Sunday, February 28, 2021
Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26295100
Show HN: Planck 6502, an open hardware extensible retro computer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298278
Show HN: WebMIDI Enabled Editors and Tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298153
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Show HN: I make list of tool to decor your GitHub readme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26291126
Show HN: Pasting output from previous bash command as arguments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26289570
Show HN: Ranking Data Sets by Quality https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284248
Show HN: GraphQL Zeus 3.0 – GraphQL Client now with subscription and JSON schema https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284246
Show HN: Olvy – Beautiful release notes that add joy to shipping software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283535
Show HN: YouTube Chat Inspector – a “go to channel” alternative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283479
Friday, February 26, 2021
Show HN: GraphQL standard and nested mutations at same time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273084
Show HN: Interactive real-time chemistry and fluids: water electrolysis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272642
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Show HN: UML Diagram for GoF Design Pattern Examples Written in TypeScript https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272065
Show HN: How much is your domain name worth? A new site for domain appraisals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26269812
Show HN: Redbean: single-file distributable web server https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260390
Show HN: A whirlwind Lisp adventure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26259958
Show HN: Awesome-Nami https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260086
Show HN: A technology to create animated digital artwork https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258605
Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26259007
Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next Best thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258773
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Show HN: Contra – Work the Way You Want https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245601
Show HN: NotionDog – The easiest way to build websites with nothing but Notion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246141
Monday, February 22, 2021
Show HN: Constexpr.js https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233187
Show HN: Community of professionals, with satisfaction and transparency at core https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233037
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Show HN: DeKarmaHN, a Chrome extension to hide karma and more https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220508
Show HN: ProSudoku – Play Sudoku with Apple Pencil on iPad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219824
Show HN: Building a Binary Counter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219601
Show HN: Turn scripts into fine-tuned voices via Wiki markups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218664
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Show HN: Tape Machine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26210463
Show HN: Jambook.io – A “don't break the chain” dashboard for GitHub writing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209215
Show HN: Peppa PEG – An Ultra Lightweight PEG Parser in ANSI C https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26210196
Friday, February 19, 2021
Show HN: Share your workstation setup and earn with Amazon Affiliate links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26201006
Show HN: Validatum – build fluent validation functions in .NET https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26199580
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Show HN: Archive as you browse, store locally and/or share with others via IPFS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188626
Virtual Parade and New Central Subway Art Ring in Lunar New Year
By Sophia Scherr
We are entering the year of the Ox, typically symbolizing hard work, positivity, and honesty. This year the SFMTA will continue the tradition of celebration with the virtual San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade on February 20th at 6 pm on KTVU.
Celebrating Lunar New Year and the San Francisco Chinese community has been a long-standing tradition for many of us. In 1849, San Francisco’s population swelled to 50,000 and many of the new residents were Chinese immigrants, coming to work in gold mines or on railroad lines. By the 1860’s, the Chinese were eager to share their culture with others and the annual tradition of parade and pageantry was born. A variety of other cultural groups throughout the city were invited to participate, and they marched down what today are Grant Avenue and Kearny Street with colorful flags, banners, lanterns, and drums and firecrackers to drive away evil spirits. The city’s Chinese New Year Parade is one of the largest celebrations of its kind in the world, attracting over three million spectators and television viewers throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia.
In line with what the year of the Ox signifies, we also look forward to seeing our work come to fruition when the Central Subway Project's Chinatown - Rose Pak station opens in 2022. As part of this milestone, the SFMTA in partnership with SFAC’s Public Art Program, the Chinese Culture Center, Chinatown Community Development Center, and the Chinese Historical Society have envisioned a vibrant art program for Chinatown’s station. Three significant prominent artworks by artists Tomie Arai, Yumie Hou and Clare Rojas are being installed, infusing the quintessential Chinatown spirit into their works, connecting the past, present and future. These artworks also serve as wayfinding – from marking the entrance to the station, to signaling to riders their arrival at Chinatown with placement of prominent works on the platform walls.
Traditional Chinese paper cut artist Yumei Hou developed large murals that will adorn the station
Ongoing community involvement is an essential to ensuring that Chinatown residents had a role in the artwork design process. The Chinese Cultural Center helped convene community meetings so that the artists would be able to meet residents and receive feedback on their proposed designs. Through this support, artists and community members were able to collaborate on the design of the installations. Artist Tomie Arai was able to work with local photographer Bob Hsiang to photograph students from Gordon J. Lau Elementary School who were then featured in her work.
Central Subway Project outreach staff and their partners at the Chinatown Community Development Center wanted to ensure that all aspects of Chinese culture and art were represented in the art program that will adorn the entryway of the stations roof-top plaza. The center conducted a couplet contest that garnered 120 couplet entries from local, national and international poets. San Francisco poet, Carin Mui was selected, her couplet, a form of Chinese poetry with two lines of verse that have a joined meaning and follow a list of exacting rules reads “In the past, we traveled across the Pacific to mine for gold; Now, we break through earth to form a silver dragon.”
Artist Terry Luk paints the winning couplet for the Chinatown Central Subway Station, as composer Carin Mui, former Chinatown Community Development Center staffer Jerri Diep and former Central Subway Program Manager John Funghi look on.
The winning couplet was recently installed in the public plaza above the Chinatown – Rose Pak Station
Public art in our stations is important not only for its aesthetic or beauty, but helps draw out the identity of a space, aids in the understanding of the historic or cultural significance of a neighborhood and builds a connection between visitor and the surrounding community. It’s an important reminder of the power of art to address the complexity and diversity of neighborhoods and to maintain cultural identity in the face of rapid urban transformation.
Published February 18, 2021 at 03:54PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/virtual-parade-and-new-central-subway-art-ring-lunar-new-year