It’s been a while since I attended a Star Wars movie premiere. Fun vibe. #starwars #grogu https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116615356053442758#starwars#grogu#Starwars #Grogu

Heh, now this project looks fun. AMAZE! AMAZE! AMAZE! GitHub - lahirumaramba/rocky: Rocky: Your Own Personal Eridanian Buddy · GitHub https://github.com/lahirumaramba/rocky #ProjectHailMary #Rocky #RaspberryPi https://universeodon.com/@bgri... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116579312315260233

Reading: "... the intimacy of request put me in peril. Because I was treating it like a person. Only people have boundaries. I played myself. My brain followed suit, firing up hallucinations of stress and obligation every time I ghosted its text... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116528945653864080

Finally: Notepad++ finally lands on macOS as a real native app https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/notepad-plus-plus-mac/ #Notepad ++ #Text #Editing #Writing #MacOS #Apple https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116505293928442173#Notepad#Text#Editing#Writing#MacOS#Apple#Notepad #Text #Editing #Writing #Macos #Apple

Uh, wow!! Cool if true. "At CES in January, the startup said its solid-state battery has an energy density of 400Wh per kilogram—roughly twice that of typical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in production. Not only that, but it could c... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116400317345935970

Jinkies! Anthropic accidentally exposes Claude Code source code • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/anthropic_claude_code_source_code/ #AI #Claude #Anthropic https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116326149260106136#AI#Claude#Anthropic#Ai #Claude #Anthropic

Reading: ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It. Cloudflare and ChatGPT getting together to check for bot traffic AND user behaviour. The researcher's core point is that the scop... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116318997319705450

Reading: OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance "The entire apparatus being constructed (internal threat identification, flagging, direct RCMP referral) is oriented toward monito... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116293431506858816

One of the joys of #tax season -- getting to choose which #Retro #Calculator to use. Though I owned a #Sharp #Elsimate back in the day (I was the nerd in high school), all were acquired more recently. I loved the aesthetic of the #TexasInstrumen... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116239696685241182

It's been 12 or so years since I've seriously played #GuildWars2 -- wow, the game is even more fun than I remember! Our gaming group started with the original #Guildwars after spending a lot of time playing Baldur's Gate online. Getting back int... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116236167573188211

Great take on the new Macbook NEO - mistakes were made, and that's the point. Good trip down memory lane too! “This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/ #Tech... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116227743624173935

Somebody's taking a reputation hit by trading on someone else's reputation. Reading: Grammarly is using our identities without permission | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/890921/grammarly-ai-expert-reviews #AI #W... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116188106886277340

Waiting on parts. 2 printers, 1 day, and a fair bit of filament. This will eventually be a card shuffler - large capacity - perfect for Wyrmspan, Wingspan, any game with a huge deck. Canasta? Just waiting on a shipment of o-rings and screws :) ... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116114974602374030

I guess it's about time? Migrating from Firefox to LibreWolf. Catalyst was -- on my windows box -- the tab bar kept scrolling to the right. Turned out the culprit was a dying mouse (middle button/wheel controller board) kept sending a Control ke... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116047612758864256

Interesting: "Your phone goes far beyond collecting the light that hits your camera's sensors. It's guessing what the image would look like if the camera was better and then building it for you, he says." --- Your phone edits all your photos w... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116024150566866818

Interesting and motivating read: "...the way we get Carney to live up to his Davos speech is by pouncing any time he even hints that he might go back on his word, poaching his voters by campaigning on a promise to live up the Carney Doctrine (ev... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115969729264775240

Ha! It's great that WeeklyBeats is still kicking around and have launched this year's iteration. I dabbled with music production a bit 10 years ago or so, had fun, but then, life. It happens. Now, I have a bit more time on my hands, so maybe wi... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115851592726212806

Discovered a great overview of another reason I'm not a fan of the new macos look... inconsistent iconography. From Apple. They literally wrote the book on design language, but I guess it's not their thing now? Reading: https://tonsky.me/blog/t... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115842958408751295

Cold brew Simple recipe, which is good because it's only day 2 of this year and it looks like I'll need a lot of this to get through it. For the record: - 1 litre of water - 1 cup of coarse-ground coffee - 1 day of brewing on the countertop. #... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115826166151027064

Much Wow! Was reminded today that back in 2013, on this day, I started mining Doge coin. It was an experiment to learn about blockchain and I ran it on an older Macbook Pro. It was a thing I let run in a closet for about six months. Then I shut... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115803625769491922

Reading: This makes sense, except, it seems in Alberta where the gov't knows best... /s "The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yields" https://theconversation.com/the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-how-sola... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115798913644839269

It's that time of year again... Between the festivities and the downtime, I'm tackling my annual #DigitalDeclutter . This year, I'm adding a new step: wiping my AI chat history. More details over at the blog post: https://bradgrier.com/2025/12... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115787978208884664

Reading: The AI privacy settings you need to change right now - The Washington Post "Why should you care if an AI company has a file on you? You might not want ads following you around based on your more intimate conversations. When AI compani... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115769361653194250

'tis the season -- a good deep dive into a seasonal classic. Reading: "The Nutcracker" on Record - Part 1 | Tracking Angle https://trackingangle.com/features/the-nutcracker-on-record-part-1 #Music #ClassicalMusic #Christmas #Nutcracker #Viny... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115724082245084014

