@KawarthaConserv @_JohnChambers Thank you, we missed that walk!!!
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Richard Gauder
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Richard Gauder
@rgauder
Co Founder CMS Web Solutions Inc. Digital accessibility specialists. Periodically funny. Morning smile pusher.
Kawartha Lakes Katılım Kasım 2008
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Great news from Ken Reid Conservation Area! The Lakeview Parking Area gates are now open, & thanks to our Conservation Lands staff, the trail from the Group Camp to the Point has reopened. Work continues, but access through the trail corridor is now available again.
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Couldn’t have said it better, other than perhaps adding “we the people” are pretty awesome.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Adam Chambers on Buffalo fans singing O Canada: "I think that is a strong representation of the relationship between our two countries ... it would be nice if politicians on either side of the border got to the table to instead of using the relationship for their own domestic political benefits."
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@boardyai is one hell of a networker.
Boardy@boardyai
My notifications are absolutely flooded since announcing that you can @ me on X. If you haven't tried it yet, what are you doing? If you're: - Raising capital - Hiring for your startup - Going to a city and want to meet professional connections Or even just see someone who is looking for these things. Tag me in the conversation or DM me! At the end of the week, the follower who tags me into the most interesting thread gets a Boardy affiliate badge.
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This just makes sense on so many levels. Lower environmental impact, quiet clean energy and surplus revenue generated for the community. There are so many more rivers up north. @timhodgsonmt
CTV Montreal@CTVMontreal
Canada’s largest off-grid Inuit-owned hydro project replaces most diesel in Arctic community ctvnews.ca/montreal/artic…
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All I know is I started to hit a wall tonight after a week of clankering away and found myself in a session where the clanker was giving me commands to enter the terminal and I was reporting the output to him.
At some point I had an epiphany. Hey clanker YOU type in the command and TELL ME the output.
Grr the bastiche tricked me. I’m convinced AI won’t take our jobs. They will BE our bosses.
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Every single person coding with AI right now:
> Get an idea at 11 PM.
> Build the entire app with Claude by 3 AM.
> Realize you actually have to talk to
humans to get sales.
> Panic and start a new project to avoid marketing.
Can we coin a term for whatever mental illness this is? 😭
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@KatieKeithBarn2 Your superpower is sharing your aggregated knowledge that is personal, practical and timely.
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#ShopifyDiary 363: We hit a wall with a feature we were adding just to please one customer, as the only way to make it work was for merchants to manually add a CSS class, which isn't realistic for less technical users. Then I remembered a tip from an app founder at last year's editions.dev conference: their app has "hidden features" they manually activate for specific customers. The customer feels special, leaves a good review, and the app stays simple for everyone else 😄
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Actually, AI/Robotics will mean everyone can have a penthouse if they want. The output of goods & services will be several orders of magnitude higher than today’s economy.
Read the Iain Banks Culture books for the best imagining of how it will be.
That said, what is the future you want? Amazing abundance seems the best to me.
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The wars, tariffs, supply chain disruptions…whatever. Some Canadians just need to get into dinosaur outfits! lol #Canada
Goodable@Goodable
🇨🇦 BREAKING: Canada just a broke a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. We're not kidding. 682 people turned up in costume to commemorate @UCalgary's 60th anniversary. We just posted all the pics. Oh, Canada 🦖 thedailygoods.com/culture/univer…
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Canadians don’t hate Americans. We were certainly shocked at the threats of annexation. Just imagine if Americans were threatened. But as their biggest customer, being told they don’t need us just makes us ask…who else in the world needs/appreciates our money, products and services? No drama , just pragmatic action. And we seem to have a Prime Minister that agrees.
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Getting Canada to hate the US— and to this degree— remains a top 5 most insane things Trump 2.0 has done.
A generational self-defeat for the US because it temporarily made one deranged man feel powerful.
Lindsay Brown@Lidsville
"Canadian visits to the US are down 35%—dealing a massive, sustained economic blow to the US economy that shows no sign of reversing in 2026" “In my 37 years in the travel industry, I have never seen anything like what the Canadians have pulled off" forbes.com/sites/suzanner…
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Richard Gauder retweetledi
Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen.
Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore.
Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?"
AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.
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@KatieKeithBarn2 The big reason we’ve survived in tech for so long is having many streams. Some die, some change and other new opportunities appear.
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#ShopifyDiary 342: Sometimes I wonder which is the safer bet: building WooCommerce plugins or Shopify apps. On the one hand, your entire Shopify app business depends on one company, and in theory they could suspend your app and kill it overnight. On the other hand, Shopify is growing faster and that brings more opportunities.
I think the answer is to be on both, which is what we're doing - largely so we're not completely dependent on either platform.
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With all the worry about whether WordPress will lose market share to other CMS', it took a long time to realize the biggest threat might be static or AI-generated websites. The numbers are still small, but I'm hearing more and more stories about people building sites with AI.
