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Affinity is free, I have thoughts! If you want to know what they are you can click this link: wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-11... If you don't want to know what they are, you can do other things! Ride a bike! Watch the sunset! The world is your oyster!

A freebie for any PMs at Google: Now that newsletter subscriptions are big, you could bring back Google Reader as part of Gmail with a dedicated newsletter reader inbox view and also make RSS cool again while you're at it.

That’s baseball baby

My biggest baseball take is that the live organ is a lot of fun. The Jays should ditch the canned sound effects and hire somebody to play keys.

Took the A-train Car-specific wayfinding!

New blog post! Using 3D scan data created with my phone as reference imagery for underground mapping of subway stations in #OpenStreetMap Check it out! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-10...

"your needs are all self centred but the benefits trickle down" Not sure how to feel about this, but I think it's positive?

It's pretty grim how succeeding online after the TikTokification of everything is about throwing spaghetti until the computer favors you once and then getting imprisoned by that gimmick forever as you scrounge for ways to increase the ante

The day has finally come where YouTube is showing channels I didn't subscribe to in the subscriptions feed. Terrible stuff.

Ads? In MY SaaS?! It's more likely than you'd think...

Alright friends, I think we are live! 😁 I've only tested this with my own data so I have no idea if it works for anyone else but I think commitgraphghan.com is live and working 🤞👀 I'm trying the pattern out this weekend to see how awful it is to make 😂 Where are my @github.com #crochet fans at?

Never forget

Finally got a chance to give @makham.itch.io's Pixel Composer a spin after a few years of letting them cook... This software is kinda awesome now?! Look what I can make with just 7 nodes!

Super cool stuff and some very nice people at Swash & Serif this year! Check out the show if you’re into letters and in Toronto, it runs until Sep. 23rd! swashandserif.ca

I think the only two governors who ever followed me on Twitter were Newsom and Spencer Cox, and I feel bad that I’m apparently such a good “craven doofus” follow.

Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala) github.com/shazow/wifitui

@comaps.app is the only map app on my phone where I can search “water fountain” and it shows me free drinking water everywhere I live. Meanwhile Google shows me an ad for bottled water.

I contribute sidewalk and parking lot data to OSM pretty much with the express purpose that it will be used for stuff like this! Love to see it.

I rarely promote this event, it's pretty low key... but if you're in Toronto, every other Thursday in the evening I run an event at @1rg.space where we work on our side projects. If you have a side project and want to show it to some people, you should come! luma.com/75olmqob

Somebody should sell copies of Simulation and Simulacra by Jean Baudrillard with each page infused with pumpkin spice aroma.

the icon customization screen of windows is like a museum of the different UI trends over multiple decades

Finished my foliage & grass mapping of the Toronto Island disc golf course!

> No matter who you are in the stack of payment processing, you are beholden to someone that can be influenced either by a PAC, by moralizing busybodies, or by an annoying aggressive call-in campaign. voidfox.com/blog/payment...

Maybe Toronto CAN have nice things!

the protocol we deserve

Virginia is for lovers, Delaware is for companies.

Cool prompt injection attack vector! blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/w...

Hear me out: ATProto lexicon for local buy and sell. Incredibly tired of switching between Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Karrot, Kijiji, probably others?!

Some of our favourite places for envelope security pattern collections. 1. www.flickr.com/photos/josep...

#civicspark was a super great conference! Getting to chat up some of the ex-18F folks was a highlight, I'm now even more pissed off that the Trump administration shitcanned Direct File.

Just now discovering the @ournetworks.ca 2022 USB drive has a secret!

Threadlocker < Screw Glue

Cool post from @emma.cafe about building nicely styled emails! React Email looks pretty cool. Also uploadable URL lists, neat!

The revolution will not be televised but it will be available for streaming on BooGoo Max in 4K HDR for $19.99 a month or 720p for only $4.99 a month (ad supported).

I've been surprised that they're still making Jurassic World movies for a while now, but apparently I'm just not the demo they're shooting for. Turns out 6 year olds still really like dinosaurs.

counterbuffs! Look I'm in the list! www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

The year is 2025: Google Slides still doesn't support SVG files.

Today’s bike maintenance learnings: hydraulic disk brakes are kind of a pain in the ass! I only got mineral oil everywhere once (turns out the fill port and the port release screw are two separate ports 😭 E-bike is working again and it the new front brake is much easier to align!

Explored Toronto’s newest park today with @andia.bsky.social!

Finally some good fuckin news!

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?” “That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun. RIP Tom

🌱👒 HTML (Day) in the Park, Toronto Aug 2 2025, 2pm to 5pm Dovercourt Park html.green

visa/mastercard are forcing a popular product marketplace to demonetize nsfw content, which is disproportionately hurting queer art honest question here: wasn’t crypto supposed to solve this? it’s 2025, is there really no way “Stripe-but-actually-crypto” easy integration that does direct deposit?

Thinking about this Geocities ad from 1997

Pocket soup! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portabl...

When I was a kid I read "initializing" as "installizing" in the context of software starting up and this word has stayed in my vocabulary despite it completely not existing.

I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses. If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances! shazow.net/posts/permis...

New blog post! Don't get suckered into monthly fees for QR codes! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-07...