myles' garden

a raccoon I ran into on my walk home

added a new slash page to showing off my nail polish collection.

got a bouquet of bread today

watching my way through all the Laika films, starting with Missing Link.

rewatching every laika film before wildwood comes out.

Andros Fenollosa on why we want small systems instead of decentralized ones when talking about online communities.

added two social features to the site tonight a /friends page of people I like and admire FollowSpec, AboutSpec, and ContactSpec from SocialSpec, so tools can find where to follow, read about, and reach me

trillium park after dark

dried artichoke, in india ink

archived awesome-static-generators today. new generators were turning up faster than I could review them, and a stale list isn’t much use to anyone. it’ll be deleted on 1 november 2027, so fork it before then if you want to keep it going.

my drawing from last night’s intro to drawing class at the Toronto School of Art.

waiting for 1RG community dinner to start.

we practised drawing the negative space for week two of intro to drawing at the Toronto School of Art.

the neighbourhood tabby holding court

I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on the autumn equinox (Tuesday 22nd September at 6pm).

I am going to see Bonobo in November.

I am going to Not a BBQ tonight!

went to the first class for my intro to drawing at the Toronto School of Art. this is the mug.

Cedric on deadpan photography (square framing, flat light, uniform focus) as a style that doesn’t claim neutrality so much as perform it, machinery left on display.

John Clary Davies on a 3 A.M. bear at his kitchen window and a record year for human-bear conflicts in Colorado.

Fugleramme is a real-time bird detection system that listens for birds and renders them as hand-cut 1800s-style illustrations on an e-ink display powered by a Raspberry Pi.

Started my annual fall rewatch of Gilmore Girls.

boy dinner

someone’s plywood confession, propped by the recycling

someone sent me some flowers today

corn field’s given up on being seen today

same echeveria, one whole summer apart. those stalks just kept going.

drove up into a pink sky, hydrangeas glowing in the dark, wine on the porch, and Theo pressed against my leg, hiding from the coyotes howling

bouquet in one hand, coffee in the other. tight fit.

A manifesto making the case that owning your own website instead of feeding a platform is basically punk.

st. audrey of the bubblegum, presiding over the alley

a weekend, roughly. slides, orchids, a book stack I will not finish. some found things too.

Sami Smith built Misen, a launchpad with a skeuomorphic design of a room.

twenty past eight, flat on the couch

sunday afternoon, and the bouquet is still going

My current jam is Real Life by ear.

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

Love this essay by Conor Dougherty about 40- and 50-somethings who skate a Costco car park before work.

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

John Herrick unravel the mysteries of elevators.

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

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