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2026

Aug 12

2025

Dec 31

🖊

State of the Blog 2025

It's the end of the year again.

Dec 06

☢️

The McGill University Physics Collections

Visiting the Rutherford and McPherson collections.

Nov 28

🛬

System Stories: The Stansted Tracked Transit System

In one of London's peripheral airports lies a novel piece of transit infrastructure.

Nov 21

📱

App Defaults 2025

What's on my phone?

Sep 12

🗻

Trip Report: A Few Days in Vancouver

A few photos and thoughts from a trip to the other end of Canada.

Sep 05

💥

Runaway Train

How a Canadian rail disaster ended up being released on vinyl.

Aug 22

🐝

There's Bees Up Top

Atop Montreal's downtown office buildings, something's buzzing.

Aug 16

🦇

Lesser Known London: The Mysterious Disappearing, Reappearing Building

(Also known as Arkham Asylum)

Aug 09

Incidental Postcards from the City

Catching up with Montreal.

Jul 26

Apple 2026 Public Beta Thoughts

Is virtualisation a shortcut to testing out Apple betas?

Jul 11

🧱

Lesser Known London: Dollis Viaduct

In the north of London hides an engineering gem.

Jul 04

🖥️

More Computers of London

Technology fiesta in the big city.

Jun 27

Retro UK Train Departure Screens

Resurrecting Network SouthEast in 2025.

Jun 13

WWDC 2025 Thoughts

What goodies from the chocolate factory this year?

May 24

Station Stories: Woolwich

We pay a visit to Woolwich on the Elizabeth Line in London.

May 09

🇨🇦

Canada in the UK

We take a look at Canada's presence and influence in the United Kingdom.

May 07

🤖

AI Meeting Summary Workflow

Building an on-device AI automation for the Mac to summarise meetings.

May 02

Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

The tech demo which preceded a Nintendo DS classic.

Apr 19

🐣

Cadbury Cream Egg Comparison

It’s the Easter confectionary showdown no one asked for.

Apr 14

🇪🇺

Three European Icons in Montreal

A trilogy of well known secrets.

Apr 01

🚂

Station Stories: Barrington

This Greater Montreal station shouldn't exist... or should it? (April Fools)

Mar 26

1️⃣

One Thing

Combining several apps on the Mac to make a dynamic menubar item.

Mar 21

🇨🇦

Lesser Known London: Canada House

A brief look at the Canadian Embassy in London.

Mar 09

🦺

Montreal's Eastern Tramway Proposal

Two paths not taken.

Feb 28

🚏

Montreal Transit Bot Roadmap

2025 aspirations.

Feb 21

🌫️

Liminal Office Spaces

A photo essay in grey.

Feb 14

🦆

The Towpath Beckons Once Again

Exploring the Regent's Canal in London on a winter's day.

