Mike Lynch

Old Rodney Mullen tapes are actually insane

Keanu Reeves in a Maple Leafs jersey in Toronto in the 1980s. Reeves grew up playing hockey in Toronto.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

This is what our planet looks like from a distance of 1.5 billion kilometers. The Cassini spacecraft captured Earth as a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.

@F0ODHub ICE cold water and black coffee

What drink goes best with this?

@ScreenBrief Tim and Greg Hildebrandt!

@zendadddy Mid 2000's side quests are what put agencies on the map. That's why the real ones had "Labs" departments.

designers used to get shunned for personal projects, side-quests etc. give yourself 100% to the company and don't think outside. now with AI, those who kept making things on the side (the curious ones, tool nerds, obsessive ones) are about to THRIVE. everything’s open now. it's all possible, what are you going to build?

🚨: After travelling for almost 5 decades, and more than 15 billions miles, Voyager 1 is about to make history. It will soon reach one full light-day away from Earth!

Metal Gear Solid (1998)

Pretty remarkable that one guy can wreck the knees of the captains of both the Canadian and US Olympic teams in the span of a single month

Learned about something called a "glimmer" recently. It's the opposite of a trigger. A tiny moment that makes you feel good. Coffee hitting right. Sun on your face. Your dog losing its mind when you walk in the door. Most of us are trained to scan for threats all day. Flip that. Start scanning for glimmers. Same exact life starts feeling completely different.

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (1992)

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto.

Scott Laughton's first 40 games with Maple Leafs (including playoffs): 2 goals Scott Laughton's first 2 games with Kings: 2 goals

Dump and chase... Randy Carlyle and now Craig Berube.... it didn't work then and it won't work now. Toronto is not that team. And never will be.

The Ontario Science Centre was intentionally designed to provide families and school groups with a series of experiences. Arrival, cross the bridge, through the Great Hall, down the escalators, terrace, down again, galleries… And it started with gathering your group right here.

Insane coordination

What single scene happened in a TV show that made you stop watching it completely?

@AlexNg91 I'm not giving up on him. He just won a gold medal and his teammates adored him. I think he has it. It's a team effort. It almost sounds silly but there's more to captaincy than scoring goals.

@Michaelynch would be nice if he showed any sort of accountability instead of deflecting to the team. 1 goal in his last 11, invisible and sloppy the whole game. nothing was going for him, he gave up.

Matthews might have been a great captain in the olympics. But he’s a horrible captain for the Leafs. Pathetic effort from the whole team, but it starts with the captain.