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mgpcoe.ca

Proud community volunteer, dad, manager of code monkeys (though hopefully not Boring Manager Rob!)

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How is it that I've lived this long, and been this much of a fantasy AND sci-fi nerd, and I'm only just NOW reading A Wizard of Earthsea?! This book is great!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

www.ibiblio.org/harris/500mi... You might be one of the lucky people to learn today about an emailing bug that turned out to be caused by the speed of light.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Had to walk past a couple of families of Canada Geese this morning on my walk. First of all, juvenile geese are not nearly as cute as goslings. They're cute! Just less so, because most of the yellow downy stuff is gone. Also, turns out, geese can growl. And it is intimidating.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I got access to crayons and kraft paper. Of course I drew Trogdor. And then my 14yo showed me his skills of an artist! He wonders who can guess what the li'l guy next to his thumbs-up is. I got it wrong.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Java programmer complaint: after fighting with it for two weeks, I really dislike Observable. I find it much harder to reason about than CompletableFuture. Possibly because I know the CF will happen at most once, and RX and Observable is about setting responses for every time the thing happens.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

As a blind dude, your images mean nothing to me without an alt-text description. I know it’s a pain & I have zero expectations of you using this #Accessibility tool so thoughtfully provided by #BlueSky but I appreciate every effort. It doesn’t have to be The Great Gatsby but please include me 😎

submitted 160 days ago • 60 comments

Canada's first national urban park is getting bigger. The Narwhal has learned the federal government will cancel its plan for an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto, and transfer most of the land set aside for it to Rouge Urban National Park. #onpoli thenarwhal.ca/pickering-ai...

submitted 149 days ago • 8 comments

Is it wrong that I'm getting a strong Evangelion vibe right now? Or is it just because I started (re-?)watching Eva earlier this week? #CritRoleSpoilers

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

DO NOT FLY YOUR DRONES OVER ACTIVE FIRES YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS WE ONLY HAVE TWO OF THESE AIRCRAFT AND YOU JUST GROUNDED ONE OF THEM

submitted 167 days ago • 52 comments

My favourite local bakery and cafe, Pan Chancho, published a couple of cookbooks with recipes that they use in-house, and my partner came home with one of them a couple of weeks ago. I finally got a chance to try making some bread from their pain ordinaire... looks like it turned out pretty well!

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

Finally saw Howl's Moving Castle at the rep cinema near the house. Loved it. After all, it's Miyazaki! But Howl is absolutely going to be an NPC in at least one future D&D campaign. Maybe the PCs will interact with him. Maybe they'll just uncover some of his spells in a library...

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Just dropped by the library today to pick up Agency, by William Gibson. Been looking forward to this for a while. Teenage me realized "I have to read everything this guy writes," and so far, teenage me has had good taste. Still glad I got to tell Gibson so when he released Spook Country.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Got the latest Bluesky update? Great! Alas, the developers changed how replies are ordered that, while it will provide for vibrancy flywheels, changes a behaviour you may have preferred. Setting > Content > Threads > Sort replies to a post by "hotness"? No thanks. Chronological for me!

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments