Spencer Beacock
@spencerbeacock.bsky.social
designing services and systems. building stuff in my backyard.
partner at https://october.systems
Toronto
partner at https://october.systems
Toronto
My big project over the last 14 months (!) has been building a shed from scratch. It’s been incredibly satisfying to make a little building from nothing. It’s not done, but it’s rigged for lighting now, and the glow is so cozy that I couldn’t keep it all for myself. Happy Friday.
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
My big project over the last 14 months (!) has been building a shed from scratch. It’s been incredibly satisfying to make a little building from nothing. It’s not done, but it’s rigged for lighting now, and the glow is so cozy that I couldn’t keep it all for myself. Happy Friday.
Reposted by Spencer Beacock
Heatwaves can be dry, or wet, or dry-then-wet, or wet-then-dry, or wet-then-dry-then-wet, or...
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
On the mean precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves - IOPscience
On the mean precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves, Anderson, Sam, Chartrand, Shawn
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Heatwaves can be dry, or wet, or dry-then-wet, or wet-then-dry, or wet-then-dry-then-wet, or...
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
Going to miss the fantastic textiles and tilework and dishware in Andor. What a show.
May 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Going to miss the fantastic textiles and tilework and dishware in Andor. What a show.
Another form of catnip for a certain kind of systematizing brain: writing business requirements for a technology solution.
"Here are 700 imperative, all-encompassing sentences articulating my specific mental model for how the world should work, each categorized and nested and linked"
"Here are 700 imperative, all-encompassing sentences articulating my specific mental model for how the world should work, each categorized and nested and linked"
The need to write design principles* has strong “underperforming former gifted kid” energy
(* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))
(* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))
March 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Another form of catnip for a certain kind of systematizing brain: writing business requirements for a technology solution.
"Here are 700 imperative, all-encompassing sentences articulating my specific mental model for how the world should work, each categorized and nested and linked"
"Here are 700 imperative, all-encompassing sentences articulating my specific mental model for how the world should work, each categorized and nested and linked"
Let’s try ‘working in public’ again, here’s what’s on deck:
- kick off new project (going deep on an arcane discipline’s ways of working/processes, to draft req’ts for the software chassis it sits upon)
- build out journey, IA, req’ts, and WFs for a small digital thing
- kick off new project (going deep on an arcane discipline’s ways of working/processes, to draft req’ts for the software chassis it sits upon)
- build out journey, IA, req’ts, and WFs for a small digital thing
February 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Let’s try ‘working in public’ again, here’s what’s on deck:
- kick off new project (going deep on an arcane discipline’s ways of working/processes, to draft req’ts for the software chassis it sits upon)
- build out journey, IA, req’ts, and WFs for a small digital thing
- kick off new project (going deep on an arcane discipline’s ways of working/processes, to draft req’ts for the software chassis it sits upon)
- build out journey, IA, req’ts, and WFs for a small digital thing
Ok, on deck for today:
- Review a pseudo-proposal — really more of a menu
- Rebuild a project plan for a requirements definition project for enterprise health software
- Draft a quick and dirty qual research plan and recruit spec
- Schedule a handful of workshops and meetings over the coming weeks
- Review a pseudo-proposal — really more of a menu
- Rebuild a project plan for a requirements definition project for enterprise health software
- Draft a quick and dirty qual research plan and recruit spec
- Schedule a handful of workshops and meetings over the coming weeks
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ok, on deck for today:
- Review a pseudo-proposal — really more of a menu
- Rebuild a project plan for a requirements definition project for enterprise health software
- Draft a quick and dirty qual research plan and recruit spec
- Schedule a handful of workshops and meetings over the coming weeks
- Review a pseudo-proposal — really more of a menu
- Rebuild a project plan for a requirements definition project for enterprise health software
- Draft a quick and dirty qual research plan and recruit spec
- Schedule a handful of workshops and meetings over the coming weeks
Here’s a lovely little ode to e-bikes from @robinrendle.bsky.social Maybe 2025 is the year for me to get one, and perhaps you too. They are, after all, marvellously *democratic*.
E-bikes are the future we deserve. robinrendle.com/stories/this...
This Glorious Machine
An essay about e-bikes
robinrendle.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Here’s a lovely little ode to e-bikes from @robinrendle.bsky.social Maybe 2025 is the year for me to get one, and perhaps you too. They are, after all, marvellously *democratic*.
In news unrelated to the other thing going on: my dog continues to be extremely good.
November 6, 2024 at 12:54 AM
In news unrelated to the other thing going on: my dog continues to be extremely good.
Made a little tool caddy today.
It was not a hard puzzle: no complex stakeholdering, no fundamentally misaligned incentives.
Instead, it was about imperfect material and the still-learning movements of the tools.
In the span of about four hours, a need was resolved, simply and without frills.
It was not a hard puzzle: no complex stakeholdering, no fundamentally misaligned incentives.
Instead, it was about imperfect material and the still-learning movements of the tools.
In the span of about four hours, a need was resolved, simply and without frills.
November 4, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Made a little tool caddy today.
It was not a hard puzzle: no complex stakeholdering, no fundamentally misaligned incentives.
Instead, it was about imperfect material and the still-learning movements of the tools.
In the span of about four hours, a need was resolved, simply and without frills.
It was not a hard puzzle: no complex stakeholdering, no fundamentally misaligned incentives.
Instead, it was about imperfect material and the still-learning movements of the tools.
In the span of about four hours, a need was resolved, simply and without frills.
The need to write design principles* has strong “underperforming former gifted kid” energy
(* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))
(* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))
October 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
The need to write design principles* has strong “underperforming former gifted kid” energy
(* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))
(* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))