It’s been a while since I’ve posted something here, and looking through the side projects published here, many of them are no longer alive. But one of my them has stayed running for just over 15 years now: my T-Comm live bus map and tracker. This website, which I created while I was still studying in university, visualizes the location of all of TransLink’s buses together on one map. Last week, I upgraded T-Comm’s mapping engine from Leaflet to MapLibre GL, marking the third version of the map in the site’s history. The original version, from 2012-2016, used Google Maps. Continue Reading
Vancouver, Canada
Articles about my hometown, Vancouver, B.C.
Switching from Telus Fibre to Novus Home Internet Service
When I moved into my condo in Vancouver, the only fibre internet provider for the building was Telus. However, earlier this year, Novus installed their infrastructure in the building. And last month, I made the switch from Telus to Novus. Novus is a Vancouver-based company that started providing fibre internet to condo buildings primarily in the downtown core, but over the years they have slowly expanded outside the peninsula to cover many more condo buildings throughout Metro Vancouver. I was paying $70/month for Telus’s 1Gbps fibre internet service, but Novus’s offer was $50/month. Even though I had 8 months left Continue Reading
The Sea to Sky Gondola
I last blogged about the Sea to Sky Gondola after its first incident where its haul rope was maliciously cut in the middle of the night. (It was also unfortunately cut a second time the following year, but fortunately, there have been no incidents since then.) Despite being open on the Sea to Sky since 2014, I never found the opportunity to visit the attraction. This Christmas season, Grouse Mountain gave its passholders a special perk: free admission to the Sea to Sky Gondola. This was due to a lack of snow on Grouse Mountain, where passholders would normally be Continue Reading
The Mountain Ropes Adventure on Grouse Mountain
Yesterday on my day off work, taking advantage of the sunny weather I made a day-of booking for the Mountain Ropes Adventure up on Grouse Mountain. My annual pass included one tour for free, so I wanted to take advantage of it before they close down the summer season. I was impressed with the entire ropes course. I was expecting that, thinking it was catering to kids and tourists, the course would be super easy, but it turned out to be enough of a challenge (at least for someone like me who’s not athletic or super fit), especially the advanced Continue Reading
The Burrard Chinook
Yesterday was the first day the Burrard Chinook (TransLink’s newest SeaBus) was put into revenue service.
The Chinook has a unique livery consisting of art from the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations communities and showcases the Chinook salmon within the ecosystem as well as First Nations cultures.