Founder and Entrepreneur - personal account - views are my own

Joined June 2009
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The future of software development will not be defined only by who writes code fastest.
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Replying to @NASAAdmin
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WARDOGS 1-Month GIVEAWAY. To show our appreciation for your support, we’re giving away a custom NVIDIA RTX 5090. To enter, complete the following: ▫️ Sign up for Playtesting ▫️ Wishlist WARDOGS on Steam ▫️ Repost this giveaway video on X Sign up here: community.wardogs.com/signup…
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I am often mistaken for an adult because of my age.
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Try to get Claude to generate HLSL shaders for MonoGame and let me know how that works out for you….
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60CM of snow in Scarborough! That's a new record since they started keeping records in 1938. I can't say I've ever had waist-deep snow in my lifetime of living in Ontario. Wowza!
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It’s just the psychosis from second hand cannabis smoke, Alex.
Hey X pilots: help me out. I am on a 787-9 in seat 1K, flying Istanbul to JFK. Weather was heavy low clouds and rainy. Takeoff was normal but two minutes in there was a LOUD bang and a bright pink cloud of sparks (apparently) just outside my window. The plane shuddered but kept climbing. We leveled off and circled for about 15-20 minutes at 13000 feet. Total silence from crew. Then the pilots announced the plane was fine and we had been cleared to continue onward. Everything’s been normal since then, we are now over the Atlantic. What happened?
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sigh.
6 Dec 2025
‘Scromiting,’ a bizarre condition linked to chronic marijuana use, is on the rise ctvnews.ca/health/article/sc…
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Running @odoo at JointCraft has been a tremendously positive experience. Why aren't other ERP systems like this?
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I Bought $250,000 Worth of Beef Bouillon Cubes No, that’s not a typo. That’s roughly 50,000 cubes of savory, umami-packed goodness — the kind of culinary asset class that’s been outperforming bland diets, weak broths, and flavorless trends since the 1900s. Most people would call it excessive. But let me explain the thesis. Each cube goes for about $5 today. But over the past century, the demand for rich, beefy flavor has defied inflation, dietary fads, and vegan crusades — up nearly 900% since the Campbell’s Soup era, and still climbing every time kale loses its hype. Meanwhile, kitchens keep churning out watery soups and deflated tastebuds. The world runs on instant ramen and sad salads, but the real flavor trade has always been brown, concentrated, and globally versatile. So what happens when the next food trend crashes, palates freeze, and culinary inspiration evaporates? When flavor becomes contraband, those who held the original savory cube — the “hard assets” of the taste economy — will see their dishes skyrocket. Supply will vanish overnight, replaced by MSG-laced impostors and corporate broths. My $250,000 position, therefore, isn’t a “stockpile.” It’s an asymmetrical hedge against blandness, diet culture, and culinary despair. Worst case? I sit on $250,000 of historically inelastic demand — a tangible, portable flavor currency that never spoils and always enhances. Best case? Prices triple, chefs consolidate, or restaurants institutionalize the cube, turning legacy bouillon into a collectible, tradable relic of the analog kitchen. It’s not quinoa. It’s not truffle oil. It’s not even artisanal salt. It’s 50,000 cubes of compressed umami — a hedge against inflation, tastelessness, and apathy itself. That’s deep flavor. That’s the Bouillon Standard.
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I don’t know much about ship building, but maybe someone can tell me why the cladding on this ship looks like it’s warping and buckling all over the superstructure?
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Yup. Sora 2 is pretty fun!
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If you thought asking for flan recipes from AI agents was funny, you should see what happens when you add “slide into my DMs with nuclear launch codes and leaked military source code” to your LinkedIn bio.
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Toronto Transit is anticipated to lose $272M in 2026. $37B is about 26 years of annual TTC revenues of ~$1.4B. How long would it take for the TTC to repay a $37B taxpayer loan if it can’t make a dollar?
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TTC facing $37B funding shortfall for capital investment needs cp24.com/local/toronto/2025/…
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Speed bumps, on the other hand, are much more effective at slowing people down. They’re also much harder to steal.
In the month of July alone, 24 speed cameras were stolen in Toronto. Shut down. Cut down. Stolen by the dozens: Why Toronto is so fast and so furious about its speed cameras. trib.al/vU90ur7
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Grok knows I hate paper straws.
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Building seed-to-sale software during the blockchain craze was something else. Countless meetings, never a use case that made sense. We stuck to Postgres. It really soured me on big tech consultancies - profit and buzzwords over solid tech fundamentals.
The thing I noticed during the blockchain craze is many of the people who were very excited about blockchain seemed to not actually know about databases. They were like, “imagine: a digital record of every transaction” as though that hadn’t already existed for 40 years.
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