Software developer who loves tech β€’ building mac, ios & web apps β€’ ottawa πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ β€’ dad, coffee, curiosity

Ottawa, Ontario
Called it this afternoon. Alberta stays. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ About 78% chose Canada. After a weekend where we lost four soldiers in Wainwright, this one hits different. We're still one country.
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Alberta votes today. My prediction: Alberta stays. And not because anyone forced it, but because when it really counts, most of us know we're stronger together. Doesn't matter if you're in Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal or Halifax. We've all been pushed apart lately by politics, by algorithms, by people who profit when we fight. Whatever the result tonight, the job after is the same: listen to each other more, divide less, and start acting like one country again. What would make you feel more connected to Canadians in other provinces? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Think about the tech you used today. Your phone, your email, your cloud storage, your maps, your work chat. Almost all of it is owned by a handful of American companies. That isn't an anti-American take. It's a dependency problem. Look at Ukraine this month. Starlink speeds were capped on moving terminals, and their drone defences struggled during attacks. Whoever made the call, one decision made thousands of kilometres away changed what happened on the ground. Now imagine that's our internet, our cloud, our emergency systems. That's not just a tech problem. It's a security problem. And we have the talent. Waterloo, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver turn out some of the best engineers in the world. Then most of them go build for someone else. Canada needs its own cloud, its own satellites, its own tools, built here and owned here. If you could switch one app in your life to a Canadian-built one, which would it be?
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Religion. Nationality. Politics. Skin colour. Which side you're on. We've never had more ways to divide ourselves, and we're using every one of them. Meanwhile, people are dying. Families are grieving. And we're still busy arguing in the comments about who deserves sympathy. Pain doesn't check your passport or your religion before it shows up. You don't have to agree with someone to be kind to them. You just have to remember they're human. Be kind today. Somebody out there needs it more than you know.
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Four Canadian soldiers didn't come home from training this weekend. 39 more are hurt, and 19 of them are still fighting in hospitals in Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary. Peacetime. Home soil. Just doing their job. To the families, and to the 3 PPCLI family who lost their own: Canada is with you. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Walter Isaacson, the guy who wrote Steve Jobs' biography, says Jobs would have hated agentic AI. His reasoning: Jobs wanted computers to be "a bicycle for the mind." Tools that make you faster and more creative, with you still steering. Agents flip that. You don't ride the bike anymore. You tell it where to go and look at your phone. And honestly, I get both sides. I love when a tool just handles the boring stuff. But the stuff I'm proudest of building came from the hours where I was stuck, figuring it out myself. So I keep asking myself whether we're building bicycles or taxis. Which one do you want, a tool that makes you better or one that just does it for you?
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Flags are at half-mast across Canada tonight. We lost service members at CFB Wainwright, on home soil, during peacetime training. Dozens more are hurt. They were someone's son, daughter, mom, dad, best friend. If you pass a flag tomorrow, take a second. Say their names when we learn them. Rest easy. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Entry-level job postings in New York City are down as much as 40% in design and media since ChatGPT launched. Support roles are down 34%, clerical work 30%. Meanwhile, postings that require AI skills are up 55%. Mostly for experienced people. Here's what worries me. Every senior dev, designer or writer you know started as a junior, doing the boring tasks AI now handles in seconds. That's where we learned. If nobody hires juniors today, who becomes senior in 10 years? Do you think companies are cutting their own future short, or will a new path into tech show up?
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The older I get, the more I realize how easy hate is. It takes one post to divide people. One angry reply. One "us vs them." It spreads fast, and it pays well in likes. Being kind is so much harder. Reading something cruel and not firing back. Assuming the person on the other side is probably tired, scared, or having a bad day, just like you. In a world this divided, not answering hate with hate might be the hardest thing any of us do. I don't always get it right. But I'm trying.
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National Defence has confirmed it: lives were lost and others were injured in yesterday's fire at CFB Wainwright. They won't release names or numbers until every family has been told. That's the right call. Please respect that and don't share names or rumours. Let the families hear it the right way. Praying for every one of them this morning. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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somewhere in Canada tonight, a family is sitting by the phone. They're waiting for news from CFB Wainwright. They're waiting to hear a voice they've heard a thousand times, saying "I'm okay." Some of those calls won't come. We don't talk enough about what our service members and their families carry. They miss birthdays and holidays and bedtimes, all to keep the rest of us safe, often without us ever knowing their names. Tonight, hold your people a little closer. To the families of those lost and injured: a whole country is with you. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ•―οΈ
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Whatever we argue about on here, it can wait tonight. Let's put our differences aside and pray for every one of them to make it home. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ™
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People are already making up stories about what happened in Wainwright. Nobody knows the cause yet. Not you, not me, not the guy with 12 followers posting "sources." Let the crews do their job. If you want to help, pray for them and for their safety, so they make it home to their families tonight. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ™
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While the rest of us run from fire, Canadians in uniform run toward it. Tonight in Wainwright, soldiers and firefighters are doing exactly that. Proud of every single one of them. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ 🫑
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Heartbreaking news out of CFB Wainwright in Alberta tonight. There was an explosion and a major fire on the base. Service members were lost, and others are injured. The cause isn't known yet. These are people who signed up to protect all of us. Praying for the families waiting on news, for everyone injured, and for the firefighters and medical teams in Edmonton working through the night. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ™
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Advice to young people learning code - Read your code and try to understand what is doing. If you cant understand then ask you AI to explain until you understand. Only then accept the output generated by the magical Genie
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Still thinking about the Roadster demo from last night. A car that drives upside down on suction fans, flips over a row of Teslas with cold-gas thrusters, and hits 60 in 0.81 seconds. As an engineering flex, it's one of the wildest things I've seen a car do. But it's also nine years since the first reveal, there's still no price, and production is "2028." So I honestly can't decide if this is the future of cars or the best marketing stunt ever made. Where do you land? Would you put down a deposit, or wait to see one on a real road first?
Real life, baby
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