Jay Stapleton
@jaystapleton.ca
Network nerd. Hanging out with cats and wonderful people whenever possible.
I've made computers, gizmos, vegetables, coffee, and occasionally some sense.
I've made computers, gizmos, vegetables, coffee, and occasionally some sense.
Reposted by Jay Stapleton
"God jul vänner, tacksam för er alla ✨
Merry Christmas my friends ✨"
Merry Christmas my friends ✨"
December 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"God jul vänner, tacksam för er alla ✨
Merry Christmas my friends ✨"
Merry Christmas my friends ✨"
Reposted by Jay Stapleton
Dear Santa:
All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.
All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Dear Santa:
All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.
All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.
Overrated: Italian (or what passes for it on Canada, love it, but not to the level that others seem to)
Underrated: Ethiopian. I'd eat that every day.
Under rated (Canada specifically): Mexican. Taco Time doesn't count.
Underrated: Ethiopian. I'd eat that every day.
Under rated (Canada specifically): Mexican. Taco Time doesn't count.
Time to start a bluesky Christmas fight: Most over-rated and under-rated cuisine?
For me:
Over-rated: French
Under-rated (globally): Mexican
Under-rated (US specifically): Indonesian
For me:
Over-rated: French
Under-rated (globally): Mexican
Under-rated (US specifically): Indonesian
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Overrated: Italian (or what passes for it on Canada, love it, but not to the level that others seem to)
Underrated: Ethiopian. I'd eat that every day.
Under rated (Canada specifically): Mexican. Taco Time doesn't count.
Underrated: Ethiopian. I'd eat that every day.
Under rated (Canada specifically): Mexican. Taco Time doesn't count.
Explaining the concepts of rewinding, side A and side B, and that a tape starts playing from where you stopped it.
The youngest asked for a Walkman for Christmas
The youngest asked for a Walkman for Christmas
December 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Explaining the concepts of rewinding, side A and side B, and that a tape starts playing from where you stopped it.
The youngest asked for a Walkman for Christmas
The youngest asked for a Walkman for Christmas
The singularity that changes society the most dramatically is when we can free up the cognitive capacity of people. 25% of Canadians are facing food insecurity. When you spend your cognitive budget worrying about feeding your family, you're not changing the world.
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The singularity that changes society the most dramatically is when we can free up the cognitive capacity of people. 25% of Canadians are facing food insecurity. When you spend your cognitive budget worrying about feeding your family, you're not changing the world.
One brand of cold and sinus medicine, the blue pills are "nighttime" and have the drowsy bits that make me stop coughing. A different brand, the blue ones are daytime, and the white ones are nighttime.
Bad UX.
Also I've been sick for a week now, over it.
Bad UX.
Also I've been sick for a week now, over it.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
One brand of cold and sinus medicine, the blue pills are "nighttime" and have the drowsy bits that make me stop coughing. A different brand, the blue ones are daytime, and the white ones are nighttime.
Bad UX.
Also I've been sick for a week now, over it.
Bad UX.
Also I've been sick for a week now, over it.
It's supposed to be the time of chocolate and potatoes. Instead of herbal tea and cold medicine. 'tis the season to acquire the plague.
December 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's supposed to be the time of chocolate and potatoes. Instead of herbal tea and cold medicine. 'tis the season to acquire the plague.
15 year old me: "it will be epic once they make an XMen movie!"
Now: "there are so many X-Men movies I don't know which ones I've watched already"
Now: "there are so many X-Men movies I don't know which ones I've watched already"
December 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
15 year old me: "it will be epic once they make an XMen movie!"
Now: "there are so many X-Men movies I don't know which ones I've watched already"
Now: "there are so many X-Men movies I don't know which ones I've watched already"
Ever get the feeling that the neighbors are watching through the window?
December 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ever get the feeling that the neighbors are watching through the window?
I'm in Vegas this week for IOCS, ending the travel year for me.
Next month, Visiting sunny Hamilton!
Next month, Visiting sunny Hamilton!
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm in Vegas this week for IOCS, ending the travel year for me.
Next month, Visiting sunny Hamilton!
Next month, Visiting sunny Hamilton!
