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@ -102,26 +102,26 @@ defmodule PreDotHn do
EEx.eval_string(
"""
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<feed version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>pre.hn</title>
<description>Robert Prehn's personal blog.</description>
<link>https://pre.hn</link>
<atom:link href="https://pre.hn/feed.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<atom:link href="https://pre.hn/link-log/feed.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<subtitle>Robert Prehn's personal blog.</subtitle>
<link rel="alternative" type="text/html">https://pre.hn</link>
<link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml">https://pre.hn/feed.rss</link>
<%= for post <- @posts do %>
<item>
<entry>
<title><%= HtmlSanitizeEx.strip_tags(post.title) %></title>
<description>
<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en"
xml:base="https://pre.hn/"><![CDATA[<html><body>
<%= post.body %>
</body></html>]]>
</description>
<pubDate><%= rss_date_format.(post.date) %></pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="true"><%= @base %><%= post.slug %>/</guid>
</item>
<published><%= rss_date_format.(post.date) %></published>
<id><%= @base %><%= post.slug %>/</id>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html"><%= @base %><%= post.slug %>/</link>
</entry>
<% end %>
</channel>
</rss>
</feed>
""",
assigns: assigns,
rss_date_format: &rss_date_format/1

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lib/pre_dot_hn/link_log.ex
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@ -28,26 +28,25 @@ defmodule PreDotHn.LinkLog do
EEx.eval_string(
"""
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<feed version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>pre.hn - Links</title>
<description>Robert Prehn's Link Log</description>
<link>https://pre.hn/link-log/</link>
<atom:link href="https://pre.hn/link-log/feed.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<subtitle>Robert Prehn's Link Log</subtitle>
<link rel="alternative" type="text/html">https://pre.hn/link-log/</link>
<link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml">https://pre.hn/link-log/feed.rss</link>
<%= for link <- @links do %>
<item>
<entry>
<title><%= Map.get(link, "emoji", "🔗") %> <%= HtmlSanitizeEx.strip_tags(link["name"]) %></title>
<description><![CDATA[<html><body>
<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en"
xml:base="https://pre.hn/"><![CDATA[<html><body>
<%= PreDotHn.Markdown.render(link["summary"]) %>
</body></html>]]>
</description>
<link><%= link["url"] %></link>
<guid isPermaLink="true"><%= link["url"] %></guid>
</item>
</content>
<id>tag:pre.hn,<%= link["url"] %></id>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html"><%= link["url"] %></link>
</entry>
<% end %>
</channel>
</rss>
</feed>
""",
assigns: assigns
)

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site/link-log.yaml
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- url: https://summereternal.com/#manifesto
name: "Summer Eternal: Manifesto"
summary: |
Some of the people behind Disco Elysium have formed a new co-op to make new games and their
manifesto rules. You can tell this was written by BAFTA-winning writers.
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFyk5UOyNqI
name: "Joseph Cox: Def Con 32 - Inside the FBI’s Secret Encrypted Phone Company ‘Anom’"
summary: |

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---
title: The Answer to Affordable Housing is Not Shanty Towns
---
["Office-to-residential conversions are tough. Could dorm-style co-living be the answer?"](https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/office-coliving-space-conversion-pew-gensler-report/730559/)
I read a lot about urbanism, city planning, and the affordable housing crisis. I get frustrated a lot with the so-called solutions proposed by housing technocrats. Can tiny houses solve the affordable housing crisis? Can ADUs solve the housing crisis? Can co-living dorms solve the affordable housing crisis? There must be a dozen new articles published every day, with the same premise: should people struggling to be housed merely accept less housing as a "solution"?
It's frustrating because we already have tested solutions to affordable housing that give good results, but we don't use them: rent control, public housing, and vacancy taxes. We don't use them because landlords gripe when we use them. And city managers and planning boards think of landlords as their constituency, to the exclusion of _everyone else_ who lives in their city.
There's an unquestioned assumption in this line of thinking and it is this: profit margins for landlords and developers cannot fall. Or if it is allowed to fall in some areas, it must be done in a limited way and subsidized as heavily as possible
to minimize the impact on our city's dear precious landed gentry. Real estate profit margins are the biggest cause of the affordability crisis, so to treat them as an untouchable constant instead of an inefficiency to be minimized means we can never really have affordable housing.
The cost of housing is driven by a few main variables: the size and quality of that housing, the cost of materials and land, the cost of labor, and the profit margins demanded by real estate "investors." Labor in housing construction is as squeezed as humanly possible already. Land and material prices naturally increase every year. What's left is profit margins at one end and size and quality at the other. If you are trying to drive down housing prices while never touching profit margins, there's only one possible option left: worse housing. And thus, we get the stories about how maybe if people were just content to cram a family of four into a 200 square foot tiny house, maybe there wouldn't be an affordable housing crisis. Or maybe if that family would be content to live in a repurposed office cubicle without their own kitchen or bathroom, there wouldn't be an affordable housing crisis. Notice how that Smart Cities Dive piece (and the report it is based on) treats falling profit margins for office tower landlords as the main problem to which dorm conversions are the solution (which happens to produce housing almost as an afterthought.)
And yes, American single-family homes are extremely bloated. No, it's not bad to be mindful about your consumption habits and maybe make due with less unnecessary stuff. But I think that should be a societal change and a choice that families make. I don't think families should be forced into accepting less because the only other option is houselessness. How about landlords learn to "live with less", since they already have more than they need?
Personally, if we're running "radical" "experiments" in housing, I have one I'd like to run: ban real estate as an investment vehicle. Make it illegal for a business to own a unit of housing. Forbid any household from owning more than _maybe_ two units at a time.
Affordable housing shouldn't just be about housing that is marginally affordable and marginally housing. I won't call this crisis as resolved until affordable housing is _good_: affordable, but also safe, dignified, and suitable for its residents.

