Comfort food Lab Street Eats Mark’s Carribbean Malt and Barley - excellent pub style food (be sure to check out the two other sister restaurants, Scran & Dram and Eatery) 1001 Nights and Antalya - great shawarma sandwiches Korner Kitchen - big big portions Arabella Beer Park - really reasonable and tasty burgers, with an excellent selection of beers Asian Kinkaku/Jinzakaya - the best and most expensive AYCE sushi in town, on par with mid-tier Toronto

So today was the day before halloween, and one of the things that we did with the kids was a drive through trick-or-treat. You drive your car, and roll down your windows, and the people give you candy. The kids sat in the back with their windows rolled down, held open their bags, and got candy deposited in. Strangely, they also tried to hand candy to my wife. It took us awhile before we realised that they probably thought she was a kid!

If you haven’t heard, github has released a really cool feature called github actions, letting you do continuous integration right within github. The incredible thing about it is that people have built all these amazing actions that you can use to build your CI system in a plug-and-play way! One of these actions that I’ve now integrated into this very blog is a hugo deployment action. It now deploys itself as soon as I make a change, which is fantastical!

Since we’ve been confined to our house for more than a year, we’ve done a pretty extensive tour of several restaurants, takeout style. I decided to list them out and go through some of them in a bit of detail. What else is there to do during a global pandemic? Comfort Food Malt and Barley One of our earliest local spots, it’s remained one of our absolute favourites. Everything we’ve tried there has been fantastic, and the portion sizes are great.

For some reason, I decided to volunteer to give a talk about software development to some Grade 9s. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I had to think of things to keep them engaged, and I really felt when they made a connection. I also really felt when I had lost them completely - they all had phones. =/ For better or worse, my notes are below: