Director of Bike Winnipeg. Staff Software Engineer at 1Password. ❤️ biking in one great city. he/him
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Michael Abon
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What began as an offhand comment in a conversation about Winnipeg’s upcoming municipal election has grown into a new initiative dedicated to getting more residents engaged with city hall.
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China.
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Hello Rubyist. Working hard all day is great, but maybe it's time to cool down. New in RubyGems/Bundler 4.0.13:
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An analogy:
Reducing deaths per mile driven is like reducing cancer deaths among smokers. Laudable, but an incomplete strategy.
Public health leaders strive to *reducing smoking,* not just treating smokers with cancer.
We should apply the same logic to road safety.
Some bike parties have volunteer corkers and then others have professional road crews!
Bicycles are hugely space efficient, which is why they make a lot of sense in congested cities.
This video demonstrates why there aren’t traffic jams in bike lanes.
Just imagine the traffic queues if every bicycle here was a car.
F1 commentator: “—and 7-time Canadian GP winner here Lewis Hamilton—“
Me, reflexively: “8-time”
in honor of Destiny 2 i must share my favorite tweet ever that i can only find now by searching my Discord DMs with @lazerwalker.com