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✌️Hey I’m Myles! I’m a software engineer living in Toronto 🇨🇦. In my free time I like to 👷🏼build things, 📷 take pictures, 🏚️ go urban exploring, and 🎵 make truly terrible music.

Purple flowers.

The LLM that cost billions of dollars and the energy output of a midsize country to train isn’t that great, so they gave it a cute and flirty voice. Most Silicon Valley thing ever.

First signs of spring in Bellwoods.

A snowy spring day in Bellwoods.

Last night I made way to many stickers with my friend’s thermal printer.

Mommy’s Little Monster from Mom’s Basement in Toronto.

The only thing left standing was the elevator.

I only want to be in conversations that support my business goals.

Toronto Landmark

Last day vibes.

Just released a new version v0.2.1 of mastodon-to-sqlite!

https://github.com/myles/mastodon-to-sqlite

🎉 Happy random tests that assume February is 28 days to all that celebrate!

Mountains at the bottom of Lake Louise

First PyDataTO meetup of the year.

https://pydatato.ca

Made a small Django function to back-port update_or_create from Django 5.0, specifically adding create_defaults to the create operations.

https://gist.github.com/myles/a6905f94e4e9955f02fea2554db982a7

https://gist.github.com/myles/a6905f94e4e9955f02fea2554db982a7

Don Valley is always pretty in the late summer/early autumn.

My favourite comic book series, Fables, has been added to the public domain by Bill Willingham, its author.

https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

Polaroid’s new instant camera, the I-2, looks incredible. I hope this resurgence of instant cameras continues. Jeremy Gray’s review for PetaPixel.

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/07/polaroids-new-i-2-is-a-600-instant-camera-packed-with-features/