It’s #websummit time here in Vancouver!
Oh wow! I really hope they do a good job on this! 🎬
Everyone was piling into the new Mission:Impossible 🎬 but me and my nerd family were learning from our grampa about the absolute carnage of bottom trawling. Here’s to them making it illegal at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference 🪸🐠🦀🐙🐋🦈🐬🦭
“Dad I had a dream … I had a pet octopus … but it was constipated … but I knew to push these pressure points … and then everything was okay”
Met this tree on my walk tonight 🌲 This dude has seen a lot.
Beautiful clear, warm day. Everyone was out so I was gonna write. But just could not find the motivation. Do I do this? Or that? One of those days where I could just not pick a direction and just stewed in unproductive unsatisfactoriness. Decided to meditate. It’s okay to have days like this.
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Une petite catharsis of anomie — a review of Deep Work by Cal Newport
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Deep Work is Cal Newport’s highest selling book. He published it in early 2016 and it made waves at the time since he strongly argues against social media. Cal is infamously not on social media (unless you count blogging and podcasting 😜) so it is a little ironic that the reason I finally decided to pick up this book was due to a post I saw on social media. Although the book explores quite a few topics, to sum it up from my perspective, he introduces a term well known in software circles to a more general audience: context switching.
Holy he did it! #COYS
Nice!
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Happy 47th birthday 🎈
A programming language resembling magical circles 🧙♂️
“I have friends everywhere.”
fin
Five stars.
Key findings and recommendations from the Critical Infrastructure Lab’s new report on the EU’s digital innovation funding (like Horizon) and tech sovereignty. Lessons for Canada 🤔 #tech #techpolicy #digitalSovereignty
Why Bell Labs Worked from @1517.bsky.social
This is familiar and correct… and very hard to do in today’s economic climate (as noted in the piece). Le sigh 😮💨
Read in 2025: The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚
Stopped at the end of The Summer Tree. Struggled. This book is dated… that is the kindest thing I can say. Not going to continue.
Downtown Kelowna at the marina. Happy Mother’s Day!
Started What’s Left by Malcolm Harris 📚
Timeline of web features: Baseline timeline