not something I expected to see this afternoon, but a bald eagle was ripping apart a seagull

happy noises

I will never understand Canadians obsession with blowing leaves with a gas powered blower at 8am. Like get an electric blower or just use a rake. Every single day for hours, drives me insane.

sunday morning making a cheap figma clone for @akkeri.app. still prototyping if a canvas feels right to organise your work.

I reckon I can get them to do tricks soon

after a month of looking, we’re finally moved in to our new apartment in vancouver. feels good to have some stability and not be living out of a suitcase again!

“but if you tax the billionaires they’ll just leave the country”… oh no, what a shame. it’s not like they’re contributing anyway so let them go?

another couple got the appt we really liked over us because they offered to pay 1 years rent up front 🙃 if you have a years rent laying around, just buy a fucking house bro. vancouver rental market sucks ass

okay new goal, get @akkeri.app fully launched by march!

will someone please rent me an apartment in vancouver? it’s torture out here and I don’t want to spend another second in an airbnb

slowly slowly getting things on atproto. long way to go but exciting times.

lexicon help needed: a collection of manually sorted records referenced by uri with a soft cap of 100 items… 1. items array of objects with uri, on collection directly 2. detached collection item records with ref back to collection dilemma

hell yeah, what a migration name @drizzle.team

seeing how eagerly mean people are on social media is so depressing… the dunk and ratio culture of twitter/bluesky grosses me out nowadays, pretty depraved stuff most of the time

driving through northern ontario on the cusp of autumn is very nice. so much has changed since I was here 6 weeks ago, more orange. last leg back to vancouver now, can't wait to see my favourite parks and feed the crows! a few thousand kms to go.

I don’t get how digital ID will solve illegal labour? Surely it’s on employers to check right to work? Just fine the fuck out of Deliveroo and Uber Eats etc if they’re caught doing it. Undocumented workers will still be undocumented and exploited by companies. Having a digital ID changes nothing.

Happy 1st ruined torpedo testing base anniversary to me. There is NO way that this trip was a year ago... refrakt.app/series/the-p...

kinda crazy people are only now cancelling disney+ when they’ve been supporting isreal this whole time… I wonder where they’ll watch their marvel slop now?

saw someone call gb news “gbeebies” and it’s fucking perfect

have zero credit card debt and score goes down 🙃 I mean I kinda get it but also seems very dumb

I’ve driven almost 20,000km across canada in the last 3 months, and now seriously considering adding another 4,500km to drive back to Vancouver from Toronto. Am I stupid or should I just ship my car back and fly?

do I know anyone in vancouver that has a spare parking spot for 1-2 months over the winter? was planning on leaving my car in toronto, but might be back in vancouver sooner than I thought!

the people who write google reviews for coffee shops are insane. it’s always “best coffee ever”, and when you try it, it tastes like someone dumped an ash tray into a cup with a sprinkle of dirt. literally no good coffee in these small towns, and i’m not drinking a tim’s.

new stance unlocked

a bit of canadian diversity

bc has truly spoiled scenery for me. I’m in cape breton, people travel from all over to see its beauty (and it is beautiful), but it looks like any “average” part of bc.

starting to think @akkeri.app should be an atproto app and be “public”. changes the vibe quite a bit but could be fun?

two butterflies at lake superior

need a bluesky close friends where only select accounts can see certain posts without having to go fully private profile

I need film lab recs in Quebec City, Montreal, or Toronto. Ideally < 1 week turnaround. #film

put a couple of these up on @refrakt.app which I should be using more tbh, balancing act. refrakt.app/sk

i know it's snarky and not saying this is good, but: 1x 1MW datacenter for 1 year @ ~25.5M litres 1x cheeseburger @ ~2k litres if the US skipped cheeseburgers for one day… that’d be enough to run ~13k 1MW datacenters for a year (conservative napkin math)

I feel like you shouldn’t be able to argue about water use of tech if you’re still eating cheeseburgers

not what I expected to see today

got a couple new posts up on my site. first is from april that I forgot to publish: samking.co/journal/on-b...

so sad about ozzy man

Drivers from Alberta must love sniffing my ass. Never been tailgated so much.

15 year old me would have reblogged the fuck out of this on tumblr. Glad I got to see it with my own eyes.

Current status

saw the rockies today, was nice

made it to revelstoke

The hike to Kokanee Lake is stunning, beautiful British Columbia at it's finest.

I’m thinking of winding down @refrakt.app soon. I’ll be super sad to see it close. I built it solo. No VC, no team. Just time squeezed around work and life, with some curation help from a few friends along the way. Proud it was a home, even briefly, for some of my favourite photographers.

lil phone snap from whitewater ski area just outside Nelson

Driving through interior BC in June

Nakusp

some more birdies, this time some cliff swallows (I think) nesting outside a washroom building in the salmon arm, bc.

Great Blue Heron at 13:05 Western Grebe at 13:20 No shots between, but similar framing, totally unintentional. Something subconscious, maybe.

funny, they finally automated coding so software engineers would finally review PRs

This new thing I’m working on has changed shape so much. Circling a lot of ideas from a couple of years ago and finally honing in on something. Quite different to Refrakt in the end.