Brian Michalski

Engineering @GMapsPlatform, @GoogleEarth, & friends. Thoughts mine, not work's.

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"if you've seen it on a webpage, we can also do it on our webpage."

Another one of my great insights during meetings.

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@NJTRANSIT Meanwhile downstairs, there was a steady stream of Knicks fans trying to get into the city to watch the game being tuned away.

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Aisle seat common courtesy:

You must clear and raise your tray table when you get up.

Sincerely,
Middle and Window seat passengers

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@GovSherrillNJ @NJTransit_CA is the action plan posted somewhere? I can't find it.

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Concerto 3.0.0-rc1 is officially here! 🎉

18 years after our first screen went live at @rpi, we’ve rebuilt Concerto from the ground up for the modern web.

- Pinned Content 📌
- OIDC/SSO 🔐
- Rails 8 & Vue 3 ⚡️

Read more and try the demo: https://t.co/5OZgU4NpsZ

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really wanted to like @interserver, but their VPS admin panel is super dated 😥

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"Amtrak dispatch has lost control of all signals and switches between Secaucus and New York Penn Station"

That's a new one for @NJTRANSIT and @Amtrak.

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The ad placement on @nytimes homepage really makes me question my subscription.

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XCode Cloud builders seems to be having a hard time seeing the internet this evening.

`Could not resolve host: https://t.co/0yutKBekDP`

pretty sure that's your problem, not mine

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@NJTRANSIT @GovSherrillNJ P.S. I think you replied to Gov. Sherrill instead of Alex.

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A brief retrospective on some of the challenges Concerto 2 ran into -
https://t.co/etDqfhEfnY

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@PinkDraconian There's a Google Maps + Firebase App Check integration which can help.

https://t.co/TV6rjK5VhB

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TIL Friendly's Ice Cream is not made with egg.

Why did I not know about Guar and Xanthum gum?

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@NJ_Tracks @huggingface @grok what type of ML model would be best for these predictions? lightgbm or ???

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Me:

I don't need a 5090
I don't need a 5090
I don't need a 5080

Also me:

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Feature Request: Claude and Gemini should let you bank a few good tokens for emergencies like late night debugging, production deployment, etc.

I pinky promise to only break glass once or twice a month, and only for a few minutes while I wrap up.

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I wish there was a cross platform mobile password manager that had the same solid UX as the native Google & Apple ones.

Everyone adds extra features which kills the usability [for average users].

Your competition are notes, photos, and pen & paper, not other pw managers.

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But on Rails 8.1 it also updates your minitest dependency from 5.27.0 to 6.0.0. That's not just a major jump, but a major jump Which Fails Silently by executing 0 tests!

CI will say it's totally safe, all checks pass.... because 0 of them ran anymore.

Le sigh

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Every time it feels like the Rails ecosystem has finally matured, something completely unpredictable appears.

`bundle update kamal` bumps a minor version 2.10.0 -> 2.10.11

You'd probably approve that PR without a second glance. I certainly did.

But on Rails 8.1 it... 1/2

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If you're following me because you're interested in Concerto Signage:

1. Thank you for sticking around.

2. I've been doing stuff again. Looking forward to sharing soon. https://t.co/yT4yiZyPnt

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I have been mostly using Sonnet 4.5, but I finally gave Opus a try with a pretty open-ended but practical problem statement on a medium sized Rails code base.

Lots of complicated tool use later, I was completely underwhelmed by the response. It was on par with Gemini 2.5.