mastodon 4.7.3In July, #BluesfestVolunteer in charge of #OttBikePark. #Centretown, #Ottawa municipal (#OttPoli), & cycling (#OttBike) issues. Likes puns. Claps on 2 and 4. He/him.
Holy shit am I ever done with Shopify now!
It appears they added their "Shop" app to my store on April 10, unbeknownst to me, which bypasses any product/variant access restrictions I have configured! They just gave away a bunch of my product for free!!!
Fuck them. I'm so glad we're already working on migrating away from Shopify. Can't come soon enough!
Jeff Leiper has formally registered to run for mayor of #Ottawa! Sign up to volunteer/donate/take a sign here!
Jeff is the hardest working person on council. He pays attention to details while finding pragmatic solutions to problems in the city and pushing for more transparency and common sense. End the decline, vote Jeff for Mayor!
New on my blog: When car parking becomes bike parking http://centretown.blogspot.com/2026/05/when-car-parking-becomes-bike-parking.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Interesting. This unattributed article (correctly imo) frames the NCC Weekend Bike Days as "opening" the parkways to active transportation rather than "closing" it to cars. #OttBike
Better hadline: "BIA that pushed hard for closure of supervised consumption site worries about open drug use in their neighbourhood"
He even mentions the nearby LRT station that will be open in a year, yet because it's not more parking there's "no solution". Any parking lot expansion will not be ready before LRT West opens, and likely will reduce parking demand.
The previous tenant of that site, Nortel, had a Transportation Demand Management program to help people bus, bike, and carpool to work. Why must every solution require everybody to drive their own car?
I just but the bullet and got rid of my legacy Teksavvy internet plan.
My new plan is also with Teksavvy. It has higher speeds, with the catch that it costs the same amount as my old plan. :P
New expletive released:
I asked my barber if he could put soil in my hair and he just gave me a dirty look
FFS the Ottawa Citizen is regurgitating official stats again. They acknowledge the comparison is BS, but report it as fact anyway:
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/city-hall-security-incidents
How about total foot traffic to City Hall? Has that declined too? Attendance in the Council and committee galleries?
I, for one, haven't even tried going to City Hall because I'm sure my bike tools will be classified as "dangerous". What am I going to do? Leave my "dangerous" equipment on my bike where it can be stolen?
Shopify wants me to change the CNAME records on my domain so they can continue to send my store's email notifications from my domain.
Only they didn't bother to tell me before making this change and I only found out because my admin notifications for new orders stopped filtering out of my inbox.
I find this out on a Friday at 3:30pm, and I will have to retry authenticating my domain multiple times over the weekend once the DNS updates have hopefully propagated.
Ew ew ew ew ew!
Councillor Johnson (not Gower) is proposing a motion at next week's PH Committee to waive $2,487 in permit fees to allow struggling indie business (/s) IKEA to put up a 3-storey digital driver distraction sign on one of the largest commercial walls in #Ottawa.
A small sign that the City of Ottawa might actually be starting to heal from decades of institutional decline.