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Red flowers blooming beside a cornfield, with a hummingbird hovering nearby, enlarged in a circular inset. — undefined - 6 Sep, 2026 at 2:20 PM

Sunset light filtering through a dark grove of trees, casting long beams across a grassy field. — undefined - 5 Sep, 2026 at 8:42 PM

Sunny backyard patio beneath a white pergola, overlooking a green lawn surrounded by trees. — undefined - 5 Sep, 2026 at 12:53 PM

Bright blue swimming pool on a sunny day, with trees, a cornfield, and billowing white clouds beyond. — undefined - 6 Sep, 2026 at 12:24 PM

White hydrangea blooms and a dark hedge in the foreground, a mowed lawn beyond, then a fog-shrouded cornfield rising to a treeline, all under a flat grey sky. — undefined - 5 Sep, 2026 at 6:47 AM

A flowering echeveria succulent in the foreground, two upright stalks with coral-red bell-shaped blooms rising from a rosette of blue-green leaves. Behind it, blurred, an outdoor stone fireplace with a wagon wheel and green watering can on the mantel, and a stacked firewood nook below. — an echeveria beginning of summer - 7 Jul, 2026 at 7:07 PM

The same echeveria, now with two much taller, arching stalks trailing dusty-pink and burgundy blooms down toward the frame's edges. It sits in a rusted galvanized planter on a patio, with a cream outdoor sofa and a brick wall with a decorative iron panel blurred behind it. — an echeveria end of summer - 4 Sep, 2026 at 10:22 AM

A view through a car windshield at dusk, dashboard in the foreground, a car ahead with red taillights on a two-lane road bordered by fields and trees, a pink sunset glow on the horizon. — undefined - 3 Sep, 2026 at 7:44 PM

A bottle of red wine and a glass poured half full on a speckled grey side table at night, a small black speaker beside the glass, a white rocking chair and a flowering shrub lit up in the dark background. — undefined - 3 Sep, 2026 at 10:10 PM

White hydrangea blooms lit up against a dark night sky, green leaves filling the foreground, potted plants and a porch railing visible to the left. — undefined - 3 Sep, 2026 at 9:12 PM

Close-up of a curly apricot-coloured dog's back and haunches pressed against a person's leg, a grey webbing collar with a metal buckle visible in the fur, a wooden deck railing in the background. — undefined - 3 Sep, 2026 at 9:34 PM

One hand holds a mixed bouquet of pink dahlias, purple larkspur, snapdragons, and baby's breath wrapped in pale blue paper, an iced coffee, and a brown paper bag, with a tiled floor and trash bin behind. — undefined

"The Kickback" poster taped to a weathered pole, illustrated in a comic style showing a laneway party with a DJ setup, dominoes tables, string lights, and a food tent. Text reads: WEST Neighbourhood House, The Kickback, Domino Club, AUG 30, 3PM–9PM, Sounds by Tremayne, Food by Bin Street Eats, Sunday AUG 30 3:00–9:00PM, tickets $15 to play, QR code to register. Other flyers overlap at the edges of the frame. — undefined

A manifesto making the case that owning your own website instead of feeding a platform is basically punk.

A wheatpaste mural on a red-brick alley wall shows Audrey Hepburn in a white gown and tiara with a gold saint's halo behind her head, blowing a pink bubblegum bubble, signed FIIGUEERS. Red and black graffiti tags surround her. A black metal railing runs along the rooftop above, with wires and a copper downspout to the right and a sticker-covered electrical box at lower left. Clear blue sky at the top. — undefined - 21 Aug, 2026 at 12:07 PM

weekend dump

A wooden boardwalk runs along the water's edge at dusk. Amber lamp posts glow on the right beside a beach and a line of trees. A distant city skyline reflects in the calm water on the left, under a blue and pink sky. — boardwalk at dusk - 14 Aug, 2026 at 9:19 PM

White and purple orchids in bloom on a bright windowsill. Potted plants line the sill in front of a tall window looking out onto a green field, trees, and a hydro tower under a blue sky with clouds. — orchids - 16 Aug, 2026 at 4:06 PM

A backlit grid of vintage 35mm photographic slides on a lightbox in a dark room. The slides show landscapes, waterfalls, a steam train, and coastal scenes, many tinted blue or amber with age. The right two-thirds of the frame is black. — slides - 14 Aug, 2026 at 9:55 PM

A pale lilac event graphic from 1rg.space. Text reads 'Aug 18 to 23', 'Silent Reading Club', and, in a black speech bubble, 'Silent Reading Club is happening on Tuesday next week.' A white button reads 'Register on Luma.' A line drawing shows a bicycle, a flower, and a tree along a path. Small text reads 'Curious Creative Caring.' — undefined

Sami Smith built Misen, a launchpad with a skeuomorphic design of a room. It’s kind of incredible what people are building with the help of LLMs.

A black-and-white photo looking up at a shelf from a low, couch-level angle. Four posters hang on the wall: a grid of tiny illustrated trees, a striped optical-perspective print, a painting of a woman resting a katana on her shoulder against a city skyline, and a Caribou Honey poster. Below, a record shelf holds vinyl upright, with If I Could Make It Go Quiet by girl in red turned face-out, a hooded figure lit from within. In front sit an orchid, a small R2-D2 card, a framed photo of trees, and a light box reading TWENTY PAST EIGHT. A turntable sits to the right, with more records lining the shelf below. — undefined - 9 Aug, 2026 at 8:20 PM

A clear glass vase of cut flowers stands on a cluttered table in a sunlit room. The bouquet holds two round yellow marigolds, ruffled pale-blue carnations, tall white and blush snapdragons, and small orange daisies among green foliage. Afternoon light comes through a window on the right, past a potted plant on the sill. In the background at left, a low bookshelf holds a white-and-red Polaroid camera above a dark TV screen and rows of books. On the table in front are magazines, a small devotional prayer card, and two cups holding pens, brushes, and markers. — undefined - 9 Aug, 2026 at 4:00 PM

My current jam is Real Life by ear.

Album cover for The Most Dear and The Future by ear.

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Rick Vega made this helpful site to build your own zine.

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.

A large mural on the side of a two-tone yellow-and-grey building fills a dark laneway at night. It shows a woman with flowing teal-blue hair and a crown of yellow flowers, holding an orange cocktail glass aloft in one hand; oranges, plums, and blossoms spill across her white robe. Red spray-paint tags cover the grey lower wall to the right, and metal bollards line the sidewalk in the foreground. — undefined - 1 Aug, 2026 at 9:44 PM

John Herrick unravel the mysteries of elevators.

An intersting guid for archivist wanting to create disk images of floppy disks with the intention of preserving them for the long-term.

Julia Evans talks about her learnings from using SQLite in production.

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

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

Cover of "Sunburn"

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.