Another evening at the lake. I listened to my audiobook while my girls splashed in the water. Heard a loon cry a few times.

Summer nights at Syringa Provincial Park #kootenays

Worked on performance today. Added svelte-virtual-list and tested Luminous with 100_000 tracks, 500 albums, and 1_000 artists. Keeping it speedy. #BuildInPublic

Strangely satisfying to use my own music app. I've been building web apps for so long I'd forgotten what it's like to make an app beyond the terminal

Luminous is a high-performance desktop music player designed for modern local audio listening. Built with Rust, Tauri v2, TypeScript, and Svelte 5 (Runes). This is a work-in-progress. #BuildInPublic github.com/esoltys/lumi... youtu.be/XPB7zrs2RG8

Levi McClain: “We'll talk about Guido of Arezzo (Guido D'arezzo), his theories and work including the guidonian hand, the guidonian hexachord/hexad, the history of Solfège, the Gamut, and the medieval hexachordal system.” #Music youtu.be/06pZa25naBc?...

#EvilDeadBurn is intense. 🔥 Creative camera work throughout. Evil Dead: Rise was more fun and this one is more brutal and dark. 😶

CBC: "Canada-wide nocturnal bird sound migration tracker takes flight" #Science www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🎧 Listening to Hermanos Gutiérrez #Music music.youtube.com/@hermanosgut...

Something broken in YouTube #Music? Skimming through albums in new releases and only tracks that had been released as singles previously are available. Wet Leg's "moisturizer (deluxe)" is missing all the live content, Jack White's "Frozen Charlotte" has only 3/13 tracks available, etc.

Beautiful brown bear running around the neighborhood 🐻

TypeScript 7 now available devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Taking a swing at building a desktop audio player for fun. I'm trying a stack new to me: TypeScript with Svelte (Runes), and Rust with Tauri. #buildinpublic tauri.app

Summer at Syringa

📖 Listening to "The Luminous Dead" by Caitlin Starling www.caitlinstarling.com/the-luminous...

Fox-and-Cubs

Weekend drive on the Koot Route West

Iterated on my shader code to make "Summer Pond": much more efficient, you can change the pov with your mouse or tapping, changed the angle of the rain, added some lily pads. And it's round. 💧 www.shadertoy.com/view/N3BXzd

🎮 Playing "Starfield: Shattered Space". You can see further when the sky is clear, but the stormy weather with red lightning and dust storms are more dramatic.

I usually don’t care for military games of any kind, but when I saw a *tactical kayak* for “Phantom: Covert Ops” on the Quest VR that got my attention. ndreams.com/games/phanto...

🎮 Playing "The Invincible". Found my last missing crewmate.

Playing "The Invincible" and continuing to look for my crewmate on Regis III 🎮

🎧 Listening to "Dear God" (2026) album by The Pretty Reckless #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Kootenay artist Sab Curtis has a new book “Rewired”. “After multiple traumatic brain injuries changed the course of her life, Sab found an unexpected path forward through art.”

Bike riding on a different section of the Slocan Valley Rail Trail

Started playing "The Invincible". So far I like the atmosphere and narrative pacing. It's very grounded '60s retro-futurist; not campy. I accidentally tripped over a spoiler looking up a mineral name I didn't recognize.

Shared some graphics code today over at ShaderToy. Started with the thought of raindrops causing ripples on the surface but also creating trails into the water. Wanting everything to appear calm and glassy. www.shadertoy.com/view/f32XWw

📻 Listening to NTS "Home to two live radio channels broadcasting 24/7 and hundreds of thousands of hours of human-curated shows, NTS is one of the world’s most revered music archives." #Music #Radio www.nts.live

🎧 Listening to "The Wow! Signal" (2026) album by Muse #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Reading “Low: The Delirium of Hope” by Remender and Tocchini. Sci-fi in the far future under the oceans. #Comics

This has stopped getting much traction when I share it (understandable, everyone is unemployed and fatigued), but things are really tight for us right now and I would appreciate any extra visibility I can get. Available for all kinds of supplemental freelance and contract work.

New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳

🎧 Listening to “The New Abnormal” (2020) by The Strokes #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lucy found lots to sniff. Bears and raccoons pass through there. Spotted our first pear growing and then a few more after that. #Caturday

Took the e-bikes out to the Slocan Valley Rail Trail. Beautiful summer day.

Slocan Valley Rail Trail 🚵

Our two Biketrix folding e-bikes in the back of our little Chevy Trax. Heading to the Slocan Valley Rail Trailhead in Winlaw.

There's a thunderstorm watch here today. Sometimes, they produce dramatic clouds, light and sky zaps ... like this from last year. ⬇️ Fingers crossed. #Cariboo #photography

It's Juneteenth. Post your favorite black fictional character.

🎧 Listening to “The ‘Truth Machine’ That Is Changing Math” on The Quanta #Podcast podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

🎧 Listening to “Supergirl Suite” by Claudia Sarne #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Enjoying #Starfield "Shattered Space" add-on that didn't really grab me the first time I started playing it. I started playing again once "Terran Armada" and other updates were released.

Deleted some negative posts about a movie. It wasn't for us and that's ok. I don't need to poop on someone else's fun. #FilmSky

Bike ride along the Columbia River

🎧 Listening to "Welcome to the Mood (Special Edition)" (2026) album by New Zealand electronic music project LEISURE #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🎧 Listening to "I Built You A Tower" (2026) album by Death Cab for Cutie #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

🎧 Listening to "Masters of the Universe OST" by Daniel Pemberton and featuring a wicked Brian May guitar solo 🎸 #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Castlegar Sun Fest parade!