Windfall

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myles — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:53:56 GMT

I built a parody of Tumblr called Windfall.

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myles — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:59:06 GMT

Bookmarked The map that keeps Burning Man honest by Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship.

myles — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:18:50 GMT

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man, where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).

This forensic-style sweep takes weeks; everything they find is removed and logged. At the end, they’re left with a remarkable accounting of what 70,000 people left behind: The MOOP Map. And I’m obsessed.

The Moop Map is a pretty remarkable view of what is left behind:

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myles — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:05:00 GMT

Spotted on Ossington a poster for Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly by Dani Dazo and Nadom Paintsil.

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myles — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:59:59 GMT

A Callery Pear in bloom.

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myles — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:59:59 GMT

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myles — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:45:15 GMT

Caught them just as they opened. The rain was not invited but showed up anyway.

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myles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Saw this Visual Shoegaze sticker on Ossington today.

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myles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:45:49 GMT

claude code removed my buddy 😢

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myles — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Theo at the farm.

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myles — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:58:43 GMT

Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander, took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window.

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myles — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Walked along the West Toronto Railpath on my way home from Kitchener.

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myles — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMT

Played A Place For All My Books with the colleagues.

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myles — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT

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myles — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:45:00 GMT

Stayed at a really cute Airbnb in Kitchener. Very much my aesthetic: plants everywhere, rattan everything, a vintage world map on the wall.

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myles — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Instagram is a photo grid owned by a company that would prefer you never leave. It used to be kind of nice.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/trellis and it’s just photos, in a grid, on a website I own.

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myles — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:13:33 GMT

Line drawing of 1RG’s street view.

Bookmarked Thoughts on slowing the fuck down by Mario Zechner.

myles — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:27:52 GMT

Mario Zechner writes about the current usage of LLM coding agents in software development and how we just need to slow down our release cycles.

You have zero fucking idea what’s going on because you delegated all your agency to your agents. You let them run free, and they are merchants of complexity. They have seen many bad architectural decisions in their training data and throughout their RL training. You have told them to architect your application. Guess what the result is?

An immense amount of complexity, an amalgam of terrible cargo cult “industry best practices”, that you didn’t rein in before it was too late. But it’s worse than that.

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myles — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:45:00 GMT

This Is My Jam was a music sharing site that let you declare one song your jam at a time. It shut down in 2015 and I still think about it.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/this-is-my-jam and will be updated whenever the mood strikes.

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myles — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:08:55 GMT

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myles — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:30:00 GMT

Took a walk through the neighbourhood after dark.

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myles — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT

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myles — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:12:34 GMT

Bookmarked Ontario's ICON Computer by Jacob Filipp.

myles — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:10:42 GMT

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.

Bookmarked Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI by Andreas Kling for Ladybird.

myles — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:25:08 GMT

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.

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myles — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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myles — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:00:00 GMT

Lumière is back at Trillium Park.

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myles — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:29:23 GMT

A quiet, snowy winter weekend at the farm.

Bookmarked watercolors by Bruce MacEvoy.

myles — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:55:52 GMT

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

Bookmarked The Everdeck: A Universal Card System for The Wrong Tools.

myles — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:46:23 GMT

The Everdeck is a versatile 120-card system designed to support a wide range of traditional and modern card games. Its design weaves together mathematical and linguistic patterns, allowing it to map cleanly onto many existing systems, standard decks, Tarot, Hanafuda, and more, which makes it especially interesting as a piece of universal game infrastructure.

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myles — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:25:00 GMT

Started playing Cairn on my Steamdeck, such an amazing game.

Bookmarked Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne by Harriet Baker for AnOther.

myles — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:40:53 GMT

Harriet Baker reviews Sophie Calle’s first book Suite Venitienne, which documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice.

Bookmarked The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Sharon Ruston for The Public Domain Review.

myles — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:53:04 GMT

Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Frankenstein, grounding its horror in real debates about resuscitation, galvanism, and ambiguous states between life and death.

The Stuff That Stuck in 2025

myles — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:00:00 GMT

In 2025 I tried to watch and read less US media. This isn’t a definitive list, just the books and movies that followed me out of the room.

Books

I read a lot of quiet, plot-light fiction this year. Books that care more about mood, memory, and voice than big events.

