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Brad
@613brad.bsky.social
📍Ottawa, Canada
🔗 bradarsenault.com
🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 (he/him)

Tech / Urbanism
Views are my own.
We don’t just need nation-building projects, we need to build excitement for new projects! Bring back the culture of hosting banquets in the new projects.

Make new projects an ✨experience✨ for influencers and the public. The victorians had the right idea on this.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_...
September 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It makes sense my MP is still advertising that she’s on Elon’s app
July 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yup summer commuter traffic is back 🙃
May 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Still thinking about how Ottawa airport’s O-Train station has airport seats (left in the below pic)

That’s a good touch.

One more opportunity to sit in the airport benches.
May 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Single detached #OttawaRE under $600k is a recession indicator, right?
May 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
9. Backyard fire tables
April 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Line 1 opened in 2019 with small(er) LRT vehicles (trams/streetcars). It’s now the backbone of Ottawa’s public transit system.

I moved to an apartment on Line 1 just before it opened in 2019 because I could take the train to work - a poor choice given Line 1’s tumultuous launch and early months.
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Last weekend I rode the recently reopened/upgraded O-Train Line 2. It was awesome!
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
*wiggles eyes to dismiss screensaver*
April 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I always enjoy the thoughtful points made on The Missing Middle podcast (@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social and Sabrina Maddeaux) and this week’s was no exception. This week: the Canadian election.

“Scarcity vs precarity” sums up a lot of what I’ve been feeling and hearing.

overcast.fm/+ABD0ZYlRZew...
March 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This would sell SO WELL in so many 🇨🇦 cities
* There are 3 joined buildings (see 3 roofs)
* Each building has a 1-bed/1-bath on ground (w/ back garden) & a 3-bed/2-bath unit above (w/ rooftop patio)
March 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#optimism

8. Campfires
March 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
7. Summer festivals with *excellent* live music (Orleans Beer Fest, Bluesfest, ...)
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Their wifi (and cellular and volume and ...) indicator iconography are well done too.
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is actually too good.
March 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The SF Symbols library (developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/) is a crazy developer resource. Every platform should expose useful UI/iconography building blocks like this.

As a bonus: you *can* copy-paste these symbols into Keynote, Pixelmator, etc...
March 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
4. Summer picnics
5. Cycling on some of NCC's Ottawa area trails
6. Patio season
March 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Are we opening bets about *when* the PC government will start paying Musk’s “Boring” company (think: the Vegas Loop) for this?
February 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thinking a lot about how last week I was in 30°C heat (Florida) then came home and got 30cm of snow.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It will be fascinating to hear how Nintendo handled backward compatibility on the Switch 2 that would be, in some cases, imperfect/incomplete.

www.nintendo.com/en-ca/whatsn...
January 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This garden has been living rent free in my mind since I visited.

A wealth family’s stone mine on stolen land turned botanical garden by the family’s patriarch. An industrial scar given colour and beauty to right a wrong.

📍The Butchart Gardens; British Colombia, CA
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I loving having academics in my midst. Conversation today:
January 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’ll never not be fascinated with how my car’s screens react to the cold (normally the screen is smooth without the ghosting) Happy -20°C, Ottawa
January 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
After a many year hiatus, I have started a blog again.

I'm not sure what it will be about exactly yet but I'm starting with some short posts to introduce myself and my interests.

Link: bradarsenault.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM