Shawn Hooper
@shawnhooper.ca
He/Him. Web Developer, Conference and Workshop Speaker. Theatre kid who still gets to do sound and lighting on the side. Small town Ontario, Canada Blog: https://shawnhooper.ca RSS: https://shawnhooper.ca/feed #webdev #php #laravel #wordpress #appsec
Everybody was in it, for miles around. #TheHip #YGK #TheTragicallyHip #Glioblastoma #FindingTheSecretPath www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcso...
Hi. It’s me. I’m the guy in his late forties running around the neighbourhood with a ten dollar bill trying to figure out where the ice cream truck is that I can hear. #summer
Looking forward to watching “The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration” tonight on CBC. I can’t believe it has been 10 years. #TheTragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92
Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92.
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My heart goes out to the casts and crews of all the shows booked at Meredian Theatres at Centrepointe. All shows have been cancelled for the rest of the year due to flooding on July 1st. This includes the upcoming productions of Frozen and Come From Away. #ottawa
How do you get #PHPStorm to ignore git worktrees? It’s making the Find dialog and duplicate code detection cluttered with results from all worktrees. #git #jetbrains
Going to see Weird Al tonight! First time. Can’t wait. #ottawa #weirdal #readytopolka
I've only heard Oliver Jones play once, and that was at my grandfather's funeral. shawnhooper.ca/2026/07/24/o... #OliverJones
Oliver Jones (1934-2026) - Shawn Hooper
A farewell to Oliver Jones, a Canadian Jazz icon, and a friend of my late grandparents.
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Via @shawnhooper.ca 's Mastodon account I had to go look for myself. And... When governments fail at their jobs, they fail hard.
I write a blog post about this, and 4 days later get bit by a firewall blocking a query string that was too long. I can't wait to be able to implement HTTP QUERY! shawnhooper.ca/2026/07/12/h... #webdev #http
The "Query" Method: A new HTTP verb - Shawn Hooper
The IETF published an RFC for a new HTTP method/verb called "Query" in June 2026.
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Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
Coming home after two days of dance recitals, you know what the best thing is…. Silence. #dance #backstege #stagelighting
Dishonest POS furious over reports that they are, in fact, dishonest POS.
"Pure Advocacy-Driven Click Bait": Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
Wired reported that Meta discreetly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses. Executives are very mad.
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Happy 31st Birthday to the #PHP programming language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
PHP - Wikipedia
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NASA has ordered its astronauts aboard the International Space Station to shelter inside their spacecraft and prepare for a potential evacuation as the Russian crew attempts to repair a worsening leak on its side of the station, the agency said Friday. gizmodo.com/iss-astronau... #space #NASA #ISS
ISS Astronauts Told to Shelter in Place as Air Leak Saga Continues
A worsening leak on the Russian side of the space station forced five astronauts on NASA's side to shelter in place Friday.
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The WordPress Community Collective's "State of the Community" survey is out. Answer it before June 28th. www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/state-of-the... #WordPress #WPCC
The State of the Community - The WP Community Collective
The State of the Community survey aims to understand the current perspective of the people in and around the WordPress open source project community. The survey is open for responses from May 27 throu...
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Hanging out at KPMG tonight with #BSidesOttawa for their "Offensive AI Cyber Threat Briefing & CTF" www.meetup.com/bsides-ottaw...
Offensive AI Cyber Threat Briefing & CTF, Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup
***Session Format***: One-hour threat briefing (with pizza!), followed by a four-hour CTF. Participants must bring laptops and be prepared to access the CTF environment vi
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The NYPL Digital Collections API is being quietly sunsetted in August. The only announcement I can find is behind the dev login for API access. When I look for more info, all that's returned is articles from 2012-2016 announcing this leap forward in public info access. Anyone know anything?
The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.