Tootfinder

Calico flowers.
#caturday #photography

Final talk of the day, Adam Wiggins Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism #SyncConf

I joined the BC Green party because there's no other option around here if you care about the earth. My first ever political convention!
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#bcgreen #GreenParty

#Mariners got the #BlueJays right where they want ’em.
#mlb

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

Over on #Bluesky there was a bit of a controversy over the suspension of Sarah Kendzior. I thought it was an interestingly nontrivial moderation problem, so I wrote up a little case study on how this would have been handled on Mastodon: http…

Kendzior Case-Study

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

Whole lotta Canadians swallowed their boycott-the-USA principles and may currently be found in Seattle.
#mlb

Went for a weekend walk in QE park; the colors of autumn are fading, but there are still treats for the eye.
#Photography #Vancouver