Author: Skot Nelson

  • The Last Waltz – 48 Years Later

    If you’re not familiar with The Last Waltz there’s a legitimate question about how we’re friends–if we are. It’s such a formative work of my taste in music that it seems not possible. The concert itself was 48 years ago today, meaning I would have been five years old when it happened. I wasn’t five…

  • Power Plant Gallery – November 2024

    Power Plant Gallery – November 2024

    The Power Plant Gallery in Harbourfront has been a favourite place in the city for a long time–it opened when I was in high school, and offered a more contemporary take on art than the juggernaut of the Art Gallery of Ontario (which I also love, and have had an on-again-off-again membership at.) Admission to…

  • Is AI Really Helping Code? Buehler? Buehler?

    Over the last couple of years the tech story has been AI everywhere: rumour had it that when people submitted proposals for Dreamforce talks, they basically got replies asking for “more AI” regardless of the topic. It’s rather annoying. I had to sit through a dozen hours of corporate AI training the other day, a…

  • A Tale of Two Software Updates

    We live, increasingly, in a world of integrated hardware and software. The most obvious example for most is your phone: without the software, it’s a (probably) black slab sitting there doing nothing. There’s not even any buttons anymore. It’s not a question of which is more important–the hardware is useless without the software. A couple…