Influencer John Casterline recently shared that due to Canada having 2 million+ lakes, many of them have odd names. He suggested getting a lake named after himself as a joke.
What would it actually take to get a lake officially named after yourself? Who approves something like that, and could a regular person realistically do it?
Introducing investmentregulation[dot]ca
Quick context: I'm 18 and I work in financial sales. I just shipped, in my opinion, the best way to master the CIRE.
For anyone unfamiliar, you need the Canadian Investment Regulatory Exam to advance in the finance industry. The official prep material is three PDFs and they assume you already understand the fundamentals. If you don't, tough luck. There's no way in.
I built a course that starts with "What is Investing" and builds up to CIRE's rule book over 69 lessons. It then drills you with spaced repetition, flash cards, a 100-question bank, a timed speed round (like Kahoot), and full mock exams so you're prepared A to Z on the topic.
It took me three weeks to build it.
I sketched the layout on paper first, built a large part of the UI and CSS by hand, and then used the AI to help with the rest. After that I spent a week and a half tweaking it in GitHub to make it exactly perfect.
Here's an example of what that means: I ran the Question Bank through a statistical check and found the correct answer with the longest option 72% of the time, against 25% by chance a candidate could have scored well without reading the questions. I rerouted the distractors across 98 questions and brought it to 35%. It's free, requires no account, extremely fast, and keeps all progress on your own device.
I also made it open source under MIT so that anyone can audit it and perhaps fork it to adapt to other countries' investment regulation exams. I'm sitting the exam myself using it.
investmentregulation[dot]ca
Let me know what you think of it.
^(Not selling anything, and yeah, Opus 5 helped with some of the trickier HTML. Hope you enjoy the site and the product, and that it helps another Daniel out there staring at the same three PDFs. This one’s for you. And if it’s not, hope you can let me know what you think anyway.)
I’m looking for the best reliable, certified Thunderbolt 5 cable with full bandwidth, display support, and high-wattage charging. I need at least 2 metres, but I’d preferably buy a 3-metre cable—or anything longer than 2 metres—if a full-spec option exists.
I understand that certified 3-metre Thunderbolt 5 cables may not be available yet. If you know of one that’s coming out, or have heard when longer certified cables are expected, please let me know. I might hold off on buying a 2-metre cable if a good 3-metre option is coming soon.
What would you recommend based on real-world experience? Reliability and full performance matter more to me than finding the cheapest option.
I’m running Mac Mouse Fix on the macOS 27 GoldenGate Public Beta. Almost everything in the app works, but every action tied to Spaces / Mission Control is dead.
Working perfectly in Mac Mouse Fix:
Not working since GoldenGate:
The strange part: when I assign these in Mac Mouse Fix’s “+” field, the buttons get detected perfectly. So the app is registering the mouse input fine, its just that macOS never carries out the actual Spaces/Mission Control action. I can also still open Launchpad, but not the new apps view in macOS 27.
Is anyone else running Mac Mouse Fix on macOS 27 seeing this? Any workaround yet? Hoping for a GoldenGate-compatible update soon.
When I use Dia, I easily sit at 40 to 50 tabs once I get in the flow. My goal is not to reach tab zero. I just want to see which tangents I went down and what projects I'm working on, so I can decide what is worth keeping instead of constantly jumping between focuses. Tab groups are exactly the right tool for that.
The problem is I have to build every one by hand. It does have automatic tab group naming, but a function to sort open tabs into groups (e.g., "seen in ChatGPT Atlas") would make my Dia experience so much better. For several weeks, I've been trying to automate it with the Claude Cowork desktop app, ChatGPT's Codex skin, and a couple of local models with AppleScript. Nothing worked. Each one nailed the structure: I give them my tab list, and they give clean groupings:
That's helpful, but it just hands me the organization in a table without doing it for me. Even with computer use and full context, none of them can actually create the group. Dia already has a powerful Opus 4.8 sitting in "new chat." It can even open tabs you fancy reading, but it can't group them.
Arc did this. Tidy Tabs was a super useful feature, and it still works: you ask "Arc Max" to open five tabs on the best 27-inch monitors, and it opens a nice folder of them. A browser built around an assistant should be able to organize the browser. Anyone got a workaround, or is this on the roadmap?
Yeah, basically title.
Both models cost the same.
As an example of what good-quality bus infrastructure in Mississauga looks like, here are some photos outside of Dixie Outlet Mall. It’s just a good MiWay stop: red-painted concrete pad with a proper shelter and traffic separation.
For buses, this is good enough. We don’t need every corridor turned into a centre-running, decade-long BRT mega project. Those have their place, but right now they cost more, take years, and complicate turns and access. A curb lane can be built quickly, with infrastructure our contractors already know how to build.
Start with the arterials that already carry frequent buses:
The rule is simple: if buses come every 15 minutes or better for most of the day, that arterial qualifies for curbside bus lanes. The service and ridership are already there, even with buses stuck in mixed traffic. Giving them priority will only grow it.
Use an existing lane where possible. If widening is genuinely needed, make the new lane bus-only, like in the attached image. At tight points, shorter red segments, queue jumps, and signal priority go a long way, so not every displaced car stays displaced. Some trips will just shift to a different time, route, or mode.
If your dictation accuracy has been hit or miss, then what worked for me is an external mic. WisprFlow's docs say they officially recommed the DJI Mic Mini 2 for most use-cases. Considering that I mostly dictate quietly in libraries and coffee shops, whispering and using the mic means it catches everything.
