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Jesse Wilson
Jesse Wilson
@swank.ca
Programming, inclusivity, sustainability, & 🦕. he/him. publicobject.com
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This needs to be a Doug Ford scandal
Missed this last week: Brendan Kennedy at the Star reported that iGaming, the government agency responsible for online gambling, secretly shelved a research study intended to track rates of problem gambling in Ontario when those rates were much higher than expected. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
‼️ An OkHttp interceptor to defend against today’s TLS disaster
You should use this today. Or turn your devices completely off. Or both.
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Replying to @sunshowers.io
Ah, looks like this was talked about at blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
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Drone delivers McDonald’s nuggets, alcohol to inmate at Quebec prison - A drone was able to deliver McDonald’s nuggets, fries, dipping sauce, and even some alcohol to an inmate at a correctional facility in Quebec, CTV News has confirmed.
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It's clear top me that @samnabi.bsky.social has been making our community a better place for a long time! If I lived in #Ward10, he'd have my vote. #WRvotes2026 www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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The Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 app is free and let's me access the whole Internet from my phone. play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Atomic Wall Clocks Look at this clock. It's a clock. I bought it once because I needed... a clock. It's $29, which is totally reasonable for... a clock. Then it was Daylight Saving... https://chriscoyier.net/2026/10/12/atomic-wall-clocks/
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One of those posts that starts out feeling like a pedantic nitpick about terms that ends up with me nodding in fervent agreement: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-too...
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We're looking for amazing talks to put into the KotlinConf 2027 agenda, with submissions open until Nov 27! You can find more info, plenty of inspiration, and everything else you need to submit a talk on the Speakers page:
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Been seeing a lot of coroutine cancellation issues and misconceptions in the wild, so I did a little write-up on the most common ones. Check it out 👉 ricardocosteira.dev/posts/2026/c...
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Companion Blocks & Extensions are ready for testing in Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1. I've spent a good chunk of the last months working on this feature, so I'm very excited for the experimental release. blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/...
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"The ultra-wealthy used to build libraries. Now they shred them as they undo the democratic project we’ve been working on in one form or another since antiquity." -David Moscrop www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-case-a...
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latest @matt-levine.bsky.social column mentions opacity in the pokémon card market at his kid’s school. someone should make some kind of exchange web site to rationalize this market, i’m sure nothing bad will happen later
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This winter when it's 8:00am in Kenora, Ontario it’ll be 9:00am to the east *and the west* ?! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
‘the main purpose of unit tests is keeping your code from being violently shat on by others in an environment where everything changes uncontrollably all the time.’ (they also defend against blunders by future-me)
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Which Rude is it? The commerical airport we use here in Bend, Oregon is actually in Redmond, Oregon. Flights from here generally depart very early. It think it's because they need to make it... https://chriscoyier.net/2026/09/16/which-rude-is-it/
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For the non-Android folks, Jake is easily the most respected engineer in our community. He's contributed/maintained open source software for years now. Incredibly knowledgeable and experienced. But even moreso I respect him for using his platform with calm, earnest candor and speaking his truth.
Jake Wharton refuses to code with AI. When he left Cash App, he published nine requirements for his next job. Number one was: No AI. Our full conversation with the legendary Android developer is out now: layoffs, AI, Google and Kotlin in 2026.
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I've said for a while now that we need hardware-rooted photo authenticity. Looks like Apple is going big on this, with an ambitious approach. Details need vetting, but this general direction feels inevitable and necessary. security.apple.com/blog/apple-r...
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Sean Goedecke: “But it turns out that if you build a model that only produces structured output, you get some interesting and desirable properties.”
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Thoughts on automated testing: blog.danlew.net/2026/09/15/m...
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Replying to @mdruker.app
That's right.