• Winnipeg’s Embarrassing Lack of Trains

    Over the past couple of years, I’ve visited more North American cities than I’ve been to in the previous 20: Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal, Portland, Minneapolis/St Paul, Washington DC. You know what all of them have that Winnipeg doesn’t? One thing that completely changes how it feels to explore a city without a car? Trains. Winnipeg…

  • On directories. And vibe coding.

    I seem to have an obsession with directories. During COVID I helped build letsorder.delivery: a directory of local restaurants offer non-app delivery. Today I launched new one wpg.beer: a directory of local brewery taprooms. I’m not entirely sure where this obsession comes from. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the early web — before search engines and…

  • How AI Stole My Job

    The progress of technology over the course of my life has been stunning and the progress of LLMs is vastly outpacing even those previous decades of exponential progress. It’s wild! In the past two to three weeks, my entire approach to coding has been completely upended. To the point that it’s hardly even the same…