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My current jam is Serotonin by girl in red.

Album cover for Serotonin by girl in red.

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.

A small teddy bear with a red ribbon is perched in the branches of a shrub, partly hidden among green leaves. Behind it, a quiet residential street lined with brick and cream-colored houses sits under a bright blue sky. The bear looks slightly weathered, as if it has been there for a while, creating a curious, almost whimsical scene. — Teddy Bear in the Shrubs - 6 Oct, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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.

A brick wall covered in layered street art and graffiti. At the center, a white stencil of a small robot with a heart-shaped chest — the Toronto Lovebot — stands out sharply against the bricks. Surrounding it are bold black, red, and white tags and murals, including part of a painted animal figure. A plastic bottle sits on a ledge beneath a small sign, giving the scene a mix of urban grit and character. — Lovebot Stencil - 5 Oct, 2025 at 10:40 PM

A quiet city park at night, captured in black and white. A brick path winds through the scene, scattered with fallen leaves, while modern apartment buildings glow in the background. Streetlights cast soft pools of light, and a signpost marks the park as smoke-free. The scene feels still and contemplative. — Nighttime in St. Andrew's Park - 5 Oct, 2025 at 9:08 PM

My current jam is If the World is Ending by BEGINNERS.

Album cover for If the World is Ending by BEGINNERS.

Listen on:
Apple Music
Deezer
Spotify

Finally finished Hollow Knight, now on to Silksong.

Movie Mice Theatre

A whimsical miniature diorama of a “Movie Mice Theatre” is lit with glowing green lights at night. A marquee above reads “NOW SHOWING — GRAND OPENING.” Inside a clear display box below, tiny mouse figurines are posed at a grand opening celebration, complete with streamers, balloons, and a “Grand Opening” banner. One mouse sits at a small table with a cake, another pushes a baby carriage, and others are dressed up as if attending a party. The whole scene is nestled among garden plants, giving it a magical, hidden-world feel. — undefined - 25 Sep, 2025 at 8:28 PM

Red Light Signing Through my Window

A cozy apartment corner with potted plants lined along a window ledge, glowing under a dramatic red streetlight outside. The window looks out onto leafy trees bathed in vivid red light, with city buildings in the background. Inside, books and papers are stacked on a desk, pillows and plush toys rest on the couch, and the whole scene feels warm, cluttered, and intimate against the surreal red glow. — undefined - 25 Sep, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Tyrannosaurus Pizza

A p5.js sketch that originally appeared on tyrannosaurus.pizza a now defunct site.

24 Sep, 2025 — myles

Instagram Explore Page Screenshots

A time capsule of my Instagram Explore feed—screenshots of fleeting moods and algorithms at work.

24 Sep, 2025 — myles

Building a Calendar Interface in Astro

How I built a static calendar interface in Astro using date-fns.

21 Sep, 2025 — myles

Astro Colophon Tailwind CSS TypeScript

Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where people’s personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.

Butterfly

A butterfly on a flower. — undefined - 10 Sep, 2025 at 10:51 AM

A butterfly on a flower. — undefined - 10 Sep, 2025 at 10:51 AM

A tomato plant growing in concrete on the side of a building. — undefined - 6 Sep, 2025 at 10:57 AM

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.

3 Sep, 2025 — myles

Astro Colophon JSONFeed RSS XML Feed

Graffiti on asphalt reading “Boiler Room Funds Genocide”. — undefined

I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.

Screenshot of Duolingo French lesson. It's asking to translate the English sentence, In the countryside, I hear the horses, to French. I successfully translated it to Á la campagne j'entends les chevaux.

Screenshot of a Duolingo French lesson. It's asking to translate the English sentence, This horse is very beautiful, to French. I successfully translated it to Che cheval est tres beau.

Farm Photo Dump

View of a partly cloudy sky framed by two large white umbrellas at the edges, with the tops of leafy green trees below. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 3:06 PM

Close-up of a tree branch with bright green leaves in sunlight, with a grassy field and small yellow flowers in the background. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Backyard scene with a small wooden shed framed by tall trees, sunlight filtering through the leaves, and the corner of a bright blue swimming pool in the foreground. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Wooden rocking chair on a deck at night, lit by a warm light, facing a row of green shrubs and a dark blue sky. — undefined - 22 Aug, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Tomatoes from the garden.

A white bowl filled with freshly picked cherry tomatoes in shades of red and orange, with green stems attached, sitting on a wooden railing with greenery and a brick wall in the background. — undefined

Lego sculpture on the corner of Edwin Ave and Dupont St.

A traffic light pole base on a city sidewalk is covered in colourful LEGO bricks, forming a tall, blocky structure. Small baskets filled with loose LEGO pieces surround the base, and scattered bricks are spread across the pavement. — undefined

A map on the wall of a coffeeshop of the City of Toronto. — undefined

Theo, a golden doodle, is lying on a herringbone floor in a cozy room with the word "MOODY" written on the floor. — undefined