In An app can be a home-cooked meal, Robin Sloan wrote about “home cooked” apps: I made a messaging app for, and with, my ...

I felt even more kinship when I learned of the book that Graham crafted, following Kathryn’s death in 2020, Memento Mori : ...

Lisa marks her birthday as the halfway point of summer, and as her birthday was this week, it seems like a good time to ...

Tonight, echo of that, I’m overnight at Acadia University in Wolfville. It’s $85 a night, no breakfast included. But it’s ...

Did you know there’s an open map of memorial benches? There weren’t any added on PEI yet, so I added Catherine’s bench in the Gardens of Hope, and the bench in Victoria Park in memory of Lisa’s ...

The title of the book (and this post) is an homage to Just Mary Stories, a CBC Radio program that my mother listened to as a child; sufficient connection might exist only in my head to make it a ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

Canadian Tire has now completely switched over to digital price tags, wireless e-ink shelf displays that show the item name, price, and barcode. Under the hood I imagine this both saves hundreds of ...

Since I migrated this blog to a Hetzner server, I’ve been paying attention to the “Graphs” tab of the server dashboard to see how the capacity of the server matches the traffic I’m expecting it to ...

Prompted by Aaron Parecki’s efforts, I set out to conjure up a system to set my Slack status when I’m in a Zoom meeting. Like this: The secret sauces turned out to be: Slack status updater, a ...

News today that the great friend and protector of the Island, Harry Baglole, has died. That’s Harry, in Cornelius Howatt: Superstar, from 1974. In the final chapter of that book, Last Will And ...

Here’s the Apple Maps view of the corner of Kent and Great George from the summertime: And here’s a photo that Lisa took while walking by the same corner earlier this week: It’s a remarkable change to ...