First PyDataTO meetup of the year.

Made a small Django function to back-port update_or_create from Django 5.0, specifically adding create_defaults to the create operations. gist.github.com/myles/a6905f94e4e9955f02fea2554db982a7

Don Valley is always pretty in the late summer/early autumn.

Looking out a taxi window at the Don Valley in Toronto.

My favourite comic book series, Fables, has been added to the public domain by Bill Willingham, its author.

Polaroid’s new instant camera, the I-2, looks incredible. I hope this resurgence of instant cameras continues. Jeremy Gray’s review for PetaPixel.

Street Art of Doug Ford in Graffiti Alley

Street art of Doug Ford (current premiere Ontario) holding two large sacks of money.

Morning-Glory

Someone wants some attention.

Exhibition setting up (or tearing down) for the Indy.

Just finished the season finale of Silo. The entire show is definitely worth watching.

Playing around with Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature. This was two similar photos I took at Ontario Place this winter.

A stiched together AI generated photo for Lake Ontario taken from Ontario Place.

Toronto’s cityscape at sunset.

It’s criminal we have to work on the first warm day of the year.

Playing around with Adobe Firefly’s beta.

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Morning walk was so cold and so wet.

So You Want to Turn an Office Building Into a Home?

Interesting article about the conversion of office buildings into aparments, one of the hurdles is the footprint of office buildings have been getting larger.

Made Coffee Coffee Cake from Claire Saffitz’s Desert Person.

A Coffee Cake I made today.

Illuminated mushroom at Ontario Place

Snowy day in North York.

What’s the point of these language models if it won’t make all our lives easier.

Journalist asked Microsoft’s new Bing to write them a cover letter and it refused saying it would be unethical