Kurt Raschke
@kurtraschke.com
they/them
Transit and technology, mostly. Prone to ranting.
Reposts and favorites are not endorsements. Posts are solely my own.
ABATE NOXIOUS STIMULI.
Transit and technology, mostly. Prone to ranting.
Reposts and favorites are not endorsements. Posts are solely my own.
ABATE NOXIOUS STIMULI.
It was as if I were being followed by the infernal contraption.
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It was as if I were being followed by the infernal contraption.
These contraptions have no place on any road, anywhere, least of all on city streets.
But it is the HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY for a company whose goal is to "limit our impact on the communities we touch" to commission these monstrosities to roam around for a daft, insipid ad campaign.
But it is the HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY for a company whose goal is to "limit our impact on the communities we touch" to commission these monstrosities to roam around for a daft, insipid ad campaign.
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
These contraptions have no place on any road, anywhere, least of all on city streets.
But it is the HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY for a company whose goal is to "limit our impact on the communities we touch" to commission these monstrosities to roam around for a daft, insipid ad campaign.
But it is the HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY for a company whose goal is to "limit our impact on the communities we touch" to commission these monstrosities to roam around for a daft, insipid ad campaign.
Hey, Columbia Sportswear, if you really care about the outdoors, if you really care about people, maybe you can explain how clogging New York City’s streets with two diesel exhaust-belching rolling billboards for a MARKETING CAMPAIGN aligns with your ESG goals?
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hey, Columbia Sportswear, if you really care about the outdoors, if you really care about people, maybe you can explain how clogging New York City’s streets with two diesel exhaust-belching rolling billboards for a MARKETING CAMPAIGN aligns with your ESG goals?
In case, like me, you were wondering what on Earth UMTA was up to…
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In case, like me, you were wondering what on Earth UMTA was up to…
So, I've gone and built another widget: Data Lake Merritt, real-time stringlines for BART.
data-lake-merritt.choochoo.systems
data-lake-merritt.choochoo.systems
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So, I've gone and built another widget: Data Lake Merritt, real-time stringlines for BART.
data-lake-merritt.choochoo.systems
data-lake-merritt.choochoo.systems
I was recently in the Bay Area again, and each time I find it a little bit harder to leave behind.
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I was recently in the Bay Area again, and each time I find it a little bit harder to leave behind.
Does it still count as a “burrito taxi” if it’s a robot?
July 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Does it still count as a “burrito taxi” if it’s a robot?
They’re moving in herds!
July 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
They’re moving in herds!
I try generally to be civil online. But this...this just pisses me off. To be clear, this sentiment is not directed at the commenter, but rather the circumstances which have led people to think this way.
You see, I use em dashes and en dashes, and words like "delve".
You see, I use em dashes and en dashes, and words like "delve".
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I try generally to be civil online. But this...this just pisses me off. To be clear, this sentiment is not directed at the commenter, but rather the circumstances which have led people to think this way.
You see, I use em dashes and en dashes, and words like "delve".
You see, I use em dashes and en dashes, and words like "delve".
In 1999 a Fujitsu task force formed to reduce the backlog of outstanding defects in the software found code which they described as follows: "[w]hoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming"
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In 1999 a Fujitsu task force formed to reduce the backlog of outstanding defects in the software found code which they described as follows: "[w]hoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming"
I neglected to mention this in the blog post, but writing code to parse the "Location" field into semi-structured data led to quite a bit of fun with regular expressions.
(I actually really enjoyed this! Really!)
(I actually really enjoyed this! Really!)
