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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The public library hosted Cory Doctorow for a talk. It sold out a massive theatre and overflowed its bike rack on a dark, chilly Autumn evening. This is reinvigorating my faith in humanity. #yeg #edmonton

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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@bikeedmonton.bsky.social has a letter writing tool if you'd like to let the Transportation Minister know how you feel about bike lanes. bikeedmonton.ca/bikelanes #yegbike

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In Defense of Bike Lanes — Bike Edmonton

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

So while "use UTC internally and local time for display" is often good advice, as a Dutchman living in Canada, you get to notice the cases where it isn't. Like if my birth date is the seventh of the month, don't show it to me as the sixth because our clocks run behind yours. #coding #software

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Actively snowing and -12 in broad daylight. Meteorological Spring? My ass! Anyhow, #yegbike wise it's not bad as the snow is fluffy and you cut right through. Presumably it won't be cold and snowing long enough to build the sort of rutted ice cake that can […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

#yegbike bike lane clearing: This morning, 96 St in Delton and 119 Ave in Alberta Avenue were cleared. 96 St in McCauley was not (but no problem riding the road there).

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

#yegbike wise things were very decent today. Went for my first longer ride since the Tuesday snowdump. From Delton to Victoria Park and back. Most non-priority bike lanes are not yet cleared but residential streets are very well packed. Love the winter wonderland with a blue sky and a February […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Winter Bike To Work Day (Fri Feb 13) is going to have no less than five (or even six, including the afternoon) coffee and snack stations across inner city Edmonton: yegbike.info/events#calendar-973a5d… . It's making […]

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caseychoma @3fc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Perfect conditions for a spiked tire coffee run. Add on the lack of cars on the icy roads and it was ideal! #winterbiking #icebiking

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Wait, what is this staple of Chinese-Indonesian-Dutch cuisine doing in a Chinese street food joint in Alberta? Even with the Dutch colonial spelling of "ulek".

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

While riding my bike I saw someone rollerblade by Churchill Square. It looked like it was for transportation. #yegbike

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Today's #yegbike news from me is that the 96 St bike lane in Delton is now cleared. It's very icy but more ridable than the 96 St roadway (but less so than the 97 St service road probably). Still some junk in the lane near 119 Ave which I reported to 311.

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Alright #yegbike, it's fabulous studded tire winter biking out there. Surfaces all firmly icy, sunny, not cold, not too warm. I encountered 3 windrows or slushpools frozen in place on my way from Delton northeast to Miller but don't let those spoil the fun.

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

#yegbike winter report (Delton - Alberta Avenue - Dutch Delicious - Italian Centre): residential streets not getting better with the thaw. 96 St in McCauley finally done. They started clearing 96 St in Delton, did the first block north of 119 Ave and abandoned it working on the block north of […]

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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

As the weather warms, we hope the City will send out crews to scrape the bike lanes to pavement so that they aren't a slushy/icy mess. Please share reports as you move about the city #yegbike! Lots of lanes still haven't been cleared & we hope those get done, including curb cuts! #yegsnowstories

A photo of 121 st and 106 ave, showing an uncleared curb cut that connects to a multi-use path.

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caseychoma @3fc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Two days in a row of primo winter cycling weather. Just cold and hard enough with big sun, and a bit of warmth. #wintercycling

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Winter #yegbike report, Delton - Victoria Park: bike lanes cleared along 119 Ave around 92 St and downtown grid except 107 St between 100 Ave and 99 Ave. 96 St in Delton and McCauley still not done. Most residential streets are now packed down and rideable, with just the occasional snirtpool […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

#yegbike report based on Delton - Sherbrooke: things are still hard but improving. Residential streets still all brown sugar in Westwood but getting more packed elsewhere. Still better on the sidewalk; those all clear now. Most bike lanes & MUPs done (Kingsway, Blatchford - NAIT MUP that's not […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

#yegbike report from Delton - Constable Ezio Faraone Park and back: residential streets very, very difficult with heaps of slush. Sidewalks mostly slowly rideable but you have to walk the bike when crossing intersections. MUPs and bike lanes outside downtown core were not cleared. I vehicular […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Today is my second anniversary as a Dutchman living in #Canada as a Treaty 6 settler. Yes, they're addicted to big vehicles and endless parking lots here, it gets bitterly cold, and dealing with bureaucracies seems clunkier here. But let me also note that moving from The #Netherlands to […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

The best #poutine in #edmonton #yeg is served by foreign big box store chains Costco and IKEA. Prove me wrong.

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

#yegbike report: 96 St in Delton, 119 Ave in Alberta Avenue, 96 St in McCauley, LRT trail and downtown grid all clear. Somebody's been working hard there on Christmas Day! They seem to realize that clearing to the hard surface underneath wasn't working where the hard surface is ice. They leave […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

The #yegbike report this evening: biking is marginally faster than walking in Delton; around Pleasantview it is not. This is probably because the higher density and narrower streets in Delton make the snow get packed faster. Also, the bluegrass jam that had […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Handsharpied note on door saying that the bluegrass jam is cancelled.

Lonely snowman in virgin snow along a MUP near Pleasant view.

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Decommissioned my Axa bike headlight after it lit my way for some 13 years, in places from Morocco to Russia to what might be North America's northernmost kebab joint in Inuvik, NWT. I cut off the branch cable for the rear light at first. Later I did get a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bike headlight on a wooden table. The lamp has two two-stranded electronic cables sticking out. One of the four strands has come loose from the connector that attaches it to the headlight.

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

I am professionally impressed by the IKEA Kitchen Planner tool. Building things like this is what I imagined software developers did when I was a teenager, before I knew it's really all about calling someone else's API by copy-pasting code from LLMs (or StackOverflow before that).

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

A pet work peeve of mine is user stories where the persona and the want are mismatched, like "As a customer I want to see the ToS" instead of "As company's lawyer I want customers to have accepted the ToS". But are these actually harmful? Would I be helpful or pedantic to advocate for the […]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

In the competitive league of bland Northwest European lunch cuisines, the Dutch may well take the prize with their plain cheese sandwiches. The only permissible way to spice things up is to toast them and add some sambal ulek, an Indonesian ground chili […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

[uspol] What I don't see called out enough that Jimmy Kimmel's comments were not so much about Charlie Kirk's murderer but rather about the Trump administration and its supporters. And that makes the whole affair a lot worse.

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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

Potato harvest 2025 #gardening #canada #alberta #yeg. Top left is wounded taters for immediate use. Bottom left some specialty variety, forgot which exactly. Top centre & right are Nicola, bottom centre & right are Yukon Gold.

6 buckets with potatoes and a shallot in the top left one, on a deck, looking from above.

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