Well that's a boring end to the story, what am I supposed to do with all this popcorn? #bcpoli

Everyone should go tell TransLink that they definitely need to run bus service to Golden Ears Park: https://translinklistens.ca/new-routes-to-parks #vancouver #transit #translink

It's the annual #lumiereyvr public art festival in #vancouver with a bunch of great light-based and interactive art pieces. The laser and mirrors show on the Robson side of the art gallery is definitely a highlight!

Every so often I get an email notification from some starred bug report about TC39 decorators, and I peek at what's going on, and it seems like the current situation is that it's fully standardized but all 3 browsers went "This is complicated and we don't feel like implementing it" 😞 […]

A macOS system update breaking all of my Docker containers was not how I expected (or particularly wanted) my day to start, but I guess I'm rebuilding all my dev environments for the rest of the morning before I can get any useful work done. Hey, remember the good old days when you could just […]

A tragedy in two parts

Today at 10:16am is the British Columbia ShakeOut earthquake drill! Do you know what to do during an earthquake? Drop! Cover! Hold On! Find more information and resources at https://www.shakeoutbc.ca/ #bc #britishcolumbia #vancouver #earthquake

Was at a local tech talks thing today that I'd attended many times pre-pandemic and really enjoyed, and about 80% of the talks were about AI and a bunch of the ones that weren't explicitly about AI turned into discussions about AI. I've seen this with conferences and meetup groups that I used to […]

Past me made some decisions around database join table design that confidently assumed uniqueness of compound keys, foreign keys, non-nulls and all that good stuff. Current me has to deal with the case of "when a thing is removed, we need to keep the join record but null out one identifier for […]

The Canada Revenue Agency is doing a public consultation on automatic tax filing (which they should have implemented …several decades ago!). Fill it out and let the CRA know that it’s a good idea! […]

Install kernel updates, reboot computer, discover that some package is now causing gnome-shell to crash due to undefined JavaScript functions being called by the weather extension, rendering the entire GUI system unusable Computers were a mistake 😩

Feels like Xcode 26 beta isn't showing me deprecation warnings for things that I can see in the headers have been marked as deprecated, which is distressing when I am trying to confirm that an upcoming major version of a framework won't have a tonne of deprecation warnings on an imminent major […]

Starting to feel the BC Mountain Occlusion Anxiety 😬

Harrassing @colincornaby by opening pull requests to add Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard PowerPC support to his code, as one does 😅

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

Arrived like 5 minutes before they started, but still managed to get a decent spot with a good view of the New West Hyack Summer Fireworks 🎆

oh hey, Android WebView broke the safe-area-inset stuff and rolled it out to production without anyone noticing and now it's breaking a bunch of apps 🙃

Didn't expect coding for Wayland to be worse than coding for X11, but somehow here we are. It's almost impressive that they managed to make an API that is more inconvenient than one designed in the 80s with code samples all dating back to that era and poor documentation.

On the XSLT topic, there were some proposals (which seemed to mostly be ignored) to use XSLT as part of fully declarative web component templating since it's already built-in to the browser and doesn't add any new dependencies. The syntax is awkward, and it's not clear exactly how data-binding […]

"Embrace AI or get out" Welcome to the out club.

Safari on iOS 26 is supposed to extend the colour from the page edges behind the liquid glass UI (no, not using the safe-area-inset system they previously invented specifically for that purpose, which my website is already set up to use). It mostly doesn't […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Having weird Internet issues today, possibly related to a CDN or something, but the result is random parts of the Internet don't load. In particular, `github.com` loads properly, but `githubassets.com` (which serves all the JS and CSS files) does not. Once upon a time, GitHub was […]

New SkyTrain!

Something that would be very helpful would be if MDN had a standard table on the page for each type of event that indicated whether it bubbled. It's surprisingly difficult to verify even when digging back into the HTML spec to try to find confirmation.

Curious about amateur radio, emergency communications, or disaster preparedness? Stop by to see a demonstration and learn more about radio at Queen Elizabeth Park on Saturday afternoon (south parking lot, near the dog off-leash area and tennis courts) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Curious about amateur radio, emergency communications, or disaster preparedness? Stop by to see a demonstration and learn more about radio at Queen Elizabeth Park on Saturday afternoon (south parking lot, near the dog off-leash area and tennis courts) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Love to come home from a trip and find that my ISP failed to bill me for the past 2 months and then cut off my internet due to lack of payment 🙃

So I'm trying to play with Icon Composer and Xcode 26 beta, and supposedly you just drag & drop the icon file into the project navigator and Xcode will highlight where it needs to go... and I'm not seeing that happen. If I add it to the project, it just shows up as another file, doesn't seem to […]

What if I don't want Liquid Glass? What if I want Compiz Fusion?

Had to have a difficult conversation today, and I've decided next time I'm just going to fake my death. That sounds way less stressful.

One of the most fun/rewarding things I get to do with amateur radio is run the on-air instructional net exercises for a radio skills course. It's so great to work with a group of new radio users who are all nervous and fumbling through callsigns and hear them pick up confidence and have fun […]

OK! We've set June 6th as the cut off date for group order of Meshtastic devices to folks in the Vancouver area. Peer-to-peer wireless networked devices - modern walkie talkies that work anywhere. Photo is a WisMesh Pocket V2 or a sensecap tracker are the two to pick from. Fill out the form!

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

I guess I never did a #introduction post... I'm Darryl (he/him) and am usually online as dpogue. I'm a software developer from #vancouver, BC. My interests are in embracing the web platform and pushing the boundaries of web technologies. I started coding through a modding community for a Myst […]