Steve Roy @steveroy@mastodon.social

I’m not proud of it but today I scheduled my first time donating blood. No excuse and I’m looking forward to it. I created an account with Canadian Blood Services and installed their app hoping this will remind me to do it regularly.

What spurred me to finally do it is the frequent radio ads they run. There is currently a real urgency for blood across Canada. Combined with the alarming hospital staff shortages, and how helpless I feel, donating blood really seems like the very least I can do.

I’ve been working on installing floating shelves from Urbandi in my dining room. A quick thing turned into a project after I discovered that the wall is rounded, which you can see on the left. Had to cut the drywall, shim the support bracket, and caulk the whole thing.

Happy it’s done and I highly recommend Urbandi.com if you’re looking for strong shelves. ✔️

I educated my physical therapist today on the more ethical options available for social media platforms. One person at a time.

I’m going to make a little shameless plug. If you like pretty pictures of nature trails, I regularly post photos on my PixelFed account. You can follow from here using @steveroy@pixelfed.social. Just put up a fresh batch.

Cars assume they own the road here. My city prides itself on being bike friendly but really, only if the bar is very very low. I watch the #NotJustBikes channel on YouTube regularly to restore my sanity.

"There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough or clothing bright enough to make up for our poor infrastructure - and we all know it."

👏

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cyclist-death-reactions-1.6510992

I’m thinking that potato chips crumbs are produced at the bottom of the bag by the weight of chips at the top of the bag pressing down. Is that a fair assumption? Do you think there would be less crumbs if bags were boxed horizontally instead of vertically?

On this Canada Day, I am grateful to live in a country where abortions are considered by law to be an essential part of life. Have a good one everyone. 🇨🇦

I’m not sure but I have a feeling that maybe Firefox would like me to enable Pocket. Could be wrong.

If you’re in Canada, one thing you can do today is sign a petition to support the irrevocable continuation of the right to abortions in Canada. #roevwade

I just signed this one.

https://www.change.org/p/government-must-protect-and-expand-access-to-abortion-in-canada-le-gouvernement-doit-non-seulement-protéger-le-droit-à-l-avortement-au-canada-mais-il-doit-aussi-en-améliorer-l-accès

Ridiculous, entitled news title of the day:

“'It's just about survival at this point': High gas prices affecting Canadians' summer travel plans”

I don’t think this person knows what survival means.

I had to request an M1 at work because Xcode was threatening liftoff every time I built our app on Intel. That is not progress. We get all this power, and instead our software becomes ever more bloated, because look all the CPU we can use now! When Java IDEs launch and build faster than Xcode, you know we missed a turn somewhere.

What a waste.

Here's a take that is not going to be popular in my circles: I don't understand computing anymore. A windowing system in 2022 that cannot run on anything less powerful than an M1 is over-engineered, pure and simple. Come on, it's overlapping windows. We're not sending rockets to Mars here.

@tootapp Is Toot supposed to work with PixelFed? I’m getting a JSON parsing error with pixelfed.social.