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  The whole Lake Ontario thing definitely got me curious to try MapQuest. It’s adorable! They are really leaning into the retro nostalgia of using MapQuest with 8 bit characters and stuff. Seems perfectly cromulent as a map app too.

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  Another night, another dream where I get to the airport and realize I don’t have my passport.

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  Biked down to the new bidisaage park yesterday with Erin. Glorious. It’s nice when the city can do something great. #toronto

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  Don’t mind me, just restarting baldurs gate from scratch for the third time. I’ll get it right this time!

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  @jsnell and @blankbaby just for the record, the correct Toronto street food delicacy would be a Jamaican beef patty purchased from either a “variety store” or a subway station.

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  I sometimes wonder whether any future Star Wars property could actually live up to the original. I think part of the fun of the original, and then the sequels building on them, was the gradual world building and discovering new things about the star wars universe. Everything now just feels like we're just playing in a sandbox we know everything about.

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  @gruber How could you not try the most unholy combination of them all?

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  @caseyliss Apologies if this is the billionth time someone has told you this, but if you set your tailnet devices to override global dns and point to the Tailscale ip of your pihole server, you can get pihole to work outside your home network, including cellular. Did this a while back and it’s a game changer for me. https://tailscale.com/docs/reference/dns-in-tailscale

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  @hotdogsladies these things make great wallpapers for my tiny e readers.

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  So many people don’t realize the key to doing great karaoke is showmanship. No one cares if you can’t sing. If you just stand immobile and blare out a tune staring into the ground it will suck.

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  https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/homelabfest-announcement/ @waffles@masto.yttrx.com this looks pretty cool! Well cool as in nerdy I guess.

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  @mwichary@mastodon.online Re not messing with user input, I agree startup animations are bad. I was hoping one day though you’d talk about ‘stealing focus’. Like if I’m typing on a mac, and mid-type a dialogue pops up and now i’m typing in there / issuing commands. Or when you’re *just* about to tap a button on your phone, but then the ui changes underneath you as you’re moving there and you miss it. I wish I had more examples of the latter but it’s so frustrating. It should be a crime.

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  When you call a company’s helpline and want to talk to a human you can press zero. Then they’ll still ask you questions. You can press zero again and it’ll continue to push back. I don’t know how many zeros it takes but i find if I just jam on zero a ludicrous amount of times I’ll get to an agent.

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  Also one week until I see the new Spider-Man with my kids, a movie starring three stars from the Odyssey that I think will be infinitely more enjoyable than the Odyssey itself. Don’t at me.

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  Oh man only one week to go until my back country canoe trip with my daughter in alonguin. Have not done a canoe camping trip since camp when I was a kid. My kid has been really into canoeing at camp and wants to stern the canoe. I’m kinda freaking out but also really looking forward to it.

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  TIL about the Shakespeare programming language whose code looks like a Shakespeare play but is functional code. Man I love nerds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language?wprov=sfti1#

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  @gruber@mastodon.social The disappointing thing about Apple News ads is the ads are just shovelware. They just stuck in the same programmatic crap every other place does. Why not go old school and classy? Have a creative services team that works on bespoke and classy ads for high end brands, like an old school magazine. Old school magazine ads were great! Often well designed and interesting. And I don’t mean shitty spon con. I mean well designed ads that fit well within the Apple News app wi...

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  Hey my little plain text editor / notes app is on TestFlight if anyone wants to check it out! https://testflight.apple.com/join/azXQyHqy

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  I feel bad I did not like Odyssey as much as everyone else. I mean it was pretty cool in some parts. But I was bored for big chunk. And it was so self serious. I dunno. Maybe I’m just a crank.

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  I open sourced my little vibe coded asset tracker / retirement / education planner if anyone wants to try. Very Canadian focused and assumes you have kids and a mortgage I guess too. Self hosted web app (doesn’t really have the infrastructure to deploy on a public web server right now.) https://github.com/tommertron/asset-tracker

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  “We’re pleased to announce that all Taylor farms lettuce has been removed from our stores. Taco Bell customers can go back to experiencing regular, non explosive diarrhea after enjoying a meal at Taco Bell, as god intended.”

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  Oh man so awesome to get my quote as the closer to @mwichary@mastodon.online’s excellent rundown of great software updates with Mario flying around without a care in the world. Chef’s kiss! https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-good-kind-of-an-update-the-responses/

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  Oh man guess who’s got the house to themselves tonight and a whole pile of usb cables to test. https://www.whatcable.uk/pro

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  Today: Drove from Tampa to Orlando Flew from Orlando to Toronto Took two trains from airport home. Always great to complete the full Planes Trains and Automobiles trifecta in a single day.

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  I lost this guy today. I did not want these cats. I pushed against it. She wormed her way into my lap and heart slowly but surely over the years. I can’t believe she’s gone. I’m devastated.

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  @ross@crikey.social Eventually yes! And it’s a very good tennis game! I was insanely frustrated at first because I was just like, I just want to place tennis man. But first it made me do training. And then finally tennis. But I was so invested by that point it made it all worth it.

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  Man, the Shoresy people must be so grateful for Heated Rivalry. The very loose connection to the latter got so much buzz for the former.

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  TIL about monorepos. The idea sounds… insane? to me. But I kinda get it?

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  https://shapeof.com/archives/2026/2/greg_knauss_is_losing_himself.html

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  I really miss Craigslist. I know it’s a thing still but it doesn’t really seem to be used. I almost always had a good experience listing things on Craigslist as well as buying things. Such a great community. Everyone seemed fair and reasonable. The de facto standard now is Facebook marketplace and it’s so terrible. You just get a million automated messages asking “is this still available?” And then then when you reply nothing. And people making completely dumb and unreasonable counter offers.