when i’m in too deep into a new side project

I'm Johnny Ass, and this is Jack Knox.

@bmann.ca You're usually faster than I am with these things, but meshllm.cloud is on the front page of HN right now and looks potentially cool for the Z space cluster?

Set up the beginnings of a PBF → ID tagging schema → pmtiles → MapLibre GL style data pipeline

Finally our minutes are 60 seconds again!

Nano Banana animal comics are the new Corporate Memphis

Four thermal prints re-scanned, then merged with original photos to add colour

At some point I gave my girlfriend my "intro to git" talk so we could make a website together, she's now giving the same presentation to a coworker in the other room!

The amount of times that Dropbox Fax has saved my ass is now 2. Incredible free service that hasn’t been enshitified.

MY on camera?!

Apparently the best way to make vibe coded UIs not look like garbage is to tell the LLM to make them look like a QT app from 2009: envs.net/~volpe/proje...

This 3 part feature-length series on YouTube is a better review of Rob Ford than any docudrama or Netflix doc could ever be. It dives deep into the policy, council drama, political strategy, and antics of this insane and frustrating era, and it's worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACJ...

"I was so relieved my parents were supportive, but I knew I had one more person to tell: Sharon, my family’s Bank of America Wealth and Investment manager."

My go to market strategy: - Milk - Pasta - Canned tomatoes - Bread - Sage - Garlic

Managed to implement an RSS feed using Qwen3.5:9b. It's not the fastest and writes mediocre code, but it also runs entirely locally, won't be subject to post-token-subsidy price fluctuations, and won't send all my data to anyone!

"I had a chance to eat with Councillor Ainslie earlier. And he wanted to go to Burger King. I suggested there are many other places we could go — Burger King would not be my choice to eat. So I suggested shawarma — and it was perhaps the worst decision I could make," says Councillor Michael Thompson

Lmao people are selling AI prompt packs

If anyone in Toronto wants a PVC pipe instrument, uh, hit me up because I’m getting this one set up to give away!

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

@subvert.fm launches their cooperative music platform today! Very excited for the world to have a good example of what co-op platform ownership looks like. Go buy some music! subvert.fm

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Got the long form census 😎

I love that I have trained my feed to bring me all the best weird zipper news. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

Introducing Disperse: an experimental sharesheet that allows you to share to several Atmosphere services at once. At launch, it supports @bsky.app, @blackskyweb.xyz, @semble.so, @margin.at, @rabbithole.land, @kipclip.com, and @sill.social, with more planned. 1/

@iwriteok.bsky.social Couldn't have been more on the nose with this one:

Will be in Vancouver for the first week of May! I’ve been there before, but what cool things should I do and see this time around?

Finally

i always think about this. the absurdity of it

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com

man, I love terminal spinners github.com/vyfor/rattles #rustlang #ratatui

Tailscale is usually a joy to work with, but Tailscale serve has a few rough edges when setting its config using environment vars. After some trial and error (and reaching out to support), I managed to get it working in TrueNAS and now you can too! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-04...

Everyone has a to-do list, but nobody has a to-don't list

#Figma cool kids: I have a React UI library to migrate to Figma *as components*. Too many components to do by hand. I will pay for reliable premium tools. Migrate means (ideally) layer names, styles, props and/or tokens imported too. It's a one-time import job. What are my options?

There's something quite exciting happening with AVIF and progressive rendering. Some recent patches let you provide custom 'frames' as progressive passes, so you can provide e.g. smaller blurry versions of the full image to use as a progressive pass.

Some speculations on the future of the software developer as a subcultural figure, post vibecoding open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on this conference.

"I have heard a lot about nanotechnology," Councillor Lily Cheng says. She asks if staff have considered using nanotechnology in asphalt. "I'm not sure that we've considered it, but we're always actively looking and making sure we stay up to date," says staffer.

Wait... is this in the terminal?? 🤯 🐢 tortuise — Render 3D scenes using pure terminal symbols 🌀 Fully parallelized, 6 render modes, full camera controls & no GPU needed 🦀 Written in Rust & inspired by @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/buildoak/tor... #rustlang #ratatui #rendering #graphics

Sick and tired of these poser-ass range-hood / microwave combo units pretending they are anything but food irradiators.

> A new flavor of religion: salvation through subscription, finding purpose at Erewhon™, Soulcycle™ and Othership™ as church. Microdose™ your way past Christ. maximumexposureinc.substack.com/p/75-minutes... It's a long one, but worth it.

Every year I try to file taxes at 3:00 AM and every year I am punished because the government of Canada purposefully takes their servers offline at night, presumably because they are sleepy.

Turns out Claude is also good at bookkeeping

> He sighed. “I just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs.” I found it hard to disagree. What a ride. harpers.org/archive/2026...

Just released: Pinhead Map Icons I was tired of digging through different sources to find good map icons, so I compiled all the public domain sources I could find into one unified set. You’ll see familiar faces from the likes of iD, OSM Carto, and NPS, plus some new additions. Enjoy! pinhead.ink

Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL! Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.

the original is from 2010 nvie.com/posts/a-succ...

This nonsense slop diagram in Microsoft's GitHub training guide is embarrassing. Maybe review things before unquestioningly publishing generated garbage? I guess that's too much to ask of one of the largest and richest companies in the world.

the pre-LLM projects on my GitHub profile are like low-background steel

Finally! Decentralized Keybase!! …Well, minus the PGP so far