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id: ct
title: Canadian Tariffs
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date: 2025-01-21
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<h2>Canadian Tariffs</h2>

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id: conundrum
title: Conundrum
previous: lag
previous: ct
date: 2025-02-08
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<h2>Conundrum</h2>
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Laying there on the bed listening to the music letting my mind wander my thoughts came back to this.
I have been having trouble finding motivation or interest lately.
I dream and fantasize about working for people directly.
Building more skills and really mastering some aspects of software development to try and write software like proper craftsmen build furniture.
Building more skills and really mastering some aspects of software development to try and write software like proper
craftsmen build furniture.
Something solid that lasts, something that people feel good about using.
That means minimal dependencies, simple code, likely single function applications.
It also means that I have to learn and implement a lot of things myself.
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I am not proud of the code that I write there.
I was for the first time with a refactor and simplification that I did on my own time.
It made the code easier to reason about, seperated the application state from UI rendering, simplified testing.
Co workers were very pleased, we all suspect that moving towards this proof of concept in our design will make our lives much easier.
Co workers were very pleased, we all suspect that moving towards this proof of concept in our design will make our
lives much easier.
Management however saw nothing in it.
Whenever any of us take on a project like that, to improve the quality of the code it always has to be on our own time.
So without any space to do good work most of the time it is racing to hit deadlines and not being able to do work that we are proud of.
Whenever any of us take on a project like that, to improve the quality of the code it always has to be on our own
time.
So without any space to do good work most of the time it is racing to hit deadlines and not being able to do work
that we are proud of.
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The less I code on my own time the more that lack of attention to detail at work eats away at me.
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This is a circuitous way of coming back around to the fact that we are kept busy.
Needlessly so.
Taking time that could be used improving our lives, learning, growing, living, and just gobbling it up with work to enrich people that we will never meet.
Taking time that could be used improving our lives, learning, growing, living, and just gobbling it up with work to
enrich people that we will never meet.
Not helping society, likely causing damage in all honesty.
Consuming needless resources, crushing small businesses and third party sellers.
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Time for hobbies, friends, any time of just doing nothing, sleep.
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I can't stand capitalism and its endless gluttony for more.
I am disgusted to be a part of this system, but don't have the energy required or the time to walk away at the moment in any sort of sustainable fashion.
I can't stand this endless focus on growth and gluttony for more.
I am disgusted to be a part of this system, but don't have the energy required or the time to walk away at the
moment in any sort of sustainable fashion.
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id: lag
title: Let America Go
previous: ct
next: conundrum
date: 2025-01-22
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<h2>Let America Go</h2>
<p>
With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass.
In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections.
He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to.
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America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries.
Even if you can avoid thinking about the country itself for a day, so much of what we do has to pass through their economy.
Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard.
The US is the largest buyer of so much of what other countries export.
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So we have no choice but to pay attention, and have a lot of our lives and economies dictated by what is going on in the US.
I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point.
Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability.
Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights.
So it will likely only get worse.
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Whether tariffs are enforced or not the rest of the world needs to let America go as the center of every transaction, policy, or infrastructure.
Build stronger ties between the rest of us.
Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US.
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They are not going to make anything better.
More CO2 will get put into the atmosphere, the tech companies will make their experiences worse, I suspect the beautiful natural world in the US is done for.
So we all need to be the bigger people in the room.
Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies.
Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time.
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Open our doors and arms to the wonderful people of the US that are persecuted, or just don't agree with the government and want to leave.
Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them.
In some ways this seems like a tantrum, and sometimes we just need to let it play out and do our best to take care of ourselves and eachother.
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<p>
I don't have suggestions for exactly what to do, but for the last few days (the first of this new presidency) this is what has been on my mind.
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I am pleased with how the game turned out.
I am working on other things at the moment but in the future I would like to do two more things with this game.
I want to implement it online so that I can play with friends over the internet.
I would also like to try and develop an A.I.
agent to play the game.
I had this in mind when I was writing it so made sure that the GUI was disconnected from the actual mechanics behind the game.
This will hopefully make it easier to connect to an agent for training.
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I would like to do the same with more of life eventually.
Work, food, electricity.
