Chris Dinn
@chrisdinn.bsky.social
Ads @ StackAdapt. Creator of torontoverse.com. A prolific programmer who loves local data. Ex Google Ad Manager, mDialog.
Doesn’t matter who wins. This game is for anyone who loves baseball. What a series.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Doesn’t matter who wins. This game is for anyone who loves baseball. What a series.
I love interviewing senior software engineers. So many people have built such amazing things, real clever stuff. But, basically no one understands it so they can never truly talk or brag about it in their normal life. I love getting paid to hear those stories.
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I love interviewing senior software engineers. So many people have built such amazing things, real clever stuff. But, basically no one understands it so they can never truly talk or brag about it in their normal life. I love getting paid to hear those stories.
If you’ve ever lost someone, it’s impossible not be moved by this.
Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
The Blurring
What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.
www.dataandpolitics.net
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If you’ve ever lost someone, it’s impossible not be moved by this.
Incredible news for kids who love
podcasts. current.org/2025/10/apmg...
podcasts. current.org/2025/10/apmg...
APMG sells ‘Brains On!’ podcast to co-creators
The first episode of "Brains On!" under new ownership will be released later this month.
current.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Incredible news for kids who love
podcasts. current.org/2025/10/apmg...
podcasts. current.org/2025/10/apmg...
Newfoundland
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Newfoundland
This guy, just chillin’ on my lawn. Not scared of me at all.
September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This guy, just chillin’ on my lawn. Not scared of me at all.
Say what you will about Jimmy, the man knows how to go viral 😂
Mike Tyson made Mr.Beast show a human emotion for the first time
September 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Say what you will about Jimmy, the man knows how to go viral 😂
The gas cylinder gave out in my 6-year-old @hermanmiller.com chair and they were nice enough to send me a whole new one under warranty. That’s pretty great.
September 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The gas cylinder gave out in my 6-year-old @hermanmiller.com chair and they were nice enough to send me a whole new one under warranty. That’s pretty great.
Friends don’t let friends share Golang interfaces.
August 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Friends don’t let friends share Golang interfaces.
Reposted by Chris Dinn
My @thestar.com column this week: Civic Tech in Toronto turns ten!
A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Matt Elliott: Yes, tech can be a force for good. Meet the people hacking Toronto for the better
The volunteers who created the Civic Dashboard and BikeSpace apps this weekend mark their 10th anniversary of brainstorming and tech development with a two-day event called Civic Spark.
www.thestar.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My @thestar.com column this week: Civic Tech in Toronto turns ten!
A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Incredible how basically all the information on the internet about how to wash a baseball hat is wrong.
August 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Incredible how basically all the information on the internet about how to wash a baseball hat is wrong.
Can’t wait to try it out!
Late birthday present to myself, I have just made Owl.so generally available to the world, and updated the website! 🎉
✅ Interstitial journal
✅ Zero-effort task management
✅ Weekly planner
It's free while in beta, so please give it a try and see if it works for you 🙇♂️
✅ Interstitial journal
✅ Zero-effort task management
✅ Weekly planner
It's free while in beta, so please give it a try and see if it works for you 🙇♂️
Owl - A Personal Introspective Daily Log
Use the power of interstitial logging to understand how you are living your life.
Owl.so
February 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Can’t wait to try it out!
Supply side benefits from this failure—incentives aren’t aligned. Helping advertisers set the tags right means fewer impression sold and less auction competition for each impression so lower CPMs.
When I worked at Google someone asked about this at an all-hands meeting.
"It's not the technology's fault! It happens when the advertiser doesn't set the tags right!"
Left unasked was whose fault it is that the advertisers never seem to be able to set the tags right.
"It's not the technology's fault! It happens when the advertiser doesn't set the tags right!"
Left unasked was whose fault it is that the advertisers never seem to be able to set the tags right.
I bought a Peloton bike a few weeks ago and now I'm bombarded with programmatic ads urging me to...buy a Peloton bike.
Who's going to award the Nobel prize to the geniuses who invented this cutting edge ad tech???
Who's going to award the Nobel prize to the geniuses who invented this cutting edge ad tech???
December 6, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Supply side benefits from this failure—incentives aren’t aligned. Helping advertisers set the tags right means fewer impression sold and less auction competition for each impression so lower CPMs.
Amazing how my golden-era Twitter feed has recreated itself here. Happy to see you all again!
November 22, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Amazing how my golden-era Twitter feed has recreated itself here. Happy to see you all again!
CTV ads are awesome, especially midrolls in premium content. Unfortunately, attribution is very difficult—presumably TTD will fix that. This could be very good for both publishers and advertisers.
The Trade Desk Operating System
TTD is developing a new connected television operating system called Ventura.
TTD believes its lack of content ownership will provide a more objective solution compared to existing OS providers like Roku, Amazon, and Google.
www.axios.com/2024/11/20/t...
TTD is developing a new connected television operating system called Ventura.
TTD believes its lack of content ownership will provide a more objective solution compared to existing OS providers like Roku, Amazon, and Google.
www.axios.com/2024/11/20/t...
The Trade Desk is building a smart TV operating system called Ventura
"We're looking at a concentration around a handful of players that lack objectivity," CEO Jeff Green said.
www.axios.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
CTV ads are awesome, especially midrolls in premium content. Unfortunately, attribution is very difficult—presumably TTD will fix that. This could be very good for both publishers and advertisers.
They’re saying 60-million household watched the fight this past weekend? Serving dynamic, live video ads into that size audience would be an absolutely blast—hope to see more of that audience scale in the future!
Netflix and MVP's Paul vs Tyson Record-Breaking Viewership Numbers
60 million households watched the Paul vs. Tyson main event live around the world, peaking at 65 million concurrent streams. Nearly 50 million households global
www.sportsvideo.org
November 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM
They’re saying 60-million household watched the fight this past weekend? Serving dynamic, live video ads into that size audience would be an absolutely blast—hope to see more of that audience scale in the future!
I underestimated how disruptive DAI can be for premium video programmatic ad buying. Who’s going to fix it?
November 18, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I underestimated how disruptive DAI can be for premium video programmatic ad buying. Who’s going to fix it?
I live as rural as it gets—my neighbours are a dairy farm, a sheep farm and a whole bunch of hayfields. Yet, Amazon delivers next day even on the weekend.
November 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I live as rural as it gets—my neighbours are a dairy farm, a sheep farm and a whole bunch of hayfields. Yet, Amazon delivers next day even on the weekend.
Did you know one of Canada’s biggest new media hits is a family of Roblox streamers? Would love to read a deep dive on Krew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krew
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krew
Krew - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Did you know one of Canada’s biggest new media hits is a family of Roblox streamers? Would love to read a deep dive on Krew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krew
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krew
"Toronto's real estate tumbles as culture and politics rumble"
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Toronto's real estate tumbles as culture and politics rumble
Toronto’s top stories from around the web
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September 11, 2023 at 1:39 PM
"Toronto's real estate tumbles as culture and politics rumble"
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‘Improperly altered’ charges at City Hall & another Blue Jays loss
Toronto’s top stories from around the web
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August 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM
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