When I initially wrote @surveil.land, there were zero Store Championship events stored in the database, and I wasn't sure if there was a bug in the event-fetching logic, or if there actually were just no events scheduled worldwide. Glad it ended up being the latter!

surveil.land@surveil.land · 5d ago

Now that the current Modern RCQ season is wrapping up, stores are starting to schedule their Store Championships for Reality Fracture. There are already 438 events indexed on surveil.land!

If Gausman gets traded at the deadline, the Jays BETTER give him a player-friendly contract for a year or two so that he can retire a Blue Jay. The man and his family love Toronto more than any other player I can think of, and he's such a great ambassador for our team and the country.

Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · last wk.

Kevin Gausman on the Trade Deadline: “I hope I don’t go anywhere. I don’t want to go anywhere. That would be my wish, and that would mean that we’re playing good baseball. But I also realize it’s a business. Whatever happens, it’s kind of out of my control.” #BlueJays

Will be rooting for the sixteen Ruby Storm players this weekend! Wondering whether it's one or two specific testing teams that decided to run the deck, or just a bunch of individual pilots.

Play Magic@playmagic.com · 3w ago

The Modern metagame for #PTMSH features some reliable standbys alongside new emerging strategies and some sweet tech! Check out what's in store on magic.gg: magic.gg/news/pro-tou...

I only just now got around to watching @adef.bsky.social's "naneinf" Balatro run, but it's *by far* my favourite GDQ run of all time. Spoilers in the thread (watch the run if you haven't!) 🧵

Games Done Quick@gamesdonequick.com · 4w ago

Pushing Balatro to naneinf. @adef.bsky.social was not messing around in this run! #SGDQ2026

Made top 8 of the Modern Challenge on Ruby Storm with Hex Magic! Card plays way better than I thought it would. R1: [W] Affinity ⛈️⛈️ R2: [W] Simic Ritual ⛈️⛈️ R3: [W] Ruby Storm ❌⛈️⛈️ R4: [W] Jeskai Energy/Blink ❌⛈️⛈️ R5: [L] Boros Energy ⛈️❌❌ R6: [W] Grixis Moonshadow ⛈️❌⛈️ QF: [L] Boros Energy ❌❌

Got to learn about Cloudflare Pages Functions (yes, double pluralized) while building out this feature! The problem I needed to solve was being able to rewrite the Open Graph tags in the static HTML to show event info based on the link, even though the site itself is effectively a SPA.

surveil.land@surveil.land · last mo.

surveil.land now shows a "details view" when clicking on an event, with a unique shortlink that makes it easy to share with your friends (eg. surveil.land/e/4KcDJSrR). The rich embed for the link also shows the store name and date inline for added convenience when sent on platforms like Discord.

Pushed some updates to @surveil.land thanks to feedback I got after posting it on /r/spikes: - Added format and country filters. - Fixed searching for Canadian postal codes (embarrassing; I initially tested with my own and it worked, but it turns out that was a fluke)

It's been over 6 years since I've done a write-up on a project that I've built (way too long), so today I tried a new technique to overcome my fear of publishing: forcing myself to just write everything in one sitting and then hitting publish. Here's my post on how and why I built @surveil.land!

Building a Better RCQ Locator

I built a website for finding Regional Championship Qualifiers for Magic: The Gathering that you can check out at https://surveil.land.

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I'm back on the Modern RCQ grind this season, but ever since Spicerack was shut down, it's been difficult to find events. Decided to build surveil.land over the weekend to help locate RCQs, Store Championships, and other competitive MTG events (like 5Ks) around the world.

surveil.land | Competitive MTG Event Locator

Find RCQs, Store Championships, and other high-stakes events near you.

surveil.land

Breaking down competitive games by how much micro/meso/macro skill they test you on, rather than just their genre, is a really cool framework for understanding why certain games appeal more to people than others.

Once you see this, You’ll see Competitive Games Differently

YouTube video by Surnex

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I'm fairly certain the Ferrari Luce is just a blue Magic Mouse with four wheels. Indisputably a Jony Ive Project™.

I created @zeal.gg (a rank-tracking site for League of Legends) back in 2018 while playing a ton of League in uni. Now nearly eight years later, I've found myself building a new site related to tracking games of Magic: the Gathering. Guess this is just my side-project niche for life.

This was a 95.1-mph four-seamer and 90.2-mph off the bat, meaning Barger returned it right back home 11-mph *faster* than it was hit. The outfield assist to home has got to be one of the sweetest plays in baseball.

Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Addison Barger just nailed the runner at home with a 101.2-mph throw from the outfield. #BlueJays

Okamoto moved back in the box after the April 17th game, which gives us exactly 18 games pre- and post-adjustment. - First 18 games: .188 / .263 / .290 (.553 OPS), 4 RBI - Next 18 games: .308 / .400 / .708 (1.108 OPS), 19 RBI (!) Love how well he's fitting in with the #BlueJays.

