On Wednesday morning as our volunteers were out bright and early campaigning for safer streets, the keyboard warriors in the mayor's office were simultaneously putting out a release promising to remove hard-fought and life-saving traffic calming. (1/3)

Boyle is a left-yimby bicycle advocate who works the housing and indigenous reconciliation portfolios; ABC’s leader is a Bitcoin bro promising to rip out traffic-calming barriers I have no idea what that person who put up the lawn signs for both was thinking. But maybe: * They’re a committed […]

Normal people have every possible configuration of political preferences, regardless of what insiders and political news junkies think I do not have a picture for you but somebody in this city has a Christine Boyle / NDP lawn sign next to an ABC Vancouver sign

meanwhile, at conferences that are not Software You Can Love

It’s very refreshing to be among a small group where the language creator is introduced as being a very kind person, who stresses that the goal of the Zig Foundation is to educate people. And the talks are full of people talking deep systems knowledge and art Quite a contrast from the norm […]

I'm working on a slightly innovative land acknowledgement for a tech conference. Some questions were raised about the approach. Anyone with an indigenous background/experience with such acknowledgments, especially in the areas known as British Columbia, willing to give it a look over?

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

So, in this way, I'm just like an Anthropic engineer

.claude/settings.json is kinda useless for permitting files. I give it a small sample of usable data in `foo.sample.csv`. `foo.real.csv` is over in `data/` which I forbid it from reading. It thinks my sample file isn't good enough so it does `head -500 data/foo.real.csv > foo.better-sample […]

I assume these videos are meant for internal audiences, even if we get to see them Perhaps in 1987 the NorCal executive's dream was to be in a brown-hued, brass-rimmed universe. With a giant house, a giant desk. To be an LSD veteran who still smokes weed on the weekends, still a bit of a rascal […]

@manlycoffee Some people feel that they are fighting insidious forces (capitalism, AI, racism, etc etc) and change can only come from purity. They also can’t or don’t make anything for themselves. Therefore, they yell at the people who actually do stuff to be perfectly pure. I actually saw a […]

For the perplexed: If Google Authenticator was a physical device, it would look like this. There'd be a keyhole, and a six digit display like a slot machine. Inside, there would be complicated gears, connected to the key tumblers and to a clock. Every 30 seconds, the clock ticks, and the […]

Debugging story: see if you figure it out before me. Your 2FA code, from your authenticator app, doesn't work with your bank. You reverify yourself with selfies, and get a new QR Code. It also doesn't work. Again. And again. You call them. They're stumped. Then it happens to the next service […]