Everything is getting worse. Went to renew my passport.

The Government of Canada website only allows X number of renewal applications per day on their Salesforce.com Passport Renewal App. 😭 I am in awe of the technical ineptitude.

My PC circa 2003. PC case windows + lights were a novelty that not many cases had at the time. That is a custom cut window (and outstanding teenager spray paint job).

I still think Rachel Leigh Cook is a babe (from Josie and the Pussycats), and I wish I remembered what the schematic was on the wall behind it too.

Happy New Year 2026!

Please enjoy this state of the art AI generated video.

Electricity prices jumped about 30% for everyone in Ontario on the 1st. That news outlets across Ontario aren't melting down about this is a travesty and marked failure of our news media.

Monitoring data from my own Home Assistant instance using the custom component: https://github.com/jrfernandes/ontario_energy_board

Sunday morning meditations.

I'm not a Christian (I was raised going to church though). I don't prescribe to any given religion, but I do try to hold the value around "The Golden Rule". If Jesus Christ was a real person, it wouldn't have been the miracles that impressed me, it would his strict adherence to the "the golden rule" with absolutely no exceptions.

It's the "no exceptions" that I think so many of us have a problem with. It's the "no exceptions" that made Jesus who he was in history.

Couldn't agree more. The spirit in which this was written speaks directly to the cynicism I have personally developed about technology innovation over the years.

True innovation has absolutely nothing to do with impressing VCs/investors.

(Blog source: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/09/13/get-out-of-technology.html )

Want to make an LLM panic? Show it failing hardware logs and be nonchalant about it.

It gets so much darker depending on how much you anthropomorphize the LLM. 😅

My internet is pretty fast.

Router overhead prevent me from getting that last bit (it should be 8Gbps up and down, but I GUESS I can settle for 8Gbps down and 5Gbps up).