Happy You’re Welcome Day!

Update: My wrapper compiles… sometimes. I haven’t had this much “fun” interpreting compiler errors since I was doing C++ template meta programming in the early 2000s. Rant incoming. 1/5

My Fable Koota ECS wrapper finally compiles, is complete enough that I’ve been able to port one of the systems to #fsharp, and the app still works! I’ve also learned way more about the TypeScript type system than I ever wanted to! 😅

To use an analogy from my day job, why hire an army of SREs to handle live-site incidents when you could fix the bugs that caused them in the first place? I’d call policy decisions like this the result of brain rot if I didn’t also think they were the result of the greed inherent in our system.

Let’s just say Ken Sim didn’t get my vote last time, and he’s not getting my vote next time either.

TIL that empty #fsharp interfaces don't do what you think they do when compiling to TypeScript with Fable. TypeScript uses structural typing, so empty interfaces match with just about anything. If not a bug, this is definitely a violation of the Principle of Least Surprise. 1/2

Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand. Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on. Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.” security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...

Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects. But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell. That’s not even the worst part! @emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:

CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG. Yikes!!!!! Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you’re clever enough. 

 Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler? Running Linux. Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...

“Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all. However, these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades.” #IndigenousVeteransDay Lest We Forget

Hi #fsharp we *might* consider changing a default in Fantomas: github.com/fsprojects/f... Please let us know what you think.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

Another Half-life Histories topic for @khill.bsky.social ?

New on the blog: Think for Yourself "You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

Parents - check your halloween candy carefully. Someone may try to teach your kids the C programming language

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

I was using the same 2024 article in videos a lil while back to cite that wealth inequality in Canada had reached record highs in 2024. Fun update: there's now a 2025 article about how wealth inequality has reached record highs this year! Wheeeeeeeeee

Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver: "Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution." A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.

She cooked & correct ✅

I know it won’t happen, but wouldn’t it be great if the budget included a wealth tax? Pretty sure the Liberals would at least get NDP support for that. It would suck to have another election so soon because Mr. Carney won’t think outside the box… www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I’m looking at adding animation to the family tree visualization I’m working on. I quickly realized it dramatically increases the complexity of my code, but after some reflection I wonder if it’s because I chose an MVU architecture. I’m looking at ECS (Entity Component System) as an alternative. 1/2

Awesome talk. I had actually never heard of Sketchpad before this. It was remarkably innovative. It’s fascinating to see what lessons were taken from that project, and which were seemingly ignored. It’s 2.5 hours, but well worth it if you care about software architecture. youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI?...

“Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.” 💯

After almost two centuries, a First Nation in British Columbia is getting some land back from the federal government.

Investigative journalism about poor OpSec is my favourite kind of journalism.

I’m vexed by the fact that the actor who portrays Winston Duarte in season 6 of #TheExpanse has brown hair and a goatee. Why? Because while reading book 8, at a certain pivotal moment for the character, I could not stop imagining him like this:

Mark Carney shows contempt for all Canadians by excluding the press from foreign trips. He needs to apologize and make amends for this, and be shown he’s a democratic head of government not the chief executive of Canada Inc.

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

Yikes

More thoughts after making some progress on this #fsharp project: TDD feels kinda obsolete in the face of DDD, and #GitHubCopilot just seems to accelerate that trend. I start by creating some domain types, then writing the public API functions that manipulate them. 1/3

Leena Minifie has heard many horror stories of the discrimination Indigenous Peoples face during her more than 20 years as a journalist, film and television producer. But, she was taken aback by some of what she heard while working on The Good Canadian.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Using #fsharp + Fable for the core domain logic and view state while sticking with React + TypeScript + Three.js for the outer shell of the app turned out to be a really solid choice. I got the core visualizations and interactions working with little fuss. Unit testing on the other hand… 1/3

Salmon n’ Bannock Burgers at BC Place! 😋

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

In case your local Sinclair or Nexstar (🖕🏽) owned station didn't air Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, here it is on the show's YouTube channel. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...

This is a LOL joke if you take the time to read it! 🤣🤣🤣

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

A major factor in my decision to return to Canada was when the first Trump administration decided to not let certain green card holders back into the country in early 2017. I saw the writing on the wall back then. This H1-B move is going to upend a lot of people‘s lives.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Already cancelled mine, and I’m a Star Wars fan, so I didn’t make that decision lightly.

Big 1939 energy.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

This is Ralphie. He's trying to live up to his reputation as a retriever. Let him cook. 12/10 (TT: ralphiesgoldenlife)

Simon Fraser University celebrated the grand opening of First Peoples’ Gathering House at its Burnaby Mountain campus today. @sfu.ca @sfuindg.bsky.social Construction of the building began in April 2023, but Chris (Syeta’xtn) Lewis says decades of advocacy have led to this moment: