A personal review of the Meta Quest 3, covering the good (YouTube VR), the bad (battery life, passthrough), and the ugly (productivity, money grabs).

Discover Canadian pre-seed venture capital firms. This list is sorted by funding amount and highlights VCs investing in early-stage startups.

Explore a leaderboard of AI models ranked by coding benchmarks like SWE-bench and Codeforces. Discusses challenges and limitations of existing benchmarks.

Explore a bleeding-edge list of AI: models (open-source & proprietary), benchmarks, and applications (chat, image/video/audio, dev tools, and more).

Compare AI model factuality with the SimpleQA leaderboard. Includes scores for AIME'25 (Math), Chatbot Arena, and ArenaHard benchmarks.

When I saw the sign for “Dog Food Eating Convention,” curiosity drew me in…

Trump has been going on about Tariffs, but how could any country utilized tariffs for good? This post attempts to explore how tariffs on some goods and services can increase domestic economic opportunities without harming the working class.

Review of FOSS video editors in 2025: Shotcut, KdenLive, OpenShot, and Olive. Recommends Shotcut and highlights pros and cons of each.

A rant on Bike Share Toronto’s poor UX: payment issues, inaccessible QR codes, excessive data requests, and lack of modern payment options.

Explore Pierre Poilievre’s key housing affordability policies for Canada, including tying immigration to home building, linking infrastructure funding to municipal housing completion, converting federal buildings to housing, and removing GST on new homes under $1.3M.

React tutorial on adding a minimum loading delay to prevent spinner flickering when fetching data, using a throttle hook.

Avoid data corruption when writing files by syncing to disk. Learn about the risk and solutions in Python and Rust with code examples.

Tutorial on using Google Sheets to manage i18n translations for web projects (React Native focus), with a Node.js script to generate JSON files.

Why Lululemon (LULU) is not a long-term buy for value investors: lacks competitive moat, market saturation, better suited for short-term trading.

C# tutorial on partial JSON deserialization using System.Text.Json.Nodes.JsonNode to extract specific data without full deserialization.

A response to Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke’s anti-union statements, arguing against his position on the Canada Post strike and criticizing anti-union arguments.

Argues for citing factual opinions and critiques the ‘illusion of truth’ online, using declining birth rates as an example.

Review of chicken restaurants in Burlington, Ontario’s ‘Chicken District,’ including Dave’s Hot Chicken, Chic-fil-a, KFC, and more.

Learn how not to negotiate a job offer through a story about mishandling a significant salary increase with unnecessary demands.

Review of a New York Times subscription, citing issues with bias, poor technology, mobile app ads, and excessive focus on US politics.

Why DigitalOcean (DOCN) is not a buy for value investors: lacks competitive advantages in a crowded market, better for diversification.

Solution for Linux touchpad not working after suspend, including troubleshooting steps and an automation script.

Tutorial for Canadians: withdraw USD from Deel to Wise without US bank details, using Wise UK GBP account for transfers.

Swift code for retrieving application and system logs on macOS using OSLogStore, with examples for accessing and filtering logs.

Exploring the three pillars of integrity: Intelligence, Ethics, and Philosophy. Discusses how to gauge these qualities in individuals.

Proposing a new cybersecurity ETF strategy: tiering companies (pure-play vs. others) and weighting based on focus, critiquing market-cap weighting.

Guide to banking in Canada: budgeting, choosing accounts (Wealthsimple, KOHO, credit unions), credit cards, and cash withdrawal options.

A curated list of Monero resources, including recommended wallets, payment gateways, exchanges, funding opportunities, and libraries with insights on open-source options and integrations.

Argues that rent control reduces new housing construction, disadvantages families and newcomers, and incentivizes renovations that displace tenants.

Argues that gig work is an income supplement, not a full-time job, critiquing guaranteed wages and proposing a cooperative model.

Analyzing multiple-choice test scores: 25% means zero knowledge, 50% knowledge yields 62.5% score. Discusses implications for teaching and assessment.

A rant on the lack of critical thinking globally, critiquing the tolerance of male genital mutilation and discussing the rationale for abortion rights.

Literary analysis and summary of Michael Lewis’s ‘Flash Boys,’ exploring high-frequency trading (HFT), its impact on markets, and ethical implications.

Detailed analysis of Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow,’ exploring System 1 & 2, cognitive biases, and heuristics.

Notes from a talk on improving payment systems using AI and Quantum Computing, covering anomaly detection, ML frameworks, and quantum transaction ordering.

Exploring the technical stack of the ‘Split the Tank’ project: Azure hosting, MongoDB, C# ASP.NET, React Native, and payment solutions.

Notes from a university course on Fixed Income, covering market environment, instruments, valuation, and case studies like the SVB failure.

Notes from a university course on Behavioural Finance, covering Expected Utility Theory, Prospect Theory, cognitive and emotional biases, risk tolerance, and corporate governance.

Compilation of tasks a MacBook or computer can do that an iPad cannot, covering file management, software, development, and more.

Notes from a university course on Financial Markets and Securities Trading, covering market structure, HFT, PFOF, dark pools, and case studies.

Notes from a university course on Computer Networks, covering the OSI model, network core, protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP, IP), and network performance.

Explaining the causes of the Great Depression: gold standard, bank runs, lack of regulation, stock market crash, shrinking money supply, and trade policies.

Critiques ‘Climate Change as a Service,’ arguing EVs and carbon taxes are insufficient. Advocates for sustainable infrastructure and systemic change over blaming individuals.

Policies like a 0% inflation target, respecting local zoning, and privatizing CMHC would worsen the housing affordability crisis rather than bringing balance to the market.

A guide for backend engineers on learning React in 2024, covering setup, fundamentals, web tech, deployment, and testing.

Valuation of Lithium Americas (LAC) based on EMH and a dividend discount model, analyzing Thacker Pass project and providing investment recommendation.

Explaining various depreciation methods (Straight Line, Double Declining Balance, Units Used, Sum of the Years’ Digits) and touching on Canada’s Capital Cost of Allowance and deferred taxes.

Economic analysis of cryptocurrency, comparing Ethereum to alternatives, discussing Layer 2 value, and debating if crypto is currency or security.