Adrian Parsons

inspired by this incredible video i made an incredibl(y silly) new web site qrsticks.greg.technology

Computer Rage Marinette, WI

I'm excited we're finally getting the new sunscreen ingredient in the U.S. Article says it cost DSM-Firmenich $18M to get the ingredient approved. Honestly surprised it's so little, like, we could have just crowdfunded that? www.npr.org/2026/06/13/n...

There used to be a twenty four hour potato vending machine in the Kings Road. And they say we're more advanced these days

Someone finally did something with the adrian.com domain. Now redirects to adriansteel.com (out of Adrian, Michigan)

An interesting/puzzling find: 671 parcels in NYC that according to public data... do not have owners!? Dan Lu (holistudio.github.io) came across this recently. The "Owner" field on NYC Planning's site is also missing.

I did not know the @mta.info displays ran Ubuntu!

This view of the East Village is really cool

NEW POST! 🏙️ The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly. I can’t believe this is the first NYC dataset I have written about. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprin...

Oh dear

I also want a shirt with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant logo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_I...

Dope mission patches joidesresolution.org/expeditions/

By far the best placard I've seen in NYC. Potentially the only acceptable one. paging @placardabuse.bsky.social

Who do you think pays more in property tax, the owner of this recently sold five-story Bed-Stuy brownstone (top)? Or this tiny one-bedroom Bed-Stuy condo (bottom)?

You can always tell a Linux Man — neither seen nor heard (in the Zoom meeting)

Woah. I did not realize that we had autonomous drone ships that CAN CARRY PEOPLE www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Agreed, it was super cool. Here's @ecalifornica.bsky.social talking about ATProto and @outerweb.org

checked in at @atproto.nyc - June 2026 [dw0xxpuk] #atprotonyc

In NYC, the median number of floors, in all boroughs except Manhattan: 2 The median zoning Floor-Area-Ratio in the city: 1.0 But buildings close to transit can be tall, right? No! 452K lots out of 890K are within 0.5 miles of mass transit. Median FAR for these lots: 2.1

Both of these banks across the street from each other in Fort Greene have a handful of parking spaces. It's a surprising use of space. I don't know how to find parking spaces like this in existing NYC data sets, but I'd like to map out this kind of surface parking. (430 Myrtle & 164 Clinton Ave)

Yeahhhh!

empty.nyc The perfect complement to Potential.NYC @adrianparsons.com is the creator!

I built a "minimum viable PNG" generator during my batch @recurse.com. Just pushed up my work: github.com/adrianparson... `pngcheck` says my little 1x1px image is valid (it's not, but close).

Spent a few hours at the Manhattan Criminal Court observing an attempted murder trial and some arraignments. It was incredibly fascinating and surprisingly dramatic. The courtrooms were basically empty. I'm surprised more people don't sit in on trials given the popularity of True Crime documentaries

Watching this adorable video of a sleeper bus trip through Japan I did not expect the creator to apologize for their "fat feet". www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1sx...

TIL about Vexillological symbols en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillo...

Mapbox GL JS v3.21.0 github.com/mapbox/mapbo... "Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and an official plugin (``mapbox-gl-pmtiles-provider.js`) that loads on demand."

McMaster-Carr catalog in HAMLET (2000)

I always thought it would be fun to add gambling to @marcos.ac's metromadness.nyc concept. I am just tickled by bahn.bet, where users can bet (fake money) on German rail delays.

It’s time to reassess what Chicago does with its vacant land, especially when we are the middle of a housing crisis. @abundanthousingil.bsky.social #chicago #illinois #urbanism #vote #election