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Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca
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Programming, inclusivity, sustainability, & 🦕. he/him. publicobject.com

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 27/09/2026
The app is only okay. It takes a few seconds to sign on to a new network and things look broken while it connects. Hotel wifi is tricky. My phone won’t connect to a router that can't reach the web, and the UniFi router can’t reach the web until I do hotel sign-on. I click ‘connect anyway’.
A screenshot with currently-connected devices
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 27/09/2026
I’m traveling with the family (5 people) and we have lots of devices. I bought a UniFi Travel Router and it has been excellent. We arrive at a hotel and I scramble to plug it in. I connect the router to the hotel wifi. In 30 seconds our home SSID is available and everyone’s devices are online.
UniFi travel router with 9 connected devices
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 27/09/2026
One of ’em alerted that its battery is low, and I don't have a Qi charger with me... Or do I? My phone can Qi-charge another phone using a feature called ‘Wireless PowerShare’. I tried it on the Chipolo and it worked!
Screenshot of the Wireless power sharing settings screen.
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 27/09/2026
I am travelling with Chipolo Cards to track some bags. They are credit card sized tracking beacons that recharge via Qi wireless charging. Neat, right?
Screenshot of a map. It shows that a tracker is near Kalkudah Beach.
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 23/09/2026
හුරුළු වන රක්ෂිතය in Sri Lanka
Jesse looking at a young elephant at the Hurulu Forest Reserve
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 22/09/2026
Bhudda statue lying down
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 19/09/2026
This winter when it's 8:00am in Kenora, Ontario it’ll be 9:00am to the east *and the west* ?! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Map with the new timezones of Canada.
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17/09/2026
family travel
5 passports with different Mario stickers
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 06/09/2026
Email from Disney+, Jump back into Dinosaurs
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 30/08/2026
Holy shit
Google Maps screenshot showing ‘Lake Release The Epstein Files’ as the label where one would expect ‘Lake Huron’
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 16/08/2026
Here's two screenshots of Google searches, taken a couple hours apart. We had the ability to reliably convey sports scores and we abandoned it.
Google.com screenshot

The Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 29-9 on August 15, 2026Google.com screenshot

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated Saskatchewan Roughriders 26-19 on August 15, 2026
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14/08/2026
mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/11709465...
Mastodon post from Jake Wharton: 

As of today, the Lysine projects (OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and the SQL Delight family) have a contribution policy that forbids LLM usage for creating code and for PR/issue descriptions and comments.
There is an exception for translation assistance provided you disclose its use.
If you choose to use LLMs locally for research, analysis, and/or experimentation we can't stop you. But for contributing we require you to write the code, and for our interactions to be with you.
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 30/07/2026
It worked when I tried it! Thanks!
Electric basketball locker
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17/06/2026
Hmmmm
Maven Central dashboard from an unspecified organization. ‘7.49 GB of 15 MB limit’
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 09/06/2026
‘C Extensions 22’ ? This is what I’m upset about. What the heck does ‘C’ mean here? Identifiers must be distinct!SCREAMS developer.android.com/reference/an...
Screenshot of Android version codes with Cinnamon Bun and Cupcake both fighting over the C
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 22/05/2026
might be a baked potato on a moonwalk?
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 23/04/2026
😶
round sand-coloured cookie with two chocolate circles
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 16/04/2026
How it started In 2019 I posted about how it’s good code hygiene to test happy paths publicobject.com/2019/02/17/toehold-test/ How it’s going
A screenshot showing a long list of test methods named 'happyPath'A screenshot showing a zero test methods named ‘edgeCase’
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 10/04/2026
true, I'll miss the theatre show but the rethemed ride should be better? 🤞🏻
Promo poster for the Muppets-themed Rock'n'Roller Coaster
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 08/04/2026
egg nog at Easter Christmas should be absolutely furious at this blatant theft of its seasonal beverage Christmas should get an injunction against Easter to immediately halt this If they let this go, next year we’re all gonna have to decorate our homes with Easter lights
Easter egg coloured egg nog carton
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 08/04/2026
The news should use per capita for dollar amounts.
Nah: white house seeks $1.5 trillion for defense 

