📝 Monday, Jun 8, 2026
← All Quick Notes
🚗 Commute Tracker — Live Traffic Fix
- Google Routes API was rejecting
"departureTime": "now" — needs a proper RFC 3339 future timestamp
- Fixed with
date -u -d '+2 minutes' (+ staticDuration field to capture free-flow vs traffic split)
- Switched to
TRAFFIC_AWARE_OPTIMAL to match Google Maps client’s routing
- At 8:41 AM: API estimated 57.7 min vs David’s Google Maps 56 min — 1.7 min off, confirmed live traffic
- Free-flow time: ~40.4 min → 17+ min of traffic delay on the reverse commute
Data Points Collected
| Time | Dir | Traffic | Free-flow | Delay |
|---|
| 8:36 AM | Work→Home | 48.7 min | — | — |
| 8:43 AM | Work→Home | 46.0 min | 44.6 min | 1.4 min |
| 8:41 AM | Home→Work | 57.7 min | 40.4 min | 17.3 min |
- Deployed to riginski.org/commute/commute-times
🧠 Ideas & Notes
- First entry in the Quick Notes section — prompted by David wanting a daily scratchpad
- If you tell me to remember something or share an idea, it goes here under today’s date
🧠 Extended Memory Vault
- Proposed creating
content/hermes-memory/ — an Obsidian vault section as extended memory
- Topic pages (user profile, infra, commute, workflows) with progressive disclosure via linked notes
- Memory slot would shrink to just a pointer; vault index loaded at session start, topic pages on demand
- Avoids 2,200 char ceiling, token cost scales with query specificity, not total vault size