- Name
- myles
- Full Name
- Myles Braithwaite
- Role
- software engineer. digital gardener
- myles@myles.garden
- Website
- https://myles.garden/
- Dateable
- Yes
- Birthday
- September 19
- Pronouns
- he/they
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August 2026
- — π Read up to page 55 of We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman.
- — π I started reading We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 1 of Rooster.
- — π Just got I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman.
- — π Just got The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez.
- — π¬ Just finished watching Self Reliance.
- — π I just picked up What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton.
- — π Just picked up The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero.
- — π Just picked up The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin.
- — π Just picked up Rough Description by Don Pyle.
- — π Just picked up Burnside by Devyn Defoe.
- — π Sami Smith built Misen, a launchpad with a skeuomorphic design of a room. Itβs kind of incredible what people are building with the help of LLMs.
- — π Painted Nails With Spread the Cherry
- — π¬ Behind the scenes of how Blackwing pencils are made.
- — π· twenty past eight, flat on the couch twenty past eight, flat on the couch
- — π· sunday afternoon, and the bouquet is still going sunday afternoon, and the bouquet is still going
- — π§ My current jam is Real Life by ear.
- — π Rick Vega made this helpful site to build your own zine.
- — π Love this essay by Conor Dougherty about 40- and 50-somethings who skate a Costco car park before work. Curbs as an excuse to keep showing up for each other.
- — π· sheβs still holding her glass up, west-end laneway after dark sheβs still holding her glass up, west-end laneway after dark
July 2026
- — π John Herrick unravel the mysteries of elevators.
- — π An intersting guid for archivist wanting to create disk images of floppy disks with the intention of preserving them for the long-term.
- — π Julia Evans talks about her learnings from using SQLite in production.
- — π Michiyo Yasuda gave Ghibli its colour. This piece finally gives her the credit.
- — π· willing to play any genre (except screamo) willing to play any genre (except screamo)
- — π Read the first three chapters of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth.
- — π Started reading Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth at 1RGβs Silent Reading Club.
- — π Finished reading The Near Witch by V. E. Schwab today.
- — π¬ I finished watching season one for Ted Lasso.
- — π Iβm speaking at Python Torontoβs 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. Iβll share what Iβve learned building these tools.
- — π Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — π¬ Went to go see Drunken Noodles tonight with a friend.
- — π Just finished reading Fiona Marchbankβs Ladies of the Knight, it was so good.
- — π¬ I finished watching The Final Girls.
- — π· Saw these flowers on my walk to 1RG this morning. Saw these flowers on my walk to 1RG this morning.
- — π I am going to Python Toronto July Meeting: July 23 at Relay.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π¬ Just finished watching the last episode of House of the Dragon: Tumbleton.
- — π§ My current jam is Be Sweet by Japanese Breakfast.
- — π¬ Just finished watching Rickuiem Mort a Dream, the last Rick and Morty episode.
- — π§ Morning Playlist This is the playlist I listen too on my morning coffee walks. I like to listen to a mix of upbeat and mellow songs to start my day off right.
- — π¬ Finished watching the final season of The Bear.
- — π· A photo dump of Theo at the farm. He was a little camera shy, but I managed to get a few good shots of him. A photo dump of Theo at the farm. He was a little camera shy, but I managed to get a few good shots of him.
- — π· Spent last week at the farm. Took a lot of photos. These are the keepers. Spent last week at the farm. Took a lot of photos. These are the keepers.
- — π I really want to like HyperTexting (an iOS app that will turn feeds into a scrollable social media interface), but when I first opened the app, it auto-subscribed me to 20+ feeds I have no interest in, and now the first post on the list is an ad to buy a sponsorship for their app.
- — π Read the first two chapters of Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 1 by Kamome Shirahama.
- — π I started reading Witch Hat Atelier, a manga by Kamome Shirahama.
- — π· He saw a chipmunk on the bird feeder once and now he just assumes they live there. He saw a chipmunk on the bird feeder once and now he just assumes they live there.
