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Gavin Anderegg
@gavin.anderegg.ca
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Freelance developer, data nerd, Apple fan, gaming geek, CMS critic, F1 enjoyer. Halifax, Nova Scotia. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

Website: https://anderegg.ca
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stinkyox.bsky.social
I like to keep a picture of chips open on my desktop to remind me of chips.
A picture of chips on my desktop.
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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foone.bsky.social
for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.

Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!

deathgenerator.com
A screenshot of a twitter post by @foone on October 26th, 2017. She posts "PQ2 death generator is live! make ol' Jim Walls say whatever you want." with a link to the site, and an included image: It's the death dialogbox from the Sierra adventure game Police Quest 2. It shows Jim Walls, a retired police officer, as a portrait on the left. The titlebar says "Jim shakes his head and says..." and there's "Restore", "Restart", "Quit" buttons. The text has been edited to read: "YOU CAN MAKE ME SAY THINGS ANYTHING YOU WANT i miss sierra games :("
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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benjedwards.com
My kids carved pumpkins
and put them on the porch. 24 hours later I get this text while I am out

look at the deer’s face 😂 like “uh oh I’ve been caught”
Apple messages screenshot showing a deer seen through a front door window with a piece of pumpkin in its mouth. Text says “a deer ate my pumpkin”
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
Cartoon: simple black and white line drawing. A couple in a living room. The man is sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper, head turned slightly towards his wife who is standing at the window, tugging at the curtain and saying "I see the Renegade Master's back once again with the ill behaviour".
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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byelacey.bsky.social
🍂
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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suzannerent.bsky.social
#Autumn views and big splashes at the Herring Cove Park Reserve. #NovaScotia #ocean
A small shed with grey shingles sits along the rocky shoreline of a lake along a rural road. The hill above the shed is covered in trees with a mix of dark evergreens and other trees in vibrant reds, orange, and gold. Waves crash up on the rocky shoreline along a rural road. In the background to the left is a forested area of evergreens and autumn trees in red, orange, and gold. The sky is dark with fluffy clouds but rays of sun shine on the dry beige rocks while blue and white waves crash onto the black rocks at the sea's edge.
October 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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@bskycheck.com Not sure if this is intentional, but it looks like someone set a future time for their account creation and it's messing things up.
A screenshot of the "New or updated Bluesky users" feed on bskycheck.com with the user "@deadboizxc.bluesky.deadboizxc.org" have a future time for their sign-up, keeping them at the top of the list.
October 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Like the autumn leaves
Microsoft icons transform
Their colours vibrant
The new OneDrive icon for macOS. It's like a three-layer blue cloud one a white background. The lightest layer of blue is in front, with the darkest layer in the back. There some drop-shadow between the layers, but none between the icon and the white background. The new Teams icon for macOS. Imagine a piece of paper that's three times longer than it is wide. Bow that very loosely in half, such that the tops mostly line up, but there's about a third a length of slack between them. Above each end, there's a shaded purple circle. The whole thing looks like two "people icons" facing each other, but they're weirdly conjoined. In front of the closes person icon is a squirqle with a "T" in it.
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The Canon Cat
https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/13/the-canon-cat
The Canon Cat
Here’s another Wikipedia rabbit hole post. This time about the Canon Cat: a weird little computer from the late 1980s.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The Canon Cat
https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/13/the-canon-cat
The Canon Cat
Here’s another Wikipedia rabbit hole post. This time about the Canon Cat: a weird little computer from the late 1980s.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability
https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/12/nielsen-norman-group-on-ios-26-usability
Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The piece on Liquid Glass is scathing, and excellently summarizes many of my frustrations.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
another day
6 panel comic P1: Cartoon me, sat at a table, drawing a comic on a sheet of paper. My character is thinking to himself "another day, another comic... Do I do this because I actually enjoy it? Or, do I do this because it is a means for me to avoid having to think about the late-stage capitalist hell we are all drowning in? P2: a beat, as cartoon me lifts the page to see what he's drawn P3: first person POV of the comic. It's titled "Freddy Fart Face." P4: close up of cartoon me as he stares silently at the page, with an uncertain look on his face P5: same POV, except now cartoon me has a big smile on his face P6: POV pans back to reveal the room cartoon me is sat in, which is shrouded in darkness. Out the window, a city is but jng in the distance, while the door to the room is barred shit with a plank of wood wedged under the doorknob. Cartoon me remains blissfully oblivious, as he stares smiling at his creation.
May 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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@shiftf1podcast.bsky.social I'm interested in the jet-dryer link from Ryan of Halifax, NS (where I am!) but it doesn't seem to be in the current show notes. Love the show!
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Wikimedia 2024 Picture of the Year finalists

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Wikimedia 2024 Picture of the Year finalists
Wikimedia’s 2024 Picture of the Year finalists have been posted, and voting is now open (if you’re an active Wikimedia contributor). As ever, this is a beautiful collection images and photographs.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
i will die on the hill that this goes beyond a generational divide. the meat of a 23-minute video can be written down and read in a fraction of the time.

if you're trying to make a point to me a send me a link to a yt video, expecting me to devote HALF AN HOUR to it, you are a psychopath.
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Sep 29
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
I'm all for free speech but imo it should be illegal to comment on articles before reading them
September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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@tomwarren.co.uk Hi! I really enjoy your Notepad newsletter, but I always see these weird "ads" in it. Is this a placeholder for a future ad spot? Is it my email client preventing a real ad from being served? It's always the same one, and it links to the Wikipedia page for Limonene. Thanks!
An image found in the middle of the Notepad newsletter by Tom Warren. It looks like an interstitial ad, but clicking it takes you to the Wikipedia page for Limonene. It shows an image of a balloon being popped by a dart on the left. On the right there's text that reads: Limonene, a compound found in orange peels, can pop a balloon based on the "like dissolves like" principle Free Wikipedia content Below the image is the text "Recommended by J"
September 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 17
Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
X post by Milo Yiannopoulos: "28 pilots have been suspended or fired so far after I made their airlines aware of gruesome remarks made about Charlie Kirk’s death. Of the big three, Delta has the biggest problem by far; United the smallest."
September 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Some quick thoughts about yesterday's Apple event. The new AirPods Pro 3 and iPhone 17 Pro were the key standouts to me. I was also annoyed by what I think is a misuse of the "design is how it works" mantra.

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Quick thoughts on Apple’s September 2025 event
Before too much time passes, I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts about the event yesterday.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Our first look at the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max
Our first look at the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max
These Pros look a little Pixel-ish.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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iPhone 17 Pro base model now starts at 256 gigs at $1,599 in Canada. That's the same price for the same storage as last year. Only change is that the 128 gig model is no longer offered. www.iphoneincanada.ca/2024/09/09/i...
Here’s iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro Canadian Pricing | iPhone in Canada
Apple today announced its new iPhone 16 series smartphones at its special event at Apple Park in California. We now have iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max Canadian pricing...
www.iphoneincanada.ca
September 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube ...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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rikergoogling.bsky.social
what the hell is going on
September 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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theverge.com
The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.

Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
September 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I have no idea how an Atlassian-owned browser will work. This feels like an excuse to own something AI-related. I don't really care about The Browser Company's products, but I don't think this is great news for those who do.
September 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM