Show HN: Postcard Bot – Send Any Photo as a Postcard with a Text Message Hey HN! This is a fun little project that I built over a weekend back in 2016, and then as life happened I let it dwindle and die. Per request from friends and family, I’ve brought it back to life. Check it out if you want! It’s surprisingly fun receiving physical postcards in the mail. I’ve also got WhatsApp integration and some more fun things in the works, so stay tuned! https://ift.tt/fio7b2q March 8, 2023 at 06:25AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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