Apparently Siri does not do bigrams…
(I wasn’t able to reproduce this, to be fair)

Some opponents of direct democracy claim voters may not understand what they're voting on, perhaps true at times, e.g. given the scale and specificity in California (esp. SF) or Switzerland less so. But how well do voters understand how elected legislators would vote on similarly specific laws?

Good start @tfl, although this may be even more useful on trains rather than at bus stops. How does one make this the new ‘Mind the Gap’?

Trying an accountability system with a friend for some life habits with minimal overhead by using a dedicated group chat in which the two of us can each log our activities, hopefully avoiding the trap I’ve fallen into previously of using a spreadsheet which can be endlessly optimized.

A work-in-progress for me: shifting my response to someone describing a situation from suggesting or projecting emotions onto them (“that must have been great/difficult/…”) to just being curious (“how was that?” or “how did you feel about that?”).

Google Maps still displays many ghost Tube trains, at least at unusual hours, despite the TfL app and public API being far more accurate. The ghost trains may exist on the timetable, but you would think Maps could verify with live data considering I wrote a (very minimal) app to do so in a few days.

Now that I’m reviving my blog, I decided to change up the theme and settled on one that seems to tick most of the boxes I was looking for (credit to Tufte). I got it to a perfect score on PageSpeed Insights just by tweaking a few HTML attributes mostly for accessibility. The joys of a static site!

Less than half serious: with the number of cameras on public transport in London, I sometimes feel like TfL is operating a city-wide panopticon alongside transportation.

TIL you can enable multiple language versions, such as English (US) and English (UK), for the macOS spell checker. I like this for editing shared documents but also for the more arcane spelling differences where my preferences don’t always line up cleanly with one language region dictionary.

There’s a public herb garden at Kilburn tube station! Unexpectedly cute things and trains are a great combo.