I worked adjacent to the team that maintained it. they certainly didn't use it either, and were very clear-eyed about the issues with the product.

My neighborhood in Seattle has a lot of kei trucks

Am I crazy or does the skill itself look like slop, complete with disclaimers back to the user embedded into the skill file itself?

"A warning about the original post. It came with an overview graphic of STE. A later fact check found errors in that graphic. For example, "approximately" is an approved word, and the dictionary has no entry for "in order to". This skill follows the rules of Issue 9, not the graphic."

Yes it absolutely is slop, full of AI tells. Why do we need all this ridiculous ceremony for a text file of instructions anyway?

If I want to control how it writes I just put a style_guide.md in the context.

Honest question: why does it matter if the skill is slop? It's designed for use by an LLM, I'm not planning on reading it.

I'm totally fine with that, but I think there are still quality standards that if a bit higher, would let the skill at least be much smaller and thus less token-consuming. One place where I draw the line is when somebody, with minimal effort using an LLM, could have improved the quality of the LLM generated output. Also, I treat skills like programs and skim all external skills to make sure that they're not doing things they shouldn't be doing.

Well it matters if you’re trying to adjust writing quality higher yet giving it terrible writing in the context.

The more slop you have in your context the sloppier the text you get out will be.

Why does a SKILL.md include “sources and credits”? The entire thing is pure slop.

I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.

University of California San Diego has deployed our Wayfinder and Waystation web apps for their 35,000+ students!

We're getting ready to launch our Vehicle Positions software, which replaces expensive, proprietary vehicle location systems with free, open source software that runs on commodity smartphones.

Our next-generation server software, Maglev, is adding support for newer transit data formats, like GTFS-Flex so that we can show demand responsive transit systems on the map.

We are always looking for more developers, biz dev, ux designers, product managers, and more to help out!

Open volunteer positions: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...

Our software: https://github.com/OneBusAway/

More about us: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org

As someone who's passionate about public transportation and livable cities this is awesome. Keep it up!

thank you!

Just got back from parental leave at work but I found about yall a few weeks ago. Really hoping to help on your iOS side once things are settled.

I looked at supporting the Bay Area until I realized it needed a separate service to maintain it so something that the transit agencies themselves need to provide.

I'm in Seattle, but just for fun I wrote up an explainer a few months ago showing what you'd need to do to set up our new Maglev server with Bay Area transit data: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up...

But yes, I'd love to see some group of transit agencies in the Bay Area support it :)

They never will . They love to have their own apps for some bizarre reason.

Good thing you only need them to give you an API key then :)

I use onebusaway every time I visit my son at UW,Seattle. I live in San Jose. I can’t imagine tracking bus route 72 timings without this tool. Thank you for your contributions.

thanks!

12 words in, I was like - this must be Aaron :) then I at word 15 I saw OneBusAway and I was like yep. Then I checked your handle, and it is you. TransitOPS-Ryan here - great to see you!

haha, hi Ryan! We should catch up sometime soon :)

That seems cool. UK buses don't tend to have this kind of stuff, probably because they can't be bothered. It would be good to have a live map here.

Bus checker app has a live map, loads of buses here have live updates on location

Thanks Elliot! Please take a look at our contributors guide: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/onebusaway/contrib...

you'll find a link to join our slack at the bottom of it.

With no apologies to esr:

With enough tokens, all bugs are shallow.

Maybe someone new could create a new community modeled along these lines where experts could exchange knowledge, or more junior people something else, for answers.

Yeah, this photo from Daguerre is the first one known to feature a human subject, not the first photo.

Source code has a structure, and some parts are more important to the reader than others. Good syntax highlighting makes the important parts easier to see; bad highlighting gives all parts the same emphasis. Notionally you could use font weight to convey this in a black and white medium, but color makes this easier.

I was wondering where David Zaslav landed in all this. Can’t say I’m really surprised by the answer: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/executives/david-zaslav-606-mill...

It’s called failing upwards and is the primary skill set of many CEOs and executives

My guess is that Asha Sharma is re-enacting the plot of the film The Producers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film)

I was really hoping Sing would have a more Producers sort of vibe. Failing theater and director. It was there for the taking, but apparently Disney doesn't think Springtime for Hitler is a good look?