Hard Conversations
There's a teenager in Peel whose most reliable shower happens at school. Somebody on staff at the Peel Alternative School knows that kid's name, knows which mornings are the rough ones, and makes sure...
bell
A friend called me two weeks ago because his IPTV app had stopped playing anything, just a spinning wheel and a generic playback error. When he pulled up the service's own domain in a browser to see...
crtc
Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in front of hundreds of the world's largest investors on Tuesday and announced that Ottawa would reinvest "tens of billions of dollars" of capital into a new sovereign...
technology
A friend was over last night for a late hang, and around 11pm he decided we needed pizza. My two local favourites are "Martinos" (https://www.martinos-pizza.com) and "Vitos"...
Hard Conversations
I was at Square One in Mississauga this afternoon with my wife, and before anyone jumps to the obvious conclusion, we did not buy anything. The mall was cover for the actually valuable thing, which...
privacy
A TikTok landed in my feed today (yes, I watch TikTok, I know) "confidently explaining GDPR's right to erasure" (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVHVKDHr/) in the mostly-correct register that TikTok reserves...
travel
This article has been updated since the original post yesterday with additonal commentary at the bottom As some of you may have picked up from "last week's ambiguous encounter with a...
humour
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...
ai
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...
ai
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...
ai
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...
Leadership
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...
ai
"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...
3d-printing
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...
iot
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...
ai
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...
dns
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...
microsoft
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...
ai
Google Drive sent me one of those notifications a couple of weeks ago. Storage full. Time to clean up. So I started poking through the corners of my drive looking for things to delete, and that is how...
Hard Conversations
I was visiting a friend recently who had just bought a new microwave. I went to open it to reheat a coffee, and I could not. I pulled the handle. Nothing. I pulled harder, in case the thing was just...