![A screenshot of a block of Rust code, containing the following six lines:
static ref RELATIVE_PATTERN: Regex = Regex::new(r"^(?P<location_type>Approachih?ng|Arriving At|At|Around|Departed|Departing|Leaving|Left|Near|(?:North|South) of) (?P<location_name>(?:.(?!Depot))+?)(?:(?:,? (?:p|P))(?:lat?form)?(?: ?(?P<platform_number>(?:[0-9 ]|(?:and))+))?)?$").unwrap();
static ref AREA_PATTERN: Regex = Regex::new(r"^(?P<area_name>.+) [Aa]reao?(?: fast)?$").unwrap();
static ref BETWEEN_PATTERN: Regex = Regex::new(r"^(?:In b|B)etween (?P<from_station_name>.+) ((?<!Elephant )and) (?P<to_station_name>.+)$").unwrap();
static ref LEFT_BETWEEN_PATTERN: Regex = Regex::new(r"^Left (?<from_station_name>.+)(?: Approaching |, heading to(?:wards)? )(?<to_station_name>.+)").unwrap();
static ref SIDINGS_PATTERN: Regex = Regex::new(r"^(?:(?:In|(?P<prefix>Siding at)) )?(?P<location_name>.+?)(?(<prefix>)| (?:S|s)idings?)(?: (?:Road |(?P<lparen>\())(?P<road_number>.+?)(?(<lparen>)\)))?$").unwrap();
static ref DEPOT_PATTERN: Regex = Regex::new(r"^(?:At )?(?P<depot_name>.+) Depot(?: entrance road)?$").unwrap();](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bszyrbfxugwudx3ssv4qtqwq/bafkreib3b4emkj3ybkxultwxigxbv2wwbiem3oj6efi3n6ig2zjkbskxre@jpeg)
June 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I neglected to mention this in the blog post, but writing code to parse the "Location" field into semi-structured data led to quite a bit of fun with regular expressions.
(I actually really enjoyed this! Really!)
(I actually really enjoyed this! Really!)
We generally call this a “bus”, and have since the days of Blaise Pascal.
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We generally call this a “bus”, and have since the days of Blaise Pascal.
Shared autonomous rides? They’re called SkyTrain, and the DLR, and a whole host of other GoA3/4 systems.
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shared autonomous rides? They’re called SkyTrain, and the DLR, and a whole host of other GoA3/4 systems.
To give you a sense of the impact this has had on me, I registered a domain and spent several weeknights fixated on building oddsfavorprogress.now, despite my great distaste for CSS!
April 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
To give you a sense of the impact this has had on me, I registered a domain and spent several weeknights fixated on building oddsfavorprogress.now, despite my great distaste for CSS!
Well, how else are you supposed to get your BLÅHAJ home?
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Well, how else are you supposed to get your BLÅHAJ home?
This is why I do what I do. This city is what it is because of transit. It exists because of, not in spite of transit. Without mass transit, this city would not exist. It’s simply impossible to move the volume of people who travel in this city without mass transit.
April 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is why I do what I do. This city is what it is because of transit. It exists because of, not in spite of transit. Without mass transit, this city would not exist. It’s simply impossible to move the volume of people who travel in this city without mass transit.
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/51#...
It was Muni, not BART, and anyway, the Second Generation VCC can boot just fine off a floppy emulator (this was proven on JNUP), and...oh well.
It was Muni, not BART, and anyway, the Second Generation VCC can boot just fine off a floppy emulator (this was proven on JNUP), and...oh well.
![Indiana bakery still used Commodore 64 in 21st century (Boeingboing)
"Jim" <jgeissman@socal.rr.com>
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:56:51 -0800
https://boingboing.net/2024/12/19/indiana-bakery-still-used-commodore-64-=
in-21st-century.html
[This reminds me of BART booting off a floppy. It works.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bszyrbfxugwudx3ssv4qtqwq/bafkreiddugaa7bm25ztpospywp5ooprtkli4r5ulrew6sq7yx2y45qkanq@jpeg)
December 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/51#...
It was Muni, not BART, and anyway, the Second Generation VCC can boot just fine off a floppy emulator (this was proven on JNUP), and...oh well.
It was Muni, not BART, and anyway, the Second Generation VCC can boot just fine off a floppy emulator (this was proven on JNUP), and...oh well.
now I somewhat want to figure out how to make a time series out of this...
(maybe with a slider for different vintages?)
(maybe with a slider for different vintages?)
October 14, 2024 at 5:10 PM
now I somewhat want to figure out how to make a time series out of this...
(maybe with a slider for different vintages?)
(maybe with a slider for different vintages?)
The lesson here is "if you really care, make your own copy".
September 30, 2024 at 6:05 PM
The lesson here is "if you really care, make your own copy".
"Microtransit" is not transit, it's not an "upgrade", and it's not how you "get riders back on board".
instagram.com/p/C-blPhiN8fM/
instagram.com/p/C-blPhiN8fM/
September 4, 2024 at 12:36 AM
"Microtransit" is not transit, it's not an "upgrade", and it's not how you "get riders back on board".
instagram.com/p/C-blPhiN8fM/
instagram.com/p/C-blPhiN8fM/
July 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I guess it's a bit soon to expect computer science curricula to be on board with the White House report on memory safety?
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I guess it's a bit soon to expect computer science curricula to be on board with the White House report on memory safety?
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...