Searching For Tao

I'm exhausted today.

Politics here in the UK is wild right now.

Personal There wasn't much on the personal front worth mentioning out of 2025 other than my two significant brushes with the UK's National Health Service.

Git has this nifty feature where you can sign your commits.

This morning my dad sent me the following request via Signal: I'm looking for a streamer like YouTube but has accurate news, not made-up shit.

Yeah yeah, everyone thinks that their way is the Best Way™, but I'm going to try to make the case for some very simple standards that I think everyone can agree on There's a convention in Pythonland (or is it just Djangoland?)

Some rather big things went down in my life over the last couple weeks that I really should outline here.

Canadians (and much of the world) have long suffered the strange delusion that the United States is our long-time friend and ally, but I've never understood it.

I've been thinking a lot on this lately, and with our seemingly uncritical march toward AI facilitating everything, I feel like I should get in here and talk about why it's a Terrible Idea.

What with the recent mooning over Canada's new Prime Minister, a lot of the discussions I've been having online have me talking about climate and how the Liberal Party (and the Conservatives, and the NDP) have a pretty miserable record on climate.