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  • Spicy chicken sandwich-gorithm

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    So Twitter open-sourced its algorithm today, and the community jumped into action to help Elon improve this platform he accidentally bought as a joke. Here are some of my favourite pull requests made to the repo today. This helpful fix nukes the Twitter Blue amplification on the For You tab: There were quite a few…

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  • FineDiners.ca: French Onion Soup

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    My latest post over at FineDiners.ca wherein I make French Onion Soup for the first time! FineDiners.ca is a food-oriented blog where myself and a few others write about restaurants around Ottawa, recipes we’ve tried or want to try, general food preparation techniques and other food news, reviews, and kitchen experiments.

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  • What’s so great about The Wire?

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    UC Berkeley is offering a course on The Wire: “Discerning critics and avid fans have agreed that the five-season run of Ed Burns and David Simon’s The Wire was “the best TV show ever broadcast in America”–not the most popular but the best. The 60 hours that comprise this episodic series have been aptly been…

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    This article about How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing is really fascinating.

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  • So sorry, so sorry…

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    Man, time gets away from me sometimes.  Never got around to a wrapup post for TIFF. Needless to say, the last bunch of days were kind of a whirlwind.  I’ll write more soon, but suffice to say – we had hella fun the whole week, and I can’t wait to go again!

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  • More press for Tkaronto

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    Some more great press for Tkaronto which starts its run at The Royal in Toronto tomorrow evening: The Globe and Mail: “I didn’t have time to filter” And one I missed last week: The Ottawa Citizen: Caught between ‘two worlds’

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