Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦
@aaronw.dev
Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at Microsoft + Azure ☁️ | Go (@golang.org), Cloud Native, Linux 🐧 🐍 🦀 ☕ 🍷📷 🎹 | Toronto 🇨🇦🌎שלום | 💨😷💉 | https://aaronw.dev/hello/
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
for someone who thought nolan was generally overrated until I watched oppenheimer — a truly great movie — is the odyssey good
Stephen Wolfram - In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-m...
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
In remembrance of his beloved and brilliant wife, Elise Cawley, and their 36 years together, Stephen Wolfram shares memories of their family and home and relates Elise's many accomplishments and contributions to mathematics.
writings.stephenwolfram.com
today Elon Musk will host SpaceX’s first earnings call as a publicly traded company and if you think he will be “grilled” by sell side analysts you have never listened to a TSLA call for 16 years
📢 Light snow falls in Wellington. Video / Melissa Nightingale, Max Reed, Supplied
Snow falls in Wellington
nzherald.co.nz
I've been asking reporters in Spokane how we can help and everyone says subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. The Spokesman-Review has been doing unreal coverage of the fires: www.spokesman.com
The Spokesman-Review | Local News, Business, Entertainment, Sports & Weather for Eastern Washington
Serving the Inland Northwest since 1883. Spokesman.com provides breaking and in-depth coverage of Spokane area news, sports and community.
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d agoThe front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
A crucial thing about Bluesky was that the scientific community migrated to it en masse as soon as it opened its doors. There are left wing scientists and right wing scientists and scientists who try to pay no attention to politics. What they all have in common is that they are rationalists.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
We need a better plan to kill the ticks. Since 2000, Lyme cases have more than doubled, and scientists have discovered eight new tick-borne diseases, by @sarahzhang.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... via @theatlantic.com
Kill the Ticks
America needs a bigger plan to control its tick problem.
theatlantic.com
am I really going to have to write my fucking Senators about how I majored in the French horn and am also a contributing member of my community
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Left, right, whatever, I just want graduate students posting their papers here
I just found out that today (Monday, August 3, 2026) is the 20th anniversary of Pandoc, the Universal Translator of Text Formats. I’ve used ion a few projects, including a docs management system that’s still in use at a very pricey cruise ship company. Read here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/08/03/h...
Happy 20th birthday, Pandoc! : Global Nerdy
One of the bragging points of digital information is that it’s supposed to be possible to convert it from one format to another. Actually doing the conversion is often where theory runs headlong into ...
globalnerdy.com
Quite the long weekend. Can I have a weekend to recover from my weekend?
Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control
This is why I still love email newsletters. The best filter for What to Pay Attention To remains a thoughtful, human Knower
I rarely comment on departing players, but Kevin Gausman is different. A thoughtful, reliable and impressive person to cover. All of the reasons #BlueJays fans were drawn to Gausman are genuine and real. Model player, model representative of this organization. He did it right.
#OldTrailsFire in Spokane now appears to be most destructive wildfire in WA State history by wide margin (650+ structures lost), w/additional TBD losses nearby. Other PacNW fires actively burning, though less destructive, are far larger & could burn for weeks amid severe drought.
"Wicker, the method of weaving used to make products such as furniture and baskets?"
Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦@aaronw.dev · 9mo ago
