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To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human option for power and natural gas.

Last month we completed a trip to the States (Idaho, specifically).

To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human option for power and natural gas.

To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human options for power and natural gas.

A year ago, I wrote my thoughts about the in-progress Alberta Passenger Rail Master Plan.

To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human options for power and natural gas.

This is a continuation of series of posts on building up Strathcona Power.

This is a continuation of series of posts on building up Strathcona Power.

One Saturday morning at three, A cheese monger's shop in Paree.

I’m on a mission: I am building a boutique energy retailer to provide a human touch to our electricity and natural gas bills, and to make sure that that money get reinvested back into our community.

I am building a boutique energy retailer to provide a human touch to our electricity and natural gas bills, and to make sure that that money get reinvested back into our community.

Locally, I run a Pi-Hole to provide ad blocking on the local network1 but I also run a Docker server to which I want to forward various subdomains (which are then routed to containers using Træfik).

My server running Docker seems forever to be low on space.

After over a dozen years, I’m releasing an update to WmDOT (to v15).

Spurred by another superficial review of Paris’ push for bicycle lanes1, I decided to write out why I think so many of these takes are overly superficial, and thus fail to provide useful lessons when applied to other cities.

From an art show this weekend: Montain has no worries, yet the snow cap gives it white hair.

Perhaps in an era when everything is found on your blog via (Google) Search anyway, the disconnected nature of a digital garden doesn't loose as much against polished (and complete) blog posts as first glance would suggest.

I recently returned from a trip to France I thought I could write some observations on the contrast between French1 and Canadian2 urban forms.

This is the collection of my thoughts about the proposed/in-progress Alberta Passenger Rail Master Plan.

Meditation is a sort of barbell strategy for life.

Cool "spaceman" graffiti on a CN railcar!

Spring is in the air...or at least the chlorine is in the (spring) water

I recently had a roadtrip1 that allowed me to listen to Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel.

Flâneur (French: [flɑnœʁ]) is a French term popularized in the nineteenth-century for a type of urban male “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”.

Microblogging v1.3.0 for Pelican released!

Summary plugin for Pelican v1.3.0 released!

CommonMark Pelican reader v2.0.1!

New level of "business casual" unlocked: the bank teller today was wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap!

I’ve been intrigued by the term métis for some time.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman.

It’s been 6 years, but my genealogy website has finally been updated!

Socks possess the mysterious power, like cats, of vanishing; unlike cats, they don’t get hungry and come back. — Gwern Branwen, on Socks

I would love to know what the actual blocker to immediate global rollout [of robot cars] is. — Matt Webb In a word, snow.

Walking to church, listening to church bells 🔔, add a special delight to this Sunday morning!

Merry Christmas, from California!

I recently completed the four books of the Mortal Engines series (Mortal Engines, Predator’s Gold, Infernal Devices, and A Darkling Plain).

I recently re-read The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (the last time was in high school, for English class).

Act of Remembrance They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Today, the lastest update of minchin.jrnl was released!

Today, I do something that I should have done 5 years ago, and something that I’ve been putting off for the last 2 years1: I’m releasing a personal fork of jrnl2!

Winter is coming... the butter in the kitchen cupboards in no longer soft!

minchin.releaser v0.9.0 released with support for pyproject.toml configured projects (that lack a setup.py file). on PyPI #minchin.releaser #Releases #Python

AutoLoader is a plugin for Pelican, a static site generator written in Python.

Seafoam v2.9.1 released with even better support for microblogging!

Seafoam v2.9.0 released with support for microblogging!

I'm microblogging with Pelican!

Microblogging is a plugin for Pelican, a static site generator written in Python.

AutoLoader is a plugin for Pelican, a static site generator written in Python.

Towards the end of 2011 2021 (in the depths of Covid…), I started thinking about adding a code of conduct to my open source software projects.

This is a thought experiment, and perhaps a glimpse into the future.