Has anyone ever combined something like Wikipedia with something like McMaster-Carr? A community-edited catalog and taxonomy of materials and parts?

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

it's so good, i just devoured the whole thing, it's 68 pages of competence porn

For my bsky peeps: Catalyst had her first sea trial today! Went swimmingly. (Which is to say, nobody had to swim).

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Cool, I’m being flamed by the right wing financial press! financialpost.com/opinion/tere...

🚄 new train map from planemad alert: api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/pl...

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

If anyone wants to see some random in-progress photos of the boat photos.app.goo.gl/7csRvGWWy7CW...

been a blast so far working on this with @inkandswitch.com, @toposinstitute.bsky.social + others

I have a friend who was a designer at an engineering firm who got laid off during covid. He took the time to get really good at backcountry skiing thanks to CERB and rejoined the labour force when the jobs came back.

Techbros couldn’t have invented GPS because to have it work at all requires the use of distant black holes; basic research that gov’t needs to fund over decades that tech never will. They don’t realize yet that they’ve turned off the faucet of the tech hose by defunding science.

I’ve just had a fantastic electronics designer drop off my electric boat projects for personal reasons, and another EE/robotics hire who had to withdraw before starting. Would really love to get some more help in that area! Let me know of any leads.

Thanks @mcfunley.com. I guess I should post this here!

announcing Rising Tide Boat Works avibryant.com/2025

Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years. If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏 If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!

My assumption, but only assumption is: it’s now impossible to sell to the US because the tariffs (as designed) make it more expensive than US domestic supply. Leading to a glut in Canada without enough demand.

I’m on the board of the island’s recycling org. We ship scrap metal off island. We used to get $175/ton for it. Post US tariffs on metal, we now get… $25/ton.

Sure, so the movie version about the Stripe lads will star Mo Chara as John, right?

Local-first hack weekend coming up in YVR! I'll do an intro to local-first dev, show off some unreleased Ink & Switch work, and maybe release a new version of the React hooks for Automerge that work better with React 19. Come hang out and make stuff! lu.ma/2ul5uwdl

Continuing a tradition I started last year, I posted an annual update about what I’ve been working on at avibryant.com.

I can never remember, is a ham and cheese sandwich supposed to be one slice of ham between two slices of cheese, or one slice of cheese between two slices of ham?

Hi everybody. I’m not actually sure I will post here yet? But it’s nice to see you all. Have a pic of Asher.