the pre-takeoff ad for this air canada flight was about investing in a reit 📉

all right, in vancouver for #atmosphereconf! i have no idea what i'm doing. just went on a run and the salish trail is gorgeous, if anyone wants to run (~3.5mi, any pace >8m/mi) early mornings, lmk!

security was about 70% ice 30% ero

The Purple Bird, by Bonnie "Prince" Billy 12 track album

serenity now, enjoying my topical background music bonnieprincebilly.bandcamp.com/album/the-pu...

so far: two teenage dhs agents, a whole bunch of hsi cops, no ice badges, chaos, roughly 2 hr line

✈️ LGA → YYZ → YVR → #atmosphereconf
(assuming i make all these flights and tsa is operating)

come on, this is not a habit of mine, spare me the wrist-slapping machine for the first infraction

huh?

dax talking about how predictions are done

dax is on the money here, we need to stop predicting stuff in general for a while, it's the laziest content

my association of 🦀 has gone from 'rust' to 'openclaw' in the blink of an eye

when i see an article with an infographic generated by nano banana, i immediate assume that it’s not worth reading. it’s basically pure filler

the sketches continue

listening to npr show about housing crisis, very clear that the listeners calling into the show are the culprits

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

yeah!

the same goes for soldiers taking selfies or having tinder on or find my friends or livestreaming on tiktok.

the only alternative i could name is that every military sends a live feed of all their secret operations locations to every major tech company to filter them out?

'StravaLeaks': France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app As the Charles de Gaulle and its strike group approach the Middle East, Le Monde identified a French sailor using the Strava fitness application in the Mediterranean Sea. This security flaw remains un...

all right i said the same thing like ten years ago but i cannot understand how in any way this is a 'security flaw' on strava's part. part of the 'training to be a secret soldier' involves 'don't share your live location on apps' right? www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

same goes doubly for anyone who advertises for gambling sites. the world should be like 50% more moralizing

tweet about 'ai ugc'

i don't really know of another solution here, what i keep thinking is that we need to bring back shame and someone who uses ai to make a fake advertisement with themselves in it should be a pariah

from a vc point of view, sure but every company is a unique butterfly

'getting acquired by openai or anthropic' is becoming the monogoal of devtools companies maybe

i'd say that bun was never really interested in the business part of business and found a very fortunate opportunity to get a very nice acquisition

effect devlog: prs, duration, datetime, joy and annoyances macwright.com/2026/03/18/e...

oh yeah, wintertc now

alt: chart of workerd, deno, bun, and nodejs, and major products running on each, implementation languages, and compatibility

minor mind-mapping this morning about javascript runtimes

the biggest dynamic imho (from my outside perspective) is that bun/deno/workerd have prioritized nodejs compatibility (for market reasons) instead of a common wintercg platform

the doodling culture has to be one of the biggest draws to working at @val.town

(hiring a product engineer if anyone is looking! val.town/careers)

investor update art

atproto art

it was a busy morning for my micron pens

Investor Update – Feb 2026 Updates and articles from the Val Town team

@val.town public investor update is out blog.val.town/2026-feb

thanks! updated