Getting Around

One can never have enough articles about public transport on a transit-themed website like this.

Anthropomorphic VIRM train with a dumb face rides across a rainbow in the sky
  1. Generic clipart of a Dutch bus

    Captain’s Blog

    Random internet finds: public transport

    Browsing, like public transport, takes you from somewhere you’re not to somewhere you don’t need to be – but it does bring you places.

  2. Antropromorphic Mat ’64 train with glowing laser eyes

    Living the Pipe Dream

    Let’s build a simple journey planner using SQL (part 3, that you can run yourself)

    What’s better than a crappy train travel planner that runs on my machine? A crappy train travel planner that runs on YOUR machine!

  3. Screenshot of a CSS train

    The Project Aisle

    Dutch rolling stock, recreated using HTML and CSS

    If all you have is CSS, everything looks like boxes and pseudo-elements.

  4. Anthropomorphic VIRM train with a dumb face rides across a rainbow in the sky

    Living the Pipe Dream

    Let’s build a simple journey planner using SQL (part 2 of probably more than 2)

    Yet another blog post where I create an unmaintainable mess using our favourite yet very inadequate programming language, SQL.

  5. Two people share a table in a Dutch VIRM train

    Living the Pipe Dream

    Let’s build a simple journey planner using SQL (part 1 of definitely more than 1)

    When all you have is a relational database, everything looks like a table. And you know what? It works! Sort of.

  6. A KMB double-decker bus, a green minibus, and an MTR train

    Captain’s Blog

    A quick-start guide to public transport in Hong Kong

    Depending on where you’re from, public transport in Hong Kong either offers a glimpse of the future or is stuck in the past.

  7. Illustration of two cube-shaped buses

    Captain’s Blog

    Cube buses be bussin’

    Imagine a world in which all buses are cube-shaped for absolutely no reason.

  8. A Sprinter Lighttrain appearing from a terminal window

    The Project Aisle

    A Sprinter Lighttrain (SLT) for your terminal

    slt is kind of like sl, but instead of a steam locomotive it’s an NS Sprinter Lighttrain (SLT).

  9. Passenger information system at a bus stop

    The Project Aisle

    Using data to improve your bus and train rides

    A non-exhaustive list of public transport projects I was part of throughout the years.