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.

😢 My Stupid Weather Twitter Profile Bot Got Suspended

After seven years of using a Python script to update his Twitter handle with a weather emoji, the author faced suspension from the Twitter API, marking the end of his beloved bot.

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.

Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe

The author created a tool that automates the collection and visualization of Toronto’s restaurant health inspection data using Python, SQLite, GitHub Actions, and Datasette.

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

Sunset from Ontario Place

I super agree with Kalynn Bayron, AI should be doing more the stuff people hate than the stuff that brings people joy.

I don’t get it. Why not focus on getting AI to perform more mundane tasks that don’t require creativity and nuance? Use it to free up time for actual human beings to focus more on the things they love? Pushing for it to write novels, make music, and create art is weird as hell.

Beautiful morning in Whistler.

Built a couple Dogsheep utilities this past week to save data into SQLite: