My #MBP M1 Tahoe is freezing daily. Puzzled. If I run any of the stats monitoring tools, CPU and memory seem to be fine. Appears to be something to do with files. Open apps run fine, until they try to do something like spawn a terminal instance, or try to retrieve a list of files. Ideas? #macos

Coming home after two days of dance recitals, you know what the best thing is…. Silence. #dance #backstege #stagelighting

Dishonest POS furious over reports that they are, in fact, dishonest POS.

Bloody hell. I started building websites when PHP was only 1 year old!

Happy 31st Birthday to the #PHP programming language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

NASA has ordered its astronauts aboard the International Space Station to shelter inside their spacecraft and prepare for a potential evacuation as the Russian crew attempts to repair a worsening leak on its side of the station, the agency said Friday. gizmodo.com/iss-astronau... #space #NASA #ISS

Today's blog post: shawnhooper.ca/2026/05/28/d... #WordPress

The WordPress Community Collective's "State of the Community" survey is out. Answer it before June 28th. www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/state-of-the... #WordPress #WPCC

Hanging out at KPMG tonight with #BSidesOttawa for their "Offensive AI Cyber Threat Briefing & CTF" www.meetup.com/bsides-ottaw...

The NYPL Digital Collections API is being quietly sunsetted in August. The only announcement I can find is behind the dev login for API access. When I look for more info, all that's returned is articles from 2012-2016 announcing this leap forward in public info access. Anyone know anything?

*Canada Goose enters the chat*

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Look mom! Another reason to stop using Vercel. vercel.com/legal/terms#... (Is this even legal?)

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

macOS already ships age verification

I've added Corentin Thomasset's "IT Tools" collection to my home lab. So much nicer than bunch of the online ad filled utilities that developers use all the time. shawnhooper.ca/2026/03/09/i... #webdev #homelab

we had a team of incredibly dedicated elite government coders public servants forgoing much more lucrative gigs because they wanted to make government work for people some of them were my friends or former colleagues they worked in the GSA, 18F, and the USDS this administration fired them all

Did you hear about the AI bot that wrote a blog post calling out a human maintainer in the open source matplotlib project? shawnhooper.ca/2026/02/12/w...

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Great read. Transcript of a speech that Cory Doctorow gave in Ottawa yesterday. pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/p...

New Bruce Springsteen track just dropped. Streets of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Av... #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Minneapolis

Brilliant.

In today's blog post: It's been 40 years since the Challenger disaster. Wow. shawnhooper.ca/2026/01/28/c... #nasa #history #challenger

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

Today I published a Bash script that goes through all the S3 buckets in an AWS region and configures it for cross-region replication. shawnhooper.ca/2026/01/26/s... #aws #devops

First time using the Laravel Forge dashboard in a few months. Nice improvements! #laravel

What a time to start journaling. Every entry is like, “I bought bubble bath today. The people of Minnesota are resisting the president’s fascist thugs. My code caused a small bug.”

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

This week we had to say goodbye to Lola, the best "starter cat" a man could ask for. shawnhooper.ca/2026/01/11/l...

Wrote my year in review today. shawnhooper.ca/2025/12/30/2... #yearinreview #blogging

Hmm, there's a "Vintage Computer Festival" happening in Montreal next month. Could be fun to check out. vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/ #montreal

Currently in Calgary

A breakthrough treatment for tinnitus could finally be on the way Researchers in the UK may have discovered a treatment for the symptoms of tinnitus. mixmag.net/read/breakth...

The new McDonalds on Rideau is celebrating their opening with a donation to a local raccoon rescue. www.facebook.com/rideauvanier... For those of you unfamiliar, there's famous incident of a fight in the old McDs where someone pulls out a raccoon: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... #ottawa #raccoon

On our first Apple II computer at home, there was a program called "Applevision", that my brother and I just called "Dancing Man". It blew us away then, and fills me with nostalgia now. Youtube Clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqPe... #nostalgia #appleII

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Tonight’s math. Calculating speaker delay time. Ex: To calculate the delay in milliseconds for a distance of 80 feet, divide the distance by the speed of sound (approximately 1126 feet per second) and then multiply by 1000. This results in a delay of about 71 milliseconds. #livesound #math #sound

Tonight's dinner - home made gluten free chicken BBQ pizza.

Doing my laundry. You can tell the show’s run just ended. Everything is black. #heatre #stagecrew

Just finished a two week run of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Had a blast. Great to back in community theatre. #stagecrew #communitytheatre

The U.S. government has released a new crash test dummy design that advocates believe will help make cars safer for women.

Just the vibe I needed today. Listening to Fred Again's Tiny Desk Concert. What a great set. From 2023, but holds up 100%. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iQm... #music #tinydesk #dj

PHP 8.5 was released today. Here's a great recap of what it includes: stitcher.io/blog/new-in-... #PHP

Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” Parts 1-9 Released as One Continuous Track www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-q... #music

Today's blog post: filtering CloudWatch JSON data! (I've been reading a lot of logs today) shawnhooper.ca/2025/11/18/f... #aws #logging

The videos from last month's WordCamp Canada 2025 have been posted on WordPress.tv: wordpress.tv/event/wordca... #wordpress #WCEH

Robert Miles' "Children" turns 30. weraveyou.com/2025/11/robe... #music #edm #dance

Saving this show’s lighting. To floppy. #theatre

Only two more nights until this production goes up! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I’m on sound. S-O-U-N-D. Sound. #theatre #musicals #stagecrew