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Build more housing where driving a car isn't the default mode of getting around and people will naturally start to demand better public transportation services and local spots they…

Zoning restrictions are far more restrictive in the United States than in a city like Tokyo, where the government has largely only enacted laws preventing specific cases that would…

Several years ago I asked my mom why she lived so far from where she worked (Vallejo, CA to San Ramon, CA), and she claimed they were saving money on cheaper rent. Five minutes of …

Before buying my car I test drove a Mercedes that had what I assumed was a touchscreen. Upon trying to tap it the person working at the dealership said none of their cars have touc…

I'm only 6'0" but feel your pain. I highly recommend checking your flight on https://www.seatguru.com/ to get a better idea of the seat pitch and whether there's any seats that mig…

Seems environmentally unfriendly to rely 100% on electricity in one of the sunnier places in the country — you'd think there'd be a way to pipe in daylight via fiber optic cords du…

Aha! I remembered seeing something a year or so back but thought it was just a proof of concept by an individual, not officially baked into Google Maps. Just took a look and it's d…

http://www.oldsf.org/ is the closest thing I've seen — designer and developer mapped photos to their relatively accurate location, filterable by year. I've actually been able to fi…

That's actually from the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco — tower on the right is 1 Rincon (there's already a few more next to it going up now). Curious if this was a case of …

As someone currently using (aka fighting) the web audio API, there's definitely a market for better, clearer information out there, but I'm curious how successful targeting a such …

Wrote on this topic a bit at the beginning of the year.[1] I think for most people it really just comes down to a mix of Medium's beautiful design, a strong existing community ther…

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Currently based in San Francisco) UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive websites and web applicati…

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive websites and web applications. I most often …

Hosting at Github with Jekyll is essentially self-hosting. Github Pages has automated deployment, but at the end of the day it's just another hosting option with no (current) ulter…

This. Current static site generators aren't good for non-engineers, but I'd be willing to bet that doesn't need to be the case. Every instance I've seen requires some sort of techn…

I was referring less to general blogging companies like Typepad/Blogger - IMO those are pretty similar to Medium in functionality but minus the community aspect (blogs only linked …

1017kb on my end. IMO a large majority of those images would be better off replaced by the Taft image (or not included at all).

I coincidentally sat in on a pitch to Zimmer's new company zTailors about a year ago over at their office in Oakland. Having visited numerous startups in the Bay Area over the year…

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/…

Has nobody created an open-source, non-tamperable e-voting platform yet (could give the blockchain a solid purpose)? It seems like something that would make for a great project - a…

Anybody have any idea what animation library they're using? Doesn't look to be CSS transitions and all their JS is compressed (rightfully so).

I haven't personally been to one of their events but met the founder (Ankit) by chance a few months back through a mutual friend who has been to a few. Definitely seems like a genu…

Hamburg's mentioned plan reminds me of Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan for San Francsico, which would have created Panhandle-like parks running all over the city as well as diagonal ave…