Windfall

A street art mural on a yellow brick wall at night. A woman with long auburn hair and lavender skin holds two large yellow flowers with eyes at their centres. A pentagram marks her forehead; green vines frame the scene.

A smiley face drawn in snow on a park ground at night, lit by warm amber streetlight. The photographer's shadow stretches into the foreground.

A pedestrian bridge at night, its concrete barriers covered in colourful graffiti, stretching toward a distant city skyline lit with signs and streetlights.

A quiet city intersection at night. A construction hoarding reads "Mitchell Demolition" along a fenced-off empty lot, with condos glowing in the background.

Took a walk through the neighbourhood after dark.

A yellow diamond-shaped caution sign reading "Drive Slow — Cat at Play" with a silhouette of a cat batting at butterflies, attached to a street pole alongside parking signs. Snow dusts the sidewalk in the background.

Hayden in ski gear — white helmet, red-lens goggles, and a black neck gaiter — at the base of a ski resort on an overcast, snowy day. Other skiers and a lodge building are visible in the background.

A sweeping view from high on Whistler Mountain looking down over snow-laden pine trees and ski runs into the valley below, with Whistler village visible in the distance under a partly cloudy blue sky.

Looking down a wide mountain valley from a gondola, with snow-covered trees blanketing both hillsides, a ski run cutting a straight line through the centre, and the Whistler valley floor visible far below.

High alpine terrain at Whistler with dramatic storm clouds rolling over steep, snow-covered peaks. Rocky outcroppings are buried under deep snow in the foreground, and a blue trail marker is barely visible at the left edge.

A blue diamond ski trail marker on a red and white pole stands on a snowy alpine ridge at Whistler, with wind-sculpted snowdrifts over rocks in the foreground and overcast mountain peaks stretching into the distance.

View looking straight down from a gondola over a dense, snow-covered forest. The gondola cables extend ahead into misty fog, with a faint sun barely visible through the white-grey sky above.

Looking out from a high ridge on Blackcomb Mountain over a frozen lake nestled in the valley far below, surrounded by dark forested peaks under a heavy overcast sky. Ski runs and scattered pines dot the slope in the foreground.

A long, narrow lake — Green Lake — winds through the valley below, framed by snow-covered slopes, scattered pines, and trail markers. Moody grey clouds drape over the mountain ridgeline in the background.

Jacob Filipp writes about a moment in the 1980s when the Ontario Ministry of Education commissioned a computer designed specifically for students.

A time when public institutions believed they could build their own tools, and did.

1984 was an alternative reality where we could do things. Like build a computer in Ontario.

Ladybird (a new web browser), recently migrated part of their code base to a new programming language with the help of Claude Code and Codex (OpenAI’s code model). I thought this idea of human-directed LLM tasks is really great:

I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where things needed to go. After the initial translation, I ran multiple passes of adversarial review, asking different models to analyze the code for mistakes and bad patterns.

Aerial view of snow-covered mountain ranges stretching to the horizon under a deep blue sky, with a jet engine visible in the lower right corner and patches of cloud drifting between the peaks.

Snow-dusted mountain ranges seen through an airplane window, with dark evergreen forest visible in the valleys below and billowing white clouds nestled between the ridgelines.

A jagged cluster of snow-capped peaks framed by an airplane window, with a river valley and dense forest cutting through the lower terrain and the engine nacelle visible at the right edge of the frame.

A canopy of vertical, translucent plastic light strips in vivid rainbow colours glows overhead at night, suspended from a black metal frame above snow and wet pavement in Trillium Park.

Snow-covered trees and a curving asphalt path frame an installation of bright golden lights below, casting a warm glow across Trillium Park on a winter night.

Lumière is back at Trillium Park.

View from inside a car driving down a snow-covered rural road, with low visibility, falling snow, and bare trees lining both sides.

A wide snow-covered field during active snowfall, with bare trees scattered across the landscape and a narrow footpath cut through deep snow.

The side of a brick farmhouse during heavy snowfall, with a shoveled path along the wall and deep snowdrifts stretching into an open field.

A quiet winter landscape with rolling snow-covered fields, leafless shrubs in the foreground, and patches of blue sky breaking through clouds.

A vast snow-covered field at dusk, with a dark tree line on the horizon and a thin band of orange and pink light beneath a deep blue sky.

A dark night sky with faint stars visible, framed by the bare branches of trees reaching in from the edges.

View from a covered porch overlooking a snow-covered field, with decorative trim framing a glowing sunrise behind a line of trees.

A cozy living room with leather armchairs, sheer curtains, wooden floors, and warm sunlight streaming through windows on a winter day.

A modern pergola and patio buried under deep snow, casting striped shadows across the ground under a bright blue winter sky.

A bright winter scene with fresh snow on the ground, tall evergreen and birch trees, and crisp shadows under clear blue skies.

A quiet, snowy winter weekend at the farm.

Bruce MacEvoy, has an awesome website for water colour painters.