- — π I started reading the The Near Witch by V. E. Schwab tonight.
- — π· Went to see InterAccessβs, Toronto Made, The World in a City Illuminated exhibition at the Canada Malting silos tonight. Went to see InterAccessβs, Toronto Made, The World in a City Illuminated exhibition at the Canada Malting silos tonight.
- — π· Nobody planted this. Gardeners call these volunteers: seeds that show up, pick a crack, and commit. Nobody planted this. Gardeners call these volunteers: seeds that show up, pick a crack, and commit.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 4 of Youβre the Worst.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
June 2026
- — π¬ I finished watching season 3 of Youβre the Worst.
- — π° How I Built Yarrow Tarotβs had me for a few years. So I built Yarrow, a three-card reader.
- — π§ My current jam is Please Be Rude by Gigi Perez.
- — π I finished reading Kill Billionaire by Anders Lustgarten.
- — π Interesting tutorial by Jonas Hietala on designing a personal Pebble watchface. I like the idea of using a watchface to display personal information, and this tutorial provides a good starting point for creating one.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 2 of Youβre the Worst.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 1 of Youβre the Worst.
- — π Painted Nails With Feelinβ Libra-ted
- — π¬ I started re-watching Youβre the Worst.
- — π Built a docs site for astro-jsonfeed, powered by Starlight. Setup was painless. Took an afternoon.
- — π§ My current jam is A Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kiley.
- — π§ My current jam is Mondo Bongo by The Mescaleros.
- — π· Love these koi in Graffiti Alley. Love these koi in Graffiti Alley.
- — π I built a new website, Yarrow. It pulls a three-card tarot spread every time you visit. A fun side-project built with Astro, Svelte, and Tailwind. Iβve got a bunch of ideas for it, but wanted to get a basic version out first.
- — π§ My current jam is Love Yourself (1999 Electronic Demo) by Sufjan Stevens.
- — π¬ I started watching season 1 of Rooster.
- — π¬ I finished watching Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
- — π¬ I started watching season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty.
- — π¬ I finished watching Hoppers.
- — π I started reading Andres Lustgartenβs Kill Billionaire.
- — π Just finished reading Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali.
- — π· Spent the evening in High Park at 1RGβs Art in the Park event. Drew some trees. A squirrel came by to critique. Spent the evening in High Park at 1RGβs Art in the Park event. Drew some trees. A squirrel came by to critique.
- — π° Neocities Deploy from GitHub Actions I redesigned my Neocities site to lean harder into a GeoCities look. While I was in there, I wanted a deploy process simple enough to run from my iPad.
- — π· Summer in Toronto. Summer in Toronto.
- — π§ My current jam is Bckyrd by Hot Mulligan.
- — π· Saw this raccoon outside the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Saw this raccoon outside the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
- — π Love this poem I found:
- — π¬ Watched The Devil Wears Prada and it has not really aged well.
- — π I am going to Python Toronto June Meetup.
- — π· Love this Basquiatist graffiti. Love this Basquiatist graffiti.
- — π¬ Just finished watching Mile End Kicks, made me very nostalgic for the early 2010s.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π· Photo dump from a weekend at the farm. Photo dump from a weekend at the farm.
- — π¬ Just watched Is This Thing On?. Pretty meh.
May 2026
- — π Iβm hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever youβre reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.
- — π I am going to 1RG Silent Reading Club.
- — π I am going to 1RG Silent Reading Club.
- — π I am going to 1RG Silent Reading Club.
- — π I created my first NPM pcakge today for astro-jsonfeed, my Astro utility for genreating a JSON Feed. Check it out https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-jsonfeed.
- — π I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. Itβs called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).
- — π Doug MacDowell writes about drawing data visualisations completely by hand.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Community Dinner.
- — π¬ I finished watching The Great Mouse Detective.
- — π Painted Nails With No Room for the Blues
- — π¬ Just watched An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
- — π I started reading Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali.
