Types
Different post types have different publishing and display flows. These are the ones I support.
📰 Articles
In-depth, long-form writing, essays, tutorials, and reflections.
📝 Notes
Short updates, quick thoughts, and snippets.
📷 Photos
Snapshots from daily life and walks.
💅🏼 Nails
Documenting nail colors, designs, and experiments.
📚 Reading
Notes and updates on books I'm reading or have finished.
📅 RSVP
Events I'm attending or hosting.
🎬 Watched
Films and TV shows I'm watching or have watched.
Tags
Tags are used to help categorize posts.
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All posts by year
2025
- — 🎬 Went to see One Battle After Another tonight.
- — 📚 Started reading Nimona.
- — 📚 I finished reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab tonight. Loved it.
- — 🎮 Finally finished Hollow Knight, now on to Silksong.
- — 📷 Saw this cute diorama on my evening walk tonight.
- — 📷 They are filming a movie outside my apartment and there is a huge red light coming into my window.
- — 🎬 Finished watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- — 📅 I am going to Nuit Blanche.
- — 📅 I am going to Side Project Social.
- — 🎸 I am going to Destroyer - Dan's Boogie Tour.
- — 💅 Nails Painted With Black Onyx
- — 📰 Building a Calendar Interface in Astro I wanted my website to have a clean, static calendar interface to showcase all my RSVP posts. At first, I considered using FullCalendar, an excellent package, but a bit too heavy for my needs. I wanted something that rendered at build time, without extra client-side scripting. Building a lightweight calendar in Astro with date-fns was surprisingly straightforward.
- — 📅 I am going to Subvert x New Feeling: Music and Co-ops Social & Salon.
- — 📝 Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where people’s personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.
- — 📷 Butterfly
- — 📷 Found this cute little guy today near Queen and University.
- — 💅 Nails Painted With Big Apple Red
- — 📰 JSONFeed in Astro with @astrojs/rss I wanted this website to publish both an RSS feed and a JSONFeed. The catch: I didn’t want to maintain two separate feed pipelines.
- — 📷 Photo Post Published On 3 Sep, 2025 at 2:38 PM
- — 📝 I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.
- — 📷 A week in the countryside, skies shifting from blue to dusk, trees heavy with summer leaves, wildflowers pushing through stone walls, rain on the patio, and quiet evenings under open skies. A little collection of stillness and light. 🌿🌦️☀️
- — 📝 Conservationist Matt Somerville has spent 14 years building log hives across England to give wild honey bees safe, low-intervention homes.
- — 📷 Tomatoes from the garden.
- — 📷 Lego sculpture on the corner of Edwin Ave and Dupont St.
- — 📚 Started reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — 📷 I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel.
- — 📅 I am going to Side Project Social.
- — 📚 Started reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
- — 📚 I’m enjoying reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — 📚 Paused reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 9.
- — 📚 Started reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 9.
- — 📅 I am going to Silent Reading Club with Nora.
- — 📚 Someone at last night’s Silent Reading Club recommended reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier when I mentioned I enjoy reading Queer Horror books.
- — 📚 I started reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — 📚 Finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — 📷 Photo Post Published On 8 Jul, 2025 at 8:00 PM
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 14.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 13.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 8.
- — 📚 I re-read Land of Mirrors by Maria Medem, a stunning and dreamlike graphic novel.
- — 📚 Finished reading Funny Girl.
- — 📚 I finished reading Everyone Sux But You by K Wroten, what an amazing graphic novel.
- — 📝 This documentary Death of a Fantastic Machine explores how photography has shaped our lives, from early photographs to AI-generated images.
- — 📚 Started reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — 📚 Finished reading Final Cut.
- — 📚 Finished reading I’m a Fool for Loving You.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 7.
- — 📚 Finished reading Bury Your Gays.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 6.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 5.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 4.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 3.
- — 📚 I finished reading Ballerina by Patrick Modiano and translated by Mark Polizzotti. This one passage stuck with me:
- — 📚 Finished reading The Flowers of Evil.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 2.
- — 📚 Finished reading Land of Mirrors.
- — 📚 Finished reading Land of Milk and Honey.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 1.
- — 📚 Finished reading The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott.
- — 📚 Finished reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix.
- — 📚 Finished reading It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth.
- — 📚 Finished reading Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.
- — 📚 Finished reading Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki.
- — 📚 Finished reading Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, Volume 5.
2024
- — 📚 Finished reading Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness.
- — 📚 Finished reading Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together.
- — 📚 Finished reading Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
- — 📚 Finished reading Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 11.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 12.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 9.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 10.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 8.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 7.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 6.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 5.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 2.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1.
- — 📰 Broadacre City — Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Dystopia Democracy… we have started toward a new integration—to an integration along the horizontal line which we call the great highway.
- — 📰 Icebergs can get stuck on underwater mountains The current largest iceberg, A-23A, is currently spinning in place on top of an underwater mountain:
- — 📰 Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe As a lover of good food, I’ve always been curious about restaurant health inspections. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a tool that makes it easy to explore Toronto’s DineSafe data.
- — 📰 Arc App's JSON Export to SQLite I started working on a Dogsheep utility for processing Arc App’s Daily (or Monthly) JSON exports into a SQLite database. This provides the ability to analysis the places I visit and activities I am doing in Datasette.
- — 📚 Finished reading All Fours.
- — 📚 Finished reading Good Material.
- — 📚 I just finished reading Health and Safety, which should be required reading for ravers who are 35+.
- — 📚 Finished reading Human Rights, Robot Wrongs.
- — 📚 Finished reading Sex Goblin.
- — 📚 Finished reading The Age of Magical Overthinking.
2023
- — 📰 😢 My Stupid Weather Twitter Profile Bot Got Suspended Seven years ago, I created a little Python script that would add a weather emoji to my Twitter handle, based on the current conditions in Toronto. I don’t think anyone besides myself notices, but it always made me happy to see my handle change to ☀️ Myles Braithwaite on a sunny day.
- — 📚 Finished reading Eating to Extinction.
- — 📚 Finished reading Last Exit to Brooklyn.
- — 📚 Finished reading Bubble.
2022
2021
2020
2019
- — 📷 I ♥️ summer in Toronto.
- — 📝 Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
- — 📝 Scooter's aren't as "eco-friendly" as they claim to be The study concludes that dockless scooters generally produce more greenhouse-gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a bicycle—or, of course, a walk.
- — 📷 Waiting to go home from Oakville.
- — 📷 Outside is awesome today!
- — 📝 🎥 Hobbs & Shaw was really good.
- — 📝 🎵 Chance the Rapper new album The Big Day is awesome.
- — 📷 To create a better future we must create love within our lives now we have the tools to create love. This is love for not just some of us but for all people. This is love not just in our time, but for all time.