I am so tired of the current political discourse and its inescapability. I am tired of our two party system that is objectively failing us. I am tired of being told what to think, what to say, what to believe, who to like, who to oppose, what is right, what is wrong, etc. It’s too much. The Republican Party was dismantled with the arrival of Trump and MAGA. Now the Democratic Party, of which I have been a member of my entire voting life, is being dismantled by the far left which consists of s...

Most rare diseases are had to treat because the economies of scale just aren't favourable. However, since they are of genetic origin, it should be possible to leverage the breakthroughs we've made in genetic engineering to find effective solutions. Since India has a number of endogamous communities, the data we can contribute could be extremely valuable.

I was recently on Ben Myers' Toronto Under Construction podcast with Ilana Altman (The Bentway) and Rob Spanier (Spanier Group). It was generally a discussion about what makes for great public spaces, how Toronto is evolving its public realm under infrastructure like the Gardiner Expressway, and what it means to design cities with people at the forefront. If you'd like to have a listen, click here. I hope you enjoy it.

Ethereum is growing. L2s, L3s, app-specific chains, and modular protocols are multiplying rapidly. Recursion comes to mind.

Hi Crowd! Almost 10 years ago I began flirting with the idea of getting a PhD. A friend of mine got one and I thought, “oh that sounds cool.” This is entertaining for many reasons, not the least of which is that I’m a college dropout. This was, in part, some of what I was doing while we lived in Tokyo and the idea went from crazy idea to viable reality smack into invisible wall and eventually thrown to the wayside, which is fine because it was a crazy out of nowhere idea to begin with. I stil...

The most widely used programming language for developing smart contracts on the EVM was introduced in 2015.

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Practical AI workshops for the builder in us all. What will you Build First?

I am very grateful for the washing machine in my apartment. Throughout my life, doing laundry has been one of my least favourite chores, so tossing clothes in a machine and having it do all that work is a great blessing. But, more than being a less tedious way of washing, using a machine is also a way of getting back time for myself. You see, this is something technology tends to do very well. Instead of spending hours washing clothes by hand, I can use a machine and be done in 15 minutes. In...

A few weeks ago I accidentally sparked, via this tweet, an entertaining debate about what it means to be a developer. This led to my post "Do you even develop, bro?", where I explained my view on when it might be appropriate to call yourself a "developer." (Spoiler: It's a broad term.) But my friend Brendan Whitsitt of Imprint Development has just published an even better post on the topic. It's called "Developer vs. Dirt-Flipper" and you should give it a read. In it, he says this:So if we tr...