- — π· Poster for Veracuda Sculptures. Poster for Veracuda Sculptures.
- — π§ Love this folk-punk protest song From the River to the Sea by Sister Wife Sex Strike.
- — π Finished reading The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell and illustrated by Ned Asta.
- — π I built a parody of Tumblr called Windfall.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π¬ I finished watching The Christophers.
- — π Amanda Shendruk writes about the work thatβs done after Burning Man, where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).
- — π· Spotted on Ossington a poster for Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly by Dani Dazo and Nadom Paintsil. Spotted on Ossington a poster for Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly by Dani Dazo and Nadom Paintsil.
- — π¬ I finished watching No Other Choice.
- — π· Brought 1RGβs hibiscus outside for summer. Brought 1RGβs hibiscus outside for summer.
- — π§ My current jam is Sexy Lemon by Freak Slug.
- — π· A Callery Pear in bloom. A Callery Pear in bloom.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π I am going to Home-cooked Software Meetup.
April 2026
- — π¬ Just finished watching the 2005 The Hitchhikerβs Guide to the Galaxy film.
- — π· Caught them just as they opened. The rain was not invited but showed up anyway. Caught them just as they opened. The rain was not invited but showed up anyway.
- — π I am going to 1RG Silent Reading Club.
- — π I am going to Orbital Studies Issue β0 Launch Party.
- — π§ My current jam is drop dead by Olivia Rodrigo.
- — π I started reading The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell and illustrated by Ned Asta.
- — π¬ I went to see Mother Mary last night at the Revue Cinema, I thought it had some really cool ideas and style, but kind of felt flat on the execution.
- — π I finished reading Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan.
- — π I started reading Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan.
- — π¬ Went to the movie theatre to watch The Super Mario Galaxy Movie today.
- — π Painted Nails With Black Onyx and Big Apple Red
- — π¬ I finished re-watching season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
- — π· Saw this Visual Shoegaze sticker on Ossington today. Saw this Visual Shoegaze sticker on Ossington today.
- — π claude code removed my buddy π’
- — π Just picked up The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions.
- — π Just picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl.
- — π· Theo at the farm. Theo at the farm.
- — π¬ I finished watching The Testament of Ann Lee.
- — π¬ I finished watching the new Anaconda with Jack Black and Paul Rudd.
- — π Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander, took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraftβs window.
- — π¬ Went to see The Drama tonight, it was pretty funny.
- — π§ My current jam is Awesome Party, Dude! by Sorry Mom.
- — π¬ Just watched Wuthering Heights.
- — π I am not going to 1RG Side Project Social.
- — π· Walked along the West Toronto Railpath on my way home from Kitchener. Walked along the West Toronto Railpath on my way home from Kitchener.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π§ My current jam is Pesticides by Moselle.
- — π I finished reading Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko.
- — π I am going to 1RG Side Project Social.
- — π Instagram is a photo grid owned by a company that would prefer you never leave. It used to be kind of nice.
March 2026
- — π Line drawing of 1RGβs street view.
- — π¬ Finished watching season two of House of the Dragon.
- — π¬ Just saw Project Hail Mary.
- — π¬ I finished watching Good Luck, Have Fun, Donβt Die.
- — π Mario Zechner writes about the current usage of LLM coding agents in software development and how we just need to slow down our release cycles.
- — π¬ Finished watching season one of the House of the Dragon.
- — π I am going to 1RG Book Club.
- — π I am going to 1RG Community Dinner.
- — π I am going to 1RG Side Project Social.
- — π I am not going to 1RG Side Project Social.
- — π I am not going to sunday sites in the gallery.
- — π¬ Finished re-watching all of Game of Thrones.
- — π This Is My Jam was a music sharing site that let you declare one song your jam at a time. It shut down in 2015 and I still think about it.
- — π¬ I finished watching season seven of Game of Thrones.
- — π§ My current jam is Γ§a pik un peu quand mΓͺme by miki.
