Jesse Wilson
@swank.ca
Programming, inclusivity, sustainability, & 🦕. he/him.
publicobject.com
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What's the biggest airport in Canada that doesn't have daily flights to YYZ ?
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
What's the biggest airport in Canada that doesn't have daily flights to YYZ ?
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Am I doing this right
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Am I doing this right
I got a warm feeling seeing ‘@author Bob Lee’ in Signal’s source code. He was a kind friend and he built so much.
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I got a warm feeling seeing ‘@author Bob Lee’ in Signal’s source code. He was a kind friend and he built so much.
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This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself
Hot take: Dependency Injection on Android just got a huge upgrade!!
Square just moved Anvil to maintenance mode to adopt Metro - a DI framework built by ONE PERSON that's 47-56% faster than Dagger+Anvil.
This is what "individual developers changing ecosystems" looks like 🧵
#AndroidDev
Square just moved Anvil to maintenance mode to adopt Metro - a DI framework built by ONE PERSON that's 47-56% faster than Dagger+Anvil.
This is what "individual developers changing ecosystems" looks like 🧵
#AndroidDev
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself
Ted Lasso fixed the showers in the locker room.
Concentrate on relationships and metrics will improve. Concentrate on metrics and relationships will fail.
Why do so many managers and leaders expect an almost instant improvement in satisfaction results after any change is made? We often fail to recognise that whilst organisational memory is short, com…
paulitaylor.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ted Lasso fixed the showers in the locker room.
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my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
October 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
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The sun is setting earlier and the days are getting shorter – but Transit’s as bright as ever 💡
The winter blues are no match for the colourful hues of our redesigned dark mode 🌚
Dust off the heaters, unpack those sweaters, and head over to your Transit settings to try it out 🔆
The winter blues are no match for the colourful hues of our redesigned dark mode 🌚
Dust off the heaters, unpack those sweaters, and head over to your Transit settings to try it out 🔆
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The sun is setting earlier and the days are getting shorter – but Transit’s as bright as ever 💡
The winter blues are no match for the colourful hues of our redesigned dark mode 🌚
Dust off the heaters, unpack those sweaters, and head over to your Transit settings to try it out 🔆
The winter blues are no match for the colourful hues of our redesigned dark mode 🌚
Dust off the heaters, unpack those sweaters, and head over to your Transit settings to try it out 🔆
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AMAZING
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
AMAZING
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Seeing more places where the City of Kitchener rebuilt a street and put in a continuous sidewalk where the main street crosses a side street, as if it was no big deal. Which it isn’t! But it absolutely rules
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Seeing more places where the City of Kitchener rebuilt a street and put in a continuous sidewalk where the main street crosses a side street, as if it was no big deal. Which it isn’t! But it absolutely rules
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addison barger is the name of a girl that bullied me in middle school
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
addison barger is the name of a girl that bullied me in middle school
they're gonna make me watch 18 innings
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
they're gonna make me watch 18 innings
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
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it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: "wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly" https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly
wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly — wingolog
wingolog: article: wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly
wingolog.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: "wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly" https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly
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The Blue Jays make the Dodgers look fake and silly: defector.com/the-blue-jay...
The Blue Jays Make The Dodgers Look Fake And Silly | Defector
Wednesday night in Los Angeles it was finally the Blue Jays’ turn to benefit from a historic performance. They’d lost Game 2 of this World Series to an unhittable Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who put together…
defector.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Blue Jays make the Dodgers look fake and silly: defector.com/the-blue-jay...
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Today I presented to the Wasm CG a proposal for fine-grained dynamic code generation as a core WebAssembly feature. The proposal is now at phase 1!
github.com/WebAssembly/...
Also immortalized in song: suno.com/song/19e0679...
github.com/WebAssembly/...
Also immortalized in song: suno.com/song/19e0679...
GitHub - WebAssembly/jit-interface: WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite for the jit-interfaces proposal.
WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite for the jit-interfaces proposal. - WebAssembly/jit-interface
github.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Today I presented to the Wasm CG a proposal for fine-grained dynamic code generation as a core WebAssembly feature. The proposal is now at phase 1!
github.com/WebAssembly/...
Also immortalized in song: suno.com/song/19e0679...
github.com/WebAssembly/...
Also immortalized in song: suno.com/song/19e0679...
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ken jennings: you…swallowed your buzzer??
me: *punches myself in the stomach* what is yes
me: *punches myself in the stomach* what is yes
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
ken jennings: you…swallowed your buzzer??
me: *punches myself in the stomach* what is yes
me: *punches myself in the stomach* what is yes
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Speaking of trains, if you’re in Waterloo Region, tell your councillors that next week they should pick the option that extends ION light rail all the way to Galt
Actions to support ION Stage 2
A few notes on how to show your support. Learn Learn more about the project and the options under consideration on EngageWR. Catch up on ION stage 1, transit cost research, and more on our home pag...
ionizewr.ca
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Speaking of trains, if you’re in Waterloo Region, tell your councillors that next week they should pick the option that extends ION light rail all the way to Galt
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VLADDY TAKES OHTANI YARD
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
VLADDY TAKES OHTANI YARD
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"lower quality for much lower effort" is probably the source of much of the continuing enshittification of most consumer services, even the ones not mediated by AI.
One of the biggest impacts of AI is increasingly the prevalence of the idea that lower quality for much lower effort is a good tradeoff.
oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD
(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)
(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"lower quality for much lower effort" is probably the source of much of the continuing enshittification of most consumer services, even the ones not mediated by AI.
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Solid move tbf.
October 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Solid move tbf.
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Watch my BSidesPDX keynote where I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for communities to defend themselves micahflee.com/practical-de...
Practical Defenses Against Technofascism
I gave the Saturday morning keynote at BSidesPDX! I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for commu...
micahflee.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Watch my BSidesPDX keynote where I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for communities to defend themselves micahflee.com/practical-de...