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

Denise Balkissoon@balkissoon.bsky.social

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?...

I’ve updated the Gist + blog post to use a HostnameVerifier instead of an Interceptor. The Interceptor is insufficient to mitigate this attack. Ooof!

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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.

bit.lyDrone delivers McDonald’s nuggets, alcohol to inmate at Quebec prisonA 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.

I don’t pay for a VPN. I trust HTTPS and don’t have to change my geo to watch sports or out of market shows. I’m traveling (Maldives!) and either the country or the resort has a pretty severe Internet filter...

(I am not paying for mobile data in this country ’cause my carrier doesn't offer roaming to Maldives!)

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I’m in the mountains of Sri Lanka and staying at a place with no cell coverage. No problem, there's fast wifi here. All my apps: let's do an SMS sign-in challenge for funsies?

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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

I’m traveling with the family (5 people) and we have lots of devices. I bought a UniFi Travel Router and it has been excellent. We arrive at a hotel and I scramble to plug it in. I connect the router to the hotel wifi. In 30 seconds our home SSID is available and everyone’s devices are online.

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The app is only okay. It takes a few seconds to sign on to a new network and things look broken while it connects. Hotel wifi is tricky. My phone won’t connect to a router that can't reach the web, and the UniFi router can’t reach the web until I do hotel sign-on. I click ‘connect anyway’.

My favorite feature of this thing is getting home wifi everywhere. The kid’s iPads and our Kindle just connect. I also like not worrying about device limits. I don’t use UniFi at home so I can’t talk about the magic network bridging it does.

I’m traveling with the family (5 people) and we have lots of devices. I bought a UniFi Travel Router and it has been excellent. We arrive at a hotel and I scramble to plug it in. I connect the router to the hotel wifi. In 30 seconds our home SSID is available and everyone’s devices are online.

I gotta be careful about where I put it. Ideally it's got line of sight to the hotel’s WiFi base station and also our entire hotel room / AirBnB / cave.

It needs power. It looks smartphone-sized and I assumed it had a battery. It does not. When unplugged, it's not long until I hear ‘The wifi is broken!’ It needs an AC adapter. We brought fancy travel adapters with USB-C ports. This thing constantly uses one. It gets hot. I hope we don’t melt it.

I am travelling with Chipolo Cards to track some bags. They are credit card sized tracking beacons that recharge via Qi wireless charging. Neat, right?

One of ’em alerted that its battery is low, and I don't have a Qi charger with me... Or do I? My phone can Qi-charge another phone using a feature called ‘Wireless PowerShare’. I tried it on the Chipolo and it worked!

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Fuck. You. Instagram/Meta. Niki and I hand-drew over REAL pictures. I spent HOURS working on graphics in After Effects doing mattes, pixel pushing, and adjusting music MYSELF. This wasn't even fucking enhanced. Apparently, the only mistake I made was using your platform to publish it. #FuckAI

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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.

JetBrains@jetbrains.com

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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This reads like a Michael Crichton novel. ‘Four years before impact’

Lorin Hochstein@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com

Back in July, the Australian telecom Telestra experienced a significant outage on their mobile network. I blogged about the failure mode here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/09/12/t...