- — π Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — π Started reading Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko.
- — π I finished reading Jazmina Barreraβs biography about Mexican writer Elena Garro, The Queen of Swords.
- — π¬ I finished watching season six of Game of Thrones.
- — π¬ I just saw the The Bride!.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π¬ I finished watching season five of Game of Thrones.
- — π I want to read Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko.
- — π Picked up Eoghan Wallsβ Field Notes from an Extinction today.
- — π¬ I finished watching season four of Game of Thrones.
- — π Started reading Jazmina Barreraβs biography about Mexican writer Elena Garro, The Queen of Swords.
- — π I finished reading The Colony.
- — π¬ I just saw Send Help.
- — π¬ I finished watching season three of Game of Thrones.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π Curret mood.
- — π¬ Went to see Pillion tonight. It was very cute.
- — π¬ I finished watching season two of Game of Thrones.
- — π¬ I finished watching season one of Game of Thrones.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π I am going to Rival Soundsystem Launch Party.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
February 2026
- — π· Took a walk through the neighbourhood after dark. Took a walk through the neighbourhood after dark.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π Painted Nails With Black Onyx and Strawberry Margarita
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π Jacob Filipp writes about a moment in the 1980s when the Ontario Ministry of Education commissioned a computer designed specifically for students.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
- — π Ladybird (a new web browser), recently migrated part of their code base to a new programming language with the help of Claude Code and Codex (OpenAIβs code model). I thought this idea of human-directed LLM tasks is really great:
- — π¬ I finished watching Paddington in Peru.
- — π¬ I finished watching Paddington 2.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π I started reading Colony by Annika Norlin for 1RGβs Book Club.
- — π· LumiΓ¨re is back at Trillium Park. LumiΓ¨re is back at Trillium Park.
- — π§ My current jam is Pressure To Party by Julia Jacklin.
- — π· A quiet, snowy winter weekend at the farm. A quiet, snowy winter weekend at the farm.
- — π¬ Went to see Charli xcxβs new film The Moment.
- — π Bruce MacEvoy, has an awesome website for water colour painters.
- — π The Everdeck is a versatile 120-card system designed to support a wide range of traditional and modern card games. Its design weaves together mathematical and linguistic patterns, allowing it to map cleanly onto many existing systems, standard decks, Tarot, Hanafuda, and more, which makes it especially interesting as a piece of universal game infrastructure.
- — π I am going to 1RG Book Club.
January 2026
- — π Started playing Cairn on my Steamdeck, such an amazing game.
- — π Finished reading Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan.
- — π§ My current jam is Night Shift by Lucy Dacus.
- — π Harriet Baker reviews Sophie Calleβs first book Suite Venitienne, which documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice.
- — π I am not going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π¬ I started watching the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
- — π I am going to 1RG Community Dinner.
- — π I am going to MUSTER POINT.
- — π I am going to masterlab - BREAKAGE.
- — π Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Frankenstein, grounding its horror in real debates about resuscitation, galvanism, and ambiguous states between life and death.
- — π Started reading Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki.
- — π§ My current jam is Thai Kane by Emerson Woolf & the Wishbones.
- — π Finished reading The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar for 1RG Book Club.
- — π Got to page 88 of The River has Roots.
- — π¬ Just saw Bugonia at Carlton Cinema.
- — π Iβd like to read Seicho Matsumotoβs detective novel Tokyo Express.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 6 of Letterkenny.
- — π Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — π Finished reading SPYΓFAMILY, Volume 1.
- — π Read up to page 85 of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 5 of Letterkenny.
- — π Read up to page 68 of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
- — π I started reading The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar for 1RG Book Club.
- — π Finished reading A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner.
- — π° The Stuff That Stuck in 2025 In 2025 I tried to watch and read less US media. This isnβt a definitive list, just the books and movies that followed me out of the room.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 7 of Veep.
