There are certain sentences that sound harmless until you happen to live in Vancouver in June 2026. "The World Cup is in town." "Canada Day is next week". "There is a big event downtown." "The trains…

I have now finally finished almost all of the end-of-term duties, incuding marking of 128 Foundations of Computer Science exam questions. Phew! It ended up being quite a week, with the unwelcome…

Where is my $400,000?

New leaders inherit teams that already have the answers. The mistake is walking in like you have them too. A confession about what I got wrong in my first 90 days at Converse, and what I would do…

spontaneous blog post added about my switch from VS code to vim, and new section added to the / linux page called "projects", where i will post my public and free to use linux projects. new set up…

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Once a month my coworkers and I play a game together. This is the story of a game that I worked on for 47 days, a game meant to be played for only 30 minutes at one of those sessions. My turn to host…

I ended my week of Monday 15 to Sunday 21 June 2026 by losing my keys. Possibly at the pub — not the one on the photo but another local — or possibly in the street. Very annoying. Maybe I’ll…

Today sucks in general. Because of my spawnpoint, I ended up having a panic attack and needed six hours away from her to recharge. I'm going to take a break from writing for now.

Earthshine reader —It's me, Dazé.No, you're not hallucinating. Yes, this is a new Earthshine transmission, the first one in … 13 months.Coincidentally, this is issue…

Three weeks ago. Empty car park. Me on a scooter, my partner watching. We’d been at this for a while — straight lines, right turns, tighter turns, left turns for the first time. I didn’t…

I was reading my blog today. Yes, I do re-read my own writings! Most of them help me realize that you can do the things you fear most. Many … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞

Enjoyed the last of the Selkirk Bannock A busy week catching up, dealing with a bit of fallout while I was OOO, picking up a few high-priority bits and doing some product-y evaluation of our backlog…

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A melancholic day, both of celebration of the longest day of the year, and the impending winter that will slowly but surely descend upon us in the near future.

Pub visits have been somewhat curtailed over the past week, for a variety of reasons, most of which have been family related. There’s also been quite a lot of boring, DIY – home improvement projects…

On Friday I caved in and bought some weed. I had barely slept in the previous days, and I needed it to get my sleep cycle in check. That's how I explained it to myself, as usual the first day was…

The word that sums up this week is: thin. I continue to be stretched by work, and am feeling very ‘thin’. I foresaw a tough day on Tuesday so booked myself into a lunchtime swim and sauna, which was…

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Father's day this year appears to be a thing of bike rides, boo-boos and a bit of cuddles on the couch to mend. I think that's a win

No injuries at basketball this week. Instead, my frustrations centred around my own inability to get the ball in the basket. I had Thursday and Friday off work. I didn't have concrete plans for the…

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing cheap shorts and an old T-shirt. He has just changed out of khakis, a white button-up shirt, pink socks, and tan dress shoes. How does Dave feel today?…

For more than a decade (with a brief pause during the COVID years), I’ve hosted an annual Christmas card writing party at the office . We invite friends, provide all the cards, stamps, and supplies,…

… and I don’t mean Declan Rice, of Arsenal and England. I don’t forget him because I have a football sticker of him on my phone case. No, I mean risotto rice. My longest-serving friend and I are on…

There is a funny truth in software engineering: almost nobody reads the docs. We spend hours writing careful comments in our code. We build personal websites. We write plain text files and push them…

Happy summer solstice. ☀️ Two days in the office, then three days off to burn some leftover holiday before it expired. I was exhausted so I spent the time catching up on chores & admin and otherwise…

For my whole adult life, I sometimes get intrusive thoughts in the form of unsolicited and unpleasant memories from my own past, flashing against the walls of my mental-subjective theater with…

The instinct to “keep the peace” often feels responsible in the moment. But over time, unresolved conversations rarely stay small. They accumulate meaning, distort intent, and quietly reshape…

If This Isn't Nice, What Is? — Kurt Vonnegut Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut is my first experience of reading the famed author of Slaughterhouse Five and this almost biographical work was an absolute…

yaeji and OHHYUK - year to year (2021) pj harvey - all souls (2023) eno moebius roedelius - the belldog (2009) mp3↘ - 14:43

I don’t support social media bans. The UK government announced one this week and the response has been broadly positive. But that’s because people see a THINK OF THE CHILDREN headline and then don’t…

American Soccer Jon Tesh, get Paleolithic, I/O function for the soul, offline when cloudy, four hands holding light, blink tag forever, and a new Olympic bar.

While reading Pema Chödrön’s Another Kind of Freedom this morning, I smiled when I read, “Don’t believe everything you think.” What a good way to make light of the thoughts that pop in and out of our…

§ Hello there. Happy summer solstice, Father’s Day, Juneteenth, etc. § In the vegetable garden our bush beans have started flowering and the tomato plants are all fruiting happily. Did you know that…

Last week I published this cartoon on LinkedIn. It went instantly viral:  Tokens spent (as well as the other metrics shown) are of course not meaningless, but everyone got the joke:  The…

Ever time and energy consuming work continues. I took Friday off work, and spent some time in the evening revisiting Go. I watched the OG talk by Rob Pike announcing The Go Programming Language, and…

The true merit, skill, and ability to execute should (in theory) always stand for themselves - in the end, what truly matters is whether one gets the shit done or not. But due to obvious asymmetries…

So I thought now that I do a little politics on the site by covering government issues that impact knives, I would wade into another controversial topic—parenting. I have two boys, one is 15 and the…

No pictures as of yet, but I am well chuffed. I bought some Neolamprologus multifasciatus (small Tanganyika shelldwelling cichlids) for my birthday, mainly as I wanted some small fish that could live…

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The Kickstarter campaign for Designed in California has just 10 days left to go. As I am writing this, 1,963 people have backed us, bringing in over $185,000.The success of this campaign has passed…

Some of these links are more… mainstream? I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. (via) Taken. (also via) Feynman’s formula on trying new restaurant foods. The 40 Most…

Tombstone exercises, founder mode, jargon monoxide, 8-bit baseball, the sky you should’ve seen and silent reading parties.

The full story behind the 'bungee jumping' 'accident' in Brazil last week, with an EMS story from my own past that helped me write it.

Though my own father passed away many years ago, I am still grateful for the kindness and support he provided over the years. To all fathers who have stepped up, great and small: Happy Father's Day!

Sunday Asides #100 I've reached a point of relative stability with work right now. Both part-time jobs are steady, my full-time job search is still fruitless, but I'm doing okay. Not great, but not…