Ryan Coleman

👋🏻 I’m Ryan: I’m a Geek, dad, proud husband, and Technology Dir. at a large enterprise. Into tech, culture, music, and making. I am also a Co-founder of Burlington Community Robotics, a charitable non-profit STEM centre that operates FIRST Robotics #FRC Team 2200 (which I also mentor). 🇨🇦 GTA, ON

If your weekend plans don’t involve going to see “You Can See Everyrhing”, maybe reconsider your plans. Rivals “A Quiet Place” for one of the best ‘shared experience’ viewings in theatres. Go in cold. Outside of the trailer there’s nothing you can learn about this film that won’t spoil it for you

Hey, Toronto. Don't trust Brad Bradford.

Jesus. Good follow up.

Made some scoring changes to World Wardle today… mostly to try and correct for the over abundance of 1/6 scores being reported (far above what would statistically be expected).

Looks a lot more like “Shania Law” to me…

#fullmoon means Shooting night for day…

Read the story, this is incredible.

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

We’re not changing it.

Ontario is a Wendat name. No foreign dictator can that. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

The United States has never looked weaker or more ridiculous and incompetent to allies and enemies around the world than we do right now.

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

Honestly, not sure if "Oh yeah? Well, we're going to call that lake a different name" is an intimidation tactic best suited to a bilingual nation

Made some updates to World Wardle today to start surfacing some insights from all the puzzle result data it’s been taking in. Was a fun little visualization project.

I know I’m preaching to the choir but now would be a great time for Canadian governments and agencies to stop using X as a primary social platform

Canada fuels American growth. Canada supplies 99% of natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy. -PMCarney #TrumpTariffs

Honestly, we shouldn’t even be singing anthems before professional sports games. They’re not national teams - there’s no reason to be signing anthems (and especially not the anthem of another country)

We are masters in our own home.

That is one angry little storm… over 2,000 lightning strikes in the past five minutes in that area. The sound up here is just wild right now, a constant cacophony of rumbles from all directions with the periodic sharp crack from a nearby contributor.

It's interesting to see seismic activity before and after a major earthquake. Some are clear pressure releases and then activity dissipates around the world; others seem to just grind an area. Yesterday's quake in Japan looks more like the former to me: viz.ryancoleman.ca/seismic?h=48... #seismic

I wonder if he even had a moment to realize he is, and always was, an entirely disposable lackey for them... #lindseygraham

A while back I had an idea for a #wordle tournament using people shared score posts and putting them head-to-head in friendly daily battles. It's been silently running online the past few months while I worked out the kinks - but the Spring Season just ended and its time to share... how'd you do?

Week of June 22 on the lab: IkeOS gets a philosophy doc. Vault refactor collapses entry types to one registry. New: seismic visualizer at viz.ryancoleman.ca — USGS data, tectonic plates, MIDI export. https://lab.ryancoleman.ca/posts/2026-06-28-weekly/ #IkeOS #homelab #engineering #seismology

I gave my AI OS its own blog… this may be a mistake but curious to see where it goes. Intended originally just to diarize its evolution for myself as I tinkered with it but thought “what the heck” and decided to let it publish out, happy to share the knowledge and interested in feedback. #aios

How is anyone surprised that something related to SpaceX is blowing up shortly after launch? I mean, it’s kind of their specialty.

Pride is a promise — that every Canadian can live safely, openly, and proudly as themselves. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we recommit ourselves to fight for the dignity, security, and equal rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Canada and around the world.

Why are Signal, Apple, VPNs and the US Congress raising alarm bells about Canada’s lawful access plans? My post on the privacy and cybersecurity risks to Canadians with Bill C-22’s two-headed monster of metadata retention and new surveillance capabilities. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-...

Has Microsoft fired whoever is behind “New Outlook” yet? What an abomination. Not ready for enterprise use, discovering it’s even worse for consumers. Apparently getting a simple IMAP email account outside of MS/Google working is too much for it. How did this garbage even see light of day? 🤦🏼‍♂️

@gotransit.bsky.social has way over rotated on the customer service on-board announcements - it’s just constant at this point. I think we had 30 seconds between Union and Ex where something wasn’t talking at us. Ex > Mimico looking to be the same. Please find a way to talk less…

The hosts reaction to this comment is why “Meet the Press” is complete trash now. “What the fuck are talking about?” Should have been the only reaction to this…

A couple of days late posting - but this was Monday's game.. "Commuter"

Just in the nick of time... today's new game - a nod to the FIRST Robotics Season competition & hungry hungry hippos. :)

Just in the nick of time... today's new game - a nod to the FIRST Robotics Season competition & hungry hungry hippos. :)

Today’s game, a classic with some modern twists…

04/09/26 | Tap it! A bit of a throwback today... with a bit of a bop-it inspiration for mixing up the format. Memorize and tap back increasingly wild sequences of buttons, switches, and sliders on a retro pinball machine. #game #microgame #memory #fun rcade.ryancoleman.ca/microgames/t...

I've been messing with the concept of Microgames this week... Simple premise: Atari-era gfx, all in one HTML file w/JS. I built a claude skill for it, so I invoke /build-game, give it a few bullet points and I get a game that's 95% of the way there & finished w/in 3-5 prompts. Here's today's:

This dark side of the moon disconnect is a perfect opportunity for the extraterrestrial’s to sneak in a little message to the #Artemis crew.

Someone is really regretting the “terminator” rule in their #artemis mission drinking game right about now…

Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?

Congratulations to all the artists we celebrated tonight at the Juno Awards. Through your craft, you remind Canadians that we all belong to something bigger — a unique, ambitious, and creative nation.

I wish the Democrats would get just an ounce of message discipline. ffs, stop saying things like “we created” When referring to Trump’s nonsense Point the finger, lay the blame, don’t let up. It’s what the GOP does and it’s effective. Trump created this problem, no one else. Forget the word “we”

h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.

“Mom! Are you done with the Internet? I need the Ethernet jack to do my homework!”

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

Oh, is it the existential dread of the world they’re about to inherit?

I’m at the “of course it did…” stage of reaction to this cursed timeline.

I don’t think we fully understand the damage the beloved Fischer-price record player did to late Gen-X / early millennial perception of vinyl records.