- — π Cristian BΔluΘΔ writes about he moded a Panasonic Lumix G9II into a Leica M-Style camera.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π¬ Just saw Marty Supreme at Scotiabank Theatre Toronto.
- — π§ My current jam is Memphis by Kitten.
- — π Henry Desroches makes a thoughtful case for reclaiming the Web we actually want by embracing personal, hand-coded, syndicated websites and protocols like RSS & Webmentions.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 1 of Letterkenny.
- — π° Annual Prologue: 2026 Thereβs a tab open on my laptop thatβs been there for three weeks. A half-finished drawing, a reference image, a colour picker frozen mid-decision. I havenβt closed it. I think that means something.
December 2025
- — π¬ I finished watching season eight of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π Painted Nails With Black Onyx and Big Apple Red
- — π¬ I finished watching season 7 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — π¬ I finished watching Dune (1984).
- — π Bryan Cantrill shares Oxideβs internal guidance on the use of LLMs in RFD 576.
- — π¬ A look into ORION, a Montreal-based ice surfer known for surfing the St. Lawrence River year-round, even through the frigid winter.
- — π¬ I finished watching season six of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — π¬ I finished watching Avatar: Fire and Ash.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 5 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 2 of Prehistoric Planet.
- — π· Went for a long walk during a winter snowstorm on Boxing Day. Went for a long walk during a winter snowstorm on Boxing Day.
- — π¬ I finished watching This Is Spinal Tap.
- — π¬ I finished watching Love Actually.
- — π¬ I finished watching season 4 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — π¬ I finished watching Lesbian Space Princess.
- — π§ My current jam is Sing Good by Ninajirachi.
- — π¬ I finished watching Wicked: For Good.
- — π§ I am listening to Everybody Scream by Florence + the Machine.
- — π I am going to July Talk at History.
- — π Charli XCX commenting on John Caleβs Instagram post, βdefo text me any time!β.
- — π¬ I finished watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 3.
- — π· Playing around with mood.camera, an iOS camera app that aims to emulate film photography. Really enjoying how it renders indoor light. Playing around with mood.camera, an iOS camera app that aims to emulate film photography. Really enjoying how it renders indoor light.
- — π¬ I finished watching season two of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — π¬ I finished watching The Boy and the Heron.
- — π Marcus Olangβ reflects on being told his writing sounds like ChatGPT. As a Kenyan, he reframes the comparison: ChatGPT writes like him and like many others shaped by the same educational system.
- — π I am going to 1RG Book Club.
- — π I am going to Side Project Social.
- — π¬ I finished watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 1.
- — π· The lake was almost the same colour as the sky, separated only by a thin, pale horizon. Wind came in hard from the water and the waves kept breaking against the rocks in short, restless bursts. Everything felt flattened, quiet, and heavy, like the city was holding its breath. The lake was almost the same colour as the sky, separated only by a thin, pale horizon. Wind came in hard from the water and the waves kept breaking against the rocks in short, restless bursts. Everything felt flattened, quiet, and heavy, like the city was holding its breath.
- — π§ My current jam is Berlin TV Tower by Blondshell.
- — π¬ I started watching Pluribus.
- — π¬ I just finished watching The Red Turtle, dialogue-less film that follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
- — π My Spotify Wrapped for 2025.
- — π¬ Finished watching Ted Lasso.
- — π Swiss mapmakers have been quietly seeding their work with little doodlesβmarmots, spiders, even the occasional hidden hikerβinside official maps.
- — π Painted Nails With It's a Boy!
November 2025
- — π¬ Finished watching Ted Lasso season two.
- — π¬ Finished watching Knives Out.
- — π¬ Finished watching Glass Onion.
- — π¬ Finished watching the first season of Ted Lasso.
- — π¬ Watched the latest Benoit Blanc film, Wake Up Dead Man.
- — π¬ Started re-watching Ted Lasso season one.
- — π¬ Finished watching Gilmore Girls season seven.
