iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 08/09/2026

! @calgary.ca has added the clock to the bottom left of their video feed. That makes things so much easier to correlate outside of the video stream. #yyccc

Partial screenshot of a webstream of Calgary City Council. Item 4.1 is in the bottom thirds with 10:36 (the time when it was recorded) is in the bottom left.

010

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 29/08/2026

Looks like the sinkholes on 12th Ave are finally getting looked at. The abhorrent lack of detour is back too. #yycbike

A piss poor excuse of a detours where lanes are closed and construction asks people using a mobility lane to dismount and use the partially obstructed sidewalk.

Sidewalk showing a roughly 1m uneven access between a building and a tree due to poor detour and construction management

2102

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 28/08/2026

Om nom nom potato quality eclipse shot.

Partial eclipse over a residential skyscraper in Calgary, AB. Poor quality given its digitally zoomed in on an iPhone

020

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 19/08/2026

… so that whole ask Google to tweet like my Bluesky username? It’s a painfully accurate depiction of what I’ve used time to post about. Also about how challenging our current council is. #yycbike

020

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 09/06/2026

Digging Helsinki’s bike infra. Stairs at a gentler grade with ramps that allow you to push trikes up/down? Yes please

The Baana in Helsinki. Showing a bike path and walking path below street level with parked scooters on the right in a parking zone. Two cyclists are coming towards the camera.

Showing someone pushing a bicycle up a ramp on stairs.

Viewing a tunnel where the Baana goes underneath a roadway. Cyclists and pedestrians are silhouetted.

120

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 15/01/2026

Heads up #yycbike - extremely dangerous 12 ave lane closure at 14th St. No signage eastbound - just a plastic barrier. Westbound says to use sidewalk and has the immediate sidewalk closed. Unacceptably bad detour. @calgary.ca @natefor8.bsky.social #yyccc

4148

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 07/01/2026

... I guess I use Overcast a fair amount.... mathias.blog/tools/overcast H/T: bsky.app/profile/math...

Screenshot from the linked application analyzing the usage of podcast application Overcast. In 2025, 1466 episodes were started, 1451 finished, 9 starred, 64 different podcasts, with a total listening time of 333 days.

110

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 02/12/2025

Looking forward to having to pay $4/trip next year for this… (no, no I’m not. It’s deplorable to pay so much for so little) #yyccc #yyctransit

260

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 16/09/2025

iOS 26’s new changing photo lock screen is rather nice.

iOS lock screen showing a photo of the Peace Bridge in Calgary with the time (21:03) nicely overlaid over the sky but behind the bridge.

000

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 11/09/2025

7-2 TWT, 9-2 Friday and Saturday. Always happy for an excuse to say hi!

Sunalta Coffee shop we’re open sign on 10th ave at sunrise with the coffee shop and the Calgary Tower in the background

Plant and coffee on an orange table across 10th Ave from the Sunalta CTrain station

021

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 30/08/2025

… I feel tired and depressed pointing to the sign, because so many folks don’t (intentional or not) put cause and effect together. To the staff and candidates in #yyccc who do… I can not express my appreciation enough.

Simpsons meme where the bus driver states “Don’t make tap the sign”. The sign in this meme says “System working as designed” to help communicate the attempt by politicians to show their lack of agency in a system they have helped create.

Lastly a please help because it requires effort of the people to make our systems not suck.

040

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 27/08/2025

The whole changeover with Freedom Mobile's internet offering from their resold Shaw service to whatever this is with Videotron has been a peach. Can not recommend avoiding like the plague more. #yyc

110

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 24/08/2025

This front plate to go on a Brommie luggage block is going to be awfully useful. (Zip tie a basket? Bungie odd shaped item) Found at Blue Lug in Tokyo, made by Nitto.

010

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 26/07/2025

Heads up #yycbike - 12th ave cycle track completely closed between 4th and 5th Street without a detour or detour signage. Not seen in the picture is that the sidewalk is completely closed once past the access driveway. #yyccc

The 12th Avenue cycle track is shown closed without a detour and the only on road option to go into oncoming traffic.

2105

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 27/06/2025

“May you always be one for the books”

000

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 27/06/2025

It most definitely does not hurt when your city has invested in public infra. (Non hostile architecture! Programming the external spaces - karaoke today) #investinpeopleyoucowards

121

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 24/05/2025

For any other #yyccoffee nerds - Monagram’s Quebraditas beans are amazing. The tasting notes of mango and passionfruit aren’t kidding around.

000

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 13/05/2025

Gates are still closed but the glacier called June is gone! South side bow river pathway is rideable. #yycbike

2111

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 15/12/2024

… also that they have to go higher than the +15 to get over the CPR mainline. Solvable but a challenge. The 10th Ave station likely makes that even more of a challenge. (Eg. 25m up requires 400m to climb) www.calgary.ca/content/dam/... #yyccc

Screenshot of bridge guidelines linked in post. Highlights the minimum height requirements for vehicular bridges over federal rail.

“Vertical clearance over the federal railways shall be minimum 7.16 m (or 23 feet, 6 inches) above the base of the rail.
Vertical clearance over LRT tracks shall be a minimum 6.0 m above the top of rail.”

010

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 12/12/2024

Rather glad you can turn off showing the contact photo circle beside emails in iOS 18.2. Especially when 99% of the email you get has an auto generated categorization photo.

Screenshot showing where to turn off contact photos in Mail. System Settings, then Apps, then Mail. Scroll down the Message List section and turn off Show Contact Photos.

000

Micheal J @chealion.ca · 13/11/2024

It’s definitely #cybersummit24 - but this year we’re not sticking with only the hotel coffee.

3 sets of coffee brewing equipment, making coffee

010