Ballerina by Patrick Modiano

Set in 1960s Paris, Ballerina follows a single mother’s troubled relationship with her young son, and her enigmatic involvement with the narrator.

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

An Italian expat couple in Berlin: freelancers with few constraints, tending houseplants and curating a life online while the city hums around them.

I’m a Fool for Loving You by Camila Sosa Villada

Nine short stories about desire, danger, tenderness, and survival—sharp, funny, and devastating.

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

by Zoe Thorogood

A brutally honest (and often darkly funny) graphic memoir about living with bipolar disorder and trying to keep making things anyway.

Land of Mirrors by María Medem

A stunning, dreamlike graphic novel—mythic and intimate at the same time, with art that feels like it’s humming.

Movies

I watched fewer big movies and more films that feel like postcards: compact, precise, and a little haunted. The ones below are mostly about image and rhythm.

Can I Get a Witness?

A near-future moral fable with a quiet dread running under everything. It’s the kind of film where the premise is simple and the aftertaste is not.

La Jetée

A whole science-fiction epic told in still images. Time travel as memory, obsession, and inevitability. Short, perfect, and strangely emotional.

The Red Turtle

Nearly wordless, completely gorgeous. A story about solitude, companionship, and the long shape of a life, told with ocean rhythm.

Mars Express

A sleek, French cyberpunk noir: a PI and her android partner chasing a missing person case that keeps widening into something systemic.

Bookmarked I wanted a camera that doesn’t exist — so I built it by Cristian Băluță.

myles — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:23:50 GMT

Cristian Băluță writes about he moded a Panasonic Lumix G9II into a Leica M-Style camera.

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myles — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:14:12 GMT

Bookmarked A website to destroy all websites. by Henry Desroches for Henry from Online.

myles — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:30:29 GMT

Henry Desroches makes a thoughtful case for reclaiming the Web we actually want by embracing personal, hand-coded, syndicated websites and protocols like RSS & Webmentions.

Hand-coded, syndicated, and above all personal websites are exemplary: They let users of the internet to be autonomous, experiment, have ownership, learn, share, find god, find love, find purpose. Bespoke, endlessly tweaked, eternally redesigned, built-in-public, surprising UI and delightful UX. The personal website is a staunch undying answer to everything the corporate and industrial web has taken from us.

Annual Prologue: 2026

myles — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:12:08 GMT

There’s a tab open on my laptop that’s been there for three weeks. A half-finished drawing, a reference image, a colour picker frozen mid-decision. I haven’t closed it. I think that means something.

2025 was hard. Like, genuinely hard in ways I’m not going to get into here, it was the kind of year that takes a lot out of you and doesn’t really ask permission before doing it. I made it through, which sounds dramatic but also just feels true. I’m not dwelling, I just want to be honest that I’m starting this year from a different place than I expected to be.

Okay. Moving on.

The question I keep coming back to for 2026 is simpler than the ones I usually ask myself, not what will I finish or what will I ship, just: what do I want to make? Not for anyone in particular, not toward anything specific, just for the thing itself.

There’s a tarot deck that’s been living in my head for too long, there are photographs I keep meaning to actually sit with instead of just archiving, there’s a drawing practice I keep treating like a warmup for something more serious when maybe the drawing is just the thing and I should stop waiting for the serious thing to show up. And then there’s a whole other thing I’m building on the side, something that grew out of an obsession and turned into a project without me totally noticing, which is maybe the best way for something to start. None of these have deadlines. None of them need to become anything. I want to find out what they are by actually making them instead of thinking about making them, which is a trap I fall into constantly and am trying very hard to stop doing.

That’s what I’m bringing into this year. Just the intention to keep going, keep the tabs open, see what accumulates.

The drawing still isn’t finished. I’ll probably look at it tonight.

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Bookmarked Using LLMs at Oxide by Bryan Cantrill.

myles — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:26:42 GMT

Bryan Cantrill shares Oxide’s internal guidance on the use of LLMs in RFD 576.

Empathy: Be we readers or writers, there are humans on the other end of our language use. As we use LLMs, we must keep in mind our empathy for that human, be they the one who is consuming our writing, or the one who has written what we are reading.

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myles — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:45:59 GMT

Went for a long walk during a winter snowstorm on Boxing Day.

