@jket

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Software Engineer bicycling around Tempe, AZ
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#walkablecities #lowcar #transportation #tempe #diy

websitehttps://jackketcham.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/jketcham
LocationTempe, AZ
Austin Becomes The Largest U.S. City to Eliminate Parking Minimums — Streetsblog USA

The Violet Crown City voted to make the change months ago — but now that a revision of the city's byzantine zoning code is finally done, the law will actually go into effect.

Busy weekend with Tempe Bicycle Action Group!

Yesterday we helped marshal Doreen Garlid’s candidate ride as part of our candidate group rides initiative, and ended the day with our Trick-or-Treat Ride! 👻

And all just in time for some actually nice weather for a change 😎

#biketempe #tempe

“Eventually, a lightbulb turned on when her e-bike-owning friend told her she wasn’t buying an expensive bike. It was a cheap car” https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/17/electric-bikes-cars-cost-testing/
Advice | Think you need another car? Consider an e-bike instead.

E-bikes are replacing cars. What to consider on cost and testing before you buy.

Washington Post

This looks so much like an evil trap, but I would still so fall for it.

(Winchester, England, photo by Dr Victoria James)

NASA has an interactive widget on their site that allows visitors to track the progress of today's annular eclipse

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2023/where-when

2023 Annular Eclipse: Where & When - NASA Science

The Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. It will be visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America.

“Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter”

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports

The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic.

Nieman Reports
Stopped by AZ Bouldering Project and Pair Cupworks for the first time this morning, totally love the space! I remember when this building was empty for so long and I wondered what would move in here. This is the perfect use case 🧗☕️🪴

New bike rack installed this morning as part of our Bike Racks for Businesses program!

This one is located in the business complex with Okun Dentistry near Southern and Rural.

Thanks to a Tempe bicyclist who is a patient there and pointed out there was no bicycle parking. The tenant then reached out to the property owner to coordinate one to be installed with us.

Do you know a business that could use better bicycle parking? Tell them, and then tell us!

#bikeracks #br4b #tempe

Just saw Air Force One land at Sky Harbor (for which my plane was kept on the tarmac and couldn’t get to our gate)

I'd kill for a browser plugin that automatically converts spotify podcast links into anything other than spotify. Ideally, I could select @overcastfm as my main podcast player, so when I clicked on a spotify link, it would find that corresponding episode and open it on overcast.fm.

Relatedly, Hype Machine launched a tool called Merch Table that scans spotify playlists and finds those artists on Bandcamp so you can support them directly. https://hypem.com/merch-table

Merch Table for podcasts, plz.

Merch Table / Hype Machine

Buy music from your Spotify playlists on Bandcamp

Hype Machine