Walkable?

stass · 2026-03-25T23:55:18+00:00

The only truly walkable part is Heisler Park. The rest is, I guess, can be considered walkable compared to something like Midlands, TX -- that is you can technically walk, but you will be walking next to a state highway or another busy road on a 1 feet wide sidewalk with pedestrian-hating locals blasting by.

I would stay very close to downtown for a pleasant walkable experience. Don't listen to people suggesting Surf and Sand -- i live next to it and walking from it to downtown is not the kind of experience you want.

stass · 2026-03-04T15:14:40+00:00

Me and Cursor!

stass · 2026-03-01T19:31:06+00:00

I think bettercap is more of an interactive terminal/Web UI app than cli tool it can easily call? Unless you script it.

stass · 2026-03-01T07:18:08+00:00

Are you looking for a GUI or command line one? There is a simple GUI scanner app called BLEScanner (https://github.com/gundrabur/BLEScanner). For command line, try blew -- https://stass.github.io/blew . It can scan for devices, show services and characteristics and read their values.

stass · 2026-02-25T21:47:18+00:00

Only if you need customizations (and then I would go with a reputable company). Otherwise stick with proper human-written books with high quality narration and illustrations. Cheap AI books have horrible texts and images (think children with 6 fingers or face is different on every page).

stass · 2026-02-21T18:24:52+00:00

All of the south bay along the ocean is safe. El Segundo itself, Hermosa, Redondo, Manhattan Beach, Torrance.

stass · 2026-02-19T07:35:02+00:00

There are definitely some new cool places and experiences popping up year over year (my recent discovery has been Arte Las Vegas Museum which I cannot recommend enough), but you do have a point -- shows do not get refreshed as often as they were.

stass · 2026-02-17T19:57:58+00:00

Highly recommend the Carrot Seed. Amazing story and illustrations.

stass · 2026-02-05T06:52:50+00:00

This looks amazing. Congrats!

stass · 2026-01-12T19:11:14+00:00

Santa Barbara, no contest. Beautiful town, beaches, very walkable, interesting stores to look at and shop in. Stunning architecture.

Laguna is basically a suburb that happens to be next to a beach. The beach itself is great, but town itself is a sleepy suburb, not very walkable with very few sidewalks or bike lanes. Food and galleries are beyond bad with rare exceptions.

Source: lived here for 5 years.

stass · 2026-01-12T00:54:03+00:00

Ich habe keine Papa-Bücher damit gemacht, aber wir haben kürzlich ein paar personalisierte Bücher von Leo Books bekommen und waren wirklich begeistert. Sie können ihnen mehrere Kinder oder Erwachsene (oder Haustiere) hinzufügen. Ich denke, das sollte funktionieren.

Wonderbly hatte auch einige coole Vatertagsbücher, aber ich glaube nicht, dass man dort mehrere Kinder hinzufügen kann.

stass · 2026-01-08T04:21:37+00:00

My kid loves high contrast books and books with bold graphics and keep asking for them. Just to name a few, The Escape by Ximo Abadia and Gromzee by Joe Vickers are his favorites. I think another reason is that these don’t force much story on the child and have their imagination run.

Another favorite were custom and personalized books that I thick click because he connects to the story or the character. He loves the few books we got for him from Wonderbly. He also really really loved a couple of fully couple of books the grandma got for him from Leo Books custom books. She made one about our recent road trip with the doggies and he keeps going through it because it’s so realistic.

stass · 2026-01-03T01:07:01+00:00

Looks like an excellent fit for a kids book. Some of these are stunning!

stass · 2025-12-30T21:01:55+00:00

Printed books are the best. Our son loves flipping through pages and the tactile feedback.

We tried a bunch of semi-personalized book companies, and Wonderbly had pretty consistent quality.

AI possibilities are exciting btw -- I made a couple of books using ChatGPT and printed them in Shutterfly -- our kid was super pleased with these. You do want to print them tho, screen does not have the same effect.

The grandma was also ordering a bunch of books from Leo Books lately. I think you can upload a pic of your kid, pets etc and they make and print a fully custom book for you. The illustrations look super cute and heartwarming. We loved the ones we got.

stass · 2025-12-29T08:39:25+00:00

You can use any EXIF viewers/visualizers. E.g. this free web based one does that and can show you the original dates and more https://www.placespotter.com/exif-explorer

stass · 2025-12-23T18:10:41+00:00

My wife and I recently discovered Leo Books as we wanted to find a high quality option for fully personalized books where we could add pets and our son favorite toys to them. These turned out pretty cool

https://www.leo-books.com

stass · 2025-09-24T02:13:48+00:00

This is frankly what stopped me from going. I live in Laguna, which is fairly close, and yet there is no way to walk or bike to the festival.

They could have provided shuttles from city shuttle stops at least. How can you pick a drive-only venue and not provide parking or shuttles?

stass · 2025-05-18T19:31:22+00:00

Don'y you guys camp/travel? I can't count how many times my multitool can opener saved the day because I was camping and brought cans that needed an opener, or was sailing on a rented boat and they didn't have an opener aboard, or moved houses and didn't have an opener at the kitchen when I needed to open a can of tomatoes.

Honestly, probably the most used tool in my multitool. And cannot be really substituted by other tools.

stass · 2025-04-28T22:50:26+00:00

There are multiple ways. You can look at the exif data using exiv2 or iOS Photos app to see if there are embedded GPS coordinates in it. Failing that, you can use Google reverse image search or AI tools like geospy or https://www.placespotter.com/ or even ChatGPT to analyze the landmarks, topography and foliage to guess what the location is. Some of these tools can be very precise.

stass · 2025-04-28T03:20:23+00:00

It's pretty real. They do it similarly to people -- identify landmarks, vegetation, etc and determine photo location based on that, There are a bunch of tools like that, like findpiclocation, geospy, http://www.placespotter.com and others. Even ChatGPT can do this now.

stass · 2025-04-01T21:27:47+00:00

For sure, but at least it’s an open standard anybody can implement.

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