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myles — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:57:46 GMT

Charli XCX commenting on John Cale’s Instagram post, “defo text me any time!”.

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myles — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:13:24 GMT

Playing around with mood.camera, an iOS camera app that aims to emulate film photography. Really enjoying how it renders indoor light.

Bookmarked I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. by Marcus Olang' for this man's mind.

myles — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:03:34 GMT

Marcus Olang’ reflects on being told his writing sounds like ChatGPT. As a Kenyan, he reframes the comparison: ChatGPT writes like him and like many others shaped by the same educational system.

I am a writer. A writer who also happens to be Kenyan. And I have come to this thesis statement: I don’t write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline deliberately designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape.

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myles — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:00:00 GMT

The lake was almost the same colour as the sky, separated only by a thin, pale horizon. Wind came in hard from the water and the waves kept breaking against the rocks in short, restless bursts. Everything felt flattened, quiet, and heavy, like the city was holding its breath.

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myles — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:07:12 GMT

My Spotify Wrapped for 2025.

Bookmarked For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps by Zoey Poll for Eye on Design.

myles — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:21:01 GMT

Swiss mapmakers have been quietly seeding their work with little doodles—marmots, spiders, even the occasional hidden hiker—inside official maps.

It also implies that the mapmaker has openly violated his commitment to accuracy, risking professional repercussions on account of an alpine rodent. No cartographer has been fired over these drawings, but then again, most were only discovered once their author had already left. (Many mapmakers timed the publication of their drawing to coincide with their retirement.) Over half of the known illustrations have been removed. The latest, the marmot drawing, was discovered by Swisstopo in 2016 and is likely to be eliminated from the next official map of Switzerland by next year. As the spokesperson for Swisstopo told me, “Creativity has no place on these maps.”

Bookmarked Fan Sans Essay by Emily Sneddon.

myles — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:16:10 GMT

Emily Sneddon on how she designed Fran Sans, a display font inspired by the destination displays on Muni’s Breda Light Rail Vehicles in San Francisco.

What caught my eye was how the displays look mechanical and yet distinctly personal. Constructed on a 3×5 grid, the characters are made up of geometric modules: squares, quarter-circles, and angled forms. Combined, these modules create imperfect, almost primitive letterforms, revealing a utility and charm that feels distinctly like the San Francisco I’ve come to know.

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myles — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:25:39 GMT

Bookmarked A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books by Alexa Brazilian for The New York Times Style Magazine.

myles — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:35:00 GMT

Peter-Ayers Tarantino’s Manhattan apartment is packed with books and artwork in every direction. It’s chaotic, layered, and unbelievably charming.

Bookmarked everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance by Dani Offline for offline soul.

myles — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:49:56 GMT

Dani Offline writes about how everyone wants to be a DJ, but no one wants to dance. She argues that the commodifiction of art has devalued the experience of enjoying art for its own sake.

I present this example to mark a paradox that troubles the title of this essay. Pure, anonymous participation in something strange and beautiful is often that which draws us to the center of it all. The best writers I know are devoted readers. The best musicians I know listen to music, constantly. Is it such a problem that everyone wants to be an artist these days?

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myles — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:30:00 GMT

First snowfall of the season.

Bookmarked My Truck Desk by Bud Smith for The Paris Review.

myles — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:33:12 GMT

Bud Smith writing in The Paris Review about his truck desk,

I’d built a portable desk inside it. My truck desk, I called it. A couple of planks screwed together, our union sticker slapped on, the whole deal sealed with shellac. I’d built the desk so it slid into the bottom of the steering wheel and sat across the armrests. I used to hang back at the job and sneak in some creative work while the rest of the crew went to break. My desk—which I’d taken far too long to build and perfect through many prototypes—had been stowed behind the driver’s seat when the truck was hauled off by the wrecker.

There is something amazing about how Smith built a workspace from the world around him, writing squeezed between shifts.

Bookmarked Your Guide to Reading Jane Austen Books in Order by Chase Anderson for alibris.

myles — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:23:28 GMT

Chase Anderson wrote a guide to reading Jane Austen books in order.

Bookmarked Code like a surgeon by Geoffrey Litt.

myles — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:37:48 GMT

Geoffrey Litt on how he uses LLMs to code like a surgeon:

A surgeon isn’t a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at.