2024

Dec 31

🖊

State of the Blog 2024

Dec 23

Station Stories: Brent Cross West

Nov 08

📦

Chasing Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

Oct 25

Game & Watch: Ball

Oct 18

🪨

Lesser Known London: Chislehurst Caves

Oct 11

💥

Managed Decline - Montreal's Transit Crisis

Sep 28

🇬🇧

#BritishCore

Sep 21

Station Stories: East Finchley

Aug 31

🦔

Lesser Known London: Enfield Wildlife Rescue Centre

Aug 17

🏞️

The Little River Way: Jean-Drapeau to Ice Bridge

Aug 09

Atari Video Game Catalogues

Jul 15

Resurrecting the Threads Anniversary Icon Set

Jul 12

🪗

All iPhones Contain a Hidden Song

Jun 21

Station Stories: Radisson

Jun 17

WWDC 2024 Thoughts

Jun 07

Star Raiders

May 31

REM Construction Update

May 24

📻

Castro, the Lazarus App

May 10

REM Control: A Visit to the Heart of a Transit Machine

Apr 27

🗝️

Vintage Catalogue

Apr 17

🏞️

Parc de la Promenade-Bellerive

Apr 12

3 Mythical Game & Watch Editions

Apr 09

Eclipse So Good

Apr 06

Station Stories: Saint-Constant

Apr 04

🗳️

End of the 15 Year Rule

Mar 30

Station Stories: Île-des-Sœurs

Mar 28

💻

Adventures in OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Mar 23

Station Stories: Peel

Feb 09

❄️

The Winter Neighbourhoods Along the Towpath

2023

Dec 31

🖊

State of the Blog 2023

Dec 27

⛴️

Montreal’s Summer Boats Revisited

Dec 08

📱

App Defaults 2023

Dec 01

🚵🏻‍♂️

Early Winter Cycling Lessons

Nov 28

🍻

Another Beer Bites the Dust

Nov 16

⚡️

Summer of Lightning

Nov 08

🚈

Why Did I Build a Transit Bot?

Nov 02

🍂

Montreal's Autumn Mountain

Sep 04

Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Edition Game and Watch

Aug 19

🛤️

The Dividing Line - Can Montreal's Dangerous Rail Underpasses Be Fixed?

Aug 13

👑

The Golden Age of iOS and macOS

Jul 28

REM Day -1

Jul 27

🚉

What I Learned from Visiting Every Montreal Station in a Day

Jul 20

📲

Bricked - A Shortcut for Reducing Distractions

Jul 15

🔺

Game & Watch – Zelda

Jul 08

🚂

All Roads Lead to Aldwych: A Visit to the London Transport Museum (and More)

Jul 01

🍁

Welcome to Canada - Six Months in Moncton, New Brunswick

May 20

🐘

Choosing a Mastodon iPhone App

May 05

🚉

I Visited Every Montreal Station in a Day

Apr 30

☢️

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Apr 23

🧊

An Ice Storm Retrospective

Apr 15

📲

Return of the Shortcuts Archive

Apr 01

🖥

The Computers of Bletchley Park

Mar 05

☢️

Half-Life: Uplink

Jan 28

🤖

I Got ChatGPT to Rewrite My Blog Posts

Jan 21

🕹️

Commodore 64 Restoration (Part 3)

2022

Dec 30

🍔

Steamed Hams

Dec 24

🖊

State of the Blog 2022

Dec 04

🥾

Hiking from Blainville to Saint-Jérôme

Nov 26

🖥️

The Computers of London

Nov 19

🚍

Montreal's New Bus Rapid Transit

Sep 01

🥴

The Madness of Shortcuts

Aug 20

🏰

A Visit to the London Barbican

Jul 30

🎮

Doom: Knee Deep in the Dead Remixed

Jun 18

🌳

Exploring the Saint-Jacques Escarpment

2021

Sep 26

🚤

Montreal's Fastest Transit?

Sep 12

📱

State of the iPhone 2021

Apr 26

🦟

iOS 14.5 Subtly Breaks the Shortcuts Wallpaper Action

Mar 06

👾

First Program on the Commander X16

Mar 05

🥾

The Montreal Lowline

2020

Sep 28

📵

How iOS 14 Made me Stop Jailbreaking my iPhone

Jul 12

💻

Working from Home

Jun 20

📱

If Wishes were Jailbreaks

May 15

📮

Mail Chutes

Apr 25

✏️

Laptop Hack

Apr 03

✈️

Montreal to London… via Paris!

