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No to Bill C-22

The Canadian government is once again trying to push through an intrusive digital mass surveillance law. Here's the letter I sent to my MP.

Distant figure on a beach

Summer camp photos, 1992

I recently rediscovered this stack of old photos and went hunting for the obsolete camera technology behind them.

The books I read in 2025

Everyone was on the hustle this year, as a bunch of these reads turned out to be about labour, work and power.

Boots on a muddy path

Good boots: Salomon X-Ultra 5 Trail Shoes

An appreciation for a good pair of hiking boots, and the many places they took me over the last decade.

Eleventy pagination with Vento

Updating Eleventy from Nunjucks to Vento was mostly smooth sailing — except for pagination. Here’s how I eventually figured it out.

The books I read in 2024

This year, among other things, I finally finished off two dense reads I’d previously stalled on, and tackled a big landmark novel.

100 stars

This week, Embed Everything earned its 100th GitHub star. It's a nice little milestone, and a good opportunity to take stock.

Archiving your Twitter account with Eleventy

The Twitter we knew is dead, but I wanted to preserve an archive of my account, on my own terms. Here's how I did it.

Save the bike lanes

The Environmental Registry of Ontario asked for comment on the province’s plot to kill Toronto’s bike lanes. Here’s what I said.

The books I read in 2023

This year I focused on completing some book series, while tracing back the original influences for others.