Independent Insight on Canadian Tech and Infrastructure
Independent analysis of Canadian telecom, IT, and AI. Exploring infrastructure, policy, regulation, and the technologies shaping Canada’s digital future.
travel · 10 min read
As some of you may have picked up from "last week's ambiguous encounter with a possibly-crocodile-infested Amsterdam canal" (https://mgamble.ca/p/crocodiles-do-not-swim-here), my family and I are...
Matthew Gamble
humour · 4 min
I was walking in Amsterdam yesterday with my family when we came across the sign above. We stopped, we read it, and then we stood there for a solid two minutes trying to figure out what the sign was...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
There is a "thread on the ClaudeAI subreddit" (https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v6fiyj/you_can_view_a_lot_of_shared_conversations_via/) making the rounds today pointing out that a large...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 12 min
OpenAI published a "remarkable blog post on July 21st" (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/) admitting that during a routine internal benchmark run, one of their...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
I am going to stop pretending this is not weird. For roughly twenty-five years, the internet built a library. Not the metaphorical one, the actual one. Tutorials on how to configure BGP. Stack...
Matthew Gamble
Leadership · 13 min
I came across a cartoon on LinkedIn this week. A small museum gallery, four glass cases on plinths. Lines of Code, with a tall stack of fanfold paper inside. Story Points, with a Fibonacci sequence of...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 11 min
"Last week" (https://mgamble.ca/p/sovereign-ai-is-the-new-space-race-canada-just-brought-a-sparkler) I argued that sovereign AI was the new space race and that Canada was bringing a sparkler to the...
Matthew Gamble
3d-printing · 16 min
A few months into life as an "executive" in my day job, I have noticed something. The further up the org chart you climb, the less actual building you get to do. Meetings get longer. Decks get...
Matthew Gamble
iot · 10 min
You never know what you are going to find in a comment section. Most days, the answer is nothing useful. Every once in a while you stumble into a thread that sends you down a different path...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
Earlier today the Prime Minister stood up in Toronto and "launched AI for All" (https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/06/04/prime-minister-carney-launches-ai-all-canadas-new-national-artific...
Matthew Gamble
dns · 9 min
Lou over at louwrentius.com "recently published a thoughtful piece" (https://louwrentius.com/dns-is-for-people-not-for-it-infrastructure.html) arguing that DNS, while useful for public-facing...
Matthew Gamble
microsoft · 5 min
If you have ever sent me an email, you have probably noticed that my address is "[email protected]". The local part is my name. The domain is my name. Combined, they say my name twice. Most people...
Matthew Gamble