2019

Nov 15

🦭

The Price of Upgrading to Catalina

Sep 18

📲

Shortcuts Collection - Summer 2019

Aug 30

💿

Come For the Songs; Stay for The Production - An Introduction to Thom Yorke

Jul 05

🚂

Toronto Railway Museum

Jun 07

🖥

10 New Things I Discovered when Building a Virtual DNS Server

May 31

📱

iOS 13 Wishlist

May 03

📲

Shortcuts Collection - Spring 2019

Mar 22

🏞

Parc Frederic-Back

Mar 08

🤖

Automation Under iOS

Feb 06

⛲️

Vauquelin Place - Where Snow is Outlawed

Feb 01

☃️

Yet Another Snowstorm

Jan 15

💸

The REM Concerns

Jan 11

🕹️

Commodore 64 Restoration (Part 2)

2018

Dec 31

🚇

All Stations Challenge: The Result

Dec 21

🚇

Fate of the Orange Line

Nov 30

🌩

Stormy Flights

Nov 23

🛤

Philadelphia to Atlantic City by Train

Nov 02

🕹️

Commodore 64 Restoration (Part 1)

Jul 02

⛰

From River to Mountain

Jun 18

🚶

A Visit to Place des Montréalaises

May 18

🤷‍♂️

The Brunch Delusion

Apr 17

💻

No Drive; No Problem!

Apr 08

🔠

Crontabs Demystified

Jan 12

🚇

All Stations Challenge

2017

Oct 27

🔠

Markdown Demystified

Aug 31

👨‍💻

Changed iOS 11 Webapp Behaviour

Aug 29

📖

A Poem about Informix

Aug 28

⛰️

The Fifth Lookout

Aug 27

📱

iOS 11 First Thoughts

Aug 25

😴

Sleep Paralysis

Aug 21

🌞

Eclipse

Jun 04

😖

JavaScript Strikes Again!

Mar 28

🔴

Red iPhones and Other Trinkets

Mar 15

❄️

Winterlogged

Mar 09

📦

The Magic Apple Box

Mar 01

💿

Waiting for Beck

Feb 26

🧑‍💻

On Streamlining Merges and Builds

Feb 12

📱

The State of iOS Web Applications

Jan 08

🕹️

Mario Maker: World 1-1?

2016

Dec 13

🔨

Apache on a Mac Using Docker

Oct 05

🔨

IFS and Z-Shell

Sep 24

⌛️

Time Machine is Broken

Jul 03

🔨

All PATHs lead to...

Jun 26

🌿

The Green Alleyways

Jun 12

📱

My Top iOS 9 Features & iOS 10 Wishlist

Apr 03

🏘️

Up Above the Streets and Houses

Jan 01

💿

King of Limbs v1.2?

2015

Dec 23

🗿

A Day Underground Part I

Dec 02

👢

So Bootable

Sep 28

🌚

Supermoon Eclipse!

Aug 15

📲

iOS 9 -vs- the Jailbreak: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade?

Jun 29

🌂

Sometimes Rainy, Sometimes Not

Jun 14

🔬

The National Institute for Medical Research, aka: Arkham Asylum

May 26

📱

iOS Springboard Customisation

Apr 30

🚉

Train de l-Est

Apr 18

🧹

Using Hazel to Isolate Unused Apps

2014

Dec 28

🩹

Workflow as a Bandage for Another App

Dec 23

🛜

Yosemite App Store Connection Issues Over WiFi

Dec 14

📱

Using Workflow to Solve a Small Problem

Dec 11

🌐

On Breaking Nintendo’s Region Locking

Dec 05

⛓️‍💥

The Immortal Jailbreak Tweak

Dec 04

📶

Internet on the Metro

Dec 02

🛫

Notes on Migration from Blogger to WordPress

Jul 30

🏫

Montreal Clock Tower

Jun 24

🚥

Looking Down on Sainte-Catherine

Jun 11

🖥️

Yet Another Tmux Widget?

May 28

🚲

Bixi Bingo

May 14

🤯

com.apple.IconServicesAgent

Mar 28

🖥️

Is Tmux Raining?

Feb 18

⚡️

’90s Electronic Musicians Were Brilliantly Geeky

Feb 14

🗿

The Great Urban Caving Experiment

2013

Dec 29

🛶

Canal de l’Aqueduc

Nov 27

🗽

Secret Sculptures

Oct 06

💺

Montreal to Washington D.C. By Train

Sep 29

🐉

Natural Sculptures

Jul 16

☕️

The Mile End

Jun 24

📜

The Lost Thesis

Jan 27

🌕

Terrebonne and The Night Of The Supermoon

Jan 15

🍂

Snapshots of Autumn

Jan 06

☃️

Snow Be Gone!

