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The Best Ways to Foster a Happy, Healthy, and Self-Sufficient City
Cities are complex and dynamic systems that affect the well-being of their inhabitants and the environment. How can we design and manage cities that are happy, healthy, and self-sufficient? In this essay, I will explore some of the best practices and examples of cities that have achieved these goals or are striving to do so,…
The benefits of a city that prioritizes active transport and transit over cars and driving
Active transport and transit are modes of travel that involve human-powered movement, such as walking, cycling, or using public transportation. These modes of travel have many benefits for the city and its residents, compared to cars and driving, which have many disadvantages. In this essay, I will discuss some of the benefits of active transport…
15-minute neighbourhoods and their benefits for prosperous healthy communities
15-minute neighbourhoods are a concept of urban planning that aims to create compact, well-connected, and diverse communities where residents can access most of their daily or weekly needs within a short walk or bike ride from their homes. The idea is to reduce car dependency, promote active transportation, improve air quality, enhance social cohesion, and…
Building a Versatile Variables Container in Excel
Microsoft 365 (and specifically Microsoft Excel) is my favourite tool when it comes to work, and also really fun to play with in my spare time as a ‘hobby’ that also helps me improve my skills. I’ve used probably dozens of different methods of storing ‘sets’ of variables for the tools and mini programs I’ve…
Wow, Flying a Kite is More Fun Than I Remember!
Today is the end of the 3rd week of my 5 weeks of parental leave from work. We’ve done lots of fun things as a family, but honestly today was one of the highlights so far! I can’t remember the last time I flew a kite but I’m sure it’s been literal decades. The feeling…
This is by far the best I’ve ever done in Pokemon Go PvP
You should be able to use TMs during Pokemon Go Community Days
I have never posted about Pokemon Go on here before, and it’s possible once I start, I’ll just never stop. However, what happened this morning hits in just the right way to scratch all my itches, and that’s what this website is about. I posted the following on Reddit last night, and for reasons I…
COVID Alert is now publicly available! [Links]
You can download the COVID Alert exposure notification app in Canada now! It’s available on the iOS App Store as well as the Google Play Store. See more details of how it works and what it looks like in my older post when I started using the beta:
Here’s What Canada’s ‘COVID Alert’ app (beta) Looks Like
[UPDATE – July 31]: The app is now publicly available. Go get it! On Wednesday, Health Canada finally released a beta (test) version of the Canadian ‘COVID Alert’ exposure notification app. I have been waiting for a couple of months to finally be able to get this set up once Apple and Google announced they…
3 Things: WFH Edition
Obviously, I would pick: Fast internet Multiple monitors Good chair