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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.

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John Herrick unravel the mysteries of elevators.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

Theo sitting upright on a striped rug in front of a TV showing a France–Morocco World Cup match, next to a coffee table with a glass of sparkling wine and a stack of books. — undefined - 9 Jul, 2026 at 5:29 PM

The back of Theo's fluffy head as he sits on a rain-soaked deck beside a metal side table holding a Whistler Starbucks mug and a portable speaker. — undefined - 9 Jul, 2026 at 9:11 AM

Theo dozing at the far end of a beige couch, viewed past the photographer's outstretched legs in jeans and penguin socks. A wood stove and shelves full of CDs are in the background. — undefined - 9 Jul, 2026 at 9:56 AM

Theo lying flat on dark hardwood floors in a dim sitting room, seen through a doorway with white trim. A rocking chair sits by the window behind him. — undefined - 10 Jul, 2026 at 9:24 AM

A young corn field ringed by a bare dirt margin, framed by dark maple branches overhead and tall grass in the foreground, under a blue sky with scattered clouds. — undefined - 3 Jul, 2026 at 3:31 PM

A broad old maple shading an overgrown stone wall, orange daylilies poking through the underbrush, sunlit lawn in front. — undefined - 3 Jul, 2026 at 3:39 PM

An echeveria bloom stalk arcing red flowers across the frame, shot from the porch furniture with stepping stones, lawn, and the brick farmhouse wall behind. — undefined - 3 Jul, 2026 at 8:32 PM

Rain-slicked deck boards in the foreground, orange daylilies and shrubs beyond, and a flat grey sky over the corn field. — undefined - 4 Jul, 2026 at 9:09 AM

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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.

I get that good software requires people to actually make money, but this is a little much for an app that hasn’t even shown me it’s worth using.

iOS screenshot of the HyperTexting app’s Timeline, showing a sponsored post — an advertisement from the verified @hypertexting.com account promoting their “Weekly Sponsorship Program.” The ad explains that advertisers can promote products to free users with text, links, images, audio, video, and PDF downloads, and that free users will see one sponsor per week, displayed once per day. Below the ad copy is a link preview card with a money bag emoji linking to hypertexting.com/sponsors.

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I started reading Witch Hat Atelier, a manga by Kamome Shirahama.

Theo, a cream-coloured goldendoodle, sits on a lawn with his head tilted up, mouth open mid-bark at a green bird feeder hanging from a large tree. Behind him, an old moss-covered stone wall is overgrown with summer greenery. — Theo barking at the bird feeder - 5 Jul, 2026 at 6:37 PM

Theo stands on the lawn, looking at the camera with the bird feeder hanging behind him. A stone wall and dense green undergrowth fill the background. — Theo watching the bird feeder - 5 Jul, 2026 at 6:37 PM

The Canada Malting silos at night with soft pink and cream cloud shapes projected onto the concrete facade. String lights and small crowds line the waterfront promenade below, their glow reflecting in the rippling water of the channel. — undefined - 2 Jul, 2026 at 9:44 PM

A title card projected onto the Canada Malting silos at night reading "Dan Tapper, Blastula Division, @visualcodepoetry", framed by glitchy magenta, cyan, and violet stripes that wrap around the building's edges. The waterfront below is lit with string lights, reflected in the dark water. — undefined - 2 Jul, 2026 at 9:44 PM

The Canada Malting silos covered in projected polka dots of pink, peach, violet, and green, scattered across the full facade like confetti. Trees and string lights line the promenade below, and a few silhouetted people watch from across the water. — undefined - 2 Jul, 2026 at 9:45 PM

A projection on the Canada Malting silos of green sprouting stems, red flares, scattered stars, and a white brain-like tangle of roots, resembling a glowing night garden. Silhouettes of people sit along the dock in the foreground, watching across the water. — undefined - 2 Jul, 2026 at 9:46 PM

A dense clump of chamomile with white daisy-like flowers bursting from a crack where brick pavers meet asphalt, growing around the base of a metal signpost. Scattered weeds and a crumpled paper napkin surround it, and the plant casts a lacy shadow across the pavement in bright sunlight. — undefined - 2 Jul, 2026 at 10:11 AM

A mural painted on a garage door in a brick laneway garage, depicting a scene from My Neighbour Totoro: Satsuki and Mei nap on the belly of a large sleeping Totoro in a forest clearing, while the small blue and white Totoros gather around them. The mural is signed "Kirby." Graffiti tags mark the siding and brick on either side, and a cracked laneway runs in front. — undefined - 1 Jul, 2026 at 11:32 AM

How I Built Yarrow

Yarrow is a Tarot reader that runs on Astro, Tailwind, and Svelte, with an LLM doing the reading.

29 Jun, 2026 — myles

Yarrow Astro Svelte Tailwind CSS

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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.

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Built a docs site for astro-jsonfeed, powered by Starlight. Setup was painless. Took an afternoon.