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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.

Two koi-shaped paste-ups stuck to a graffitied concrete sidewalk, shot from above. Both fish are white with abstract patches of colour — the upper one scattered with black, yellow, red, purple and green spots and halftone dots, the lower one filled with a vertical rainbow gradient and black markings. Faded blue and red spray paint surrounds them; the toes of a pair of tan shoes show at the bottom edge. — undefined - 22 Jun, 2026 at 10:04 PM

Two painted koi on grey concrete at night, seen from above. Both have the classic white, orange and black markings of calico koi and cast soft shadows. One swims horizontally near the top, the other points downward below it. A green-painted curb and a graffitied brick wall sit along the top edge, with a light shoe at the bottom. — undefined - 23 Jun, 2026 at 7:06 PM

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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. I’ve got a bunch of ideas for it, but wanted to get a basic version out first.

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My current jam is Love Yourself (1999 Electronic Demo) by Sufjan Stevens.

Album cover for Sufjan Stevens' EP Love Yourself / With My Whole Heart.

Listen on:
Spotify
Apple Music
Bandcamp

Condo towers catching golden-hour light across Grenadier Pond, framed between a willow and a bare dead tree, reflections rippling on the water. — undefined - 10 Jun, 2026 at 8:33 PM

Loose pen sketch of three gnarled trees in blue ink with green scribbled foliage and red grass accents, drawn on paper balanced on a yellow book in the sun. — undefined - 10 Jun, 2026 at 7:02 PM

Grey squirrel standing upright in a grassy clearing, paws tucked to its chest, staring directly at the camera. — undefined - 10 Jun, 2026 at 6:45 PM

Sun dipping behind the treeline across Grenadier Pond, orange sky reflected in still water, reeds and driftwood silhouetted along the shore. — undefined - 10 Jun, 2026 at 8:36 PM

Neocities Deploy from GitHub Actions

A CI workflow to lint and build, a CD workflow to deploy to Neocities, and a brief defense of why I build the site twice.

8 Jun, 2026 — myles

Neocities GitHub Actions Software Engineering

Cloudless blue sky over a leafy residential Toronto street, sky filling most of the frame. Green trees line both sides; a gabled wood-and-shingle house with a second-floor balcony anchors the right, a pale apartment block sits behind trees on the left. Utility lines cross the middle. At the curb, a red STOP sign below a yellow ENDS sign. A faint daytime moon hangs at upper left. — Blue Sky

A raccoon crosses a floodlit lawn at the foot of a large tree at night, the lit windows of Queen's Park behind it. A '10' is painted on the road in the foreground. — Raccoon

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Love this poem I found:

They/Them
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infact bright of morning

the to perceive the world in binary is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

A printed poem on cream-coloured paper, photographed close up. The title reads "THEY/THEM" in small caps, with an italic dedication to Nex Benedict beneath it. The poem is set in a serif typeface, its lines built from ampersands as it moves through times of day — dawn, dusk, sunset, twilight, morning — before closing on a two-line stanza about binary perception and the divine.

Two painted canvases leaning against a graffiti-covered brick wall in a dim alley at night. The larger central canvas is a black ink-and-charcoal drawing on a cream ground: elongated, sketchy human profiles and faces, with one figure in a coat holding a cigarette near a tiny orange figure perched on the hand. Below the image it's titled "BIDDING WAR," dated "2 JUNE 2026," and signed "GRAF ALLEY" with a heart and an artist's signature. A smaller canvas to the left, in the same scratchy style, shows two faces and reads "SOLVE & RASOLUTE." Behind them the wall is covered in red, teal, and grey graffiti, including a snarling wolf and the word "RASCAL" in red. On the concrete in the foreground, handwriting reads "LIFE & DEATH ARE THINGS YOU JUST DO WHEN YOU'RE BORED," and beside a small sketch, "YOU CAN'T TAKE THIS ONE" with an arrow. — undefined - 2 Jun, 2026 at 11:46 PM

A hand-lettered cardboard sign staked into a grassy curb strip. The top reads "DOG LIBRARY" in colored block capitals; beneath it, smaller handwritten text says "TAKE A STICK / LEAVE A STICK (OPTIONAL)." A few sticks lie scattered in the grass below the sign. A sidewalk runs along the left, and a young staked tree sits in a mulch bed to the right. — undefined - 2 Jun, 2026 at 4:31 PM

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Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.

A plastic-wrapped flyer taped to a pole, headed "Good Friends Market," reading "GARAGE SALE — May 30th, 6 Florence St, 9AM–4:20PM. Lots of high quality GOODS for sale.. that's gangster talk for vintage clothes, knick knacks, video games, collectibles etc!" A quiet street with a bike lane sits behind it. — Garage Sale - May 30th - Lots of high quality GOODS for sale... that's gangster talk for vintage clothes, knick knacks, video games, collectibles etc!

A yellow sticker wrapped around a city utility pole reading "BRAIN ON PLANT — Rework Gallery, 1450 Dundas Street West — arthouse of reworked clothes, design & culture — Made in Toronto — slow fashion, fast life — @brainonplants — brainonplants.com." A sunny Toronto street is blurred behind it. — Brain on Plant - 1 Jun, 2026 at 5:42 PM

A large lilac bush in full bloom, covered in pale purple flower clusters, growing in front of a tall maple on a sunny day. — undefined - 1 Jun, 2026 at 9:40 AM

A weathered wooden deck running alongside a red-brick farmhouse with white gingerbread trim on the porch, looking out to a lilac bush in bloom and green trees. — undefined - 30 May, 2026 at 12:33 PM

A tall black planter of trailing greenery and red flowers on a weathered deck, overlooking a green lawn, a ploughed field and a treeline under a clear blue sky. — undefined - 1 Jun, 2026 at 9:01 AM

A covered patio under a louvred pergola, furniture wrapped in mauve covers, with a curly-haired apricot dog resting on a sofa and a sunlit lawn and trees beyond. — undefined - 31 May, 2026 at 5:39 PM

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I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.

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I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. It’s called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).

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Doug MacDowell writes about drawing data visualisations completely by hand.

“What are you working on these days?”
“Data visualizations.” I told him.
“Ah, you using algorithms, machine learning, cloud computing, things like that?”
“No.” I said. “I’m just trying to draw a line graph.”

My neighbor thought I was getting into some complex sh**. But what’s been more interesting to me lately than using […] is learning to draw data by hand. 50 Hours to Draw Some Lines is about spending more than a week on something that software can accomplish in 20 minutes - and a catalog of resources and methods acquired along the way.