Reading: Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem as ever more microchips run our lives. Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft https://... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115685418059583132

Part of my role is looking at new tools and processes to help clients do their thing. Recently had some fun on a personal project (Planespotting application) and used a development approach we're calling 'Agentic Sprint'. Back in the day we used... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115642115300597086

Took Google’s new agentic coder, Antigravity, for a spin. It looks like a Cursor clone, but the real deal is its deep tie-in to the Google Cloud. I was kinda impressed by the difference between its workflow and Google’s other AI cat, Jules.... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115583329121234259

Fun to be getting back to a project I've not touched in 5 months. Yes, it's a text-based interactive adventure / RPG based on the Classic #Traveller ruleset. Big goal is it'll support user-designed story-modules and have a module editor etc... ... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115574928514079025

Reading:Unmasking Archive.today True, it is a site that lets you grab a snapshot of almost any site, but the thing that's got folk knickers in a knot is the paywall bypassing it does. Very well. So a friend tells me... https://mjtsai.com/blog/... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115555769021636830

Quite enjoying watching The Orville. Dismissed it when it was in first run - wasn't in the mood for it - and am I glad I waited. Time has shown it's a very good SF series that's an obvious homage to all the Trek. But. What I didn't really expec... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115517486712108839

Heh, a thing I heard about today, a comms. tech project stalled. Again. Reasons were: - Our IT department is cool, but there isn't room on the roadmap for the next 18 months. - Recommended agency missed the mark on our budget, compliance, and m... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115505223951482765

Another conversation turns into a post... I detect a trend here.... The pragmatist’s guide to avoiding digital serfdom It’s not your imagination. The tools we used to love are getting worse. They call it “platform evolution.” We call i... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115499355168588201

Ah yes, tonight's the night for the annual playing of The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama) #RadioPlay #MercuryTheater #WarOfTheWorlds #Aliens #Halloween #RadioDrama ht... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115471344413262264

Ok, now this is cool. 25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/25-years-one-website-iss-in-real-time-captures-quarter-century-on-space-station/ #Spa... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115463385207564451

Well, that didn't work. The blog has crashed so I'm rebuilding it. Yay. Actually no, not yay. There were a few valuable comments there especially about using a privacy-focused DNS provider alongside a personal Pi-hole device. They're cool, and I... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115447444342925207

I love it when the internet works. I'm moving my household storage to a new NAS, and wanted to download our icloud photo libraries. Thinking I'm not the only person who has ever wanted to do this, a quick search resulted in this great little py... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115435065821647242

The other day I got into a conversation with a family member about the Amazon DNS outage, and how DNS works. And that progressed the conversation into data sovereignty in Canada. Who controls your internet’s “phone book” matters—for your... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115430641534920468

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash Ouch! " The problems fall into three main categories: Atlas substitutes its own AI-generated content for the web, but it looks like it's showing you the web The user experience makes you... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115421077032085421

🎵 Now Spinning: Nazareth – Razamanaz (1973) 1973 – Canada Vinyl LP, Album Gatefold A&M Records – SP-4396 Doing some catch-up on some records I picked up over the summer. The Nazareth album is in amazing shape and sounds awesome! I forg... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115419184661108902

My winter project list is a little longer now -- picked up one of these at the local Costco. Can't wait! Lego Nintendo Game Boy review: a brick masterpiece just shy of perfection | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/games/787849/lego-nintendo-... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115417793168170355

TIL: Canada offers free DNS protection with the CIRA Canadian Shield. Rather than let your ISP track or sell your browsing history, you can use one of these mobile apps or browser plugins that use CIRA’s DNS, including DNS over HTTPS. You ca... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115412836205056087

Conversations with an #AI - part 28... sounds so familiar. #JulesAI https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115374990005089208#AI#JulesAI#Ai #Julesai

Listening to some seasonal tunes - for Canada today anyway. #Canada #Music #VinceGuaraldi #CharlieBrown #Vinyl #Snoopy #Soundtrack https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115369417741619606#Canada#Music#VinceGuaraldi#CharlieBrown#Vinyl#Snoopy#Soundtrack#Canada #Music #Vinceguaraldi #Charliebrown #Vinyl #Snoopy #Soundtrack

Balancing Growth and Control: Who wins when OpenAI comes calling? A potential Canadian deal highlights the trade‑off between energy and resource access, and digital autonomy and sovereignty. Given that the CLOUD act seems to let US companies ... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115361772892290418

Reading: Jared Leto-led Tron: Ares isn't good enough to hate | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tron-ares-review-9.6933888 https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115350495990866647

Low key - one of the coolest things that fixes a minor annoyance I've found this week -- the MacOS update to 26 (Tahoe) moved the screen brightness and volume indicators to the upper right of the display - where system notifications appear. That... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115338474499458164

Happy to see this smile :) I'm running an #AI advisor test on micro-cap stocks. I ran a development version for a month, but now it's real -- real beans in the market! Based on this much-more-detailed work here: https://github.com/LuckyOne7777/C... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115310957302614022

The digital equivalent of digging down the back of the chesterfield and finding pocket change. A few years ago I sold off some bitcoin. What was left wasn't worth moving as fees would have wiped it out. Today it's worth $100CAD. #crypto #invest... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115305593006503557

Reading: 'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5n903447o https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115287574665501665

It's not doing a bad job... https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/115183041645143547