Officially disguised as a Canadian
Remember what it feels like to write words, to write code, that you come up with on your own. Don’t lose sight of that. Don’t forget. Don’t let the new toys convince you they’ve “got this”. It’s not that they’re lying: they just make words appear in a certain order that looks like they do.Continue reading Your job is to think
Dolly Parton died today, aged 80. The inimitable and irreplaceable Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean was exactly the kind of person we needed in her 80 years on the planet, and the world will be poorer without her. Go be with Carl.
The ethics of LLM use can be reduced to “don’t use it and not expect to get found out”
Apple’s MacBooks and iPads, and Microsoft’s Surfaces, have blurred the lines between “computer” and “personal electronic device”, so I feel like we’ve forgotten about those things on our desks at work with Dell or HP written on them. Desktop computers, sometimes called towers, are sensitive snowflakes, with very narrow margins for error. That’s why redundancyContinue reading Computer care
Fuck Volvo
Recently one of the websites I maintain, which runs WordPress, had not been updated in a while. When I checked, it said the usual: Update WordPress Another update is currently in progress. As you can imagine, there wasn’t another update in progress. Anyone who uses a search engine lately will see hundreds, if not thousands,Continue reading WordPress upgrade failure? Check your AUTO_INCREMENT settings
According to Variety, Vimeo is going private: Bending Spoons, based in Milan, Italy, has acquired a number of digital technology businesses, including Evernote, Issuu, Meetup, Remini, StreamYard, Splice and WeTransfer. The company claims its products are currently used by more than 300 million people each month. After Vimeo said they would double their subscription price,Continue reading I closed my Vimeo account
The Daily Maverick published this piece by Malibongwe Tyilo in 2020, and I forgot to link to it back then. Whose struggle is it anyway? Lessons on intersectional activism from ‘Simon and I’https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-06-14-whose-struggle-is-it-anyway-lessons-on-intersectional-activism-from-simon-and-i/ I have my own memories of Pride 2001, eleven years after the beginning.
Last year I said I’m writing a comedy show. Well, the script is (mostly) settled, at over 7,000 words, and I’m performing the solo 60-minute monologue on stage from 5 to 9 August 2025, as part of the Calgary Fringe Festival. Tickets are now on sale, and here’s my promo video to get you excited.Continue reading I’m doing a show at Calgary Fringe!
Recently on some or other social network (probably the elephant as opposed to the butterfly), I engaged with someone about the PayPal Honey debacle. If you’re unaware, you can watch a video on the red site. The conversation isn’t important. What’s important is that I miss the old web. I miss that it took threeContinue reading Remembering the old web