Archives

2025

Thu 18 September 2025: One Million Installs!
Tue 26 August 2025: Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
Sun 13 July 2025: Finding a Job: Build Something Real

2024

Mon 30 December 2024: ChessCraft in 2024
Mon 11 November 2024: The Future of Political Conventions
Mon 11 November 2024: L’avenir des congrès politiques
Wed 09 October 2024: Save the Human Internet
Sun 22 September 2024: Empowering public servant managers with displacements
Fri 02 August 2024: My three months vacation this summer
Wed 31 July 2024: Release 1.16: Garbs! Custom piece images.
Wed 01 May 2024: A Proposed Point System for Government WFH
Fri 16 February 2024: MA in Education Technology at Concordia
Mon 01 January 2024: ChessCraft in 2023

2023

Mon 23 October 2023: New Role at ECCC
Fri 07 July 2023: Better Hiring in Government
Sat 27 May 2023: Goodbye MongoDB
Thu 09 March 2023: Release 1.15: Folders! And eight new piece rules
Sat 28 January 2023: Release 1.14: Popular designs, acrobats, and online backups

2022

Sat 31 December 2022: ChessCraft in 2022
Fri 09 December 2022: ECCC and ChatGPT
Tue 22 November 2022: My First Union Event
Thu 13 October 2022: Stable Diffusion? Maybe You Just Like Art
Sat 24 September 2022: Green Party of Canada Membership Test
Wed 29 June 2022: Public and Private Sector IT
Sat 05 March 2022: Training Video Philosophy

2021

Sun 24 October 2021: Patronware
Thu 01 July 2021: Release 1.13: Eight More Rules and Seven More Languages!
Sat 17 April 2021: Oh, Stallman
Tue 09 February 2021: Release 1.12: Online Multiplayer

2020

Tue 01 December 2020: Bazaar
Wed 11 November 2020: Release 1.11: Relics, Music, AI vs AI, Multithreading
Fri 04 September 2020: Ode to the Public Servant
Sat 22 August 2020: Release 1.10: Restrictors and Gems
Wed 15 July 2020: Release 1.9: Convenient Buttons and Bugfixes
Mon 08 June 2020: Release 1.8: Random Board Generator
Sat 28 March 2020: Release 1.7: Iron Pieces and Language Select
Tue 24 March 2020: The AI of ChessCraft
Sat 29 February 2020: Release 1.6: Filter, Sort, and Optimizations
Sat 15 February 2020: Release 1.5: Achievements
Thu 30 January 2020: Release 1.4: Share Your Designs!

2019

Fri 20 September 2019: Release 1.3: Premoves, Visual Themes, Eleven Languages
Fri 19 July 2019: Release 1.2: Human versus Human, Archers, Thumbnails
Mon 20 May 2019: Release 1.1: First Update
Sat 18 May 2019: Centennial? Centeninstallial?
Fri 29 March 2019: ChessCraft in Universities?
Sun 24 February 2019: Release 1.0: First Public Release

2017

Sat 01 July 2017: Your Perfect Code Might Be Terrible for Teaching
Tue 21 February 2017: Movie Review: Hidden Figures

2016

Thu 10 November 2016: Both Candidates Were Terrible: Trump Win
Thu 21 July 2016: Enjoy the Innocence of Pokemon Go While It Lasts
Mon 13 June 2016: You Can Lose Your Job to Automation Even If Your Job Cannot Be Automated
Mon 18 April 2016: If You Nitpick Trudeau's Quantum Computing Spiel, You're Missing the Point
Mon 28 March 2016: Sorry! I'd Like to Help You but I Can't
Thu 24 March 2016: Learning to Code by Writing, not Copying
Mon 22 February 2016: Book Review: The Open Organization

2015

Sat 29 August 2015: Outpost Bureaucracy: The Power of One is Strong
Wed 26 August 2015: Guess Who's Still Teaching at McGill?
Sat 08 August 2015: Don't Ban Killer Robot Research. Just Ban Killer Robots.
Tue 24 March 2015: These McGill Survey Results Will Make You Giggle
Tue 24 March 2015: Mike Shortt Reports: Methodology
Tue 17 March 2015: The Dean of Education's Response to my Feedback and Blog
Sat 07 March 2015: Why Do For-Profit Companies Give Software to Schools?
Wed 25 February 2015: Nomination for Worst Professor
Thu 19 February 2015: Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average
Tue 10 February 2015: Proof that McGill Administrators Ignore Feedback
Wed 04 February 2015: McGill's Education Technology Textbook is Embarrassing
Wed 04 February 2015: Professor Response: McGill's Education Technology Textbook is Embarrassing
Tue 27 January 2015: Things McGill Education Students Don't Know
Thu 22 January 2015: The Silly QEP