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Notes from Torrin Leonard on building software, running a homelab and the tools worth owning.
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BlackBerry's Maker Sued Its Own Co-op Student's Startup
In 2010, Research In Motion sued Kik, a Waterloo startup run by a former RIM co-op student. Three years later, BlackBerry put BBM on the iPhone.
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A Time Tracking App Wanted $28,800 a Year, So I Replaced It With a Homelab
Harvest raised my parents' time tracking bill to $28,800 a year. I moved their company to Kimai, an open source tracker, on our own server in one afternoon.
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KWBuilds Is Now Builderloo, With a Forum for Waterloo Builders
I rebranded KWBuilds as Builderloo. It lists Waterloo Region startups and events, it has a forum for posting what you're building, and The Weekly is back.
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Claude Code Ignores My Rules, So a Tiny Model Checks Every Commit
Claude Code keeps sneaking metaphors into my comments, and markdown rules didn't stop it. So a small decision model called Jev now checks every commit against my rules.
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I Wrote a Web Framework, and I Didn't Write It for People
Every framework assumes a human is reading the docs. An agent opens the repo cold every time, so I built aweft for that reader instead.
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I Walked Into Elevate and Walked Out of Nrth
Day one of the festival that used to be Elevate. They renamed it during their own opening night, and I happened to be in the room.
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Kimai time tracker setup guide.
A quick, copy-paste Docker Compose setup for running Kimai with a MySQL backend. It walks you through creating a .env, launching the stack, and getting Kimai reachable on port 8001.
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When is the best time to Open Source?
When is the best time to take that private repo public? Does it matter if everything is working?