Try to make and fix things instead of buying or replacing them.
That thought feels right.
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Last updated: 2025-03-27
Last updated: 2025-04-08
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<h2>Work</h2>
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<h2>Tinkering</h2>
<p>
Shifting my attention back to adding content to my personal website.
I have been having a bit of an ongoing moral crisis with the state of the tech industry at the moment.
First I want to get my <a href="/technology">thoughts</a> clarified and down in writing.
Then I want to see what I can do about it and how I can contribute to a user centric web.
Have been working mostly on the website for our wedding.
It has been a lot of fun, added magic links, more interactiviy both from the guest and admin side.
Menu selections have been the most recent thing as well as linking the admin page to Mailgun so that we can send out customized emails to groups of guests.
For now that is private as it contains personal information.
I am starting to think that it would be fun to rewrite and generalize more to an event planning and coordination tool.
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<p>
Have been spending most of my tinkering time on a private project.
Have learned a lot, still web development, using HTMX for speed.
There is a lot that I would do differently, and building and using it now has tought me a lot.
It is both a wonderful and terrible feeling looking back on past work and thinking that "I would do this completely differently".
It reminds me that I have learned a lot, but don't have the time currently to fully rewrite/redesign it.
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Awstin

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<b>Phone:</b> Samsung Galaxy A20, got it used. Gets the job done.
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<b>Keyboard:</b> Built a <a href="https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep">Ferriss Sweep</a>, looking at building another so that I can keep one at work and one at home. Has made such a difference to my comfort when typing. Kalih Choc blue switches.
<b>Keyboard:</b> Built a <a href="https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep">Ferriss Sweep</a> with a 3d printed tenting system.
Have one for home and one for work, and they have made such a difference in the comfort of typing for long periods of time.
</li>
<li>
<b>Mouse:</b> SteelSeries something, currently using a wired mouse, have a logitech MxMaster and logitech MxAnywhere but the logitech univesal receiver dongle does not work through the KVM so don't use them at home. On my list to see if I can figure that out but not a high priority as I don't use my mouse all that much.
<b>Mouse:</b> Logitech MxMaster at home, MxAnywhere at work
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<b><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/">Raspberry Pis</a>:</b> I have 2 raspberry pis in use at the moment and 1 more that I have yet to decide what to do with.
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<b>General gadgets:</b>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B081251PBW">KVM</a> to switch between desktop and work computer when I am working from home
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<li>
<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B08XWK4HNT">5 port 2.5Gb switch</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00A128S24">5 port 1Gb switch</a> so that all of my devices that can be hard wired are. The 2.5Gb switch is to have that bandwidth between my desktop and NAS for fast file transfer.
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<b>Synchronization:</b> <a href="https://syncthing.net/">SyncThing</a> hosted on my NAS to keep files synced on my laptop, desktop, and phone. Lets my laptop and desktop function as essentially one computer
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<b>Browser:</b> <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> browser with <a href="https://ublockorigin.com/">Ublock Origin</a>, <a href="https://privacybadger.org/">Privacy Badger</a>, and <a href="https://lydell.github.io/LinkHints/">Link hints</a>, plugins
<b>Browser:</b> <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> browser with <a href="https://ublockorigin.com/">Ublock Origin</a>, <a href="https://privacybadger.org/">Privacy Badger</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl">Tridactly</a> plugins
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<b>Operating Systems:</b>
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<b>Terminal Multiplexer:</b> <a href="https://zellij.dev/">Zellij</a>
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<b>Programming Languages:</b> <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a>
<b>Programming Languages:</b> <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a>, <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css/#css">CSS</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript">Javascript</a>
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<b>Memory:</b> <a href="https://apps.ankiweb.net/">Anki</a> flashcard app
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<b>Email:</b> <a href="https://www.fastmail.com/">FastMail</>
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<b>Search:</b> <a href="https://kagi.com/">Kagi</a> payed alternative to Google. So much different, any time that I use Google on another device I am reminded how bad the search has gotten
<b>Search:</b> <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=&t=ffab">DuckDuckGo</a>
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<b>Language Learning:</b> <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/learn">Duolingo</a>