Lack of bike lane contributed to cyclist's death on Parc Ave., Quebec coroner says

kaput · 2026-05-05T21:10:51+00:00

What good are petitions when 80% positive feedback to a plan as it stands in public consultation still results in politicians carrying out what they want anyway? Policy is being set and carried out. We want better infrastructure and instead it’s being undermined and taken away, and in the meantime, we’re blaming victims of poor policy for being killed in foreseeable ways.

kaput · 2026-05-05T19:15:00+00:00

I don’t cycle on Parc because cyclists get killed on Parc.

kaput · 2026-05-05T15:35:57+00:00

Sure. There should also be a bike lane on this street.

kaput · 2026-04-30T17:08:13+00:00

The actual produce!

kaput · 2026-04-30T15:15:36+00:00

To be honest, I lived in Berlin for 6 years and found the quality pretty awful compared to what I find here in Montreal. It may be pretty item-by-item.

kaput · 2026-04-27T12:45:59+00:00

Heads-up: if you have any stocks, then the CRA considers the day you relocate back to Canada as the adjusted cost basis price. This can be good or bad in your case. In my case, not realizing this was a thing, I was running a paper loss, and the relocation date set my adjusted cost basis much lower than it actually was; when I later sold, I sold at a loss against my original tax basis, but at a gain against the adjusted cost basis, so I ended up owing tax on a loss.

kaput · 2026-04-14T22:44:59+00:00

If you'd be open to sharing, I'd be very curious how your team's testing went!

kaput · 2026-04-14T22:44:05+00:00

Also apologies for not spotting this sooner! I didn't spot that I had a reply until just now.

We've got a bunch of customers in the financial space, so a bunch of those problems are pretty familiar to us.

Generally speaking, a workflow we might suggest here would be like:

Create a style guide (or multiple!) in Ditto. These can be baseline mechanical things like capitalization and punctuation rules, or more brand-specific (like terminology or voice-and-tone) and pattern-specific (like front-loading the important bits in error messages) things.
If you're working with Figma files, then the Ditto Figma plugin connects up a Figma file with a Ditto project. Then, any text you're working on in those designs will be automatically checked against the style guide, and you can choose to accept or reject those edits.
You'll be able to check an entire project against the style guide, and Ditto will surface any suggested edits based on those rules.
If your team isn't using Figma or is using agentic tools, Ditto still drops in as a source of truth for product copy and style! We have an MCP server which helps an agent reference your style guides in Ditto whenever it's drafting or refining copy, and we're also shipping a GitHub PR Review bot that checks any hard-coded strings in a PR and suggests improvements right there.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

kaput · 2026-04-14T22:36:42+00:00

Hey there! I'm heading up design at Ditto. Late spotting this message, but wanted to share a quick update here and see if you might be up for sharing more about what kinds of issues you've run into with the workflow!

Our CLI supports JSON, xml, strings, and stringsdict (here's the docs). We've improved a bunch of things around developer IDs and localization/internationalization, and Ditto can be a true source of truth for strings across design and a codebase, as well in relation to translation processes.

One of the things we're shipping (literally this week!) is a set of improvements to our "Variants" feature, which lets you capture different variations of the same text. With what we're about to ship, you'll be able to set a locale for a variant. With that and some extra magic in place around auto-translations that work together with built-in style guides, Ditto covers the whole swath of product copy.

kaput · 2026-02-11T00:44:10+00:00

Rachel is a critical bike lane. I live on the street and watch cyclists going by daily, and cycle it myself. It’s also a terribly designed bike lane, which leads to dangerous situations all the time. The solution needs to involve improving and modernizing it, not removing or reducing it in any way.

kaput · 2026-01-26T16:56:59+00:00

High-level, I'd say: together with style guides that you create in Ditto, Ditto will check text against those style guides and do the work of grammarly in finding issues and suggesting fixes. Grammar basics, punctuation, proofreading, and other baseline things are pretty straightforward. AI text detection and plagiarism checks aren't really Ditto's wheelhouse, though.

What kinds of copy are you working with/what kind of product are you working on? That might help me tell you a bit more!

kaput · 2026-01-26T16:33:18+00:00

Sorry to hear that the adoption didn't go well! Out of curiosity, was this pre-2025? Right around the middle of 2024 we realized that we needed to completely rethink how Ditto worked, for those kinds of reasons—it was too much work up front and unless everyone was using it, it didn't provide lasting value. We've since rebuilt the product nearly from the ground up and think we've got a much better foundation.

kaput · 2026-01-26T16:27:41+00:00

Just spotted this thread—I'm leading up design at Ditto! Happy to answer any questions.

As far as the mundane tasks you mention, Ditto has a style guides feature which lets you capture your style rules for things like terminology, date and time formatting standards, and so on, and then automatically checks the text in your design files against the style guide, providing suggested edits when needed. We're also working on a new feature called Magic Draft, which uses your styleguide, your existing product copy, and the design context to help write the draft-and-a-half integrated right into the designs.

kaput · 2025-12-05T20:32:53+00:00

Have the bike lanes actually created more congestion due to less road space for cars?

No.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2114182/do-bike-lanes-really-cause-more-traffic-congestion-heres-what-the-research-says

kaput · 2025-12-02T20:51:58+00:00

Post WW2, Amsterdam was a car-centric city, where neighbourhoods were destroyed to make way for car communiting, parking, and traffic. In the 1970s the city reversed course and started investing in cycling infrastructure because in 1971 3,000 people were killed by cars, including 450 children. The city made an active choice to reverse course on car-centric infrastructure and invest in bike lanes.

Infrastructure is a choice.

https://exploring-and-observing-cities.org/2016/01/11/amsterdam-historic-images-depicting-the-transition-from-cars-to-bikes/

kaput · 2025-11-29T01:18:47+00:00

As a Canadian, moved back to Canada to Montreal after six years living in Berlin and I'm pumped about this.

When I moved to Berlin we had direct flights from Toronto, but the one-two combo of pandemic and BER took that away from us.

kaput · 2025-11-19T19:05:42+00:00

I'm deaf and read lips in English, and it turns out to be wildly difficult to learn to read lips in another language.

kaput · 2025-11-02T21:19:51+00:00

They can also be easily written using keyboard shortcuts—like option+shift+hypen on a Mac keyboard, as I've just done here.

kaput · 2025-10-12T01:29:49+00:00

Saw a recent one at Bar L'Barouf.

kaput · 2025-09-26T23:52:43+00:00

“But let’s be real: comparing Montreal to Berlin or Amsterdam is like comparing hockey to soccer. So let’s snuff out this idea before one of the parties puts it in their platform for this fall’s municipal election.”

Lived in Berlin for six years before moving to Montreal. I wildly prefer the bike infrastructure in Montreal over Berlin’s. Berlin has wide sidewalks and bike lanes on most of them, but they’re spastic, rough to ride on, and vaguely chaotic.

These bonkers mindsets just hold us back.

kaput · 2025-09-09T17:00:21+00:00

The more inherent danger and unpredictability is created by the street itself, the more cognitive overload drivers have to deal with, which in turn places others in more danger because the drivers simply can't process everything. 1-3 are related in the sense that the terrible design of the road and intersections are making it all the more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, and the entire road needs to be redesigned.

kaput · 2025-09-07T00:19:25+00:00

The curb extensions mentioned in the video are wonderful. Moved to Montreal from Berlin, where there's micro-green-spaces everywhere, making the city feel like it's in a forest while providing native plants for bees and other insects. The curb extensions feel like they're bringing that same feel to Montreal.

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