- — π Emily Sneddon on how she designed Fran Sans, a display font inspired by the destination displays on Muniβs Breda Light Rail Vehicles in San Francisco.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π¬ Finished watching Creature Commandos.
- — π¬ Saw Edgar Wrightβs The Running Man tonight.
- — π¬ Finished watching season seven of Rick and Morty.
- — π¬ Finished watching season six of Rick and Morty.
- — π¬ Finished watching season five of Rick and Morty.
- — π Peter-Ayers Tarantinoβs Manhattan apartment is packed with books and artwork in every direction. Itβs chaotic, layered, and unbelievably charming.
- — π¬ Finished watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
- — π¬ Watched the 1987 version of The Running Man.
- — π¬ Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to climb Mount Everest and ski back to Everest Base Camp without supplementary oxygen.
- — π¬ Finisehd watching the third season of Rick and Morty.
- — π Dani Offline writes about how everyone wants to be a DJ, but no one wants to dance. She argues that the commodifiction of art has devalued the experience of enjoying art for its own sake.
- — π¬ Watched Hot Fuzz.
- — π Read some of A Gorgeoous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner on my lunch break today.
- — π¬ Finished watching all of Amy Sherman-Palladinoβs Gilmore Girls.
- — π¬ Watched Guillermo del Toroβs Frankenstein tonight, it was so good.
- — π¬ Finished watching season two of Rick and Morty.
- — π Painted Nails With Skate to the Party
- — π· First snowfall of the season. First snowfall of the season.
- — π¬ Finished watching the first season of Rick and Morty.
- — π¬ Just watched Super Troopers 2.
- — π¬ Just watched Super Troopers.
- — π Bud Smith writing in The Paris Review about his truck desk,
- — π¬ Finished watching season five of Gilmore Girls.
- — π₯ I am going to 1RG's Community Dinner.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — π I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
October 2025
- — π§ My current jam is Crush by Ethel Cain.
- — π Chase Anderson wrote a guide to reading Jane Austen books in order.
- — π¬ Finished watching the latest season of Only Murders in the Building.
- — π¬ Finished watching season four of Gilmore Girls.
- — π Started reading A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner today.
- — π Finished reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — π Geoffrey Litt on how he uses LLMs to code like a surgeon:
- — π I am going to Side Project Social.
- — π· Was playing around with Leicaβs Pro Manual Camera iOS App today. Was playing around with Leicaβs Pro Manual Camera iOS App today.
- — π₯ I am going to 1RG Community Dinner.
- — πΈ I am going to claire rousay presents a little death.
- — π Anil Dash on most people in the tech industry, who actually build things, share the same feelings on AI:
- — π¬ Started watching season five of Only Murders in the Building.
- — π¬ Finished watching season two of Foundation.
- — π¬ Watched Good Fortune at Scotiabank Theatre tonight. It was okay, a bit of disappointment.
- — π¬ Re-watched Superman today.
- — π¬ Finished watching the latest season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- — π Started reading SPYΓFAMILY, Volume 1.
- — π Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — π¬ Short documentary of DFA Records, the influential New York City record label founded by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy.
- — π· Awesome memorial by Victoria Day. Awesome memorial by Victoria Day.
- — π Alex Martsinovich on why itβs rude to show AI output to people:
- — πΊ Finished watching Star Trek: Voyager.
- — π§ My current jam is Serotonin by girl in red.
- — π¬ Finished watching the first season of Foundation on Apple TV.
- — π The Society of Brevity is for those who believe most sentences can end sooner. We honor concision, condemn excess, and keep introductions short.
- — π Started reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — π Finished reading Nimona.
- — π Liam Hodder writes about how the punk and hardcore community in Alberta are galvanizing against a common enemy, the United Conservative Party. A great read on how local music scenes double as political communities.
- — π· Someone left a small guardian in the garden. Someone left a small guardian in the garden.
- — π Steve Simkins built a site about how the answer to doomscrolling and disconnectedness is Blog Feeds. Itβs meant to be an antidote to endlessly scrolling, just a curated list of people you actually care about.
