Find TTC
09 May 2013

One of my favourite things about being a developer is learning new stuff. I’ve actually put some thought into it and if learning wasn’t such a big part of being a developer I would go fucking nuts and quit. Fuck that shit.

So with this in mind, about 6 months ago, in the middle of a big backbone.js project at my day job, I decided that I would build myself my own transit finder with the following 2 requirements

  1. No database
  2. Initial version in 6 hours or less.

So one saturday I was bored and thought fuck it, I’ll build the fucker now.

So I did, and I nailed my 2 requirements (which was pretty easy since there were only 2).

This right here is one of my favourite methods of learning.

  1. Pick a problem that affects me (I take the ttc everyday, yes there are other transit apps in Toronto but I didn't fucking build any of them, and either you have to pay for the current ones or they kinda suck)
  2. Make your first version something that is achievable (because you want to feel the glory of success, trust me.)
  3. Actually use the fucking thing and make it better (I still use Find TTC every damn day), and I have plans on doing a major new version of it!

That’s it, there’s no secret to this stuff, no magic, no hidden gems. Sorry, you gotta want to do it, that’s really all there is.

NOW WITH THE CODE

Please feel free to look at that code and fork it and make it better, or you could just troll me about how I used bootstrap and the UX sucks, that’s fine too.


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