myles' garden

Spent the evening in High Park at 1RG’s Art in the Park event. Drew some trees. A squirrel came by to critique.

I redesigned my Neocities site to lean harder into a GeoCities look. While I was in there, I wanted a deploy process simple enough to run from my iPad. Neocities is dead-simple hosting for static sites. Bret Comnes already built a GitHub Action for deploying to it, so the hard part was done. I just wanted a clean test run before pointing it at the live site. ci.yml runs Prettier over the code and builds the site. It fires on any push to main, any pull request, or a manual trigger. name: CI # I…

Summer in Toronto.

Saw this raccoon outside the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Love this poem I found: They/Them (dedicated to Nex Benedict) If God created night & day & dawn, of course & dusk & the tangerine rosepink sunset & the deep amethyst twilight & the infact bright of morning the to perceive the world in binary is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

Love this Basquiatist graffiti.

Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.

Photo dump from a weekend at the farm.

I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.

I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. It’s called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).

Doug MacDowell writes about drawing data visualisations completely by hand. “What are you working on these days?” “Data visualizations.” I told him. “Ah, you using algorithms, machine learning, cloud computing, things like that?” “No.” I said. “I’m just trying to draw a line graph.” My neighbor thought I was getting into some complex sh**. But what’s been more interesting to me lately than using […] is learning to draw data by hand. 50 Hours to Draw Some Lines is about spending more than a week…

Poster for Veracuda Sculptures.

I built a parody of Tumblr called Windfall.

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man, where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for MOOP (Matter Out of Place). This forensic-style sweep takes weeks; everything they find is removed and logged. At the end, they’re left with a remarkable accounting of what 70,000 people left behind: The MOOP Map. And I’m obsessed. The Moop Map is a pretty remarkable view of what is left behind:

Spotted on Ossington a poster for Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly by Dani Dazo and Nadom Paintsil.

Brought 1RG’s hibiscus outside for summer.

My current jam is Sexy Lemon by Freak Slug.

A Callery Pear in bloom.

Caught them just as they opened. The rain was not invited but showed up anyway.

1,253 new Slack messages is not the Monday I ordered.

My current jam is drop dead by Olivia Rodrigo.

I went to see Mother Mary last night at the Revue Cinema, I thought it had some really cool ideas and style, but kind of felt flat on the execution.