Category: Life

I’ve never discussed Trump on this blog. My content has always been an exercise in synthesizing my own thoughts, or sharing what might be a novel way to look at things, or documenting events in a way that might not be captured elsewhere. I’ve also had a personal rule that any content eliciting negative emotions had to be actionable in some way. None of these criteria were met.

I’ve changed my mind. Trump is unique among his contemporaries; a demagogue whose unbridled narcissism has created a cult of personality and killed hundreds of thousands. Half of Americans have bought into his vision and a good number of Canadians too. His supporters in Canada can teach us something: that a significant percentage of people don’t find incontrovertible evidence relevant.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on the 11th of March 2020. This precipitated an unprecedented closure of the economy and public life around the world.

Perhaps most notably is how the city has been shut down.

After two months of work, I’ve released version 1.0 of Snowflake, a programming language and interpreter I created. You can download the source code on GitHub.

This language was designed for a rudimentary calculator-sized pocket computer I’ve been working on with my partner. If you’re wondering whether to use this for your own microcontroller project, I’d say no, and to use something like MicroPython. Mine is a toy language I made purely for fun.

This weekend I got my first tattoo: a stick and poke with Jay and Joy’s names. They are two very special people in my life; who are bffs / ex’s / chosen family all wrapped into one.

The tattoo was done by my friend Olivier, who did it all at my place.