Ahmed Nadar

In the spring of 1992 Steve Jobs stood in front of a room at MIT Sloan and said something that sounded like bragging about speed.

A post about a pothole took off while I was writing code and not looking at my phone.

The golf handicap does not judge your swing.

Eight minutes into a radio segment on Newstalk 1010, John Tory asked me whether the ability to attach a photo to a 311 request was my work.

The chair of a residents’ association emailed me yesterday to say he had tried to visit the platform I build and could not get in.

In 2005, TriMet in Portland and Google agreed on a file format for transit schedules.

Teams that upgraded n8n from v2.4.7 to v2.6.3 this year watched their production workflows stop.

Somewhere in 2024, a large number of Ruby developers made a decision they have never revisited.

Update, August 2026: Solve Canada is now live in seven Canadian cities, not the five named in this talk.

Update, August 2026: the platform described here is now called Solve Canada, live in seven Canadian cities.