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Myles Braithwaite's garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.

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Bookmarked Misen, a spatial app launchpad by Sami Smith.

Sami Smith built Misen , a launchpad with a skeuomorphic design of a room. It’s kind of incredible what people are building with the help of LLMs.

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twenty past eight, flat on the couch

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sunday afternoon, and the bouquet is still going

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My current jam is Real Life by ear.

Bookmarked Dirty Little Zine by Rick Vega.

Rick Vega made this helpful site to build your own zine .

Bookmarked What I Learned About Loss While Skateboarding at Costco by Conor Dougherty for New York Times.

Love this essay by Conor Dougherty about 40- and 50-somethings who skate a Costco car park before work . Curbs as an excuse to keep showing up for each other.

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she’s still holding her glass up, west-end laneway after dark

Bookmarked Elevators for john.fun.

John Herrick unravel the mysteries of elevators .

Bookmarked Copy That Floppy! for DigiPres.org.

An intersting guid for archivist wanting to create disk images of floppy disks with the intention of preserving them for the long-term .

Bookmarked Learning a few things about running SQLite by Julia Evans.

Julia Evans talks about her learnings from using SQLite in production .

Bookmarked The Artist Who Colored Ghibli for Animation Obsessive.

Michiyo Yasuda gave Ghibli its colour. This piece finally gives her the credit .

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willing to play any genre (except screamo)

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Started reading Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth at 1RG ’s Silent Reading Club.

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I’m speaking at Python Toronto’s July 23 Meetup on Personal Data Archaeology with Python . Almost every platform you use holds a slice of your life, all locked behind an API. The Dogsheep pattern (pioneered by Simon Willison ) pulls that data into SQLite, where you can actually query it. I’ll share what I’ve learned building these tools. Come say hi.

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Finished my first day at Relay today.

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Just finished reading Fiona Marchbank’s Ladies of the Knight , it was so good.

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Saw these flowers on my walk to 1RG this morning.

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A photo dump of Theo at the farm. He was a little camera shy, but I managed to get a few good shots of him.

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Spent last week at the farm. Took a lot of photos. These are the keepers.

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I really want to like HyperTexting (an iOS app that will turn feeds into a scrollable social media interface), but when I first opened the app, it auto-subscribed me to 20+ feeds I have no interest in, and now the first post on the list is an ad to buy a sponsorship for their app. I get that good software requires people to actually make money, but this is a little much for an app that hasn’t even…

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I started reading Witch Hat Atelier , a manga by Kamome Shirahama.

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He saw a chipmunk on the bird feeder once and now he just assumes they live there.

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Went to see InterAccess’s, Toronto Made, The World in a City Illuminated exhibition at the Canada Malting silos tonight.