2012

Dec 29

🌨️

Storm Of The Decade?

Dec 23

🗻

The Westmount Lookout

Sep 07

🎸

Osheaga 2012

Jun 28

🏰

Parc Jean-Drapeau

Apr 29

🌉

Jacques Cartier Bridge

Apr 21

⛪️

Monkland Village

Mar 25

🛤️

Montreal to Quebec City

2011

May 01

🍁

Canada by Numbers

Mar 20

💿

King of Limbs v1.1?

Feb 23

✏️

I’ve Been Busy Micro Blogging

2008

Dec 24

🥃

Free Land?

Dec 23

📺

BBC iPlayer, DLL Hell, Tears and Sweat

0001

Jan 01

🌄

The Four Lookouts of Montreal

Jan 01

🇯🇵

Japan Tips

Jan 01

🧫

Genetically Modified Mould

Jan 01

🐸

Frogs

Jan 01

🚙

Fixing the High Street

Jan 01

🖥

Find My Mac

Jan 01

📃

Dan Patent #2

Jan 01

🗺️

2026

Eclipse 2026

A Virtual Canadian Citizenship Ceremony

Take Me Out to the West Island!

Why an iPhone Battery Replacement was Worth It

Twilight Sculpture Garden

Station Stories: Green Lane

Apple at 50

Made by a Human Person

Parc Bois-de-Liesse

I See Colour Bars

Wicked Workflows: Adding Emoji to To-do Items

2025

State of the Blog 2025

The McGill University Physics Collections

System Stories: The Stansted Tracked Transit System

App Defaults 2025

Trip Report: A Few Days in Vancouver

Runaway Train

There's Bees Up Top

Lesser Known London: The Mysterious Disappearing, Reappearing Building

Incidental Postcards from the City

Apple 2026 Public Beta Thoughts

Lesser Known London: Dollis Viaduct

More Computers of London

Retro UK Train Departure Screens

WWDC 2025 Thoughts

Station Stories: Woolwich

Canada in the UK

AI Meeting Summary Workflow

Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

Cadbury Cream Egg Comparison

Three European Icons in Montreal

Station Stories: Barrington

One Thing

Lesser Known London: Canada House

Montreal's Eastern Tramway Proposal

Montreal Transit Bot Roadmap

Liminal Office Spaces

The Towpath Beckons Once Again

2024

State of the Blog 2024

Station Stories: Brent Cross West

Chasing Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

Game & Watch: Ball

Lesser Known London: Chislehurst Caves

Managed Decline - Montreal's Transit Crisis

#BritishCore

Station Stories: East Finchley

Lesser Known London: Enfield Wildlife Rescue Centre

The Little River Way: Jean-Drapeau to Ice Bridge

Atari Video Game Catalogues

Resurrecting the Threads Anniversary Icon Set

All iPhones Contain a Hidden Song

Station Stories: Radisson

WWDC 2024 Thoughts

Star Raiders

REM Construction Update

Castro, the Lazarus App

REM Control: A Visit to the Heart of a Transit Machine

Vintage Catalogue

Parc de la Promenade-Bellerive

3 Mythical Game & Watch Editions

Eclipse So Good

Station Stories: Saint-Constant

End of the 15 Year Rule

Station Stories: Île-des-Sœurs

Adventures in OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Station Stories: Peel

The Winter Neighbourhoods Along the Towpath

2023

State of the Blog 2023

Montreal’s Summer Boats Revisited

App Defaults 2023

Early Winter Cycling Lessons

Another Beer Bites the Dust

Summer of Lightning

Why Did I Build a Transit Bot?

Montreal's Autumn Mountain

Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Edition Game and Watch