First PR merged on @tangled.org, into Tangled itself! 🧑‍💻 Doing local dev on an atproto app was neat because even though my local DB was unseeded, the app consumes live firehose data, so I was able to see how these changes looked on real data just by letting it run for a bit!

appview/timeline: collapse identical events #1400

Group consecutive timeline events (defined as being the same action and operating on the same target) together so that the same target is not seen multiple times in a row. This notably does not comple...

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First Modern RCQ of the season. Pivoted to Boros last minute with 2 MD Flashback, then was anxious about Belcher and Neoform so I added 2 Vexing Baubles to the SB. Made top 8, then lost T2 then T3 to Neoform in the QF despite my best efforts to cast Bauble, so no invite. List felt great though!

Following @mitchellh.com's post, I checked out out @tangled.org and it really reminds me of early days of GitHub when you could actually discover people and interesting repos from the global timeline. Mirrored my Advent of Code solution repo and will probably start bringing other projects over too.

kevinyap.ca/advent

My Advent of Code solutions in Python.

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I stumbled upon the realization that calling "prime = win" for Ral flips would be valid†, and inadvertently let this cursed idea loose in the Storm Discord — sorry not sorry if anyone pulls this on you in paper. † For any 𝑛-sided die where 𝑛 ∈ {2,4,6,8}.

Ramping up the Modern grind again now that RCQ season has begun. I've been excited to test out Flashback in Storm since SOS spoilers, and happened to go 5-0 in the first league that I tried it in! R1: Izzet Wizards ❌🌩🌩 R2: Ruby Storm ❌🌩🌩 R3: Boros Energy 🌩🌩 R4: Phoenix Dredge 🌩🌩 R5: Jeskai Blink 🌩🌩

Great write-up on how Shazam's audio fingerprints work, and how songs can be robustly and quickly identified, even when there's a lot of background noise obscuring the actual music. Spoiler: it's hashing, as is the case with most interesting CS problems.

shri@shrikhalpada.dev · 4mo ago

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

Spending the day migrating @zeal.gg off of Heroku and onto @fly.io, along with some other infra simplifications like using Postgres as the job queue instead of requiring Redis for that purpose. I honestly should've done this *years* ago but have just been too lazy to do it until now.

Cannot believe Gausman had an 11 K 6 IP opening day, but didn't get credited with the win because Hoffman threw a wild pitch and ended up with 4 K 1 IP, a blown save, and stole the win. Our funny stat game is SO BACK. #BlueJays

They played RISE during the hype videos for the Blue Jays home opener and I momentarily thought I was watching a League of Legends stream

RISE (ft. The Glitch Mob, Mako, and The Word Alive) | Worlds 2018 - League of Legends

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One of my biggest pet peeves on the road; glad Transport Canada is taking this seriously. Please fill this out if you're a fellow Canadian that also hates being blinded by LED headlights! 🔦 (It's more of a 5-minute survey than 15 minutes like they claim, so just do it!)

Dave Thompson 🇨🇦@davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Care about safety, and glare from bright headlights? Complete the transport Canada survey: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

I was legtimately stunned while watching this because I couldn't figure out why the game had ended… I thought Perdomo must've swung through the pitch and I had a memory lapse or something. Thank god we have ABS this season.

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 5mo ago

That was not even close to a strike. Horrendous way for this game to end. Absolutely brutal.

Whoa, this is a virtual desktop with applications & games that lives in the browser and stores all of your documents, preferences, etc. directly in your AT Protocol repo. Such a sweet aesthetic too.

Aether OS@aetheros.computer · 5mo ago

Sound on. Aether OS Alpha is online. aetheros.computer #atproto #atdev

In case people weren't keeping track, if the final score in the Mexico vs. Italy WBC game is 𝑥 to 𝑦 (𝑥 > 𝑦; 𝑥 ≤ 4), Team USA will be eliminated from the tournament in the group stage.

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie was probably the best theatre-going experience I've ever had. Best to go in completely blind and just enjoy this absolute masterpiece. (It's an extra special watch for Torontonians/Canadians due to the setting, but most of the bits in the film are universal.)

I didn't expect this benefit from Bluesky labels, but I think this pattern of seeing that someone on the platform plays the same game as you is super delightful — like meeting someone new in-person and realizing you have overlapping interests. Hope this catches on with other games & services!

Orta Therox@orta.io · 5mo ago

Shipping today: @puzzmo.com has integrated support for @bsky.app The site/app have follower syncing, and a labeler so that you can spot new Puzzmo folks when browsing Bluesky posts www.puzzmo.com/bluesky blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...

It's been a while I played @puzzmo.com, so I hadn't seen the "Champs leaderboards" until now. Basically, if you get a top score in a game, you graduate to the Champions League that has its own leaderboard, and your scores don't appear on the "general" leaderboard that everyone else sees.