I’m launching a side project to award folks for building rad “non-corporate-y” stuff for the web. If you’re working on something for a local community, I’d love to throw you some coffee money!

The whole thesis of this experiment is: “The internet is infinitely more cool when folks build rad shit.”We’ve seen a whole swing from the early web being full of peoples’ individually built websites showing off what they’re interested in to a handful of corporations being the main points of content distribution to a more recent

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5,200 members, 2,700 signatures, 615 posts, 54 policy ideas, two email campaigns, one Globe and Mail mention, one website, one Discord channel, one donation and… we’re just getting started mfers. Happy monthiversary, r/canadahousing!

It’s been one month since we started /r/canadahousing. It’s been a journey. Many of us were trying to raise these issues on other subs, like r/personalfinancecanada, but we faced a lot pushback and denialism among the Property Class, with mods deleting our posts and members telling us to stop just complaining on Reddit. So that’s

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TD Account / Easyweb breached

After searching around this seems to be happening a bunch recently . here … again … anotherFriday I got an e-mail saying that my account was unlocked – I didn’t request that so within the minute I called TD. Their customer service was lacking, no easy way to get to Fraud dept. immediately, had to

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Doctor: BC we have a problem. The hospitals are much busier last 72 hrs. Significant increase in Covid cases esp. in younger people.. presenting really sick. Needing 100% O2 to stay alive.

” At this pace of admissions our covid unit will be over capacity before Tuesday. “https://twitter.com/dockevinmcleod/status/1378499216683593732BC we have a problem. The hospitals are much busier last 72 hours. Significant increase in COVID cases especially in younger people who are coming in around day 10 from initial disease onset. Presenting really sick. Needing 100% oxygen to

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Unpopular Opinion: Salary

Sharing salary info should not be taboo.I’m happy with the recent trend on this sub about salary information. One of the reasons why salaries in tech is high is because people openly share this information with others. Go to r/cscareerquestions or teamblind and you’ll see that it’s either TC or GTFO. Sure there is some

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