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---
title: The Answer to Affordable Housing is Not Shanty Towns
---
["Office-to-residential conversions are tough. Could dorm-style co-living be the answer?"](https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/office-coliving-space-conversion-pew-gensler-report/730559/)
I read a lot about urbanism, city planning, and the affordable housing crisis. I get frustrated a lot with the so-called solutions proposed by housing technocrats. Can tiny houses solve the affordable housing crisis? Can ADUs solve the housing crisis? Can co-living dorms solve the affordable housing crisis? There must be a dozen new articles published every day, with the same premise: should people struggling to be housed merely accept less housing as a "solution"?
It's frustrating because we already have tested solutions to affordable housing that give good results, but we don't use them: rent control, public housing, and vacancy taxes. We don't use them because landlords gripe when we use them. And city managers and planning boards think of landlords as their constituancy, to the exclusion of _everyone else_ who lives in their city.
There's an unquestioned assumption in this line of thinking and it is this: profit margins for landlords and developers cannot fall. Or if it is allowed to fall in some areas, it must be done in a limited way and subsidized as heavily as possible
to minimize the impact on our city's dear precious landed gentry. Real estate profit margins are the biggest cause of the affordability crisis, so to treat them as an untouchable constant instead of an inefficiency to be minimized means we can never really have affordable housing.
If you treat profit margins as something that must never decrease, while the cost of materials and land are naturally creeping up year after year and you have already squeezed construction labor as much as possible, and while you are still trying to reduce the cost of housing, there's only one lever left to pull: worse housing. And thus, we get the stories about how maybe if people were just content to cram a family of four into a 200 square foot tiny house, maybe there wouldn't be an affordable housing crisis. Or maybe if that family would be content to live in a repurposed cubicle without their own kitchen or bathroom, there wouldn't be an affordable housing crisis. Notice how that Smart Cities Dive piece (and the report it is based on) treats falling profit margins for office tower landlords as the main problem to which dorm conversions are the solution (which happen to produce housing almost as an afterthought.)
And yes, American single-family homes are extremely bloated. Yes, it's not bad to be mindful about your consumption habits and maybe make due with less unnecessary stuff. But I think that should be a societal change and a choice that families make. I don't think families should be forced accepting less because the only other option is houselessness. How about landlords learn to "live with less", since they already have more than they need?
Personally, if we're running "radical" "experiments" in housing, I have one I'd like to run: ban real estate as an investment vehicle. Make it illegal for a business to own a unit of housing. Forbid any household from owning more than _maybe_ two units at a time.
Affordable housing shouldn't just be about housing that is marginally affordable and marginally housing. I won't call this crisis as resolved until affordable housing is _good_: affordable, but also safe, dignified, and suitable for its residents.

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---
title: These League of Legends Hype Videos Rule
---
I don't know the first thing about League of Legends, but the YouTube Algorithm knows that I'm a big fan of the musical theme I call "music about cool dudes being cool", so it recommended this video to me:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5FrhtahQiRc?si=xpb6dDLA_f2gAPv1" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Apparently, each year Riot commissions an animated hype music video for LoL Worlds. I love this concept. This year's video features players who will be playing in the championship as characters from the game. Apparently, the fights depicted in the video are based on things that happened in important competitive League matches this year. This rules! So good! And when the guy opens the castle doors and throws off his cloak, I *knew* that he was some big deal dude.
Yeah, I looked it up. His name is Faker, and he has been called "the Michael Jordan of League of Legends." I love how well they sell that he's hot shit.
And you can't beat butt rock legends Linkin Park. Heavy is the Crown indeed.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/C3GouGa0noM?si=Zs2_mfhvwoz9Nmdg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And here's the 2023 video, which tells the story of Deft, who apparently *went to the same high school as Faker*, but had a slower burn rise into competitive LoL. It tells the story of the ups and downs of his career. Through the arc of the video, you can see Deft move from team to team, as friends become enemies become friends again. They sell Deft as a guy who got to be one of the best in the world by being a guy who would *never quit.*
As a person who has never watched League of Legends, and doesn't understand anything about it beyond "it's a MOBA and it's the biggest game in the world", this makes me want to watch LoL Worlds, and, god help me, it make me want to *play League*. Bravo to Riot and their animators!