- — π· Spotted a Lovebot stencil tucked along a brick wall tonight. Spotted a Lovebot stencil tucked along a brick wall tonight.
- — π· Waiting for a friend at St. Andrewβs Playground Park. Waiting for a friend at St. Andrewβs Playground Park.
- — π¬ Went to see The Mummy Returns tonight at the Revue Cinema.
- — π§ Listened to Double Infinity by Big Thief.
- — π§ My current jam is If the World is Ending by BEGINNERS.
- — π¬ Went to see One Battle After Another tonight.
- — π Started reading Nimona.
September 2025
- — π I finished reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab tonight. Loved it.
- — πΈ I am going to Destroyer - Dan's Boogie Tour.
- — π· Movie Mice Theatre Saw this cute diorama on my evening walk tonight.
- — π· Red Light Signing Through my Window They are filming a movie outside my apartment and there is a huge red light coming into my window.
- — π° Tyrannosaurus Pizza A p5.js sketch that originally appeared on tyrannosaurus.pizza a now defunct site.
- — π° Instagram Explore Page Screenshots Iβve been fascinated by my Instagram Explore feed over the years. It seems to reflect my current interests, moods, and the algorithmβs take on what I might like. From 7th April 2025 to 23 September 2025, I took screenshots of my Explore feed from time to time.
- — π¬ Finished watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- — π I am going to Nuit Blanche.
- — π I am going to Side Project Social.
- — π Painted Nails With Black Onyx
- — π° 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.
- — π I am going to Subvert x New Feeling: Music and Co-ops Social & Salon.
- — π I want to read A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel by Cynthia Weiner.
- — π I want to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.
- — π Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where peopleβs personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.
- — π· Butterfly
- — π· Found this cute little guy today near Queen and University. Found this cute little guy today near Queen and University.
- — π Painted Nails With Big Apple Red
- — π° JSONFeed in Astro with @astrojs/rss I wanted this website to publish both an RSS feed and a JSONFeed. The catch: I didnβt want to maintain two separate feed pipelines.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π I want to read Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
August 2025
- — π I donβt appreciate Duolingoβs pro-horse agenda.
- — π· Farm Photo Dump 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. πΏπ¦οΈβοΈ
- — π¬ Conservationist Matt Somerville has spent 14 years building log hives across England to give wild honey bees safe, low-intervention homes.
- — π· Tomatoes from the garden.
- — π· Lego sculpture on the corner of Edwin Ave and Dupont St.
- — π Paused reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — π¬ Finished watching James Gunnβs Superman.
- — π Started reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — π Paused reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
- — π¬ Finished watching The Fantastic 4: First Steps.
- — π· I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel. I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel.
- — π Started reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
July 2025
- — π I am going to Side Project Social.
- — π Iβm enjoying reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — π I want to read Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki.
- — π I just discovered the creator of She-Ra: Princess of Power, ND Stevenson, wrote a Graphic Novel, Nimona.
- — π Paused reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 9.
- — π I want to read The Use of Photography: Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie.
- — π Someone at last nightβs Silent Reading Club recommended reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier when I mentioned I enjoy reading Queer Horror books.
- — π Started reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 9.
- — π I am going to Silent Reading Club with Nora.
- — π I started reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — π· Untitled Photo Post
- — π Finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — π Watching 24 Hour Party People made me really want to read Peter Hookβs book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 14.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 8.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 13.
June 2025
- — π I re-read Land of Mirrors by Maria Medem, a stunning and dreamlike graphic novel.
- — π Finished reading Funny Girl.
- — π I finished reading Everyone Sux But You by K Wroten, what an amazing graphic novel.
- — π Started reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — π This documentary Death of a Fantastic Machine explores how photography has shaped our lives, from early photographs to AI-generated images.
- — π Finished reading Final Cut.
- — π Finished reading Iβm a Fool for Loving You.
- — π¬ Finished watching Ballerina.
- — π· Day three of the Micro.blog photo challenge is shadow, and I thought Iβd share a photo of the bridge near Fort York. In the spring and summer, spiders like to build their webs under the lights, casting the coolest shadows. Day three of the Micro.blog photo challenge is shadow, and I thought Iβd share a photo of the bridge near Fort York. In the spring and summer, spiders like to build their webs under the lights, casting the coolest shadows.
- — π· There are two thermal cameras on The Bentway near Bathurst. There are two thermal cameras on The Bentway near Bathurst.
- — π· Day two of the Micro.blog photo challenge, the prompt was curve. Day two of the Micro.blog photo challenge, the prompt was curve.
- — π· On the first day of the Micro.blog photo challenge, I took a photo of a tree on the shore of Lake Ontario. On the first day of the Micro.blog photo challenge, I took a photo of a tree on the shore of Lake Ontario.
May 2025
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 7.
- — π· I saw a cool-looking structure today made of scaffolding and tarps near Fort York. I saw a cool-looking structure today made of scaffolding and tarps near Fort York.
- — π Finished reading Bury Your Gays.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 6.
- — π¬ Finished watching Thunderbolts*.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 5.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 4.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 3.
April 2025
- — π I finished reading Ballerina by Patrick Modiano and translated by Mark Polizzotti. This one passage stuck with me:
- — π Finished reading The Flowers of Evil.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 2.
- — π Finished reading Land of Mirrors.
- — π Finished reading Land of Milk and Honey.
- — π Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyβs End, Volume 1.
March 2025
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November 2024
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 12.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 11.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 10.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 9.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 8.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 7.
October 2024
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 6.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 5.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 2.
- — π Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1.
August 2024
- — π° Broadacre City β Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Dystopia - Frank Lloyd Wright, September 1931.
- — π° Icebergs can get stuck on underwater mountains The current largest iceberg, A-23A, is currently spinning in place on top of an underwater mountain:
- — π¬ I saw Deadpool & Wolverine in the theatres.
- — π Read Pete Wellsβs Times article on his experience reviewing restaurants for the last 12 years.
- — π Read How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki.
July 2024
March 2024
- — π° Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe As a lover of good food, Iβve 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 Torontoβs DineSafe data.
- — π° Arc App's JSON Export to SQLite I started working on a Dogsheep utility for processing Arc Appβs 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.
January 2024
- — π Finished reading Bubble.
- — π Finished reading Human Rights, Robot Wrongs.
- — π I just finished reading Health and Safety, which should be required reading for ravers who are 35+.
- — π Finished reading Good Material.
- — π Finished reading All Fours.
- — π Finished reading The Age of Magical Overthinking.
- — π Finished reading Sex Goblin.
April 2023
- — π° π’ 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 donβt think anyone besides myself notices, but it always made me happy to see my handle change to βοΈ Myles Braithwaite on a sunny day.
- — π Finished reading Eating to Extinction.
January 2023
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- — π This is some dystopian stuff.
- — π Template errors in Laravel are the hardest bugs to figure out.
- — π June Oven owners are reporting preheating incidents. This is 100% the fault of June and not the user:
- — π· Currently reading Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin. This page is probably the most useful advice every, Vectors Are Free! Currently reading Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin. This page is probably the most useful advice every, Vectors Are Free!
- — π Listening to Tooth and Tailβs soundtrack by Austin Wintory gives my chores pomp and circumstance.
- — π I am going to GTALUG August 2019 Meeting.
- — π· Sitting in a park in Port Perry. Sitting in a park in Port Perry.
- — π Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
- — π· I β₯οΈ summer in Toronto. I β₯οΈ summer in Toronto.
- — π Scooter's aren't as "eco-friendly" as they claim to be
- — π· Waiting to go home from Oakville. Waiting to go home from Oakville.
- — π· Outside is awesome today! Outside is awesome today!
- — π π₯ Hobbs & Shaw was really good.
- — π π΅ Chance the Rapper new album The Big Day is awesome.