Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success. It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.

Does anybody else ever think about how in the early 2010s it seemed like stomp-clap was going to be a regular on the billboard charts, and then it just went away? Maybe @cmolanphy.bsky.social has written about this?

I think a lot about how “I’ll fight for you” is a very common campaign slogan, but “I’ll carefully balance competing interests” isn’t.

AI makes list making so much fun. Anyhow, here are some 80s albums for your consideration. claude.ai/public/artif...

I want AI to curate my news feed, but not based on my lizard brain clicking on rage bait at 11pm. Give me personalization based on who I want to be, not who I am when I’m doom scrolling. The gap between my aspirational self and my impulse self is where I need a better product.

Tax take: We should have a fine dining tax based on price per head. If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.

I got to thinking about how I get a lot of my taste into vibe coding sessions by way of .md files. I started to collect them all to share, and it got a little out of control and now I can share my personal best practices for vibe coding. gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...

I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...

Glad this passed. Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.

For right now, and possibly for a long time, vibe coding produces much better results when you use lots of static analysis, testing, and general ci. Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.

My prediction is in the next few months we’re going to see a ton of bad data journalism as writers discover how willing ai is to do exactly the analysis you ask of it. My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.

Fun way to compress the history of zoning battles. Loving the phrase “Provincial Defibrillator” for our current stage in this saga. (The verdict is still out if the defibrillator will work to return life to our ability to respond to housing demand.)

I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver.

I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build. 📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...

Building wallets used to be really hard. This article by @snoble.bsky.social demonstrating how Fragment makes it easy is really cool: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...

I was chatting with chatgpt on how to make a fintech app on Fragment. I thought the conversation was pretty interesting so I asked it to turn our conversation into an essay. Naturally it swapped me into the role of Fragment neophyte and itself into the role of Fragment expert.

This is not the language to publicly post the day your party leader announces their new cabinet. All this does is confirms to decision makers in the party that they made the right choice leaving you out.

I'm at stripe sessions next few days. I'll be at the fragment booth off and on. Let me know if you are here and want to say hi.

Seat deltas per province compared to 2021.

We’re hosting a happy hour event at #stripesessions If you want to see what it’s like inside the mind of a ledger, come check it out. lu.ma/fragment-ses...

I asked o3 to come up with predicted net flows between parties in today's election. Not a lot of net movement between the leftwing and rightwing parties. Suggests that if we have much of a centre-voter that moves back and forth that they zeroed each other out on net.

Now that the CPC platform is out, I can post an update to the debt/GDP trajectories. The CPC document includes assumed revenue gains that many, including me, find dubious. So, I've put lines showing their numbers with/without the assumed revenue gains. I'm using PBO GDP as demominator.

If I were to try to succinctly distinguish between the core messages of Carney and Poilievre I’d say that Carney’s message is “I know how the world works” and Poilievre’s is “I’m listening to Canadians’ concerns”. I think both have an audience. And both should adopt the other’s message more.

Is Mark Carney still the board chair for Bloomberg LP? @canadaland.com you’ve been reporting on his career. Is there a clear answer?

Has anyone made an agent that adds more property based tests to your PRs to cover more edge cases of your code change?

Property based testing is so good. Just wiped my database at the end of a non-property test and added a property component where the writes happen in any order should result in the same final outcome. found a bug. no reviewer would have ever caught this thing.

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Stocks falling can also cause some additional bad things.

The thing to remember is stocks falling isn’t the bad thing. Stocks falling is predicting the bad thing.

Does everybody understand what dead weight loss is yet? Can we all draw the triangle with a blind fold on?

One reason people hate YIMBYs and development is because rent control ends up as a volatile investment for renters. It's an investment because it pays to the renter an increasing dividend over time in that it lets them pay past market rent prices for current market housing. 1/

Even if free trade wasn't good for a country's GDP (it is) I'd still support it. while I want the government working a lot on GDP growth, I also want them to respect people's choices in who we transact with. The matching problem is hard. People have reasons for their choices.

I love how in an airport lounge you can pick any time zone you want so there’s always someone drinking at every hour.

Comparing GDP/capita growth across OECD countries over the past decade (plus selected aggregates like EU/G7/etc). #cdnecon

Carney (@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social) desperately needs to introduce himself to the country. He should have given a national speech yesterday. Even if he's not sworn in yet, Canadians are getting confused and frustrated by not being informed about their government.

How much could consumer prices in Canada rise due to the phase-one retaliatory tariffs vs the U.S.? I take a stab at answering that in my latest for @TheHubCanada here: thehub.ca/2025/03/11/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

The Canadian news sites have posts up about the political implications of Carney winning the vote. But I'm trying to find out the governance implications. When does he actually get sworn in as PM?

Who do I know who is working on ai agents in fintech or e-commerce? I’d love to interview you in what you like and don’t like in non-LLM APIs that your agent needs to use.

I like products that are the realization of creativity. But I love products that enable creativity to be realized.

Creative tools, wielded by makers, forge creative tools—generation after generation—each a link in an unbroken chain of innovation.

I like products that are the realization of creativity. But I love products that enable creativity to be realized.

AI autocomplete just gave me if(condition) { return true; } return false; and now I'm extremely worried for our future.

Good diplomacy is trading ego wins for material wins. If the other guy is willing to give more in exchange for looking like the winner, give it to him.

Give me a movie that everybody else agrees is either totally forgettable or out right bad, but you recognize as being one of the greatest achievements in film. My film is "a life less ordinary". www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfww...

If Tim Houston follows through with legislation to recognize the product regulations of other provinces, and other provinces follow NS's lead, this may be the most important positive economic policy change in Canada in 10+ years. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Vancouver’s planning regime is in desperate need of overhaul. In particular moving to “proactively conduct City-initiated pre-zoning, moving away from the current common practice of the time-intensive process of spot rezoning on a case-to-case basis” is good!

LPC are promoting that Harper had a positive relationship with Carney. NDP should take this opportunity to cast Carney as a conservative. The perfect message for the NDP right now is as the only party willing to tax the rich.