#politics https://yac.grumpy-learning.com/@grmpyprogrammer/statuses/01KGHWK4JPRP7E243GYKQXJTVD

Nothing really new here in regards to software packages needing good README/Docs and good samples. I’m curious if previous reports were much different on this question. I was a tad surprised to see Google so high, and only google. Or is that a catch all for all search engines? Text suggests it […]

This is great news for local devs around Montreal. Diverse area of town and close to Old Montréal. May I suggest, if booking a hotel room, you do not book at the Hilton Doubletree on Jean Mance. Last time I was there they had a mice problem. But if you're feeling lucky, take a chance, maybe they […]

I’ve been a fan of Jeffrey Way since his day one of Laracasts. His latest video is well thought out and, in my opinion, is a positive and accurate look at AI in the coding world. Jeffrey is done! No not done done … but he is accepting that things are no longer what they were. Watch the video if […]

Ordering one this week! We did a test once via some Canadian organization and they simply said, SAFE. But we have a 200 year old country home with a deepish basement, and lots of friends with much more airtight houses than us. Figure we can share the device around. #Radon #health #cancer […]

Had not heard of the #microtik before. Definitely looks interesting. Thanks for sharing. #wifi #networking https://snac.smithies.me.uk/justine/p/1769550218.354540

Doscovered Lyrion last night. Self hosted music steaming server. Going to give it a try once the homelab is a bit more complete. https://lyrion.org #homelab #lyrion #musicstreaming

Between brew, laravel valet and php monitor, could it be any easier to develop on macOS? PHPStorm as my IDE. Multiple versions of PHP at your finger tips. This is my setup, what is yours? #laravel #pho #phpstorm #macos #brew #

Seeing a lot of mstdn.ca accounts with broken images… is this expected?

If other democracies want to help democracy in America right now, they can start selling our treasuries. That seems to be the only thing that gets Republicans to take action against Trump.

We are meeting with our financial advisor this week to discuss how best to remove any USA based retirement and investment funds are still there. Moving forward, we will not be putting any of my investments into the USA, even if ours alone are small. #elbowsup #buycanadian #buyeuropean […]

My wife just reminded me that it was Bonnie Sherr Klein, mother-in-law to @avilewis who made “Harmonie”, via the NFB, a fill about the Lake MacDonald Music Centre CAMMAC. A fascinating family. #cammac #NFB #politics #NDP

Very nice to see a federal level Canadian government official embracing Mastodon. @avilewis is here! I hope more are to follow! #politics #elbowsup

Carney better not back down on Trumps new 100% across the board. We all need to convince at least two people still going to or buying from the USA to stop. And they’ll tell two friends and so on… and so on… https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariff-canada-china-goods-9.7059561 #boycottusa […]

We signed up for hydro Quebec rate D plan which offers money back for reducing usage during peak times. Peak times are 6am-10am and 4pm-8pm on specific days. We get a notice a few days before and again a day before. Our electricity is around $0.08/KWh. For every KWh below our average usage at […]

Most of my clients use MS Exchange, therefore, I have MS accounts my clients reach me at. It was quiet today, no emails. MS status page, all green. Text message some people I work with in other parts of the world, “All good here!” Downdetector shows there are issues. Internet Search: find a […]

Any suggestions for a replacement for AWS SNS for SMS messages tied to our self-hosted server monitoring? #aws #sns #instantmessaging

A worthy read on optimization. #php #optimization https://phpc.social/@brendt/115926611359472808

Domains starting with A and B have been migrated from CloudFlare to a Canadian registrar. Sadly FullHost appears to only allow one at a time transfers. This is going to take awhile. #elbowsup #buycanadian #cloudflare #fullhost

A Laravel package for managing user invitations with polymorphic relationships, token-based access, scheduled reminders, and event-driven notifications. I can see a use for this already. Direct link to GitHub if that is your thing: https://github.com/offload-project/laravel-invite-only […]

We continued one of our farm house projects: removing a structurally corrupt chimney. The chimney is not original in the 200 year old stone house, my dad installed this in ‘84. It got only 39 years of use before being declared unsafe, and not possible to put a […] [Original post on phpc.social]

Trump is now eyeing Iceland as the 52nd state. Will people wake up now please? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/anger-iceland-incoming-us-ambassador-52nd-state-joke Countries should immediately expel foreign ambassadors when they act like ungrateful treasonous babies. #boycottusa […]

Every young socialist tries to recruit me, and like, yea I’m ✨with you comrade✨, but I wish I was the perfect elder fighting for good that you’re hoping for. We get tired and old - life is messy and ethics are complicated. Don’t ask too much about my past. I tried to fight for people.

