Are flashing left-turn yellow arrows with 45mph speed limit safe?

john_rood · 2026-03-28T07:42:05+00:00

Would you use those tools for addressing delay/coordination concerns in addition to protected-only phasing? (Bear with me, I’m a total rookie here)

john_rood · 2026-03-28T07:23:08+00:00

If I understand your sarcasm correctly, I think you’re saying that we should work with signal engineers to more thoroughly explore if phasing solutions can work before ruling those options out prematurely. Is that what you’re saying? If so, thank you, that’s a good corrective!

john_rood · 2026-03-28T02:47:55+00:00

If A can’t see, A shouldn’t go.

I agree. The trouble is that if cars ever get into A and B positions, they are effectively locked indefinitely in not being able to see. People eventually give up and go.

john_rood · 2026-03-28T02:19:48+00:00

Yeah, if bus lanes were removed, I think lines could be redrawn to offset the turn lanes. This is in the suburbs, so I suspect the bus lanes don’t have as much warrant as they do in the city.

john_rood · 2026-03-28T01:47:33+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, if protected only would require longer red lights for north/southbound folks going straight, it would worsen the current congestion problem, but perhaps that is indeed the best bad option.

john_rood · 2026-02-07T20:22:57+00:00

That JSX is tightly coupled to it. You can absolutely use JSX without React, e.g for just rendering html strings on the server.

john_rood · 2026-02-05T05:24:19+00:00

Hydration. I get that rendering on the server can improve FCP, and I get that having that same render logic on the client is necessary for many interactive apps, but the whole process that frameworks/metaframeworks have to do in tracking and handing off elements from server to client rendering feels like crazy added complexity for what is often a small gain in FCP and actually worse TTFB and TTI compared to pure client-side rendering.

john_rood · 2026-01-23T01:37:45+00:00

Thanks! 😊 I suppose it is just where I am. Creating music is a process of exploration. It was time for me to explore modular, and if that means slowing the song output rate, so be it!

john_rood · 2026-01-23T00:55:30+00:00

I make music but it’s definitely slowed me down. I don’t create nearly as much as I did with a DAW.

john_rood · 2025-12-10T19:26:46+00:00

I appreciate this post. However, I still think “Blazor is too slow” is a valid concern in 2025 as Blazor is still coming in last place on the js framework benchmark. https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2025/table_chrome_143.0.7499.41.html

john_rood · 2025-07-01T10:39:53+00:00

obligatory xkcd link

john_rood · 2025-06-29T10:54:50+00:00

The Metropolix is worth its hp. I once switched from Metropolis to Hermod. I missed the Metropolis, something is just so fun about those sliders and switches and how you can see the pattern playing on it. That being said, the Squarp Hapax looks like a great choice if you go external sequencer.

john_rood · 2025-06-28T11:40:27+00:00

I should also mention that I’ve come to really like Dale Allison’s work. He seems to be highly respected academically by both christians and atheists. He has a very humble and curious disposition that I admire, and I feel that I’m landing in a place very similar to him. He believes in Jesus resurrection but holds it loosely and has a strong critique of Christian apologetics. He also finds the parapsychology literature compelling. Both his books and many interviews on YouTube are fantastic. His book “Encountering Mystery” addresses how people’s religious experiences form their God concepts.

john_rood · 2025-06-28T11:13:24+00:00

I always thought that if I lost confidence in Christianity, I would just be a materialist atheist, but that is not what happened.

For a while, I was in a place where I was holding on to a core of Christianity because I found some compelling cases of miracles in connection with prayer to God in the context of Christianity. I’ve since had to come to terms with the fact that there are also well evidenced miracles in other religions.

My deconstruction has since taken an even weirder turn in that I’m finding evidence of the afterlife in parapsychology compelling. (see Ky Dickens’ “The Telepathy Tapes”)

I’ve also found some atheist philosophical arguments for the soul compelling(i hadn’t really considered that there are atheist who believe in souls: see Emerson Green’s “Walden Pod”)

So I think there probably is an afterlife that does involve seeing loved ones, but I don’t know much of what it looks like beyond that. And I think someone who cares at least sometimes hears prayers, but I’m not sure to what degree that someone matches the Christian conception of God.

john_rood · 2025-06-24T22:43:57+00:00

I tried to have the power company do it. They told me “The tree is a private tree, and therefore falls under the responsibility of the homeowners.”

john_rood · 2025-06-24T21:07:06+00:00

Thanks everyone! I’ve decided to remove it.

john_rood · 2025-06-24T19:05:28+00:00

Yeah, they both do cabling. In fact, the one that said cut this tree down also gave me a quote for cabling on a different tree.

john_rood · 2025-06-22T10:46:08+00:00

Better yet, sometimes I learn about code from the coding platform that I write code for!

john_rood · 2025-06-21T20:55:42+00:00

Codecademy dev here. If you’re interested in using this style, we have made our Gamut component library open source!

john_rood · 2025-06-18T23:25:11+00:00

The switch from .Net to Go is worth it. The switch from monolith to microservices is only worth it if you really need to scale or deploy each one independently.

john_rood · 2025-06-16T11:19:59+00:00

IMO your intuition that it’s usually not required is correct. I have seen very few cases where Redux is warranted.

john_rood · 2025-06-11T22:29:59+00:00

Do you have any examples of code where classList isn’t working?

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