commercial aircraft in history, the Boeing 737, and the Airbus A380 “Superjumbo” — the world’s largest passenger airliner.

[Jerome Foster II @JeromeFosterII]

In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers & ice sheets and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.

No time to wait. #climate

[Mobility Behaviour 👨‍🎓 @davidlois_uned]

¿Cómo destruir los servicios públicos?

1. Reduce drásticamente su presupuesto. Echas gente a la calle y no repones jubilaciones.

2. Te quejas del deterioro en su calidad.

3. Dices q la degradación de los servicios públicos es una prueba de su ineficiencia.

4. Los privatizas.

[Science Magazine @ScienceExpand]

When you use physics in daily life 😳

[Francesca 🚲💕 @francesca_kms]

When you see it, you can’t unsee it.

No bus lane.
4 lanes for cars, 2 for parking, 2 for driving.
Cars parked in the cycle lane.

And some still blame bikes.

Congestion costs London £3.85bn a year, yet we still prioritise parking over moving people.

[MagellanQuest 🇪🇺/acc @MagellanQuest]

People mock the EU as “bureaucracy”.
But that bureaucracy turned a continent of borders, currencies and wars into a space where 450 million people can travel, pay, call, study and work almost as if it were domestic.
That is not boring.
That is civilization becoming usable.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

As Europe is slowly warming up again it’s time for my annual reminder that adding shade to the urban environment helps to reduce the urban heat island effect massively. It's a super important tool to keep cities cool during the summer.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Designed a hundred years ago

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Chris Kost @chriskost]

The turnout for Jakarta’s weekly car-free day is incredible!

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

For all those truly concerned about road safety, here is a handy guide for using your energy wisely. Focus!

( 🖼️ by @davewalker)

[Thomas B @ThomasOneDev]

@tamakiyuichiro @koichyamano 今の街は車中心です。お店は遠くて、子どもが遊ぶには道路が危ない。これは事実です。でも、本当にそれでいいのでしょうか。街のあり方を変えるべきじゃないでしょうか。

[Om Sharma @omsharmadev]

Just tried Rust → WASM in the browser.
The same 2M-iteration computation that took JS ~20ms finished in WASM ~3ms. 🤯
The browser literally loads a small binary and executes it like native code.
WebAssembly is a different level.

[Joe Masilotti @joemasilotti]

Ruby Native v0.7.0 just dropped!

Here’s the public TestFlight download, use it to check out a demo app or point it directly to your Rails server.

https://t.co/Sgjirvza5b

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Seven years without a driving license, and we’re still waiting to find the limits of the Dutch bike-train combination.

The latest: 100 km by rail from Delft to Tilburg, then a 20 km pedal through the Brabant countryside for a car-free weekend escape in the woods outside Diessen.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Automobiles are an extremely stupid, inefficient and unpleasant way to move people in a city.

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

Training given to bus drivers to understand how a cyclist feels when they pass near them...

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

You have no idea how enormous this intersection would be to process the same number of people per hour if they were driving cars.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

BILLIONAIRES ARE SCREWING THE WORLD SENSELESS….

The law are made by the rich so they benefit from it….

Billionaires have mastered a system that lets them legally avoid paying income taxes.

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

butDoesItWork https://t.co/IbmBhu9zb9