Last night I started migrating the last of my domains from cloudflare to FullHost, 100% Canadian hosting and 100% Canadian data storage. #elbowsup #buycanadian #boycottusa #fullhost

Attempting to bookmark and make easier to find for me as I am now building our home setup. #selfhosting #opensource #homelab https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115887006158717033

Only installed php 8.5 this past week. Not in production yet. #php https://phpc.social/@brendt/115882150689230037

Boycott everything USA… digital (a tough one), food, travel, appareil… entertainment (a tough one). #boycottusa #elbowsup https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/115866443222649474

This would have allowed me to still have hair… thanks for sharing Wes! #css https://www.threads.com/@wesbos/post/DTOU36KEXy3

I feel like it's time again to point out how useful it would be for Canada to join the EU.

What is up with Canada Post package deliveries? An order over the holidays got lost. Seller quickly created a replacement order after telling me we were the 12th order Canada Post lost this holiday season. Today, another order they said is out for delivery. 30 minutes later a message, “we missed […]

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

We don’t go out to eat often, so tonight was a special night. I was thrilled to see the drink menu. #buycanadian #boycotusa #elbowsup #alcohol

Disappointed this morning that latest polls are showing Canadians putting their elbows down. Over the weekend, two families we know were going on about their trip to Florida this winter and a US Cruise they were taking. NS resuming the sale of American Alcohol. At an XMas dinner a friend […]

As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc... I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]

First snowshoe of the season! #snowshoes #winter #canada #quebec

I spent a lot of my time at Codeplay wondering why it was so hard to build a disruptive technology company. A lot of what I ended up focusing on was the ecosystem. In technology, ecosystems are critical, especially for businesses. But they're not a direct revenue-generator, so they get […]

Omg I thought my brain was melting as I aged. Apple QA ain’t what it used to be. #ios https://mastodon.social/@Iamgroot11/115682267432292588

Find phpmon a wonderful tool on macOS. Developer was super responsive when I had an issue last year. Give it try if you do local PHP dev work. #php https://phpc.social/@nicoverbruggen/115672575917357362

My son has started to post some of his 3D Models to 3D Cult. Up this week are a couple of models for cosplayers of Arc Raiders https://cults3d.com/en/users/Jabberwocky/3d-models #arcraiders #3dmodels #3dprinting

As much as I miss our parents, I am happy they don’t need to be around to see the absolute shit show our planet has become.

Spam commits on repos? Wtf! Clearly nothing to do with my repos, and just a shitty text block with a link to something, probably, evil.

Our phone service offers a free receptionist system. You know, press one for … press two for… To help curb all the crap calls we are getting, I was thinking I could just add that receptionist into the mix “If you really want to speak to me, press 3 now.” Ideally if there is a “Hang Up” feature […]

Quebec sent my usual email notice about a “message” in the Quebec Business Register. Instructions are entirely wrong and out of date. I had to do a search engine search to find the correct URL. Form is asking for NEQ code and password. Password from last year doesn’t work. How to reset it? They […]

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc

#feelgood https://sfba.social/@pmonks/115645798630968826

Got an email claiming to be from 407ETR stating I had an over due balance. Last time I used that toll road was 3 years ago. Obviously a scam, but is it targeted. Arrived only at the address I used for my account with them. Anyone know if the 407ETR system hacked? The German text and obvious […]

Worktree is the wholly Canadian (Montreal) GitHub replacement. Started there a couple of weeks ago. The site is built and run by BlackieOps owned by Alex Black. I found it a tad awkward blackieops listed GitHub as the home to all their repos, not worktree. #buycanadian #elbowsup #worktree

It is with true sadness that our dojo is closing after 20 years. It is a family oriented dojo with a sensei that was a Canadian champion in his heyday. Compassionate and fitness and health oriented, physically and mentally. An awesome person. 5th Dan in koshiki, black belt judo and just earned […]

@homelab https://beige.party/@heapy/115628443257638354