Jahfer

@jahfer
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Principal Developer, working on checkouts @ Shopify
LocationOttawa, Canada
Bloghttps://jahfer.com
Passion Projecthttps://ourpolitics.ca

Last chance to review what the party platforms are offering 🇨🇦🗳️ Check out https://ourpolitics.ca before you head to the polls tomorrow!

If you already voted, take note of what promises you want to hold politicians to post-election 👀 #cdnpoli #elxn2025 #2025election #canada

Our Politics — Notre politique

Elections matter, but understanding headlines and press releases takes a lot of time. Our Politics aims to offer easy-to-read summaries of party platforms.

Did a little write up on integrating AI into ourpolitics.ca for the 🇨🇦 election this year. Being able to shift my focus from data gathering to data validation has been a huge unlock.

https://jahfer.com/posts/ourpolitics-ai/

Building an AI pipeline to track Canadian election platforms | Our Politics | Jahfer's Blog

Musings on software development that you didn't ask for.

🇨🇦 Want to know what the different parties are promising in this election? I’ve updated https://ourpolitics.ca with comprehensive details about all of their proposed plans.

Have a look and share if you find it useful!

Our Politics — Notre politique

Elections matter, but understanding headlines and press releases takes a lot of time. Our Politics aims to offer easy-to-read summaries of party platforms.

If you use database at all. Watch this. https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen/113047189407644999
Jepsen (@[email protected])

Jepsen 16: I Can't Believe It's Not ACID, delivered at Systems Distributed 2024. RavenDB, MariaDB/MySQL, RedPanda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecZp6cWhDjg#t=45s

Jepsen

When I say that COVID is on a technical level fairly easily solvable, we just choose not to - it's things like these that I'm thinking of:

https://www.mpg.de/16075350/1127-chem-ventilation-made-easy-152990

> A simple ventilation system removes 90 percent of respiratory aerosols which potentially include coronavirus particles, from indoor air […] The design is very simple and was implemented using DIY store materials worth about € 200.

Ventilation made easy

A simple ventilation system removes 90% of respiratory aerosols which potentially include coronavirus particles, from indoor air.

People who worked from home were better rested, didn't have to endure the stress of dysfunctional transit (not mentioned), had more time for family and friends, for housework, even for eating meals (which may mean they ate healthier) and also spent less time trying to make themselves presentable for work. But sadly, they weren't spending money downtown. /s
https://archive.is/IPnXZ

The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240425/p20#a240425p20

F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules

Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.

The New York Times
Great article about how "Ruby might be faster than you think" by @jhawthorn https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2024/ruby-might-be-faster-than-you-think/
Ruby might be faster than you think - John Hawthorn

I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file. It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the README example looked off to me. require 'crystalruby' require 'benchmark' module Fibonnaci crystalize [n:

President Joe Biden’s Threads account @potus is federating on the Fediverse!

And I’m following him from atomicpoet.org!

Wow! This is as monumental as Barack Obama joining Twitter! A truly historic day for the #Fediverse!

@fediversenews