Reboot was my gateway to cultivating a love of Europe, an easy facility with Europe, and a network of European friends.

I followed up by asking ChatGPT to give me a robots.txt file that includes all of the bots, and I’ve added that to this site’s robots.txt (leaving out some friendly user-agents like NetNewsWire).

The magazine section at our local Indigo has been condensed over recent months: a substantial section magazine racks have ...

The migration has been mostly lovely: the Hetzner Cloud website is both delightfully simple and delightfully capable. Migration will continue for the next week or so; until then I’ll be straddling two ...

The task of capturing this spirit in a logo fell to Toronto Life’s art director, Colleen Nicholson, and Commercial Type’s ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

John Dale was right: once you start baking with sourdough, it’s hard to stop. This morning we celebrated Lisa for Stepmother’s Day with sourdough cinnamon rolls.

One of the items on the wall at the Victoria Schoolhouse that catches my eye, every week as we go there for acting class, is a list of all the teachers who taught at the school, over the 101 years ...

From a list of ten Instructions for Myself by James A. Reeves, No. 10 is: Artificial intelligence cannot make cool shit, but it can help me learn how to make cool shit.

My Auntie Fran was the first person I ever knew who did yoga. She was dogged by back pain and hoped it might help. My scientist father thought yoga was loopy and a “woo-woo” distraction. When Auntie ...