Reposted by Jay Stapleton
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Random person adds me on bsky with no interaction: "neat, I wonder who this is, and what they're interested in!"
Random person requests and add on LinkedIn with no interaction: "they want something from me, and I don't want to know what"
Random person requests and add on LinkedIn with no interaction: "they want something from me, and I don't want to know what"
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Random person adds me on bsky with no interaction: "neat, I wonder who this is, and what they're interested in!"
Random person requests and add on LinkedIn with no interaction: "they want something from me, and I don't want to know what"
Random person requests and add on LinkedIn with no interaction: "they want something from me, and I don't want to know what"
Shaking it up today. Aeropress instead of Clever. I'm unpredictable like that
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Shaking it up today. Aeropress instead of Clever. I'm unpredictable like that
Built a 2 button macro keyboard. One of the buttons cycles through my tailnets with the `tailscale switch` command. The other one is for future use, the ALT was the only other keycap I had handy.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Built a 2 button macro keyboard. One of the buttons cycles through my tailnets with the `tailscale switch` command. The other one is for future use, the ALT was the only other keycap I had handy.
There's so much wrong with this post. Who decides if a cable is obsolete? I just had to BUY a 75 ohm coax recently. I'm sure I had some around, just couldn't find them. Probably under some books or pottery, maybe being used to hang plants; but quit making generalizations!
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
There's so much wrong with this post. Who decides if a cable is obsolete? I just had to BUY a 75 ohm coax recently. I'm sure I had some around, just couldn't find them. Probably under some books or pottery, maybe being used to hang plants; but quit making generalizations!
Puttering, trying new things. Spent a half hour trying to figure out what I had done wrong just to find out was a bad USB cable.
Who ships "charging only" USBC cords? :shakes fist:
But I got to the "hello world" stage of fiddling with esp32 pretty quickly
Who ships "charging only" USBC cords? :shakes fist:
But I got to the "hello world" stage of fiddling with esp32 pretty quickly
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Puttering, trying new things. Spent a half hour trying to figure out what I had done wrong just to find out was a bad USB cable.
Who ships "charging only" USBC cords? :shakes fist:
But I got to the "hello world" stage of fiddling with esp32 pretty quickly
Who ships "charging only" USBC cords? :shakes fist:
But I got to the "hello world" stage of fiddling with esp32 pretty quickly
Reposted by Jay Stapleton
oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Jay Stapleton
seriously confusing ambiguous "they" in that headline
When a truck carrying 21 lab monkeys crashed in rural Mississippi late last month, it sparked a week filled with anxiety, conflicting messages and a hunt that culminated in the fatal shooting of two escaped monkeys.
A mom and a pastor shot two fugitives. They were escaped lab monkeys.
A truck carrying 21 lab monkeys crashed in rural Mississippi late last month. Three escaped, sparking an eight-day hunt.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
seriously confusing ambiguous "they" in that headline
I'll be joining Alex to talk about some of the new @tailscale.com features this afternoon (Eastern Time)
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Tailscale Fall Update
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles,...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'll be joining Alex to talk about some of the new @tailscale.com features this afternoon (Eastern Time)
tailscale.com/events-webin...
tailscale.com/events-webin...
Just made 9 yoghurt tubs full of turkey stock, it's quite good! I'm ready for soup season!
October 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Just made 9 yoghurt tubs full of turkey stock, it's quite good! I'm ready for soup season!
Things have been so chaotic and in decline for so long that I'm tempted to start caring about sports so that the Blue Jays can give me hope.
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Things have been so chaotic and in decline for so long that I'm tempted to start caring about sports so that the Blue Jays can give me hope.
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
I'm going to be doing a Q&A tomorrow (Friday October 17th) on Zoom and YouTube, if anyone is interested in asking questions, or seeing the type of questions that other people are asking about using Tailscale. You can register here:
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Ask The Experts: Solutions Engineer Office Hours | Tailscale
Office hours dedicated to demos of new Tailscale features and answering common technical questions.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I'm going to be doing a Q&A tomorrow (Friday October 17th) on Zoom and YouTube, if anyone is interested in asking questions, or seeing the type of questions that other people are asking about using Tailscale. You can register here:
tailscale.com/events-webin...
tailscale.com/events-webin...