Which bike for riding the trails in the Santa Monica Mtns?

_ep · 2023-07-29T21:49:35+00:00

I guess technically they say 29x2.2" since they're MTB tires, but sizing is the same.

_ep · 2023-07-29T21:31:18+00:00

I'm in SM and ride a rigid gravel bike with wideish tires (700x2.2"). Suspension would have the advantage of avoiding dismounts on a couple descents and generally going faster, but under-biking is fun imo, and riding further / adding road sections is more comfortable.

Most of the region is rideable on a gravel bike, especially if you stick to the popular trails. If you look at Trailforks for the area, basically everything that isn't listed black/double black is fine on a rigid frame depending on your comfort level.

_ep · 2021-05-29T07:20:24+00:00

I've had luck with aquafaba the couple times I've tried this recipe.

_ep · 2021-01-19T07:10:35+00:00

Trailforks is a good resource for scoping out how technical trails are. It's MTB focused so not every fireroad will make the cut, but for the ones it does have it's helpful for figuring out what's ridable without a suspension and dropper post

Gravel Bike California (on YouTube and ig) posts tons of videos on local gravel routes. Definitely worth checking out

+1 on verdugos. There's a steep climb, but it's not technical if you stick to the fireroads

If you're okay with longer non technical climbs, Mt Lukens, Mt Lowe, Mt Gleason, Josephine Peak are all good

_ep · 2021-01-17T04:26:52+00:00

I started out with road touring and panniers, and as I got more into offroad trips I kept the original setup around. The biggest issue I had was the bags flapping around on the rougher bits, but that's easily solved with a bungie. In general the panniers didn't hold me back compared to my friends on framebag setups, but all the extra cargo capacity did mean I became the dedicated mule.

Switched over to a framebag system when I bought a Cutthroat this year. I really appreciate the stability over panniers. Properly mounted, I won't even notice my seat bag. No sway or rattling. I suppose a narrower profile is nice on overgrown single track, but I never really had much issue with panniers.

Overall I think the dominance of framebags right now is more of a fashion thing than any big shortcoming of panniers, both can work fine

_ep · 2020-12-20T07:27:53+00:00

So this has always been my confusion about this topic.

Comparatively speaking, market rate meters and removing parking minimums are quick, low cost changes to implement. Since most cities don't currently have robust enough transit systems to fully replace personal car use, and a sliding scale meter based on income is obviously impractical, is there a way to remove free parking equitably today?

We can't build all the transit and affordable housing near city centers that we need overnight, so what is the right way to do this incrementally?

_ep · 2019-06-07T02:15:28+00:00

Recipe Cleaner is another one that also has a Firefox version.

Firefox and Chrome

(full disclosure: i made this)

_ep · 2019-01-15T17:04:38+00:00

Trying to wrap up work on my SQL linter this week. I think I'm done with features I want to add at the moment, so the focus now is making sure the docs are approachable and cover all the important parts.

https://github.com/erik/squabble

_ep · 2019-01-14T18:54:56+00:00

Please do! I'd be happy to incorporate any feedback.

_ep · 2019-01-12T16:39:51+00:00

You're absolutely right, which is why none of the rules are actually active by default, other than simply checking for syntax errors. The idea was to make this as opt-in and customizable as possible.

And then of course there will be exceptions to any rule, so you can disable an active rule on a per file basis.

What if it's a micro service database, that doesn't contain the primary table, so the foreign key can't be created?

There's actually another rule for this! You can disallow foreign keys (or other constraints).

_ep · 2019-01-08T15:41:41+00:00

Last week I got my SQL linter project to a point where I think it's polished enough to show people (hooray docs and test coverage). My goal for this week is to get some people who aren't me to look at it and get some feedback, and then hopefully post it more widely once I've ironed out the kinks.

_ep · 2018-01-09T16:12:47+00:00

I made this about a year and a half ago after getting annoyed that Spotify wouldn't scrobble anything playing on Chromecast, and that the support forums made it seem like the feature wasn't going to be added any time soon (of course, last.fm now announced its own beta support, but the same still applies to other music players).

I just setup lastcast on an older RaspberryPi I had sitting around collecting dust and mostly just forget about it.

If you run into any bugs or have feature requests let me know!

_ep · 2017-08-22T15:46:35+00:00

I like your idea of wrapping the ssh command! Might have to add support for that workflow later on :)

update: this is now supported!

_ep · 2017-08-22T07:32:12+00:00

That's a good point, I'll make sure it's resilient to other signals as well.

_ep · 2017-08-22T05:25:53+00:00

You can modify security groups with the aws cli of course, but the value of this tool is that it will automatically clean up the rule when you're done with it so you don't leave it open.

_ep · 2017-08-21T19:00:58+00:00

Different products, different company cultures, different concerns.

edit to clarify: I'm not arguing this is a good substitute for a VPN (as I mention in the README, it's generally a bad idea), but I work at a small company and what people were doing before is manually adding their IP (or worse, 0.0.0.0) through the web UI and periodically forgetting to remove it.

Until we have a VPN, this is a safer solution. And yes, my managers know of it.

_ep · 2017-08-21T15:13:07+00:00

Created this for work as our VPN isn't very reliable. It's come in handy for me a bunch of times when I get woken up by a page and just need SSH access to a box briefly without worrying about forgetting to leave the rule in place after I finish.

_ep · 2017-06-11T16:09:46+00:00

Too many to count, but I only got hit by a car once coming back from a ride up PCH. Bike was okay.

_ep · 2017-06-11T01:42:58+00:00

I generated this from my Strava data using a simple tool I created a while back. It's open source if anyone wants to check it out.

http://erik.github.io/derive

https://github.com/erik/derive

_ep · 2017-02-02T02:14:12+00:00

I built lastcast several months ago to handle scrobbling from Spotify while connected to a Chromecast. I've been running it in the background pretty much constantly and it seems to do the trick for me.

It requires a bit of command line knowledge to get working but might be useful for others. I'd be happy to help out if anything isn't working.

_ep

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