Michael Collins

Phreak: "Alright, what are the three most commonly used private keys?" Joey: "156, 115, 55. But not in that order, necessarily, right?" Cereal: "Yeah but don't forget 4. System operators love to use 4. It's that whole male ego thing."

I am getting quite a few automated reach outs for exciting opportunities that are targeting the wrong person. Hopefully this new default reply will work!

@christineboyle.bsky.social as a councillor representing @onecityvan.bsky.social you were a pleasure to vote for. The NDP appear to be unaware of the climate crisis so it’s a much harder pill to swallow voting for you this month. Has no one from the NDP spent time in BC forests this summer??

It's fall Go By Bike Week and **IT'S NOT RAINING** Ride your bike, record your rides: hubcycling.ca/gbbw #bikeyvr

A lovely article. It also makes it clear that bike courier probably isn’t a good fallback option if computers don’t work out…

With some friends I am known for “fun” adhd moments like wearing mismatched shoes to work and not noticing until someone pointed it out in standup. Those friends will laugh at this mornings mixup - making an espresso tonic with an alcohol free beer instead of tonic. Not recommended.

‼️My bike was stolen last night from 41st and Main in Vancouver ‼️ It's a tan electric Muli, very unique. No battery on it when stolen. Please keep an eye out in your alley, bushes, or Fb Marketplace etc. I rely on this bike and really hope to be reunited! project529.com/garage/bikes...

ICYMI: the VPD budget increased by 48% from 2018 to 2024, but the number of traffic tickets they issue has fallen by 59% over that same time period. Why has traffic enforcement evaporated in Vancouver?

Three minutes, fifteen seconds A tribute to Finlay Tarling dnlbenson.substack.com/p/three-minu...

@saemg.bsky.social this blog post from Marc Brooker articulates clearly what I was trying to share Tuesday evening brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06... - “But I think that asking people to read LLM-generated text breaks a kind of social contract. …”

With the closure on Broadway, drivers are rat running along 10th and completely ignoring the modal filter on Manitoba St, so we tried adding our own sign maybe it will help 😭 Or... the City could actually do something? (Meeting with them tomorrow!)

Days since someone on a bike was last hit at 10th and Main: re-set to 0 again. We have a meeting with the city about this in 6 days. Hopefully we can hold at 5 cyclist crashes (that we know of) between now and then.

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

I live two blocks from the detour on Manitoba a block west of Ontario and I’ve biked by after two accidents at Broadway and Ontario. I just emailed them with this video clip showing 40 vehicles ignoring a no entry sign to rat run up to 10th during a 30 min period last month.

Today I have been unable to shake the idea that there is significant overlap between the Ralph Wiggum Loop and William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops. Speaking of which I need to clear out some junk records and pick up the reissue on vinyl.

Working on a side project I realized my fast personal machines are aarch64 (M1 MacBook Air and a few rpi4s with ssds). The x86_64 ones are slow (a 1 vCPU/1 GB ram VPS and a NAS with an old Celeron and HDDs). I installed Fedora on my kids old laptop this evening, hearing cpu fans is quaint.

I wrote a thing. Actually I wrote it in December. But now I made a public home for it. nikkipin.ski/the-neurodiv... Watch this space. Coming later this week: A Practical Guide to Agentic Engineering.

@anibyl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy being of European origin, tech worker and on a Canadian passport I have had no issues travelling for work - but I do only stick to major cities. I still try to either get the train or fly so I can do pre clearance in Canada, just in case.

🚨The deadline to write in to council and/or sign up to speak on @lucymaloney.bsky.social's No Right on Red motion is TODAY at 5PM! This is a critically important one. Please take a moment out of your day to do so: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

Why not SkaGPT?

BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group @kneecapceol.bsky.social from Canada, preventing them from performing their October shows. Email your MP and tell them to Reverse Kneecap's Travel Ban! bit.ly/ReverseKneec...

A message to Vince Gasparro, who has banned us from Canada, and our many fans there. 👇

Polyglot Unconference is back. Saturday Oct 11th. Would love to see you there. Old faces, help spread the word. www.polyglotsoftware.com

Every Canadian Election I approach different party leaders. Mark Carney &  Jagmeet Singh did interviews but I’m still waiting to hear back from Pierre Poilievre. I’ll keep trying though. I won’t give up. Cuz that’s what I do. Here’s  Elizabeth May youtu.be/Q3yyCjOFDu4

More egg content from North of the 49th Parallel. Note to self: kinder eggs next.

The “Welcome to the United States of America!” sms when you cross the border and start roaming doesn’t seem as cheery these days!

When the LLM auto complete agent suggests: “— I’m not sure if this is the best way to do this, but it works” X 3 on a new SQL file with a single line comment …

Ahhhh! I lost my daily streak on Good Sudoku! This and a slight sunburn are honestly the only downside to deciding to ignore my phone and spending a day outside in the sun while jet lagged on a work trip, heading to the office this morning so hopefully I can ignore my phone again today!

www.theverge.com/2025/1/1/243... listening to dopesmoker and the winner back to back sounds like a great way to spend my first afternoon of the year. I will have to negotiate with the dog though - she probably disagrees

Surrounded by sequins, white claw and friendship bracelets for the end of an era

This is a truly magical project that reminds me of what the Internet is good for. (I haven’t listened to it all yet, but I will next time I have a quiet evening/night to myself)

I’m in Cape Town for work this week, I hoped work, jet lag and being ten hours ahead of Vancouver time would help insulate me from “all this” - bah