Advice for High School Me
I was recently asked to speak at a professional development event for teachers at my middle school. They posed three questions for me to answer: I drafted some notes for …
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2024 ITE Student Leadership Summit at Cal Poly
A little under a year after my most recent trip to San Luis Obispo, I’ve just come back from another visit – this time for the ITE Western District Student …
Grist “No example workspace available” Error
I’m writing this post since I’ve been managing a self-hosted Grist instance for a while now. Grist is essentially a self-hosted version of Airtable, but even more supercharged! It’s a …
Cool Tech: Active Transit Signal Priority with LYT
One of the most effective ways to speed up public transit operations in mixed-flow traffic is transit signal priority (TSP). TSP, in a broad sense, aims to reduce delay arising …
What’s Up With California’s Highway Mile Markers?
I recently took a long road trip in California. On the way, I noticed that California’s mile markers look very different than most other states. Let’s take a look. The …
Ultra Cheap Pacific Surfliner to San Diego
One of the busiest intercity rail services in the US is the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. It runs between San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast and San Diego in California, …
USC ITE Tours Fullerton Road Grade Separation Project
Members of the Institute of Transportation Engineers at USC (USC ITE) toured the Fullerton Road grade separation project in the City of Industry, CA, on September 29th, 2023. Led by the …
Hosting SCAG Executive Director Kome Ajise
On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, the Institute of Transportation Engineers at USC (USC ITE) and the METRANS Transportation Research Consortium co-hosted Mr. Kome Ajise, Executive Director of the Southern California …
2023 ITE Annual Meeting in Portland
I’m grateful to receive one of two Student Travel Scholarships from the ITE Western District. This scholarship helped fund my travel to the combined ITE Western District and International annual …
Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway as an adblocker
I was recently looking for a solution to handle ad blocking at the DNS level. I wanted to use the DNS level specifically (rather than an app or browser extension …