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Kevin Bowrin ☕

kevinbowrin@ottawa.place

<p>Programmer @ Carleton University Library</p><p>(Header image by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/lashman" class="u-url mention">@<span>lashman</span></a></span>)</p>

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    I don&amp;#39;t understand what&amp;#39;s going on in this Balatro GDQ run but it&amp;#39;s very exciting. https://youtu.be/A7Go7IXlYLg

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    @Techaltar On the latest Friday Checkout, you talked about older Xbox games coming to PC. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Kevin LaChapelle, Microsoft&amp;#39;s vice president of Xbox Platform and the former lead of the backwards compatibility initiative was recently laid off: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-backwards-compatibility-program-and-cloud-gaming-lead-has-been-laid-off-from-microsoft-after-37-years (Thanks to @LoadingReadyRun for making thi...

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    https://www.arl.org/blog/consumers-are-worried-about-the-loss-of-physical-media-ownership-libraries-are-leading-the-conversation/

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    https://youtube.com/shorts/7L2RAwHMYhQ

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    I don&amp;#39;t think I can finish Ministry for the Future. Reads like the worst Mary-Sue fanfiction, and I&amp;#39;m only about a quarter of the way through.

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    Oh no... https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0729/1585555-dublin-crash/

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    @Techaltar Love that &amp;quot;Enthusiast&amp;quot; t-shirt!

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    I forgot that I used this particular image to test @scholarsportal@mstdn.ca&#39;s OLRC public containers haha. https://static.scholarsportal.info/carleton/test/test.png

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    Feeling thankful that Carleton uses Brightspace and not Canvas as our LMS. What a headache. https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach

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    I saw the best minds of my generation, and they&amp;#39;re doing great! They&amp;#39;re really having a good time of it and it&amp;#39;s so nice to see. https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4468

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    The new secondary plan for Confederation Heights looks ambitious. I hope they can pull it off. https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applications/D01-01-25-0006/details #Ottawa

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    https://youtu.be/bp4_7T9J6Fg 🐦🐦

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    Just watched the Charge v Fleet highlights. Thank God for Philips!

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    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/pwhl/ottawa-charge-boston-fleet-game-2-recap-9.7185713

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    I want a Canadian journalist to follow one Ontario grown grocery item through the whole supply chain to help me understand why food has become unsustainably expensive. Show me where markups have doubled or tripled. Who is benefiting?

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    @brianfagioli You probably saw this, but I thought you might be interested after posting https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/notepad-plus-plus-mac/ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/ &amp;quot;This site has absolutely nothing to do with Notepad++. It’s not authorized, not endorsed, and not affiliated with the project in any way.&amp;quot;

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1smvufx/the_city_shrouded_2am_in_toronto/ Some beautiful photos of yesterday evening&amp;#39;s fog on the Toronto subreddit.

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    https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/ this is amazing 🐧♥️

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwI0YoJlBbo Strange Collection by St.Arnaud (music video animated by GingerPale)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuKoKeaOVnw What If You Repeatedly Save an Image as a JPEG, then WebP, then Avif?

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    https://byblacks.com/news/item/3880-i-bought-land-in-small-town-ontario-it-turned-into-the-fight-of-my-life Ontario is Open For Business... for some people.

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    If I very carefully add lines to a commit with &amp;#39;git add -p&amp;#39;, I know for a fact I&amp;#39;ll automatically add &amp;#39;-a&amp;#39; to the &amp;#39;git commit&amp;#39; afterwards. 🫩

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    https://corecursive.com/the-aging-programmer/ Another great episode of CoRecursive.

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    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/common-antidepressant-can-treat-long-covid-fatigue-symptoms-study/ &amp;quot;A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study. Co-led by researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, the study found that the drug fluvoxamine, which is commonly sold under the name Luvox, significantly reduced fatigue symptoms in a clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID. It is one of the first t...

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    Wow. These are some drastic cuts. https://globalnews.ca/news/11737460/mark-carney-spending-plans-cuts/