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Shawn Hooper
@shawnhooper.ca
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He/Him. Web Developer, Conference and Workshop Speaker. Theatre kid who still gets to do sound and lighting on the side.

Small town Ontario, Canada

Blog: https://shawnhooper.ca
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#webdev #php #laravel #wordpress #appsec
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Aaah, nature’s TV. #camping #fire #fall #ontario
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Anyone know what this little guy this? There’s a pile of them at this campground. #bugs #camping #ontario
October 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Sometimes I miss the crudeness of text based interfaces.
Stage View on an NSI MC 24/48 Setup screen on an NSI lighting console.
October 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Having a “Zoom In” mode on a backup camera makes it so easy to hitch up the trailer.

#camping
July 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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RIP Ozzy.
Ozzy Osbourne giving it finger @ his final concert. Photographer: Ross Halfin.
July 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Happy #NoKings day to everyone who celebrates.
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Another day on lights. #dance #theatre
Two lighting consoles. In the background, a stage.
June 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Beautiful weekend for the tulips to be opening.

And on the on 80th anniversary of Netherlands liberation too.

#garden #tulips #canada #netherlands
6 red tulips in a garden bed. One red tulip fully open.
May 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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It look me 4 minutes from arrival to departure.

Vote cast in the Canadian federal election.

Get out and vote. The biggest threat to democracy is low voter turnout. The polls mean nothing if people don’t show up.

#ElbowsUp #CanadaVotes #CanPoli
Me in front of a directional sign at the advance polling station.
April 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Moving web hosting from the US-owned host to Canada 🇨🇦

#ElbowsUp
All-in-One WP Migrate's Import progress bar, showing 22.47%
March 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Moosehead releases “The Presidential Pack” - 1,461 cans of beer, enough to make it through a full presidential term.

#beer #canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli

mooseheadbeershop.ca/products/the...
Screenshot of a FB post with a picture of a green Moosehead crate of beer.
March 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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This was long overdue. I haven't been actively using the site in a long time, but was always having FOMO around actually deactivating the account.
A screenshot of Twitter/X's deactivation confrmation screen. "Deactivated. Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. #Goodbye"
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Mike Myers on SNL, wearing a t-shirt that says "Canada is Not For Sale"
March 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I Stand With Ukraine
February 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#caturday at its best.
An orange cat and a black cat cuddled up on a blanket, sleeping.
February 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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What a job title :)

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...
“MoFo Executive Director”
February 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I wrote a TamperMonkey script that expands the time since post on #Bluesky to the actual date. So instead of showing "9m", "2d", etc it would show the real date/time a post was made.

shawnhooper.ca/2025/02/18/b...
A Bluesky post with the full post date and time showing instead of the time since post. In this case, "Feb 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM"
February 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Here's how your post looks in my feed @kateconger.com:
A screenshot of the OP in this thread. The time since posting has been replaced with the full date and time.
February 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Smokey the bear saying *Only YOU can prevent forest fires. Seriously. We've been defunded. It's just you now.
February 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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First up on moving away from cloud services for media. Trying out Audiobookshelf (Docker version) for podcast downloading.

www.audiobookshelf.org

#podcast #homelab #selfhosting
Screenshot of the Library tab of the Audiobookshelf web app.
February 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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No thanks. #onpoli
Doug Ford here. Help me protect Ontario's jobs and our economy from Trump's tariffs. REPLY > YES to back the PC team. stop to stop
February 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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My new @shehackspurple.bsky.social book "Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding" just arrived! The first book in the series, "Alice and Bob Learn Application Security" was fantastic. Looking forward to reading this one.

shehackspurple.ca/books/

#appsec #coding
A book, titled "Alice & Bob Learn Secure Coding" by Tanya Janca. It has a bright yellow cover. My blue PHP Elephant is visible in the background.
February 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Google Maps adds (Gulf of America) to the Gulf of Mexico.

Screenshot taken from a Canadian IP address.
Screenshot from Google Maps showing Gulf of America added to the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
February 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Snack time.
“Eat the Rich” red velvet cookies. Each cookie is a different rich man’s face.
February 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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US Customs and Border Protection’s own numbers on drugs caught coming across the Canadian border.

Fentanyl - a total of 43lbs in FY2024. Compared to 21,100lbs across the southern border.

These tariffs are not about drugs coming from Canada.

Data:

www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...

#uspoli #canpoli
A chart showing the amount of drugs seized coming across the Canada US border. See link in post for full data.
February 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM