My son was showing me a bunch of dragon characters in a game and asking me to rank them to find the one I like the least. None of his. These. Zoom in

it's time for coffee when I start typing 'rm x y' when I intended 'rg x y'

One month till Polyglot www.eventbrite.ca/e/polyglot-s...

Pricy paperback

The Lean project is looking for someone to work on a documentation tool for math/technical communication. This is likely to be very influential, so a chance for someone with the right skills to have great impact. See the announcement here: leanprover.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann...

I wonder how much the anti-AI bias here has been amplified by AI engagement-biased recommender systems

This paper is pretty exciting. Near-zero-carbon steel production costs only 36% more than steel from a blast furnace (under reasonable electricity price assumptions); a carbon tax like the one in the EU is already enough to make it cost-competitive. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Hi Tim, We're running www.polyglotsoftware.com again on Oct 11th and would love to see you there again. Your effort to De-BigTech would probably make for lively and interesting discussion session

Going to Polyglot Conf on October 11th in Vancouver BC. Join us! I'll be taking the train, if anybody is inclined to join me, ping me! www.polyglotsoftware.com

On naming

West coast specialty: a chainsaw museum

"Scale laws" aka "something I can't unsee"

Cat on a 7 day paddle board trip

Rainbows in the fog

@jennybryan.bsky.social Hey Jenny, if you're in town on Oct 11th and not conferenced out after useR and posit::conf, you'd probably enjoy www.polyglotsoftware.com Should be lots of local DS/ML people you know there

YVR Devs: CascadiaJS is soon. Sept 18-19 down in Seattle. It's a great conference with strong ties to Vancouver. It's been held here in the past and the organizers attend and help promote our local conferences. 1/n

@adron.bsky.social hey! Can lure you back up to YVR for another Polyglot. Oct 11th this time www.polyglotsoftware.com

Polyglot Unconference is back. Saturday Oct 11th. Would love to see you there. Old faces, help spread the word. www.polyglotsoftware.com

Random question from my son: why do we get goosebumps when cold when it seems like goosebumps increase the surface area of our skin and would make us colder? (answer: think about what we evolved from)

Siblings out for a walk

Sorry bud, that's not a nut!

Learning new verbs everyday

Had 3 extremely curious turkeys follow me closely through an orchard today. They seemed to want a cuddle

Excellent keynote talk at the first BugBash conference youtu.be/eZ1mmqlq-mY?...

The secret to successful coding with Claude

Resilience. These sticks have been taking a beating from the sea for a long time. Still standing, for now.

Meta is damn sneaky localmess.github.io

xkcd #303-2025 (I got bored while waiting for Claude to do my work)

Loving Claude code's attempts to keep me entertained while it does all the work

I appreciate this post from @mitsuhiko.at . it captures a.... vibe? I am not sure I share the same vibe, exactly. I just like the writing. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/cha...

@edwin.type-driven.org.uk and you thought Whitespace was for lols

My son has a new obsession, the phonetic alphabet. Shakespeare's sonnet 29:

Codex has another 4 PRs ready for me before breakfast is done

After some initial frustration, I'm high-fiving OpenAI Codex (through the app, not the cli). 23 PRs completed in 12 hours. It would have been even more if they'd implement build caching already.

Hey AWS friends—here’s an opportunity for your Business Daddy to give back.

"One more question: do you vibe code?" Audience roars with laughter youtu.be/dq8MhTFCs80?...

NEW: SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser’s Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App unicornriot.ninja/2025/signalg... Mike Waltz is using a foreign company’s software to log Signal chats. Our exclusive deep dive into the TeleMessage system.

Timely find www.amazon.ca/Hitlers-Firs... www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/b...

With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

I've just finished reading Abundance by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social It should be required reading for all politicians. I especially hope @mark-carney.bsky.social and the Liberal party, who I have voted for, have internalized its message en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundan...

Reading a very timely book www.amazon.ca/Active-Measu...

Poilievre hides his campaign platform from voters during an election; Poilievre hides from reporters questions (except Rebel 'News"); Poilievre hides from his security clearance so we don't know if foreign agents helped him. Why would anyone vote for someone with so much to hide? #MapleMAGA

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.