Andy Hill
@ahill.net
seattle
software engineer, linux, transit, music, weightlifting, hiking, cycling
ahill.net (personal) / dev.ahill.net (tech)
software engineer, linux, transit, music, weightlifting, hiking, cycling
ahill.net (personal) / dev.ahill.net (tech)
fun daily game cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
fun daily game cluesbysam.com
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Bob is spot on about the need to shift from mode specific advocacy (such as cycling) to safe streets advocacy. Safer streets benefit everyone, including people who bike.
I highlighted some good and some bad things about biking in the greater Seattle area in 2025 in my latest video. Check it out:
youtu.be/qr-A-UbCXOg
#SEAbikes
youtu.be/qr-A-UbCXOg
#SEAbikes
Seattle Biking: Best & Worst of 2025
YouTube video by bobco85
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Bob is spot on about the need to shift from mode specific advocacy (such as cycling) to safe streets advocacy. Safer streets benefit everyone, including people who bike.
> British Chaos refers to a cluster of TikTok personalities that “once might have just been a local character in a pub in Stevenage but have become international celebrities
👏
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January 2, 2026 at 4:12 PM
> British Chaos refers to a cluster of TikTok personalities that “once might have just been a local character in a pub in Stevenage but have become international celebrities
👏
👏
I'm having some fun with maps.
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm having some fun with maps.
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I ran a fairly large blog commenting platform in ~2001 and was taken by surprise when performance tanked because some blog entries suddenly had tens of thousands of comments.
Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.
Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.
December 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I ran a fairly large blog commenting platform in ~2001 and was taken by surprise when performance tanked because some blog entries suddenly had tens of thousands of comments.
Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.
Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.
why aren’t there more bars in grocery stores? the one at u-village QFC is outstanding
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
why aren’t there more bars in grocery stores? the one at u-village QFC is outstanding
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[watching a jingle horse drag its feet]
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
[watching a jingle horse drag its feet]
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
ORCA wrapped dropped tonight, go check your stats
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
ORCA wrapped dropped tonight, go check your stats
This trombone slide chart with multiple ways to play the same note from the 70s closely resembles a git branch graph.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This trombone slide chart with multiple ways to play the same note from the 70s closely resembles a git branch graph.
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It feels like the internet‘s cooked us into presenting every position in the strongest moral terms and responding to every disagreement as an all-out attack that must be annihilated before it destroys everything and it seems not great
October 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It feels like the internet‘s cooked us into presenting every position in the strongest moral terms and responding to every disagreement as an all-out attack that must be annihilated before it destroys everything and it seems not great
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why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files
October 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files
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academy award contending tiktok
September 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
academy award contending tiktok
This book, but with @swerveconfident.bsky.social on every page
September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This book, but with @swerveconfident.bsky.social on every page
finished diablo 3 last night. hard to believe it was my first diablo game / isometric dungeon crawler
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
finished diablo 3 last night. hard to believe it was my first diablo game / isometric dungeon crawler
🎵 last night was the first night in eons i played a bass trombone part. The lowest notes were occasional F1/G1s while regularly cranking out E5-D5s gave me a new appreciation for lung capacity
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎵 last night was the first night in eons i played a bass trombone part. The lowest notes were occasional F1/G1s while regularly cranking out E5-D5s gave me a new appreciation for lung capacity
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"You're absolutely right!"
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"You're absolutely right!"
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This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
mspaint traffic notices from WSDOT
The cute animals got stuck in traffic, so this time you just get Greg. Greg's here to help you get through Seattle during the full NB Revive I-5 closure from I-90 to NE 45th St this weekend.
From 11:59p Fri. to 5a Mon. NB I-5 will be clamped shut (closed). Express lanes open northbound.
From 11:59p Fri. to 5a Mon. NB I-5 will be clamped shut (closed). Express lanes open northbound.
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
mspaint traffic notices from WSDOT
August 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wish I knew. It’s also painful for client side metrics on empheral workers.
Does anyone know why all cloud-native open source ecosystem uses pull model to expose their /metrics (instead of pushing the metrics)? Pull model is really poor when the metric cardinality exposed on a single endpoint increases.
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I wish I knew. It’s also painful for client side metrics on empheral workers.
rode this recently, such an amazing improvement. yay!
Good news: the new Alaskan Way protected bike lanes opened for travelers today.
Project info: www.seattle.gov/transportati...
Project info: www.seattle.gov/transportati...
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
rode this recently, such an amazing improvement. yay!
@stevekamb.com is there a place to buy a digital copy of Level Up Your Life? Ideally for a Kobo device. I saw your note about an updated version coming in 2026, but I’m having trouble waiting that long.
July 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
@stevekamb.com is there a place to buy a digital copy of Level Up Your Life? Ideally for a Kobo device. I saw your note about an updated version coming in 2026, but I’m having trouble waiting that long.
speeding up CI pipelines is always A Good Thing
July 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
speeding up CI pipelines is always A Good Thing
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The bus #8 is so slow, we all beat it to Stewart Street and this very slow cadre of dancers crossed the finish line first.
July 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The bus #8 is so slow, we all beat it to Stewart Street and this very slow cadre of dancers crossed the finish line first.