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Jeremy Cole

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he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc. 🚴‍♂️ strava.com/athletes/106905687 📸 instagram.com/bikeseattle 📚 blog.jcole.us

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · Jan 3

I wrote up a (lengthy) summary of my biking in 2024, a total of 7,880 miles. Of that, about 2,770 was on e-bikes, mostly towing trailers doing volunteer work. The remaining 5,110 almost entirely on my Specialized Diverge (a few on other non-e-bikes), mainly exploring.

blog.jcole.us/2025/01/01/r...

Reflections on a year of biking for 2024

Everywhere I’ve ridden my bike in the PNW in 2024. Since shortly after moving to Seattle in July 2022, I have not driven a car. I’ve gotten around by bike and public transit. During 202…

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t forget the driving helmet, too.

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max k @jmkauff.bsky.social · 15h

i made a little video about recent reporting by @typewriteralley.bsky.social on mayor harrell’s involvement in lake washington boulevard’s safety saga

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

I would mostly disagree, sorta, the quality of the typical (non-“organic”) food, especially fruits and vegetables, in NL, DE, DK, SE is much higher than in the US. I compared PCC mostly because it compares best imho, but we only get close to that in boutique grocery stores.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

It makes the readability of everything awful. Don’t think we’ll be so lucky but maybe they’ll introduce an option to turn it off or tone it down.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a betting pool on how many months the transparency-everywhere fad in iOS will last before Apple rips it all out again?

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

cowardice from government officials in the face of car supremacy

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

It’s “fun” that PCC grocery stores in Seattle are basically very similar to any average grocery store in Germany but at 5-10x the price.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

In Seattle they only really do parking enforcement during work hours, so evenings and weekends are pretty much sidewalk blocking free for all. People who work a 9-5 and park like this when not working get to do whatever they want. 🤮

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Also the presence of a button/switch to set a port to crossover; those went away with auto negotiation which I think became mandatory with Gigabit.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Generally hubs didn’t look different than switches and the biggest clue you’re looking at a hub is the presence of collision lights, but more obvious is that a lot of them had coax 10Base2 ports and/or 15-pin AUI connectors, and those pretty much went away by the time switches became mainstream.

Photo of an Ethernet hub with 8 RJ45 ports, one coax, and one AUI

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

I was mainly skeptical because most hubs were 10 Mbps which is pretty for even basic internet anymore.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, that is just a 6-port faceplate and keystone terminations on some cables which are presumably run back to whatever is in a closet somewhere, just cabling basically. I’ve installed the same type in my house (in this case a 1-port faceplate, a few 2-ports), they all are cabled back to a closet.

Faceplate with one RJ45 jack

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Used to LAN party with friends using coax Ethernet, upgrading to a hub was pure luxury

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

You should declare it a museum and charge olds like me to see one in the wild again. Does it have any coax/thinnet ports? 😂

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Are you sure it’s a hub and not a switch? That’s pretty wild for 2025.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Do you live in 1997?

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

We just allowed the term “hub” to be tied to and die with the specific technology rather than meaning a general purpose term that would have applied to switches as well.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

Like many of us, their screaming is on the inside now.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 3d

It's always a good game to check Google streetview when people complain about loss of car parking outside their shop.
2025: white mini
2024: white mini
2023: white mini.
Excuse me, Mr Shopkeep, do you drive a white mini, by any chance?

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d

Takes some of the sport out of though, doesn't it?? 😅

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d

Huh, I never thought about parking at the police station. I usually park my cargo bike right near the doors and double lock it to itself, but it’s not great. My regular bike I just walk around the store with it.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

You are “we”, too, right? Have you bought the lumber and steel? Fundraiser for it? Organized anything? If not maybe stop talking shit about the people putting their lives and bodies out there, just because you disagree with the exact method. Their protest, their choice.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

And grassy light rail/streetcar.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 5d

Here is this intersection of California and Edmunds highlighted to show the areas where cars have priority (red) and where pedestrians can (maybe) expect not to intersect with cars (yellow).

Yet somehow we're asking drivers to sacrifice too much.

California and SW Edmunds with driveways, roads, and parking lots highlighted in red, and sidewalks where there are no potential vehicle conflicts, in yellow. The red makes up well over 90% of the ground level space.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

Yep, and it’s all shown to be a farce once you ask the same person to pay $100+ to park near the stadium. Suddenly they’re happy to walk all the way from far reaches of SODO *and* tell everyone else to do the same. So we just need to make parking like an asshole cost at least as much, every time. 🎉