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A Web Developer in Winnipeg

Category: Culture

  • Cycling, Javascript and Saving the Planet

    A few weeks ago I bought a basic road bike with the intention of cycling to work. And I’m totally hooked! Addicted maybe? I think I finally get it. My primary reason for biking to work is to level up the amount of exercise I get in every week, but I’m aware that leaving the…

  • Three of the greatest things of all time… this week…

    This past week I’ve made three minor tech-adjacent discoveries that have the potential to change my life in small but important ways. None of these are groundbreaking on their own, but together they’re actually making me a little excited about “tech” again. In sort of a strange way. Stoop I’ve always had two related problems…

  • Dev.to: The most Pleasant Online Community.

    Earlier this year, the developer centric social network DEV started popping up regularly in the portions of The Internet I frequent. And for the past month or so, I’ve been loading up the home page almost as frequently as Reddit. The site itself is like some sort of impossible hybrid combination of Twitter, Stackoverflow and…

  • What I Learned About The State of Online Creation While Building a Web Comics Feed Aggregator

    What I Learned About The State of Online Creation While Building a Web Comics Feed Aggregator

    Web comics were a big part of what I used to like about the old – pre-social-media – Internet. Diesel Sweeties, Penny Arcade, PVP, My Extralife, Nothing Nice to Say, Orneryboy, etc. I’m not sure exactly how it happened, but I just sort of forgot that web comics existed for a good decade plus. Sure…

  • The case for Facebook… or something like it

    The case for Facebook… or something like it

    I am about to write something that is extremely unpopular amongst my peers in 2019: I like Facebook and I think can can be part of a healthy and productive online diet. Facebook has been getting high profile negative press almost daily, for what seem like a solid year. A lot of it is well…