Alex Hillman

LIFT Philly - Tax Reform for Philadelphia's Small Businesses "This could be the difference between those businesses being open or closed." — Councilmember Mike Driscoll. Join the coalition for effective, efficient, & equitable tax reform.

already talking with her and her staff

a collaborator of mine helped introduce a bill that would fix this for the largest population of small businesses.

liftphilly.org

it's well received, best thing to do is get small biz owners on this list so we can keep them posted on when to testify.

so hey did the PPA just stop ticketing while every street parking spot is still messed up from the piles of ice and snow? or do I just keep getting lucky?

go (other) birds

this has been brewing for almost 6 months.

details next week.

we are so back.

Finding Optimism In Choosing Action Well this is awkward.

i had an essay i was very excited to send to the @indyhall.org newsletter today, and then this weekend happened.

tried my damndest to thread the needle anyway, hoping it lands as intended. indyhall.org/2026/01/find...

👀 🙏

I shrunk down into an M5 chip YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

If you haven't seen MKBHD's microchips for scale explainer, you are missing out holy moly this was like Beakman's World of the current era. so good.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9p...

All I can think is "Ketchup without a cause" and for some reason that's hilarious to me

Oh right this place is bananas.

Thanks Nick! Happy holidays.

Haven't been in 15 years, excited to be back

Ty!

It came late!

Booked everything last night, New Orleans just so happens to be the first place we ever traveled to together back in 2013.

Gonna be a tasty weekend full of music and revelry. 🎉🎉

Yup!

New Orleans!

Yup!

Enjoy!

Giveaway hint!

you're supposed to guess!

you're supposed to guess!

so I suggested...what if we wait until Christmas eve to book a Christmas Day flight and hotel, and see what kind of last minute stuff we can find?

we did it. any guesses where? 👀

for the first time in our relationship and her whole life, my partner and I are completely uncommitted for Christmas.

we only found out a few weeks back, and of course, thought "what do we want to do?"

we'd been talking about some kind of travel over the holidays, but of course, it's $$$.

it looks good! excited to actually walk around it 😻

that would be an upgrade! hopefully something they add over time @streetsdept.bsky.social any news on your radar?

The Wissahickon transit center is a fucking beautiful piece of infrastructure. Honestly, everyone involved deserves a lot of credit.

many months ago, I uploaded a photo of my partner to a website of a science youtuber who promised to send a special photo rig to space to take "space selfies" with the earth in the background.

Marc Rober, you sure as hell delivered. so cool.

claude code on top of any knowledge management tool seems like an amazing combo!

people keep asking for a saas but this is much more along the lines of what I'm thinking of sharing.

100% agree, bespoke is the way.

yup totally agree. it's very weird to say it this way but it's true: using claude code feels like I grew another set of hands that are better connected to my brain.