exploring climate change, data visualizations of our city/country split, running, cabins and forest bathing
Toronto
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Kirsten Lee Hill is incredibly inspiring and every solo builder should listen to this podcast
halfstackdatascience.com/s4e…
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Gemma 4 was sent to space on a prototype satellite, ran on TPUs using stored solar energy, and its response was sent back to Earth
On-device models are wild
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Introducing NotchOwl 2 🎉
an ADHD task manager that lives in your mac's notch.
Hover it, your tasks, timer, notes and calendar are right there.
- Live Activities in the notch when a reminder hits
- 2-way sync with your iPhone & Apple Watch
- Pomodoro timer right beside the notch
- MCP for Claude Code & more
> NotchOwl.com
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Believe it or not, researchers are using Sasquatch data to better understand how well their methods for studying scientifically recognized species are working thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bigfoo…
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This year I shipped more production code than ever. I wrote zero lines of it.
That job: copy-paste plans between agents. Wait for CI. Doomscroll while tests run.
Velocity was up. My brain was fried.
Every backlog moved at the speed of my clipboard. I wasn't the engineer anymore. I was the bottleneck.
So I built the eng squad I ran for 15 years as a CTO, out of agents.
Meet @suplex_ai.
Want to improve at chess? There's these 2 guys and then there's @DinaBelenkaya who is in the top 3 of female chess streamers! Her content is both educational and highly entertaining
streamscharts.com/top-channe…
I like the 3 min blitz games where at times its less mating, more surviving!
ALT Top chess players in the world: Magnus, Hans & Dina
In you're in Stratford, drop by the gallery for the current exhibition featuring Powerline Films
powerlinefilms.com/
"If you lived here, you’d be home by now, is an immersive multimedia installation exploring Ontario’s housing shortage, and the growing tension between development, farmland preservation and environmental protection."
gallerystratford.on.ca/curre…
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upgraded my taste atlas so i can filter by color, motif, aesthetic, mood, year, topic across 5000+ tumblr posts + pinterest pins spanning 10 years
Mocking Napoleon, the foreign press described the conscripted young recruits (who lied about their age) as being children riding on chickens 🐓 share.gemini.google/nJrHaN4l…
Hear more anecdotes like this from the Napoleon episodes on @HTTOTW
ALT A caricature of young officers riding on chickens during the napoleon wars
working on a piece to promote the early vote spurred on by the excellent @envirodefence volunteer platform.
starting to feel like my life mission could be remixing stories and fables with social commentary in the form of short form video.
This media was once inaccessible to me and now I can participate but it's not easy; none of this is one shot and there's a lot of trial and error to make something impactful to encourage the #GetOutTheVote movement.
ALT a modern take on red riding hood showing red, the grandma and wolf actors.
this is the final cut assembled in Divinci Resolve using Gemini, Affinity Designer 2, and MinMax Design...
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...spent $20 and took about 8 hours mostly learning how to best layer in Resolve.
I tried to time box this exercise and made final notes about what I'd improve in the future around the pacing and direction; the audio sounds a bit garbled in places so would record that separately.
A New Wildlife Crossing in Colorado Has Already Cut Vehicle Collisions by 91%
thisiscolossal.com/2026/10/c…
Instead of (or along with) our highway 400 bypass multi billion investment, I have seen enough roadkill and traffic jams to steer Deer clear on route to cottage country to warrant them in Ontario!
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FYI - find out what Mayoral candidates said about standing up to AI data centres (and other issues!) here: election.torontoenvironment.…
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ESP-Mosaico brings AI-assisted coding to real hardware.
It combines an ESP32-S31-based board with a touchscreen and modular camera, audio, sensor, and control modules.
You can build an idea, deploy it to the device, test it and keep improving it with AI assistance.
Useful for prototyping smart devices, interactive systems, and robotics projects.
What would you build first?
Experimenting with Gemini to create an endangered species poster after reading
davidsuzuki.org/expert-artic…
by @Rachel_Plotkin, a Wildlife campaigner at
@DavidSuzukiFDN who encourages engagement with @juliedabrusin Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature
ALT an endangered species poster featuring 5 animals from Ontario
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Is your favourite park at peak colour?🍁
Our Fall Colour Report has the answer: ontarioparks.ca/fallcolour
📍 Silent Lake Provincial Park
ALT sun shining through forest with golden fall colour
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to save you two clicks names.color.pizza/?view=pixe…
I'm enjoying Below so much so that I felt inspired to cook up an ode to my top 5 favourite Mackenzie Davis roles; can't possibly rank them thus from left to right we have: Halt & Catch Fire, the Black Mirror episode: San Junipero, Blade Runner 2049, Station Eleven, and finally Below. And I'll leave her legs up for your imagination.
ALT 5 roles of Mackenzie Davis using a stop motion felt style