Software developer who loves tech • building mac, ios & web apps • ottawa 🇨🇦 • dad, coffee, curiosity
Ottawa, Ontario
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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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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. 🇨🇦
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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. 🇨🇦
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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. 🇨🇦 🫡
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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. 🇨🇦🕯️
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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.
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If you work in tech, watch Pantheon.
It's an animated show about companies racing to upload human minds to the cloud. When it came out it felt like sci-fi. In 2026 it feels like a documentary that's a few years early.
Have you seen it? Are we closer to that world than people admit?
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Apple just updated the developer agreement and you have until Nov 13 to accept it.
The three changes I actually care about:
Group Purchases. You can sell multiple seats on one subscription, so real family and team plans are finally possible.
Volume Purchasing. Businesses and schools can buy your subscription in bulk.
HomeView. Your iOS widgets and CarPlay apps can show up on Apple's new home screen.
Which one matters for what you're building?
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Waiting for @ThePrimeagen to post new video 😟
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dear grok bot team @SpaceXSI,
can we get shared bots? let two people on different accounts talk to the same bot, with usage billed to whoever created it.
my wife and i want one family bot without paying twice or sharing a login.
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AI can write my code, debug my code, and ship my app while I sleep.
still waiting for it to do something about my hairline.
come on guys. priorities.
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adobe spent years making people rent software they used to own.
now one engineer with ai is shipping free open source alternatives to photoshop, word, excel and powerpoint.
subscriptions were supposed to be the moat. turns out they were the motivation.
if your only edge is "it's hard to build", that edge is gone.
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I posted so many amazing replies in last few days but no one saw those 😭😭😭 But we are back baby 🎉🎉🎉
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I guess you cant go all out and try posting on different trends because you can loose your account
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Well, I think I learned my lesson. It's important to take it easy. Otherwise you will get shadow banned.
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Spent time in India this February. Switched between a few different providers, and the internet was still slow, spotty, and nowhere near what a country that size should have.
India doesn't have a talent problem. It has gatekeepers. The telecom oligarchs need to step aside so real innovation can actually land.
@elonmusk Starlink is the obvious fix. You've already built it everywhere the old networks failed. India should be next.
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ai can write my whole backend but can't tell if an apple fits in a lunchbox
finally a benchmark where i'm the frontier model
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what pacetrack actually looks like. steps, streaks, light + dark. no account, no analytics, free apps.apple.com/ca/app/pacetr…
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copilot cli can be tricked by a web page into sharing your secrets. github's official position:
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apple's homepad is coming next week and i genuinely don't get who it's for
$350 for an ipad that can't run apps, glued to a homepod
i already have:
- an iphone in my pocket
- an ipad on the couch
- a homepod that mishears me daily
- a mac i never leave
no app store. siri as the main feature. that's a $350 kitchen clock
convince me i'm wrong 👇
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missed the chance to grab some good .si domains and it still hurts 😭
about to spend $1-3k making up for it
drop your .si domains below. the one you own, the one you're selling, the one you're sitting on
please stay within that range and only reply if you're serious about selling
if it's good i might just buy it
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someone just offered me $500 for folto + the domain
the app has 0 sales
do i take it or keep building 😭
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Astra is not for broke people( Plus Subscription), Ultra runs out of 100% usage in 5 mins. lol...... Now Imagine Ultrafast
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if I could go back in time for ONE thing, I’d want to hear Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sing live.
not through YouTube.
not through old recordings.
actually be there in the room and feel that voice in real time.
some artists are so powerful that recordings almost feel unfair.
I can only imagine what it must’ve been like to hear Nusrat live.
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trying to rebuild my corner of X.
if you’re a developer, indie hacker, SaaS founder, AI builder, or just someone shipping cool stuff, say hi.
I want my feed full of people who are actually BUILDING.
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