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So I had a frustrating experience at a hotel a month ago and the parking ticket ended up costing me $100. So I'm going full Karen on this... I mean realistically the average Tweet has better SEO than my blog so nobody's going to see this, but I'm a small and petty man and this is what I've got. tl;dr: The "Ottawa West" Algonquin Building R Residence and Conference Centre is a crappy place to stay…
Another letter to politicians, this time about the HSRNow web application. For background, HSRNow was a live map of all City of Hamilton buses and bus-routes on the city website. In February of 2024, the City IT infrastructure was hit by a bad ransomware attack and a tremendous amount of digital infrastructure was lost, including HSRNow.
So in a fit of pettiness, the Government of Ontario is set to wrap up bike-lanes in a 50-foot-ball of red tape to prevent their construction. I asked on Bluesky what was the best way to complain - if there was a petition I should sign or something. Craig Burley recommended I send a fax of all things. It's got a good chance of being physical media in their space, and won't just be in a slushpile of…
So the other day I sent in an e-mail to the cycling office at the City of Hamilton (as well as the relevant councilors) to request a cycling accommodation in my area. I figured I may as well include the text of the letter here as well.
Personally in the post-Muskening twitter world, I'm pulling for Mastodon , but Bluesky is a somewhat interesting platform too. One feature of Bluesky that stands out is that you can set your name to be based on a domain-name you own. I own Pxtl.ca, so I thought I'd take a crack at leveraging that feature. What follows is a guide on how to do this in Powershell, which is a programming language you…
Well, it took longer than I would've liked but I got Github CI working with this blog! Finally learned how to use Github workflows. Workflow files are here
Once again, everything is made of garbage.
What follows is the story of why I no longer go to my old pharmacy. This is recounted from memory, and some of the details may be inaccurate, but the gist is there. drops in at local pharmacy "I'm running out of my meds, can you refill them?" "Sorry, you have to come closer to refill-day, so come back Saturday." "Okay, I'll come back then." ... "Okay, it's Saturday, here to refill my meds." "...…
Okay I’ve been playing the Overwatch 2 anniversary events and considering how many of them are small-group team-vs-team things (Catch the Patchmari, Starwatch). I slept on these the first time through and playing them now I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying them, particularly StarWatch despite some of its dumber ideas (like the AI-controlled Doomfist). This has cemented my previous opinion: OW2…
i got a little carried away with this nostalgia game. I loved the old F-Zero and this remake lets you play the classic against 98 other players at once.