#public swimming pool

[huariqueje]

Public Pool Spandau Nord - Eline Brontsema , 2024.

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 71.2 x 47.9 cm. Ed. 23.

[wizard-legs]

I hate Justin McElroy for validating my lifelong fear of invisible ocean creatures in my pool with the ‘glass shark’ bit, because now every time I am in ANY body of water I have to act like I’m not afraid of Glass Shark so it can’t smell my very real fear

[arc-hus]

Češča Vas Pool Complex, Novo Mesto, Slovenia - ENOTA

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Kids seen enjoying the East 23d Street Pool on July 3, 1955.

Photo: Art Whittaker for the NY Daily News

[a3sth3tica]

[sluggoonthestreet]

In the Farley's defense, his fetching expectations far exceeded Sluggo's throwing arm.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

okay but this was an insane slay i cannot lie

[maxphotoarchive]

August 13, 2024

[huariqueje]

Stadtbad Tempelhof - Eline Brontsema , 2025.

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 71.6 x 49 cm. Ed. 23.

[leenfiend]

it’s getting warmer so have keith and lance the summer before college getting up to summertime shenanigans or something 

[wyervan]

drempt about your bois. . .

though. . . my brain wasnt focused on the slasher thing.

it took place at a swimming pool. a very gross swimming pool. I was chilling in the corner and they swam over. . . but after only exchanging a simple greeting i wouldnt stop diving to the bottom of the pool to ensure i didnt say something stupid to them.

used my wet hair as a barrier any time i came up for air. ‘out of sight out of mind.’ cant embarrass myself in front of the hansom dudes if i cant see them.

Damn i think this is the second time someone’s mentioned dreaming about them? Some sorta brainrot fungus going around…

Don’t worry about saying smth embarrassing to Sun and Moon. They would probably be the ones to say something so stupid you’d wish to stay at the bottom of the pool. Actin’ like they’ve been drinking the pool water….

[arc-hus]

Rocha Sesc 24 de Maio, Sao Paulo - Paulo Mendes da Rocha

[doubleunion]

The making of the SF family swim map!

This is a technical blog post showcasing a project (swim.joyfulparentingsf.com) made by Double Union members! Written by Ruth Grace Wong.

Emeline (a good friend and fellow DU member) and I love swimming with our kids. The kids love it too, and they always eat really well after swimming! But for a long time we were frustrated about SF Rec & Park's swim schedules. Say today is Wednesday and you want to swim, you have to click on each pool's website and download their PDF schedule to check where and when family swim is available, and the schedules change every few months.

Emeline painstakingly downloaded all the PDFs and manually collated the schedules onto our Joyful Parenting SF blog. The way Rec and Parks structure their schedule assumes that swimmers go to their closest pool, and only need the hours for that particular pool. But we found that this was different from how many families, especially families with young children, research swim times. Often, they have a time where they can go swimming, and they are willing to go to different swimming pools. Often, they’re searching for a place to swim at the last minute. Schedules hence need to allow families to search which pools are open at what time for family swimming. Initially, we extracted family swim times manually from each pool’s pdf schedule and listed them in a blog post. It wasn't particularly user friendly, so she made an interactive map using Felt, where you could select the time period (e.g. Saturday Afternoon) and see which pool offered family swim around that time.

But the schedules change every couple of months, and it got to be too much to be manually updating the map or the blog post. Still, we wanted some way to be able to easily see when and where we could swim with the kids.

Just as we were burning out on manually updating the list, SF Rec & Park released a new Activity Search API, where you can query scheduled activities once their staff have manually entered them into the system. I wrote a Python script to pull Family Swim, and quickly realized that I had to also account for Parent and Child swim (family swim where the parents must be in the water with the kids), and other versions of this such as "Parent / Child Swim". Additionally, the data was not consistent – sometimes the scheduled activities were stored as sub activities, and I had to query the sub activity IDs to find the scheduled times. Finally, some pools (Balboa and Hamilton) have what we call "secret swim", where if the pool is split into a big and small pool, and there is Lap Swim scheduled with nothing else at the same time, the small pool can be used for family swim. So I also pulled all of the lap swim entries for these pools and all other scheduled activities at the pool so I could cross reference and see when secret family swim was available.

We've also seen occasional issues where there is a swim scheduled in the Activity Search, but it's a data entry error and the scheduled swim is not actually available, or there's a Parent Child Swim scheduled during a lap swim (but not all of the lap swims so I can't automatically detect it!) that hasn't been entered into the Activity Search at all. Our friends at SF Kids Swim have been working with SF Rec & Park to advocate for the release of the API, help correct data errors, and ask if there is any opportunity for process improvement.

At the end of the summer, Felt raised their non profit rate from $100 a year to $250 a year. We needed to pay in order to use their API to automatically update the map, but we weren't able to raise enough money to cover the higher rate. Luckily, my husband Robin is a full stack engineer specializing in complex frontends such as maps, and he looked for an open source WebGL map library. MapBox is one very popular option, but he ended up going with MapLibre GL because it had a better open source license. He wrote it in Typescript transpiled with Vite, allowing all the map processing work to happen client-side. All I needed to do was output GeoJSON with my Python script.

Originally I had been running my script in Replit, but I ended up deciding to switch to Digital Ocean because I wasn't sure how reliably Replit would be able to automatically update the map on a schedule, and I didn't know how stable their pricing would be. My regular server is still running Ubuntu 16, and instead of upgrading it (or trying to get a newer version of Python working on an old server or – god forbid – not using the amazing new Python f strings feature), I decided to spin up a new server on Almalinux 9, which doesn't require as frequent upgrades. I modified my code to automatically push updates into version control and recompile the map when schedule changes were detected, ran it in a daily cron job, and we announced our new map on our blog.

Soon we got a request for it to automatically select the current day of the week, and Robin was able to do it in a jiffy. If you're using it and find an opportunity for improvement, please find me on Twitter at ruthgracewong.

As a working mom, progress on this project was stretched out over nearly half a year. I'm grateful to be able to collaborate with the ever ineffable Emeline, as well as for support from family, friends, and SF Kids Swim. It's super exciting that the swim map is finally out in the world! You can find it at swim.joyfulparentingsf.com.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The wading pool, Carmansville Playground, July 1935. Carmansville was an old name for the West Side neighborhood extending from 140th Street, just north of City College, to 158th Street. The area is now known as Hamilton Heights (southern part) and Sugar Hill (northern part).

This new era of active recreation was thanks to the Departments of Parks harnessing the labor force of the Works Progress Administration, which employed millions of jobless people to carry out public works projects.

Photo: NYC Parks Dep't via the Daily Mail

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