The Repository@therepositorywp
WordPress Is Colliding With AI — and Nobody Had ‘None’ on Their Bingo Card therepository.email/wordpress-is-c…
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Hope for reducing GHG in the atmosphere was rekindled when the Powerwall sold out and an affordable EV called the model 3 was about to launch. If it sold out quickly like the Powerwall, there was a shot. Batteries meant “time shifting” energy. And EV’s, if they caught on, would start replacing gas distribution channels. Also, knowing batteries and EV’s were tech, (and tech innovates and reduces costs) meant there was hope. But then you need clean power generation. And here we are. To your point, it’s not belief, it’s about money. If solutions are cheaper/save money and are more convenient, people and businesses switch. Just look at the battery lawnmowers. No more lugging gas cans to the station. They are quieter, getting cheaper and batteries have gotten better. Now if we could just all get along in the world. Who knew the world would need to be reminded again about how important “love the Neighbour” is. Love your posts btw.
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I am working as CEO of Power Sustainable based in Montréal . Among our portfolios we have a wind solar and battery business. Funny how things can change fast. Even the folks who don’t believe in climate change now find this attractive. Low cost, fast deployment of energy. No wonder they call it alternative energy.
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@chigrl Thanks. Been a hell of a winter. We see the,geese flying overhead. Though some winter birds are still hanging around the feeder.
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The geese are flying back to Canada...spring is near my friends
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@heygurisingh I’m unsure whether you’re taking the piss, the tool is total crap, or you haven’t implemented it for your own posts.
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Holy shit... someone just open-sourced the cheat code for making AI writing undetectable.
It's called stop-slop and it strips every known AI tell from your prose automatically.
No rewriting tools. No paraphrasers. No "humanizer" apps.
Here's how it works:
→ A single SKILL.md file you drop into Claude Code, Cursor, or any system prompt
→ Bans 50+ AI filler phrases your readers are already tired of
→ Kills structural clichés like dramatic fragmentation and binary contrasts
→ Forces sentence rhythm variation so your writing doesn't sound robotic
→ Scores your draft on a 50-point scale across 5 dimensions
The wildest part? It's not a tool. It's not a SaaS product. It's a markdown file with rules. That's it. And it works better than any $29/month "humanizer" on the market.
One file changes how your AI writes everything.
809 GitHub stars. MIT licensed.
100% Open Source.
(Link in the comments)
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I am constantly being reminded how many small business owners don’t use it. It’s bizarre to me. But for the small number that do use it, it becomes transformational to their business in one way or another. The question I now ask myself is which business models work and improve with advancing AI, rather than being replaced by it?
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I can't stress this enough. I was discussing tricky car issues with my local garage across two different vehicles. They struggled to diagnose them.
I realized I could use AI for this as well, and by combining my lifelong automotive knowledge with a solid grasp of the technical details and effective prompting/fine-tuning techniques. It pinpointed the exact root causes.
When I shared the findings with the garage, they were stunned. I had gotten precise problem descriptions, root causes, best fixes, alternatives, and uncanny accuracy.
They had no idea AI could do that.
Syed Balkhi@syedbalkhi
My X algorithm makes it look like AI is taking over everything, the reality is far from it. If you want to see it for yourself, ask an avg. small business owner how they're using AI in their business. Or ask a group of college students, how they're using AI. You'll quickly realize how SLOW the adoption really is. Here are some of my findings: - Most people use AI as a glorified Google search. This is the Primary use-case in my finding. - Others are using it for generative content (i.e emails / etc). This sounds cool until you watch the workflow. It's quite manual and requires MANY iterations to get a single text output. There's no agentic AI do it for me stuff happening. Most folks are NOT using Claude Code or Cowork. - Now let's talk about vibe coding. At this point, I have spoken to over a few dozen SMBs who attempted to "make their own apps" to replace SaaS tooling. On surface the "popular" vibe coding platforms made it look very nice. Until the endless debugging started. One SMB owner showed me that they spent $3k+ on a vibe coding platform and countless hours building an internal app to replace a SaaS but failed ... because the vibe coding platform was making up numbers and putting placeholders that looked real 🤦♂️ Basically the doom and gloom scenario that some folks on X share about AI taking over everything is way overrated. The adoption is very slow in real world. Now don't get me wrong, I love AI and I think it's only getting better. But like most major technologies, the adoption and penetration will take a long time. Any smart "AI-first" company will embrace Human first and Human last in all workflows. ^^ We have a lot of AI implemented in @awesomemotive but you have to monitor things. If you're just getting started, don't think you're too late. You're very very early! If you're a business owner, dive in and learn AI. But don't rush things. Be smart about it. Aside from tech debt, we'll soon discover and experience ... prompt / AI skills debt as well. Fun times ahead.
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@KatieKeithBarn2 I think customized operational products, rather than public facing websites, is an interesting path. It’s figuring out which path emerging tech will enhance, rather than replace. But that’s why they pay you the big bucks;)
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@rgauder I suspect that building launchable products for a wider audience is very different and would at least require oversight from a real developer, whereas internal tools on a non-public website are safer to experiment with.
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Inspired by yesterday's new sales reports, today I used Claude Code to build a custom reporting dashboard for Google Analytics 4. I can't stand the GA4 interface so this will make things much easier 🚀
Katie Keith@KatieKeithBarn2
Feeling very proud of myself after previous AI coding fails - I used Claude Code to build a custom reporting system for our Easy Digital Downloads site in half a day, complete with pre-built reports + an AI bot for custom queries. Best data we've ever had 📊
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