- Name
- myles
- Full Name
- Myles Braithwaite
- Role
- everyday self
- myles@myles.garden
- Website
- https://myles.garden/
- Birthday
- September 19
- Pronouns
- he/him
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November 2025
- — 🎬 Finished watching season five of Rick and Morty.
- — 🔖 Peter-Ayers Tarantino’s Manhattan apartment is packed with books and artwork in every direction. It’s chaotic, layered, and unbelievably charming.
- — 🎬 Finished watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
- — 🎬 Watched the 1987 version of The Running Man.
- — 🎬 Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to climb Mount Everest and ski back to Everest Base Camp without supplementary oxygen.
- — 🎬 Finisehd watching the third season of Rick and Morty.
- — 🔖 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.
- — 🎬 Watched Hot Fuzz.
- — 📚 Read some of A Gorgeoous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner on my lunch break today.
- — 🎬 Finished watching all of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Gilmore Girls.
- — 🎬 Watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein tonight, it was so good.
- — 🎬 Finished watching season two of Rick and Morty.
- — 💅 Painted Nails With Skate to the Party
- — 📷 First snowfall of the season.
- — 🎬 Finished watching the first season of Rick and Morty.
- — 🎬 Just watched Super Troopers 2.
- — 🎬 Just watched Super Troopers.
- — 🔖 Bud Smith writing in The Paris Review about his truck desk,
- — 🎬 Finished watching season five of Gilmore Girls.
- — 🥘 I am going to 1RG's Community Dinner.
- — 📅 I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — 📅 I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
October 2025
- — 🎧 My current jam is Crush by Ethel Cain.
- — 🔖 Chase Anderson wrote a guide to reading Jane Austen books in order.
- — 🎬 Finished watching the latest season of Only Murders in the Building.
- — 🎬 Finished watching season four of Gilmore Girls.
- — 📚 Started reading A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner today.
- — 📚 Finished reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — 🔖 Geoffrey Litt on how he uses LLMs to code like a surgeon:
- — 📅 I am going to Side Project Social.
- — 📷 Was playing around with Leica’s Pro Manual Camera iOS App today.
- — 🥘 I am going to 1RG Community Dinner.
- — 🎸 I am going to claire rousay presents a little death.
- — 🔖 Anil Dash on most people in the tech industry, who actually build things, share the same feelings on AI:
- — 🎬 Started watching season five of Only Murders in the Building.
- — 🎬 Finished watching season two of Foundation.
- — 🎬 Watched Good Fortune at Scotiabank Theatre tonight. It was okay, a bit of disappointment.
- — 🎬 Re-watched Superman today.
- — 🎬 Finished watching the latest season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- — 📚 Started reading SPY×FAMILY, Volume 1.
- — 💅 Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — 🎬 Short documentary of DFA Records, the influential New York City record label founded by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy.
- — 📷 Awesome memorial by Victoria Day.
- — 🔖 Alex Martsinovich on why it’s rude to show AI output to people:
- — 📺 Finished watching Star Trek: Voyager.
- — 🎧 My current jam is Serotonin by girl in red.
- — 🎬 Finished watching the first season of Foundation on Apple TV.
- — 📝 The Society of Brevity is for those who believe most sentences can end sooner. We honor concision, condemn excess, and keep introductions short.
- — 📚 Started reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — 📚 Finished reading Nimona.
- — 🔖 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.
- — 📷 Someone left a small guardian in the garden.
- — 🔖 Steve Simkins built a site about how the answer to doomscrolling and disconnectedness is Blog Feeds. It’s meant to be an antidote to endlessly scrolling, just a curated list of people you actually care about.
- — 📷 Spotted a Lovebot stencil tucked along a brick wall tonight.
- — 📷 Waiting for a friend at St. Andrew’s Playground Park.
- — 🎬 Went to see The Mummy Returns tonight at the Revue Cinema.
- — 🎧 Listened to Double Infinity by Big Thief.
- — 🎧 My current jam is If the World is Ending by BEGINNERS.
- — 🎬 Went to see One Battle After Another tonight.
- — 📚 Started reading Nimona.
September 2025
- — 📚 I finished reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab tonight. Loved it.
- — 🎸 I am going to Destroyer - Dan's Boogie Tour.
- — 📷 Movie Mice Theatre
- — 📷 Red Light Signing Through my Window
- — 🎬 Finished watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- — 📅 I am going to Nuit Blanche.
- — 📅 I am going to Side Project Social.
- — 💅 Painted Nails 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.
- — 📚 I want to read A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel by Cynthia Weiner.
- — 📚 I want to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.
- — 🔖 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.
- — 💅 Painted Nails 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.
- — 📷 Untitled Photo Post
- — 📚 I want to read Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
August 2025
- — 📝 I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.
- — 📷 Farm Photo Dump
- — 🎬 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.
- — 📚 Paused reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — 🎬 Finished watching James Gunn’s Superman.
- — 📚 Started reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — 📚 Paused reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
- — 🎬 Finished watching The Fantastic 4: First Steps.
- — 📷 I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel.
- — 📚 Started reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
July 2025
- — 📅 I am going to Side Project Social.
- — 📚 I’m enjoying reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — 📚 I just discovered the creator of She-Ra: Princess of Power, ND Stevenson, wrote a Graphic Novel, Nimona.
- — 📚 I want to read Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki.
- — 📚 Paused reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 9.
- — 📚 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 want to read The Use of Photography: Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie.
- — 📚 Started reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 9.
- — 📅 I am going to Silent Reading Club with Nora.
- — 📚 I started reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — 📷 Untitled Photo Post
- — 📚 Finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — 📚 Watching 24 Hour Party People made me really want to read Peter Hook’s book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 14.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 13.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 8.
June 2025
- — 📚 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.
- — 📚 Started reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — 🔖 This documentary Death of a Fantastic Machine explores how photography has shaped our lives, from early photographs to AI-generated images.
- — 📚 Finished reading Final Cut.
- — 📚 Finished reading I’m a Fool for Loving You.
- — 🎬 Finished watching Ballerina.
May 2025
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 7.
- — 📚 Finished reading Bury Your Gays.
- — 📚 Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Volume 6.
- — 🎬 Finished watching Thunderbolts*.
- — 📚 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.
April 2025
- — 📚 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.
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 12.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 11.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 10.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 9.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 8.
- — 📚 Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 7.
October 2024
- — 📚 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.
August 2024
- — 📰 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:
March 2024
- — 📰 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.
January 2024
- — 📚 Finished reading Bubble.
- — 📚 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.
April 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.
January 2023
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September 2022
July 2022
December 2021
February 2020
August 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.