iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 21/09/2026

I knew I would have to pay for my crimes against the chickens.

Link swarmed by chickens in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/07/2026

Today I tore down a theatre set, so I can build another one for free

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 16/07/2026

Can barely see Detroit across the river.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/05/2026

If only there were some channels to tune into.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 10/05/2026

Obligatory "enjoying Australia selfie"

Me eating an ice cream cone, upside down for the gag.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 12/04/2026

Couldn't find a double shot basket for my new espresso machine, but I found one the same diameter on ebay, just different rim, so a bit of time on the bench grinder, and a bit of 14awg copper wire to wedge it into place, and I can have a reasonable amount of coffee in my shots now.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 11/04/2026

Nobody wants to work anymore.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 11/04/2026

It's amazing what humans are capable of when we're not spending all of our efforts on war crimes.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/02/2026

A lap cat with a paw over her eyes is the most adorable, but I've got a train to catch

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 19/02/2026

I see you have a cable pouch on this cluttered workbench. That looks like a cozy spot to sit.

cat sitting in a pile of wires and components.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 10/02/2026

When I actually have to compile something on the pi

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 02/02/2026

Just going to sit right here

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 02/02/2026

The middle one is new - still finding the right ones.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 11/01/2026

I've been hanging out at DeltaHacks at McMaster University. So much energy, creativity, and passion happening at this hackathon! I've already volunteered to be sent to any other hackathons that we sponsor.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 10/01/2026

At McMaster University this weekend for DeltaHacks 12

Lecture hall with Delta hacks 12 slides on display

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 10/01/2026

At McMaster University this weekend for DeltaHacks 12

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 31/12/2025

Penelope is helping put the groceries away

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 23/12/2025

Explaining the concepts of rewinding, side A and side B, and that a tape starts playing from where you stopped it. The youngest asked for a Walkman for Christmas

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 09/12/2025

Ever get the feeling that the neighbors are watching through the window?

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 30/11/2025

Shaking it up today. Aeropress instead of Clever. I'm unpredictable like that

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 27/11/2025

Built a 2 button macro keyboard. One of the buttons cycles through my tailnets with the `tailscale switch` command. The other one is for future use, the ALT was the only other keycap I had handy.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 23/11/2025

Puttering, trying new things. Spent a half hour trying to figure out what I had done wrong just to find out was a bad USB cable. Who ships "charging only" USBC cords? :shakes fist: But I got to the "hello world" stage of fiddling with esp32 pretty quickly

Display hooked up to a microcontroller displaying things

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/10/2025

In Toronto for BSides - come visit at the Tailscale booth tomorrow!

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 31/08/2025

Waiting on a few parts before its finalized, like a keyboard cable, but my retro gaming laptop project is functional.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 27/08/2025

You can temporarily extend the key from the Admin Console ... menu. Long enough to disable key expiry. Still breaks things, but if that's your only access path, there's a way back in.

Menu option for "temporarily extend key"

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 26/08/2025

Some progress on my retro sleeper build. Found an old, broken 286 compaq laptop that had the same vibes as my old 386 laptop I had as a young person. I've gutted it, converted the old keyboard to USB, and replaced the dead screen with an LCD from a 1st gen ipad running on an HDMI adapter.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/08/2025

And the cats love the packaging 🤣

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/08/2025

I got new office art today! Piece by www.instagram.com/tchugness and www.instagram.com/axelalime I saw it hanging in a restaurant in Montreal when I was traveling and talked to them on Instagram to arrange to buy it and have it shipped to me. I love it!

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/08/2025

I waded in the Atlantic. That's worth breaking my rule: Never post feet online for free.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 20/07/2025

My black cat is Pollyester. Other appropriate cat names from my past: Curious Mischief Pudgebucket Gweez - short for "the ginger weasel"

A cat named Pollyester standing on a keyboard

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 12/07/2025

My big maple dropped a branch on my driveway while I was out today

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 08/07/2025

I think I just jumped timelines. I swear, "enrol" always had two "L"s in it until this morning.

the word enrol with two ls being marked as incorrect spelling.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 28/06/2025

Remember when experts and thought leaders knew something about their subjects? Before "free speech" meant amplifying uninformed opinions to avoid the appearance of bias, then having bias assumed anyhow?

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 25/06/2025

Made some red beans and rice with the fancy Rancho Gordo red beans given to me by @xor.blue They're pretty darned good beans. I actually get what all the fuss is about

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 17/06/2025

Went camping at Rondeau Park. Met a turtle 🐢 Nice time reading in a hammock.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 02/06/2025

Hanging out in Toronto for a few days

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 11/05/2025

Juno is enjoying the patio

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 11/05/2025

I remember when I was a bench tech, running software to "stress test" machines. If I wanted to do that today, I could just open 5 tabs in Facebook Marketplace.

top command showing very high resource usage for chromium

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/05/2025

Home is where the pets are (and people)

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