Ian Bull (Elbows Up 🇨🇦)
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Ian Bull (Elbows Up 🇨🇦)
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Software engineer passionate about tools, languages, and simplicity 🦀🚀. I'm not very interesting; I mostly chop wood and carry water. I also help run a youth sports league. https://ianbull.com
If Anthropic envisions a word where localized code generation replaces MCP / Tool calls for things like: fetching / transforming / loading data, then a bringing a TypeScript runtime into the fold makes sense.
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
And it wasn't just Erich, it was many of his Team members from the original Eclipse team that wrote VSCode.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, James.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I hate that my young daughter, who absolutely loves watching sports, has to ask me about "Odds", "Lines", "Spreads" and "Futures". There is no reason kids need to be exposed to this just to watch a game.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Most people want Simple solutions, but they end up with Simplistic ones instead.
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Except I was at game 7 in '93, it was a terrible game by Toronto.
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I can handle the leafs losing.

The look on my daughters face right now hits so hard. This sucks.
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
That was hard.

I was downtown Toronto. in '93 as a 17 year old. But it's the look on my daughters face right now that hits the the hardest.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If Boston was in this spot, you'd feel the same way.
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This is a stupid sport.
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The Seattle series was really cool. We got a pretty good radio feed from Seattle and I got to listen to the games while driving around.

The Seattle broadcast crew was pretty good too. They gave a ton of respect to Max during his game.
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Yeah, it was streaming. Streamed Fan 590 radio, and my kids got to learn about how to properly listen to baseball.
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It’s the difference between tool-centric training and principle-centric engineering.

We teach how things work: not so engineers build everything from scratch, but so they know there’s no magic beneath the abstractions.
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Let's bring back the CocaCola ads from the '90s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdIQ...
Toronto Blue Jays - 1993 Coke Ad
YouTube video by Mark Stamcoff
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM