Cole Maclean

well, guess all you can do is wish the BC conservatives good luck as they work to uhh (skimming thru their online presence and recent party history) immediately become hobbled by infighting over what's the right way to do racism then self immolate before any of em find out what government is exactly

what the fuck bc

"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented

[programming in 2026] ah, another busy day in the slop mine. found a seam of useful code and hauled it out. ochre jellys everywhere again

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

OpenAI has addressed the goblin situation

I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastown

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

More bad news for Rad Bikes. Read the CPSC warning carefully if you own a Rad

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

Just got to the Learning Bitcoin conference. The current panelist is talking about why there’s a drop in testosterone. The panel is called Decentralized Health and Wellness.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

This random web form hides phone number and email (so that no one can see you typing them?) and then shows you a modal on submission with them fully visible. Amazing stuff

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

This is a must-read and is also the first comprehensive post mortem I’ve read working off the vote cast data (which is the real deal) as opposed to the dubious exit polling.

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

finally. Finally the year is a square. the only one in my lifetime. and it's the square of the ninth triangular number no less. truly this shall be a glorious year for sudoku

the six year old went straight from xmas to birthday party planning. giant meltdown this morning over the details on the invite

IQ tests are astrology for racists

🎄🎅 sleepy xmas day here

First I had heard of this issue, but this is such a bad idea. It sounds like satire, but isn't, to take a school's basketball court and turn it into residential and commercial real estate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Gastown steam clock now plays Shake it Off. In fact, all public art in Vancouver has been replaced with effigies of Taylor Swift, traffic lights now go from Ivy to Red (Taylor's Version), and a new road has been paved to New Westminster, running diagonally for some reason, called Swiftsway

absolutely incredible attack vector

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

I’m not a power lifter but I can say lifting heavy things has truly helped my brain I wish I understood earlier in life that lifting is nerd coded, not jock coded

Really reminds me of the BC payments the Horgan government sent through ICBC, that went only to drivers. Terrible use of funds.

10x more excited for Netflix Engineering’s postmortem writeup than I was for the fight itself.

HTTP 503 "envoy overloaded" from Netflix as soon as Tyson walks out

B.C. election count is DONE. NDP majority with 47 seats. Will need to work with Greens or someone from Conservatives in order to pass legislation while putting up a speaker. Judicial recounts in 2 ridings www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

Calling it: this is our twitter replacement, folks. Skeets are the new tweets

The best time to get rid of your 23&Me DNA data is to have never given it to them in the first place. The second best time is now.

For @foreignpolicy.com, I wrote about Alice Munro—our public and private responses. It turns out my feelings are not all that complicated. It’s wrong to shelter a pedophile, even if you don’t drive and he has a mighty convenient van. Gift link! foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/18/a...

1923: The world's richest man is an antisemite. The hot new music on the street is experimental jazz flute. 2023: The world's richest man is an antisemite. The hot new music on the street is experimental jazz flute.

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