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myles — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:37:37 GMT

Was playing around with Leica’s Pro Manual Camera iOS App today.

Bookmarked The Majority AI View by Anil Dash.

myles — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:27:05 GMT

Anil Dash on most people in the tech industry, who actually build things, share the same feelings on AI:

Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they’ve been over-hyped, the fact they’re being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.

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myles — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:41:00 GMT

Awesome memorial by Victoria Day.

Bookmarked It's Rude To Show AI Output To People by Alex Martsinovich.

myles — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:28:00 GMT

Alex Martsinovich on why it’s rude to show AI output to people:

For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.

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myles — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT

The Society of Brevity is for those who believe most sentences can end sooner. We honor concision, condemn excess, and keep introductions short.

Bookmarked In Alberta, the Punks Are Taking Over by Liam Hodder for The Tyee.

myles — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:52:00 GMT

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.

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myles — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:06:26 GMT

Someone left a small guardian in the garden.

Bookmarked Blog Feeds.

myles — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:57:00 GMT

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.

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myles — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:40:33 GMT

Spotted a Lovebot stencil tucked along a brick wall tonight.

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myles — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:08:49 GMT

Waiting for a friend at St. Andrew’s Playground Park.

Movie Mice Theatre

myles — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:30:00 GMT

Saw this cute diorama on my evening walk tonight.

Red Light Signing Through my Window

myles — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:53:00 GMT

They are filming a movie outside my apartment and there is a huge red light coming into my window.

Building a Calendar Interface in Astro

myles — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I wanted my website to have a clean, static calendar interface to showcase all my RSVP posts. At first, I considered using FullCalendar, an excellent package, but a bit too heavy for my needs. I wanted something that rendered at build time, without extra client-side scripting. Building a lightweight calendar in Astro with date-fns was surprisingly straightforward.

Screenshot of the calendar interface for this website.

The Code

I am using date-fns to do a lot of the heavy lifting here.

Get the Static Paths

The getStaticPaths generates multiple page routes from a single .astro page component.

import { getCollection } from "astro:content";
import dateFns from "date-fns";

export const getStaticPaths = () => {
  // The events collection is pretty generic, it would look something like
  // this:
  //
  // const eventsCollection = defineCollection({
  //    loader: glob({ pattern: "*.md", base: "./src/content/events" }),
  //    schema: z.object({
  //        name: z.string(),
  //        startsAt: z.date(),
  //        endsAt: z.date().optional(),
  //        isAllDay: z.boolean(),
  //    }),
  // })
  const allEvents = getCollection("calendarEvents");

  // We want to get the upper and lower bound of the calendar pages without it
  // we would have to have every possible month.
  const eventDates = allEvents
    .flatMap((post) => [post.data.startsAt, post.data.endsAt])
    .filter(Boolean) as Date[];

  const upperBound = dateFns.endOfMonth(dateFns.max(eventDates));
  const lowerBound = dateFns.startOfMonth(dateFns.min(eventDates));

  // We want to capture all the years and their months between the upper and
  // lower bounds.
  const yearsBetween = dateFns
    .eachYearOfInterval({
      start: lowerBound,
      end: upperBound,
    })
    .map((yearStart) => {
      const yearEnd = dateFns.endOfYear(yearStart);
      const months = dateFns.eachMonthOfInterval({
        start: dateFns.isBefore(yearStart, lowerBound) ? lowerBound : yearStart,
        end: dateFns.isAfter(yearEnd, upperBound) ? upperBound : yearEnd,
      });
      return { months };
    });

  // Finally we can build all the pages that will be generated.
  return yearsBetween.flatMap(({ months }) =>
    months.map((monthStart) => {
      const monthEnd = dateFns.endOfMonth(monthStart);

      // Adjust the start and end to the nearest Monday and Sunday for a full
      // week of coverage, this does mean the week will start on a Monday and
      // end on a Sunday.
      const calendarMonthStart = dateFns.isMonday(monthStart)
        ? monthStart
        : dateFns.previousMonday(monthStart);
      const calendarMonthEnd = dateFns.isSunday(monthEnd)
        ? monthEnd
        : dateFns.nextSunday(monthEnd);

      const days = dateFns
        .eachDayOfInterval({
          start: calendarMonthStart,
          end: calendarMonthEnd,
        })
        .map((day) => ({
          day,
          events: allEvents.filter((event) =>
            dateFns.isSameDay(event.data.startsAt, day),
          ),
        }));

      return {
        params: {
          // You'll want to change this to how your filename is, mine is
          // `[...yyyymmm].astro`.
          yyyymm: dateFns.format(monthStart, "yyyy-MM"),
        },
        props: {
          start: calendarMonthStart,
          end: calendarMonthEnd,
          days,
        },
      };
    }),
  );
};

