James Koole

Let's see what new madness Apple has for me today that I'll never buy because I can't afford it. $4,500 CAD MacBook Pro to go with a $3,000 CAD iPhone? I'll add it to the pile with the new $429 Apple TV 4K. Oh and a $200 mini speaker...I'll need two for stereo, of course.

Great work Toronto!

There are still some voting places with voters in line. Unofficial results for the 2026 Toronto Municipal Election will be available after the polls close at toronto.ca/Elections. Results will begin to be available at approximately 9 p.m.

New iPad mini is $949 CAD for 128GB and $1099 for 256GB which is the bare minimum anyone should get. The plot has been lost.

Trying out Alter tomorrow. Hoping it's as nice as either Tality in Vancouver or Ritual in Victoria were.

Related, I loathe the usage of the "gate" suffix to mean scandal. Watergate wasn't a water scandal, it was called that because of the Watergate Hotel where the scandal took place. But yet, here we are...the suffix "gate" has become synonymous with "scandal".

iPhone "Crackgate" begins. I'm sure JT at Apple will assure us soon that this is a very isolated problem with the Duo. Millions sold and only a handful of issues (on the first day). Folding phones are clearly still hard.

Great work by the @toronto.ca, the TTC and the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon. As usual, it's basically impossible to get to the start of the race at 8:00 A.M. God forbid they start the subway early...it's not like we're a world class city or anything. Godspeed runners. I hope you have a plan.

Shame about the Dodgers getting swept. Anyways...

The new AppleTV 4k being $429 CAD is just insanity. Who is this product for now because at that price, it isn't for me. www.apple.com/ca/shop/buy-...

Sauna and cold plunge time again today. I'm pretty confident I can squeeze in a recovery run here in Vancouver tomorrow morning before heading to the airport to fly home.

Yeah, no. First of all, Apple, the extensions system on Safari is awful. Second of all, the UX of Safari is so lacking compared even to Chrome which is also generally not great. www.apple.com/safari/switch/

Ran a marathon. It was beautiful.

Early pasta dinner with the kid in Victoria. We walked straight in but the line was fifty people when we left! All the runners are looking for carbs.

Spent about an hour and a half (three circuits) at Ritual Nordic Spa in Victoria today. Really nice place with a hot Finnish sauna and a cold plunge pool. ritualnordicspa.com

Shakedown run time. It's windy and a bit on the cool side here which is hopefully not a preview of race day morning weather. I could do without gusty winds, thanks. Planning to finish this run at Crow's Coffee for a latte and treat as the carb load begins. www.instagram.com/crowscoffees...

The view from the hotel is out over the Gorge towards downtown. I walked over the Selkirk Trestle and back to get some groceries. Victoria is always beautiful. Seaplanes flying over and the Olympic Mountains in the distance too.

Made it to Victoria and all checked in to my nice hotel. It's got a kitchenette which is super handy when carb loading before a race. Beautiful weather here and Sunday looks ideal for 42.2km of running.

Off to Victoria, BC to see the kid and run a marathon.

Getting my app ready for the iPhone Duo was dead simple because I used SwiftUI, Liquid Glass and built it with an adaptive layout from the start. Literally no changes required to work on the Duo. Build submitted and awaiting App Review and I added a new feature while I was at it.

RunnerCast 2.4 will be ready for the iPhone Duo. It also has a new feature for everyone who can't afford a $3,000 phone: Travel! Add your vacation dates and city and the five-day will swap out the forecast for where you are and will instead show the weather where you'll be.

This is great...a new 24/7 livestream from @bigjet.tv in partnership with @flightradar24.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBY...

Race week has arrived after 24 weeks of training. Two more short runs, a flight to Victoria, B.C., and carb loading await.

Biggest tell that you are low intelligence is going to be if you say SI instead of AI.

Habs hockey kicks off tonight with the first of 84 regular season games and hopefully followed by a bunch of playoff games too.

Stressful week was stressful...but a lot of things came into better view. A big product launch at work is coming together on time, my marathon training is effectively done (save for a couple of weeks of taper) and our car is ready for pickup early this week.

There have been far worse seasons of Blue Jays baseball. Sad it's over for another year but time for @canadiens.com hockey on Tuesday.

Ran my final "long" run of the Royal Victoria Marathon training block with 21.1km mostly at race pace on a beautiful day in Toronto. Feeling healthy, strong and ready to run 42.2km in two weeks.

Over-produced, low effort slop. There's my review of the four new songs from Taylor Swift. "Cleveland!" is godawful.

The Blue Jays bid for the post-season very likely ends today. One more loss in any of the five remaining games this year and they are done. Or a single White Sox win. American League Champs and one out from World Series Champs to sub-500 and missing the playoffs. Quite the tumble.

The final long run of my Victoria Marathon training block went really well. I negative split a 31km run by about five minutes and finished it really strongly. Next week is a mere 21.1km and then it's really time to rest up and prepare for marathon number 15.

Well what do we have here? Fired up Xcode to see how things look on the upcoming iPhone Duo and the news is good.

Elbows up and volume up for the Canadian anthem at the new Highmark Stadium in Buffalo on NFL Thursday Night Football.

Today I got a bug report from support, triaged it, had Claude find the issue in our code and fix it (with tests), and then I put in a pull request which got reviewed by a human, and pushed to production. In under two hours.

This is big news in West Coast Canadian aviation. cheknews.ca/harbour-air-... #aviation #canada

Upgraded my little 8-port switch at home to a 2.5Gbps model and huzzah. 1.3Gbps on Wi-fi depending on where I am in the house. I need a 2.5Gbps ethernet dongle for the laptop(s). This is all on a 3Gbps fibre connection.

Managed 31.5km today of the planned 34km. Could have gutted it out but there wasn’t any benefit to that. The humidity was ridiculous and really sapped the energy. Sometimes the day conspires against you and it’s best not to argue. #running

Running from Yonge and Wellington all the way to Kennedy Station (via Queen, Kingston Road, Danforth, Kennedy) and then the entire Eglinton Crosstown over to Mount Dennis. We'll hop on the LRT there to head back to the start. 34km total to run. Wish us luck!

Bit of a dress rehearsal this weekend for the Royal Victoria Marathon in four weeks. Making sure I load up on carbs tomorrow, and then 34km on Sunday will be a good test of pace and fuelling.

@petchmo.bsky.social Y'all might like this video. Some amazing footage of the Snowbirds last hurrah in Toronto with the Tutor. The Lancaster formation shot is 🙌. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgmx...

Glad that Thursday is in the rear view mirror. We continue on.