If you like playing with fluid sims, game-of-life type shenanigans, etc... then hold on to your socks. aphid91.github.io/Fluoddity-Co...

Premier Wab Kinew in Manitoba 🍁 rejecting data centres 😏🇨🇦

Reading Walkable City by Jeff Speck, he drops this statistic: "Almost 85% of the money expended on cars and gas leaves the local economy. " Its completely obvious in hindsight, but of course: oil dependence is wealth extraction.

A window in Rome

My (closed) earbuds case fell out of my pocket while sitting, to the floor. The case now sits on the floor (close). The earbuds are about 4 and 6 feet away.

My favourite part of VSCode switching to a weekly update cadence is how every update is almost exclusively about The Agents Tool, which as best I can tell, is a completely separate piece of software that shouldn't require me to update VSCode.

I always thought the SimCity SNES cover was so rad. THE. SKYSCRAPERS. ARE. LETTERS. 😱

Some magic line was crossed today and suddenly I actually spent a bit of time "playing" my SimCity remake, and not just debug-poking it. #indieDev

Just accidentally ate a ketchup chip and a nib at the same time and wow that was a taste sensation I was not expecting and can very strongly recommend and/or not recommend!

Random thing from my childhood that I quote at least a dozen times a week: "TOWOORRRRKKKK! TOWOORRRKK! WORK WORK WORK!" youtu.be/qA_dNdqpQFU?...

UGH I hate this framing so much. Apple App Store really seemed to cement it with its charts as primary discovery mechanism and it's driven me bananas since. The idea, "lots of people are spending money on this so you should spend money on it too!" feels deeeeply twisted to me. "Buy what's popular!"

#godot updating their contributor guidelines with sensible and reasoned positions w.r.t. LLM contributions. godotengine.org/article/cont... 🙌

Does anyone know: is the tunnelling machine digging the Broadway extension going to be recovered or left in the ground? #TransLink #yvr

Take it slow today

That beautiful moment on my working walk to work, when two scatterings of people walking orthogonal directions weave perfectly through each other without having to modify their course at all. 🤩

This morning's bitter thought: the primary purpose of a chain store is to extract money from a community. It's frankly boggling to me that cities allow these things to proliferate and take over neighborhoods. Or am I thinking about this wrong? I'd love to not have to hate everything...

She has this idea of "green ooze", the performative greenery and obligatory benches that appear in front and among developments which are perentually devoid of humans. This is really sticking with me because it's counterintuitive. It's fun to observe as I walk around these days.

Did you ever notice there's no ads at 22nd Street station?? Huh. #SkyTrain

More positive: I am in need of new tshirts and figure there's probably lots of cool pride shirts for sale right now! WANTED: links to the coolest pride tshirts by the best people. I want to wear *all the prides* 🤩

Ugggh C-22 makes me so angry. And the way it's being handled makes me angrier. There's so many upsetting things our gov't is doing right now, but this one is like, "Authoritarianism! Wooo!" 🤮 openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

Teamwork, makes the night-time hallucination perform labour.

#unicycle day 11. I can mount 19 times out of 20, and go in a straight line basically until I run out of road. First attempts at intentional turning have been a moderate success, as shown by the three quarters of a U-turn here.

Why are apps so huge?? Trying to free some space on my phone... Earbuds app is 600mb. Banking app is 450mb. Smarthome controller is 850mb. Weather app is 200mb. This is madness...

"Some tasty looking garbage you got there..."

Okay, I must be getting old. This is indeed a compromised website. Look at all those question marks I wrote! 😅 Okay, well watch your backs out there. Auncle ipsquiggle is just gonna slink away now...

Uh, ran into this captcha today. This is... EXTREMELY not okay???? Am I missing something?

Oh my goodness. This interview. The interviewer keeps asking Pedro de Silva these embarrassingly softball questions like, "now that AI is here I'm the district, how is it being used?" THREE TIMES. And he was utterly incapable of even a basic answer, literally offloading to the students. 🤦🤦🤦

Buying licorices and I confused zout and zoet. Dammit.

Remember when Gregor Robertson said he didn't want home prices to drop? presumably because he didn't want to upset homeowners? Check out these poll results!! The homeowner that doesn't want prices to go down is an imaginary constituent. Let er rip. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ugh, this notification just popped up. I'm so tired of everything advertising to me.

I was going on about how the web doesn't feel bespoke and idiosyncratic anymore, then just stumbled on this: gsap.com I loathe "scroll as interaction", but, it's nice to know there are still people out there dedicated to helping us make deranged websites! 🙌

Got the 1700 photos I took at the kids' theatre production (Urinetown!) whittled down to 850. Gonna do another pass to try getting it below 500 before sending it out to the other families...

Part of my anxiety about driving is constant visions of Wiley E. Coyote levels of vehicular failure, like my breaks suddenly stop working and while I'm tromping the pedal the steering wheel comes off and then all four tires pop and the wheels fly off and the car starts tumbling like a ball and the d

Jayme Poisson: So I'm wondering, have you thought about how this is going to hurt people? Why are you focusing on adoption before safety? Evan Solomon: Instead of answering that, let me tell you about how were giving money to industry and pushing adoption. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

At one point I wrote 5,000 words on "The 13 Reasons We Should Be Wary of AI Tech". Number one in the list was "Bad People". The scumbags in charge are inseparable from the problem. But I think their inability to see or acknowledge it is actually the cause, not a symptom... youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY

I was not expecting to laugh this hard this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...

I get so intensely infuriated when I start reading a blog post in that weird LLM "power writing" style. Key points up front. Declarative short sentences. Groups of three. GAAAaaaaaahhhhhh it makes me want to claw my eyes out. Do people like reading this weird stuff? Why would anyone publish it?

Oh "cool". Apparently in-app-purchases are not elligible for Family Library on google play. So that means while I can purchase Monument Valley 1 & 2 and let my kid play them, I can't do this with 3 because it does the "the game is a demo until you unlock it with IAP" thing. 🤦

Waaaaoooh the C64 version of Sim City 😍 This is so COOL (via the extremely interesting gamehistory.org/simcity/)

I quite like the transit app, and it's always nice to have alternatives to google's hegemony! This one benefits from more people using it, too, so go install it! 🙌

Okay programmy/mathy friends, my brain is breaking over a funny thing: I've got some sample code doing this: `if (!(rand16i() & 7)) {` I'm trying to figure out what that looks like as a decimal and why.

Holy cow, my allergies are so ludicrously bad right now. I've doubled up on meds and I've still sneezed over a hundred times today, tears are streaming from my eyes, not to mention other fluids streaming from my face. I don't think they've been this bad in my life. This is unreal.

Reminder that if you think the luddites were wrong, you’ve fallen for capitalist propaganda.

Leaping from a tree trunk across an empty void to a flimsy branch, 10m above the ground, scrabbling for dear life for a moment, making it, scurrying along, business as usual. Just squirrel things.

Oooooh I'm extremely excited for a city sim built on some different principles! (It's what I've been working on in my spare time 🤣) This looks really great, so stoked! store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/...

Oh gosh, I am perpetually so angry about how few people know about unmarked crosswalks. It's in the ding-dang training manual and (sometimes) on the written part of the driver's test! Anyways, great video, talking about using engineering rather than human nature to solve the problem 😁👍

What's up with package management on Linux?? I've been using winget for the past few months and it's been a reliable treat, today doing some installs on my Linux lappy and the packages are years out of date and manual install is all "download this bin and sudo mv it to some nonexistent dir".

Idea: any company which is the butt of Onion articles for more than 4 years in a row is immediately dissolved by the government. theonion.com/google-annou...

Looking at these diagonal grooves in the door floor plate on the SkyTrain. They are quite deep, like 3mm. They are slipped towards the midpoint of the door. I wonder if the intention is to guide feet/objects *into* the train, if they get caught in a closing door.