Build the Interface

The above builds three props: start (first day of the calendar), end (last day), and days (an array of days and their events). I use Tailwind CSS for styling this website, I’ll be using their CSS classes.

{
  /**
   * The border attribute doesn't really work with grids, so to get this to
   * work, we are going to add a slight gap between the grid's cells and
   * subtract the margin a bit on the right. This means we'll have a
   * tic-tac-toe border kind of like this:
   *
   *  MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN
   * -----------------------------------------
   *   29 |  31 |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5
   *                    ...
   *   27 |  28 |  29 |  30 |  31 |  1  |  2
   */
}
<div class:list={["-mr-0.5 grid grid-cols-7 gap-0.5 bg-black"]}>
  {
    ["mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat", "sun"].map((weekDay) => (
      <h2
        class:list={[...className, "bg-white text-right font-bold uppercase"]}
      >
        {weekDay}
      </h2>
    ))
  }

  {
    days.map(({ day, events }) => (
      <div class:list={["h-32 bg-white"]}>
        <h3 class:list={["px-1 py-0.5 text-right font-semibold"]}>
          {dateFns.format(day, "d")}
        </h3>
        <ul class:list={["space-y-0.5 overflow-y-hidden text-sm"]}>
          {events.map((event) => (
            <li>
              <a
                href={`/events/${event.id}`}
                class:list={[
                  "flex justify-between rounded-sm px-1 py-0.5",
                  "hover:bg-black/5",
                ]}
              >
                <span class:list={["block flex-shrink truncate"]}>
                  {event.data.name}
                </span>
                {!event.data.isAllDay && (
                  <span class:list={["block flex-shrink-0 text-black/75"]}>
                    {dateFns.format(event.data.startsAt, "h:mm a")}
                  </span>
                )}
              </a>
            </li>
          ))}
        </ul>
      </div>
    ))
  }
</div>

Wrap Up

Now my website has a calendar interface to my RSVP posts.

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myles — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:02:00 GMT

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

Butterfly

myles — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMT

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myles — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:00:00 GMT

Found this cute little guy today near Queen and University.

JSONFeed in Astro with @astrojs/rss

myles — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:42:00 GMT

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.

Astro already has a handy @astrojs/rss package that outputs RSS feeds. So I thought—why not reuse the same data shape to generate JSONFeed as well?

Turns out, it’s pretty straightforward.

The Code

Here’s how I reused the @astrojs/rss shape to build a JSONFeed endpoint in Astro.

Formatting the Feed

I built a transformer function to take the RSSOptions and convert them to be a valid JSONFeed 1.1 top-level.

import type { APIContext } from "astro";
import { getCollection } from "astro:content";
import type { RSSFeedItem, RSSOptions } from "@astrojs/rss";

export const formatJsonFeed = (rssOptions: RSSOptions) => {
  const { site, title, description } = rssOptions;

  const homePageUrl = site instanceof URL ? site.href : site;

  return {
    version: "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1",
    title: title,
    home_page_url: homePageUrl,
    feed_url: new URL("/feed.json", homePageUrl).href,
    description: description,
    items: [],
  };
};

Formatting Feed Items

Next was transforming RSS items to be valid JSONFeed 1.1 items.

export const formatJsonFeedItem = (rssFeedItem: RSSFeedItem) => {
  const { link, content, title, pubDate, description } = rssFeedItem;

  if (!link) {
    throw new Error("RSS feed item must have a link.");
  }

  return {
    id: link,
    url: link,
    title: title,
    summary: description,
    date_published: pubDate?.toISOString(),
    content_html: content || "",
  };
};

Putting It Together

Next, you’ll need to create a Static File Endpoint to serve the JSONFeed. I put mine at /src/pages/feed.json.ts, which servers it at https://example.com/feed.json.

export async function GET(context: APIContext): Promise<Response> {
  const posts = await getCollection("posts");

  const jsonFeedItems = posts.map((post) =>
    formatJsonFeedItem({
      link: url.href,
      title: post.data.name,
      pubDate: post.data.publishedAt,
    }),
  );

  const jsonFeed = formatJsonFeed({
    title: "Website Feed",
    description: "This is a JSONFeed!!!",
    site: context.site,
    items: jsonFeedItems,
  });

  return new Response(JSON.stringify(jsonFeed, null, 2), {
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/feed+json" },
  });
}

Auto-Discovery of Your New JSONFeed

To make your JSONFeed discoverable by browsers and feed readers, add a <link> tag in your site’s <head>. For example:

<link
  rel="alternate"
  type="application/rss+xml"
  title="RSS Feed"
  href="/rss.xml"
/>
<link
  rel="alternate"
  type="application/feed+json"
  title="JSONFeed"
  href="/feed.json"
/>

This way, clients that support feed auto-discovery will automatically pick up both formats.

Wrap Up

Now my site has two feeds: RSS for the traditionalists and JSONFeed for the modernists. If you’re already using @astrojs/rss, this pattern makes JSONFeed nearly free. Give it a try—and let me know if you’d like me to extend this into Atom or other formats. 🌱

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

Farm Photo Dump

myles — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A week in the countryside, skies shifting from blue to dusk, trees heavy with summer leaves, wildflowers pushing through stone walls, rain on the patio, and quiet evenings under open skies. A little collection of stillness and light. 🌿🌦️☀️

Tomatoes from the garden.

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

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I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel.

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Bookmarked Death of a Fantastic Machine.

myles — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:56:00 GMT

This documentary Death of a Fantastic Machine explores how photography has shaped our lives, from early photographs to AI-generated images.

Broadacre City — Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Dystopia

myles — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:40:00 GMT

Democracy… we have started toward a new integration—to an integration along the horizontal line which we call the great highway.

- Frank Lloyd Wright, September 1931.

Today I learned about Broadacre City from Phil Edwards’ YouTube video, The truth about Utopias.

Icebergs can get stuck on underwater mountains

myles — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT

The current largest iceberg, A-23A, is currently spinning in place on top of an underwater mountain:

After leaving Antarctic waters, the iceberg got stuck in a vortex over a seamount, or an underwater mountain. Imagine a piece of ice about 1,500 square miles in area and as deep as the Empire State Building spinning slowly but steadily enough to fully rotate it on its head over the course of about 24 days.

- Tumin, R. (2024, August 7). After breaking free, world’s largest iceberg is stuck spinning in circles. New York Times.

Bookmarked I Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. They’ve Changed, and Not for the Better. by Pete Wells for The New York Times.

myles — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Read Pete Wells’s Times article on his experience reviewing restaurants for the last 12 years.

Bookmarked How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki for Animation Obsessive.

myles — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Read How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki.

Bookmarked The internet is already over by Sam Kriss for Numb at the Lodge.

myles — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Read Sam Kriss’s article The Internet is already over.

Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe

myles — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT

As a lover of good food, I’ve always been curious about restaurant health inspections. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a tool that makes it easy to explore Toronto’s DineSafe data.

I built a scraper using Python and the sqlite-utils library. It gathers data on restaurant inspections and stores it in a SQLite database. But I didn’t stop there – I added some automation magic to make the process even more fun!

Now, thanks to a Github Actions workflow, the scraper runs every day at 9 am and deploys the database to an instance of Datasette running on Vercel.

Datasette is a super cool tool that lets you explore and visualize data in a fun and interactive way. So, whether you’re a foodie, data enthusiast, or just curious about what’s happening behind the scenes in your favorite restaurant, this project is for you.

Check out the Github repository to see the code and learn how to set up your own instance of the scraper. You can also explore the data and play around with visualizations on the DineSafe Toronto website.

Arc App's JSON Export to SQLite

myles — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT

I started working on a Dogsheep utility for processing Arc App’s Daily (or Monthly) JSON exports into a SQLite database. This provides the ability to analysis the places I visit and activities I am doing in Datasette.

I’ve published a working alpha version of the Dogsheep utility, arc-to-sqlite on my Github. Check it out if you are interested.

