Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe

As a lover of good food, I’ve always been curious about restaurant health inspections. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a tool that makes it easy to explore Toronto’s DineSafe data.

16 Mar, 2024 — myles

Software Engineering Toronto Projects

Arc App's JSON Export to SQLite

I started working on a Dogsheep utility for processing Arc App’s Daily (or Monthly) JSON exports into a SQLite database. This provides the ability to analysis the places I visit and activities I am doing in Datasette.

9 Mar, 2024 — myles

arc-to-sqlite Arc Timeline Software Engineering Projects

😢 My Stupid Weather Twitter Profile Bot Got Suspended

My little weather-updating Twitter bot was finally suspended after seven years.

14 Apr, 2023 — myles

Software Engineering Projects

Windswept Lake Ontario from a rocky shoreline. Bare trees and red-stemmed shrubs in the foreground, whitecaps crashing against a low stone breakwater in the middle distance, the Humber Bay condo towers on the horizon under scattered clouds. — undefined

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I spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my tests weren’t failing. It turned out it was because I forgot to prepend test_ to the function 🙃.

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This is some dystopian stuff.

Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses:

Amazon is not the only company that relies on what publicists call “employee advocates.” Lizz Kannenberg, the director of brand strategy at Sprout Social, which advises companies on social media use, said that employee advocacy had developed over the last three to five years.

Bromwich, J. E. (2019, August 15)

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Template errors in Laravel are the hardest bugs to figure out.

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June Oven owners are reporting preheating incidents.

This is 100% the fault of June and not the user:

June CEO Matt Van Horn says that owners, not the oven, are at fault. “We’ve seen a few cases where customers have accidentally activated their oven preheat via a device, figure your cell phone,” he tells The Verge. “So imagine if I were to be in the June app clicking recipes and I accidentally tapped something that preheated my oven, we’ve seen a few cases of that.”

Carman, A. (2019, August 14). Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees.

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Listening to Tooth and Tail’s soundtrack by Austin Wintory gives my chores pomp and circumstance.

Port Perry park in the summer time. — undefined

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Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.

A comic book panel where the character says "Data is business. Business is war!"

Toronto park in the summer time. — undefined

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Scooter's aren't as "eco-friendly" as they claim to be

The study concludes that dockless scooters generally produce more greenhouse-gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a bicycle—or, of course, a walk.

The paper found that scooters do produce about half the emissions of a standard automobile, at around 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile compared with nearly 415. But, crucially, the researchers found in a survey of e-scooter riders in Raleigh, North Carolina, that only 34% would have otherwise used a personal car or ride-sharing service. Nearly half would have biked or walked, 11% would have taken the bus, and 7% would have simply skipped the trip.

Temple, J. (2019, August 2). Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all. Retrieved August 8, 2019, from technologyreview.com