Posts from July 2026

Michiyo Yasuda gave Ghibli its colour. This piece finally gives her the credit.

A grid of Studio Ghibli film stills in cool blues: open skies and seas, a serpentine dragon, gliders and seabirds, a girl running across water, and cloudscapes.

A grid of nearly bleached-out Studio Ghibli film stills: pencil sketches, a reclining girl, cherry blossoms, a sleeping cat, a green bird, and pale washed interiors with faint Japanese text.

A grid of Studio Ghibli film stills in intense reds: a fire demon, a masked warrior's eyes, an ornate red interior, a girl clutching a coat in a leaf-storm, and blazing skies.

A grid of Studio Ghibli film stills in twilight purples: dusk seascapes, a mechanical creature, a girl with a red umbrella, a goggled aviator's face, and lavender skies. This grid is 3×6, taller than the others.

A grid of Studio Ghibli film stills in soft pinks: an elderly woman in an interior, flowering blossoms, a white cat, a girl at a window, and a pale umbrella against brick.

A grid of Studio Ghibli film stills unified by warm orange tones: sunset skies, amber interiors, a fox-faced figure, a sleeping dog, and characters bathed in golden light.

A grid of Studio Ghibli film stills in lush greens: rice paddies and forests, children on a country road, a hand reaching out, a small forest spirit, and dense undergrowth.

A photocopied black-and-white flyer wheatpasted around a metal utility pole on a Toronto street. Bold caps read "WANT 2 JOIN A BAND?" flanked by hand-drawn stars, above smaller text: "Looking for talented musicians to join a vocalist that knows a little piano and is learning guitar and maybe take on the world. Indie rock, folk, punk, jazz, blues... Willing to play any genre (except screamo)." A partly torn "Inspirations" list runs down the left edge — Billy Joel, Pulp, Dominic Fike, Joni Mitchell, Faye Webster, Amyl and the Sniffers, Hozier, Dora Jar. Cartoon black cats play a guitar, a vintage microphone, and drums in the lower right. Above the flyer, older stickers and a QR code cling to the pole. Behind, streetcar tracks and a leafy residential street recede into the distance. — undefined - 26 Jul, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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Read the first three chapters of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth.

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Started reading Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth at 1RG’s Silent Reading Club.

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Finished reading The Near Witch by V. E. Schwab today.

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I finished watching season one for Ted Lasso.

Ted Lasso (Season 1)

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I’m speaking at Python Toronto’s July 23 Meetup on Personal Data Archaeology with Python. Almost every platform you use holds a slice of your life, all locked behind an API. The Dogsheep pattern (pioneered by Simon Willison) pulls that data into SQLite, where you can actually query it. I’ll share what I’ve learned building these tools.

Come say hi.

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Finished my first day at Relay today.

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Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart

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Went to go see Drunken Noodles tonight with a friend.

Drunken Noodles

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Just finished reading Fiona Marchbank’s Ladies of the Knight, it was so good.

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I finished watching The Final Girls.

The Final Girls

A bunch of wild flowers beside the sidewalk. — undefined - 15 Jul, 2026 at 10:49 AM

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23 Jul, 2026

6:00 PM

Relay Toronto HQ

Toronto, Ontario

I am going to Python Toronto July Meeting at Relay.

Poster on a utility poll saying "Release the Rats". — undefined - 15 Jul, 2026 at 10:16 AM

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Just finished watching the last episode of House of the Dragon: Tumbleton.

House of the Dragon (Season 3)

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My current jam is Be Sweet by Japanese Breakfast.

Album cover for Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast.

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Just finished watching Rickuiem Mort a Dream, the last Rick and Morty episode.

Rick and Morty (Season 9)

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Morning Playlist

#	Cover	Track
01		BCKYRD Hot Mulligan
02		As It Was Harry Styles
03		drop dead Olivia Rodrigo
04		Goodmorning Bleachers
05		Pesticides Moselle
06		Crush Ethel Cain
07		Thia Kane Emerson Woolf & the Wishbones
08		Tear You Apart She Wants Revenge