+The Bering Sea

🤣 excellente! www.youtube.com/shorts/q27Qm...

some greatest hits!

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

haha, cute www.fairydoorsofvancouver.com

with more documents becoming markdown-shaped for the text generators, @bearnotesapp.bsky.social's Panda would do soo well. they need to bring it back!

mhm thebuild.com/blog/2026/04...

after a 6-month hiatus (winter sabbatical), I'm back at it with Gogomi. pushed an update last night to testflight. are we...so back?

interesting!

work in db availability wasn't sexy but it really gave me perspective. got zero insight on github's infra but I doubt their current problems would simply be fixed with horizontal scaling. real fix is likely a rearchitect which is fine with time, but against a worsening livesite…oof

one of my favourite 'design details' newsletters: unsung.aresluna.org

Finished this post at the JJ Bean on Hastings near a notoriously stubborn back door. Been amusing watching what people use…shoulders, backsides, legs, one guy with full hands used his knee! Helped an elderly person who couldn't budge it. So many personalities, just as many ways to open a door.

new post: kevindeyoungster.com/writing/jour...

a core childhood memory was figuring out how to extract .flv urls for Sonic Nazo Unleashed on Newgrounds via 'view source' and network traces 'cause the internet in Ghana was super slow and unreliable

😂 didn't realise my reputation on ig is the guy walking all of burnaby. the sauntervan plot twist is that I've walked more of burnaby (~23%) than vancouver (~13%)

Birdbath with a Painted Bunting. #birds

Had the chance to get some shots at The Crescent 200, one of my favourite community events of the year in Vancouver. @crescent200.bsky.social youtu.be/ICyqwn6ihTs

Introducing Arena Frame, an open-source e-ink display for channels Available fully assembled, for a limited time Or as instructions for you to assemble yourself, forever Read more: www.are.na/editorial/in... Purchase: store.are.na/products/are...

Biologging data → pangeo‑fish modeling → climate projections → an interactive tool on the DestinE Platform. Open source, scalable, and built for real decisions. Full story: developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

They're still at it! Closing 50% of Vancouver :)

This is been getting my attention for the last few weeks. Building an activity tracker/sharer, like Strava, but make it #ATProto.

and Morris the guiana chestnut: growing new fingers!

heard a lot of Mon Rovîa behind this new season of shrinking. good taste!

love the pedantry in here

What is up with that Dragon Pagoda? Did you get a pic of the inscription? Curious as to its history

morning walk in Capitol Hill pt.2, tracing unexplored roads

interviewer: "hmm, kevin, you have a duality to you. like, you clearly have infra experience but you also have product sense, which are you leaning towards?" uuh yeah, I wasn't kidding when I used 'generalist' 😅

in the past month, three (!) people have reached out about wanting to quit like I did months ago. wonder what's going on at my former employer

Whatever you do,

biggest test of my financial discipline this year has been not buying new lego. just saw the woodland mushroom botanical set, very tempting!

saw the grocery store cost chart from that 'new media' article and remembered this post:

took laptop to apple store for battery replacement and it turns out there's also corrosion damage! they have to replace everything below screen, like <insert derivative Ship of Theseus joke that I'm too jet-lagged to flesh out>

evening walk in Manhattan, chasing reds

cool! github.com/DBatUTuebing...

interesting www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrlr...

sabbatical's ending soon and <lifts finger in air> I sense strong winds blowing eastward. not sure how to feel about this just yet

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

an evening walk in Coquitlam. tapped at Inlet Centre station to meet a friend I haven't seen in 2 years. walked up to the river that divides this city and PoCo.

re: poor data gov in sub-saharan institutions a week after I posted this, news broke about a fintech breach that exposed KYC docs (ID cards, home addresses, etc.) apparently one of the main entry points was a swagger file someone left in prod

curious what the reward cycles are for mangakas WHA’s one of my all time faves. started in 2016*, and the anime’s only coming out NOW, a decade later before it goes mainstream… *I discovered it two years ago at a book shop on Cambie

confirmed: cleanshot x’s editor doesn’t work well with HDR photo

“Porting Mac OS X to the Nintento Wii” This made my day—first, that there are people out there who do things like this, but second (and more to the point), that he also took the time to document the process in detail. So much to be learned here: bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/p...

wasn't until the end of Jury Duty where they did the BTS that I realised this is just like game dev! the scripts (unaware character is called 'hero'), camera setup, LARPing...

walk ended at McGill library to pick up a hold. my self-imposed rule is to only read this at Confederation Park. hopefully my hold lasts til I'm done 😆

a chill morning walk around Capitol Hill (new neighbourhood). ended up lost in the bushes (map ≠ territory) and popped out close to a viewpoint I didn't know existed!

aha! wondered why phone photos looked dull when I upload online @cleanshot.bsky.social re-encodes with the wrong colour profile(?) when you edit existing photos. before: Display P3, 9mb after: Display P3 Primaries + PQ, 22mb looks like a bug where it tries to add HDR?

cool project! thoughtfulthings.ai/things/engram

@grids.reillywood.com was it you looking for a project archiving East Van alleyways? (like the eastvangardens account) just stumbled upon this! might be of interest www.instagram.com/eastvanalleys

i want to do things like this! so sick!!

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