😢 My Stupid Weather Twitter Profile Bot Got Suspended

myles — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 21:29:00 GMT

Seven years ago, I created a little Python script that would add a weather emoji to my Twitter handle, based on the current conditions in Toronto. I don’t think anyone besides myself notices, but it always made me happy to see my handle change to ☀️ Myles Braithwaite on a sunny day.

Today, I received an email from the Twitter Developer Platform, informing me that my bot was suspended from accessing the Twitter API. I tried to appeal the decision, but the web form kept giving me an error.

I knew this day was coming when I had to give up on this bot, I used DarkSky’s API to get the current weather, which API was disconnected on 31 March 2023. Strangely enough, my bot continued to work for a while after that. Just all feels pretty sudden.

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It’s a bit windy in Toronto today.

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myles — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 04:59:59 GMT

I spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my tests weren’t failing. It turned out it was because I forgot to prepend test_ to the function 🙃.

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myles — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:58:00 GMT

Listening to Tooth and Tail’s soundtrack by Austin Wintory gives my chores pomp and circumstance.

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Sitting in a park in Port Perry.

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Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.

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I ♥️ summer in Toronto.

Scooter's aren't as "eco-friendly" as they claim to be

myles — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 03:59:59 GMT

The study concludes that dockless scooters generally produce more greenhouse-gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a bicycle—or, of course, a walk.

The paper found that scooters do produce about half the emissions of a standard automobile, at around 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile compared with nearly 415. But, crucially, the researchers found in a survey of e-scooter riders in Raleigh, North Carolina, that only 34% would have otherwise used a personal car or ride-sharing service. Nearly half would have biked or walked, 11% would have taken the bus, and 7% would have simply skipped the trip.

Temple, J. (2019, August 2). Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all. Retrieved August 8, 2019, from technologyreview.com

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Waiting to go home from Oakville.

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Outside is awesome today!

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🎥 Hobbs & Shaw was really good.

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🎵 Chance the Rapper new album The Big Day is awesome.

Lovebot Graffiti in Toronto

myles — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

To create a better future we must create love within our lives now we have the tools to create love. This is love for not just some of us but for all people. This is love not just in our time, but for all time.

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Bookmarked The map that keeps Burning Man honest by Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship.

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Bookmarked Thoughts on slowing the fuck down by Mario Zechner.

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Bookmarked Ontario's ICON Computer by Jacob Filipp.

Bookmarked Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI by Andreas Kling for Ladybird.

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Bookmarked watercolors by Bruce MacEvoy.

Bookmarked The Everdeck: A Universal Card System for The Wrong Tools.

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Bookmarked Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne by Harriet Baker for AnOther.

Bookmarked The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Sharon Ruston for The Public Domain Review.

The Stuff That Stuck in 2025

Books

Ballerina by Patrick Modiano

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

I’m a Fool for Loving You by Camila Sosa Villada

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

Land of Mirrors by María Medem

Movies

Can I Get a Witness?

La Jetée

The Red Turtle

Mars Express

Bookmarked I wanted a camera that doesn’t exist — so I built it by Cristian Băluță.

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Bookmarked A website to destroy all websites. by Henry Desroches for Henry from Online.

Annual Prologue: 2026

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Bookmarked Using LLMs at Oxide by Bryan Cantrill.

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Bookmarked I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. by Marcus Olang' for this man's mind.

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Bookmarked For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps by Zoey Poll for Eye on Design.

Bookmarked Fan Sans Essay by Emily Sneddon.

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Bookmarked A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books by Alexa Brazilian for The New York Times Style Magazine.

Bookmarked everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance by Dani Offline for offline soul.

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Bookmarked My Truck Desk by Bud Smith for The Paris Review.

Bookmarked Your Guide to Reading Jane Austen Books in Order by Chase Anderson for alibris.

Bookmarked Code like a surgeon by Geoffrey Litt.

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Bookmarked The Majority AI View by Anil Dash.

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Bookmarked It's Rude To Show AI Output To People by Alex Martsinovich.

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Bookmarked In Alberta, the Punks Are Taking Over by Liam Hodder for The Tyee.

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Bookmarked Blog Feeds.

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Movie Mice Theatre

Red Light Signing Through my Window

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

by Zoe Thorogood