Hard agree with Neven. If you haven’t seen Hundreds Of Beavers, it’s on Prime in 🇨🇦. Interestingly, the creators wanted it to feel like a video game. Watch it, and you’ll understand.

Canada’s fifth season.

This is really good transcription from Podcasts. Picks up the mixed English and French without any trouble.

Wow. I had no idea how to spell this word. Just went with my best guess. Am I… figuring out how Irish works??

So… literally can’t go to Scotland anymore until I get my UK passport renewed. Cool cool cool, very good government there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’m so excited to hear Tim speak!

Bob Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States and CBC in Canada.

Nope.

I lowkey love that FastAPI is built on top of OpenAPI, so you get nice api docs for free

Watching Home Alone with kids takes on new meaning this year, when you realise that Kevin McAllister lives on the 670-679 block of his street.

I made this Irish cream for the holidays, and it’s EXCELLENT. Strong recommend.

Very excited about this conference!

I saw a mobile/SDK position at @honeycomb.io today, and I was all excited to apply, but then noticed they only hire from ON, BC & QC in 🇨🇦 Im just saying, if Saskatchewan is good enough for Chappell Roan…

Harshil is the 🐐, but I’m happy with my effort! Consistency works for me.

The joke’s on Google here, basically 95% of my inbox is ad emails for products I already purchased and don’t need more of. Really useful training set there.

Super excited for my friends at Sound Games, about to launch their first game, it looks super fun! Add it to your Steam Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4037180/...

To use the most classic sports cliche ever, both teams are just leaving it all on the field.

World Series baseball sliding into your timeline like

Honestly, I think it’s a little rude of the Blue Jays not to win the World Series on my birthday.

Great. Now it’s stuck in my head.

Just because we've finally invented a good infinite slop machine, doesn't mean it's good for us. Releasing a deepfake generator app is bad for society the same way legalized gambling is bad for society, even if a lot of people are really clamoring for more gambling.

We started with 224 albums. After 350,000 votes, we have a winner! Canada's Favourite Album by a Canadian Artist is.... JAGGED LITTLE PILL! Thank you everyone for voting! Enjoy my content? You can support my work with a donation at buymeacoffee.com/craigu

What is the most annoying kitchen dish to wash, and why is it muffin tins?

I’m on the job hunt after a layoff, and it’s been a minute since I was really working on Apple Platforms exclusively. I decided to make myself a crash course in SwiftUI using ChatGPT, and blog about it as I go. Here’s Day 1: francischary.com/blog

Wordle 1,550 2/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This is so much more satisfying than getting the first word. Best. Day. Ever.

Amina is very special to our family, and has organised this GoFundMe to help pay for her brother’s ongoing rehabilitation and legal costs after he suffered a terrible accident in Italy. www.gofundme.com/f/help-adam-...

This is pretty cool. It seems that solar panels installed 30+ years ago are still working pretty well. www.chemistryworld.com/news/30-year...

Me, waiting for my Docker build to complete

And there we have it. I can commit a change to the site, push, and have it deployed in less time than it takes to… <checks notes> …watch Dune Part 2.

Is publishing a Swift Vapor single-page website to DigitalOcean via Docker and Github Actions overkill? Yes. Am I going to do it anyway, because I’m a glutton for punishment? Also yes.

Wow. For the very first time, I’ve added a new ssh key to Github without having to look anything up. What’s more, I remembered to ssh-add my key to the ssh agent on my machine before trying to push for the first time! I’m all grown up now!

My first 6-move win! apple.news/JDv-xHKvvRLS...

Don't try to figure out Canadians. We don't know either. #HappyCanadaDay

I’d like to thank Big Oil for anticipating my desire not to take my kid to soccer practice today. By promoting their products over the past decades and warming the planet, thereby ensuring that the ever present forest fire smoke will see practice cancelled. What foresight!

Too real

My current pet peeve is seeing the phrase: “You finally found a page dedicated to explaining the universe”. On social media, superimposed over a video, showing a wrong explanation of how bees make honey. I know this shouldn’t bother me. But it does. Wrong on so many levels.

Someone needs to tell VSCode that sometimes a tab is just a tab. I don’t ALWAYS need it to spew out some code or comment.

US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

Absolutely wild to be having a conversation in 2025 about the calculus of buying kid’s clothes while trying to avoid fast fashion and American brands. Compromises must be made.

This is a lovely writeup of the development process of a game I’ve been really enjoying. Big props to @localthunk.bsky.social for including the struggles as well. Can’t imagine how hard it would have been!

Elbows Up m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

Trudeau quote that'll long be remembered: “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙖, 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙. 𝘼𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙍𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙖, 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙑𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙧 𝙋𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙣: 𝙖 𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧. 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚."

Pretty sure raising the Canadian flag in Boston officially makes Massachusetts the 11th province.

The discourse about “lowering trade barriers between provinces” sounds great, but what it actually means is: “reduce provincial government power to set regulations and collect taxes, and move that power to the feds”. That’s how you get interprovincial free trade.

Ok, I'm actually legitimately excited about this. Been struggling to find a good, simple invite system with reminders for @stlswift.com that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (and isn't Facebook or LinkedIn events, lol)

This is a great overview of the impact of the newly open-sourced-by-Apple Swift Build System

Apple open sources its build system on the same day as the Prime Minister announces retaliatory tariffs. The universe giveth and taketh away

End of an era. I have been using Timehop every day for almost a decade. So long that it predates my usage of password managers. I opened the app from the push notification this morning, and I can’t remember how to log in. Goodbye, sweet prince.

I’ve spent the last year working on a Flutter app, and there’s one place where it has traditional iOS development beat, without any shadow of a doubt: hot code reloading. It’s absolutely magical to make a change to a file, and watch my running app reflect that immediately

Terrifying