Yeah: white house seeks $4,300 per resident for defense
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 03/04/2026
person in BC who sends taco shop receipts to limpbizkit@gmail.com: I see you, I appreciate you
Taco receipt with Break Stuff Limp Bizkit lyrics, sent to me, limpbizkit@gmail.com
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 20/03/2026
In high school I loved this app called Paint Shop Pro. It had a 30-day free trial. Or a 3680 day trial: Set the clock forward 10 years Install Paint Shop Pro Restore the clock
Screenshot of Paint Shop Pro 4, which looks like Windows 95
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 20/03/2026
Android’s announced a 24 hour ‘protective waiting period’ before my phone is truly mine But I can still set the time right?
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 27/02/2026
kid: can I have more goldfish crackers? me: no but how about eels
A box of Ritz crackers but the crackers are shaped like long orange capsules
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 16/02/2026
vending machine for library books!
vending machine for library books
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 16/02/2026
3 ring Venn diagram

Dinosaurs ∩ Ellipsis - Separated by Time
Hockey ∩ Ellipsis - Little Black Circles
Dinosaurs ∩ Hockey - Canada has the best
All - Three Periods
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 12/02/2026
obvs
screencap of Taskmaster s19e6
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 30/01/2026
CSS is AWESⵀME publicobject.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 24/01/2026
@signs-of-life.bsky.social
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 24/01/2026
Prohibited: 
Running
Open AI
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 24/01/2026
here?
Screenshot of rounds.app
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 22/01/2026
these are the last texts Jesse sent to his wife after he boarded WestJet 711
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17/01/2026
alpha02 drives a bZ4X
Toyota bZ4X
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17/01/2026
I pay Fizz $31.64 CAD each month for my mobile Not paying Bell or Rogers is especially nice
My monthly mobile bill

20 GiB of 4G data
Canada and USA
$31.64 including tax
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 08/01/2026
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 23/12/2025
name the film
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 21/12/2025
playin’ It Takes Two with my twins
TV showing May the wooden doll from It Takes Two
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 19/12/2025
I keep chilled water in the fridge, in Soda Stream bottles. Sometimes I use it uncarbonated, for coffee or whatever. Sometimes I make bubble water. Today I fucked up and made a carbonated protein shake. Surprisingly not bad!
Vega shake mix and a half-full Soda Stream bottle
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14/12/2025
I’ve drawn a new spin-the-bottle icon Holo (2012) Material (2014) web (2025)
3 icons, each featuring bottles and arrows
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 24/11/2025
Didya watch Poker Face season 2 yet? Flopacopa was so silly I loved it
Gator Joe
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 23/11/2025
Nice! I love an excuse to post this gist.github.com/swankjesse/8...
Different implementations of Fibonacci in a Dungeons and Dragons Alignment chart (Chaotic Good, Lawful Evil, etc.)
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 21/11/2025
they broke out the novelty scissors for these two
Two employee badges snipped in half beside giant scissors
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17/11/2025
Some awesome person in Winnipeg drives this tiny minivan
A Honda Freed minivan with Manitoba plates
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17/11/2025
Tim’s Biscoff donut is good
a donut with cookie crumbs on top
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 09/11/2025
let’s ask the glue on pizza website
Screenshot of a Google Search which says YVR does not have daily flights to YYZ
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 08/11/2025
I got a warm feeling seeing ‘@author Bob Lee’ in Signal’s source code. He was a kind friend and he built so much.
Screenshot of Android Studio showing source code of ShakeDetector.java. The file’s authors are Bob Lee and Eric Burke.
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 01/11/2025
YES! And sell me your hot tub storm trooper! (I’ll give him a good home aboard the dark falcon with Beach Luke.)
Lego Dark Falcon, a black millennium falcon space ship
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 21/10/2025
oh shit not again I haven't even been driving! wait that’s my wife’s car
Envelope with return address ‘Camera Based Enforcement’
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 04/10/2025
Mojito Pepsi is good
A can of Mojito-flavoured Pepsi from Korea
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