No joke, this may be the most effective advertisement I’ve ever seen. I don’t even need the product and I almost bought one just because Antoine Dodson comes across as the most likable human alive. youtu.be/4w8r3oPFoJM?...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Aaaaand I’m back in Montreal, for All In 2025 as part of Team BC!

The main reason I take LLM generated code with a huge grain of salt is that I know for a fact that most code that I (and LLMs) stumble upon online is toy-quality, not meant to be run in production. Most "getting started" guides make too many shortcuts for it to be useful in prod.

Broadway is the most depressing road in Vancouver. Nothing survives there. Another one bites the dust: fav lunch place closed down. Only cars survive here, going 10-20kmh over the speed limit. What a shithole. @seanorr.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social help.

High-speed rail is coming to #Canada! This week, federal government fast-tracked the Alto project. Will link #Quebec City- #Montreal - #Ottawa - #Toronto , a corridor with half Canada's population. Projected to carry 30 million passengers a year—twice US Northeast Corridor—on 300 km/h trains. 🚄🧵

I call this In-Situ Hummus: can of chickpeas, add tahini, garlic, paprika powder, cumin, olive oil, some lemon juice and water. Blend with immersion blender. No dishes to clean (apart from the blender)

Isn't ironic that searching for "antivirus" immediately brings up the most suspicious-looking sites on the internet?

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”

The Commodore.net factory in China got an inspection visitor today, as CEO/Head Chef Peri Fractic installed the first power switch to power up Commodore! #WeAreCommodore #C64 #Commodore64 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

This summer, the Audain Art Museum presents Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault, a landmark travelling exhibition offering a rare glimpse into the hidden art treasures of the National Gallery of Canada. More details in story: www.createastir.ca/articles/aud...

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

“radicalization is the end of a pipeline, and it is preceded not just by finding people who offer seductive and misleading solutions to real problems — it is preceded by the problems themselves.” - Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con

Homemade 西多士 Hong Kong style peanut butter French toast with maple syrup and HK milktea.

Finally, somebody calls it what it is: “open-weight models”. It’s not open source if you can’t see the training data. You can just see the numbers. It’s even less useful than a compiled executable. #bcfoundersday

Table For One Please.

First time making my own pasta was a success! I used 180gr of whole wheat and 60gr of all purpose flour plus two eggs, salt. Knead into a ball and let it rest for 30 minutes. Was about three portions worth. Pasta machine paid itself back after one meal. Why hadn’t I tried this sooner?

React/NextJS is the Kubernetes of frontend.

Black And White Evaporated milk, ingredients in the USA🇺🇸 vs Canada🇨🇦. Spanish vs French ingredients list will tell you which is which:

TIL Claude Code is in Nixpkgs: $ nix profile install nixpkgs#claude-code

Google removed one of my restaurant reviews on Google Maps for “defamation”! I suppose telling a Japanese restaurant that they overcooked the rice is the biggest insult?

so I started following one Vancouver drag I saw in Pride yesterday and now my whole feed is filled with bare chested men. Oof. The algorithm is not perfect.

AI can make everybody mediocre at everything.

"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding. The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.

My motion on road safety has PASSED! Today’s vote is a win for everyone, whether you walk, drive, bike, or take transit - or if, like most of us, you do all of the above.

That feeling when you found a bakery that’s open near the event venue, only to find out it’s 100% gluten-free😭

Bonjour hi #Startupfest! Who else is here?

"Solo a sapere che, volendo, potrei ricordare, dimentico subito." - Umberto Eco, Il Pendolo Di Foucault “Just knowing that, if I wanted to, I could remember, makes me immediately forget.” - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

If I remember correctly my first computer was an MSX, from Philips. But soon after I got my Commodore 64, which was more popular so there were many more “warez” for it. Nothing beat MSX Basic though: it came with sound and graphic commands not found elsewhere.

@z-space.ca anybody find a pair of sunglasses?

I’ll say it again — Metro Vancouver is THE North American hotbed for transit-oriented development. No other North American region comes close. Today was DAY 1 of 4 days of “deep dives” where I’m touring municipal leaders from Ontario, riding skytrain lines & digging into transformed station areas.

Our intern is speaking at #PyLadiesVancouver! 💪 Thank you, @pyladiesvancouver.bsky.social and thanks to @z-space.ca for hosting!

🎵"The saddest thing that I've ever seen / was smokers outside the hospital doors" I must have heard to that Interpol song a few dozen times, but never actually listened to it.

Google cloud label naming convention: “lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores and dashes. International characters are allowed.” So it supports UTF but no uppercase???

Ran into @ingydotnet.bsky.social at #WebSummitVancouver! He was showing me yamlscript.org and typed `ys -e 'say: ENV.USER:reverse'` which (on my Mac) printed `usenull` and he thought he had found a bug 🤣

Woohoo! @defang.io won the Vancouver Cloud Summit’s Cloud Award!!

A person is injured, the VPD have failed them, "expert lawyers" are misleading the public, and changes to the MVA are pointless unless actually upheld. THREAD 🧵

AI trainen met persoonsgegevens: "Wij moeten vooral als maatschappij hiervoor waken" nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d... via @nporadio1.bsky.social

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Wow, all three largest parties got leadership upheaval! 🇨🇦

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.

introducing defang mcp ✨ deploy your vibe coded project from any ide to the cloud watch it in action w/ cursor

I just took action to help build a better country for all Canadians -- by donating to the Liberal Party of Canada: liberal.ca/donate

I just started reading @mark-carney.bsky.social’s book, Value(s). I’m super bullish on Canada! 🇨🇦

Deploying Defang with Defang: Part 1 Deploying applications is hard. Deploying complex, multi-service applications is even harder. When we built Defang Portal, deploying its six services, including auth, databases, and frontend, was more complex than we wanted, even with early Defang tooling.

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