In my opinion, I wouldn't turn on the noise cancellation dials on the mobile receiver because that messes up with Wispr detection. Also, one thing I'd save you from: I originally bought the more advanced version for professional work. I ended up returning it since a proper pro mic would need internal storage and 32-bit recording, which I can just wait to get in the Mini 2S coming out in August.
You only need the 1 TX + 1 Mobile RX version. The transmitter clips to you and the little receiver plugs into your MacBook. It ran me about $90 CAD. You can grab it on Amazon, the DJI store, or wherever:
https://www.amazon.ca/DJI-Bluetooth-Microphone-Streaming-Cancelling/dp/B0G39G3SZM/
Not sponsored and not an affiliate link, just sharing what worked for me.
Looking to trade in my 15” M2 MacBook Air toward an upgrade. Apple’s site lists MacBook Air "up to $520," but I know that’s the ceiling and it varies by model/specs/condition.
Two questions for anyone who’s done this recently:
Trying to decide if it’s worth it or if I’m better off selling to a different refurbisher. Thanks!
Every time I open Training at Tims on my Mac, I get a “403 Access Forbidden” error. It happens in both Safari and Chrome, but the site works perfectly fine on my Android phone.
Has anyone else had this issue or found a fix? Completing all the required training on a small phone screen is exhausting. I even tried using Samsung DeX, but my phone is too slow for it to run properly.
Also, for those who have worked as a baker, roughly how long did it take you to finish all the online training?
EDIT: problem solved. Disconnecting Cloudflare warp was the solution. Youlookcold gave me the answer to disable "proxies".
Maybe I’m generalizing, but newer Canadian LRTs often look longer and sleeker. In cities like LA, Seattle, and Phoenix, the trains often seem shorter and boxier, with several cars connected together.
Why is that? Is it because of older stations, different safety rules, local manufacturing rules, or simply what each transit agency chose to buy?
I know these two trains are not a perfect comparison since one is high-floor and the other is low-floor. I’m asking about the broader design difference.
EDIT: Toronto's trains are actually Alstom Flexity Freedoms, as informed by taylortbb
The Hazel Line open house a couple of weeks ago was live-streamed and then put on YouTube.
It’s long and jargon-heavy, so I’ve summarized what’s actually useful. I’ll focus on the good news for anyone who wants to stay in the know.
Anyways, these are just the updates from what's new. Here are some positives in general about the line that I think are better than people give it credit for.
Did Dia remove the suggestions in the new tab bar?
I used to get those little prompts for things to do, but now they’re gone.
Anyone else noticing this, or is it just me?
The new Mississauga LRT train finally moved on its own for the first time after they turned on the power lines above the tracks at the maintenance yard. It’s a big deal because it means the Hazel McCallion Line is getting closer to actually being up and running.
I’ve used Wispr Flow daily, and the quality has clearly dropped compared to a month ago.
Yes, it’s faster now. But I never used Wispr for speed. If I wanted speed, I’d use any other transcription tool. They’re all fast, and I can even run fast transcription on-device. Speed was never my concern.
What made Wispr special was the unprecedented accuracy. First-pass wording and punctuation I didn’t have to fix. That’s the whole reason I paid for it, and that’s what got worse.
I emailed support and got a reply from their AI bot suggesting I narrow my language list and add words to my dictionary. That’s meaningless when the model itself regressed. I attached an image of the useless response I got.
Just revert whatever change pushed the speed/accuracy balance too far. I’ll happily take a little more latency for the accuracy that made this app worth using.
Can we get real answers from the team, not a bot? Anyone else seeing this?
I live in the Toronto suburbs, so I’m not complaining, but I’ve noticed Toronto seems way overrepresented here compared to other cities with great skylines.
Why does r/skyscrapers feel like a Toronto photo gallery lately?
Is it because the city is genuinely booming and adding towers at a crazy pace, or are there just a lot of Ontario photographers posting here?
Every second post feels like it’s either a new condo tower, the CN Tower, or another skyline angle.
What’s the deal?
Toronto’s skyline plays it way too safe. It’s mostly glass and beige boxes, and we could use towers with real character instead of the same uniform look repeated over and over. I want buildings that are bold, distinctive, and a little dramatic. “Evil” is the quick way to say it, like Brooklyn Tower (9 DeKalb), that near-black art-deco spire, but really it’s about having something with a strong identity that makes the skyline ours.
A few spots where something like that could work:
Curious where people think a building with real personality would land best, and whether any local projects already scratch this itch.
For a long time I kept a plain checklist. Crossing off a line never felt like much, so my list kept growing while my motivation dropped. The Notes app had the same issue for me. It held my tasks fine, but it didn’t help me actually move through them.
Since Craft added Kanban in April, I’ve switched to that. Each day I work in my daily note and move tasks across three columns: To Do, In Progress, and Done.
Most of it is just fun to do. I can see what I have coming up, move a card over to start it, and look at what I’ve already done, instead of feeling buried by one long list. The In Progress column helps the most. Dragging a card into it feels like real progress, and that small bit of momentum keeps me going.
For me, moving a card to Done beats crossing off a line. It’s kept me on track better than Notes ever did, at least so far.
Curious if anyone else runs their day this way.
Mistral OCR is arguably the most advanced OCR model out there right now, and yet I can’t find a single Mac app or Raycast extension that connects to it. That seems like a huge miss.
OCR on Mac is still stuck with the same standard built-in option, which is fast, very reliable but super limited. It even handles images, but an extension that skips that and just gives Markdown would also be totally fine.
My current workflow is clunky:
That’s a lot of swiping between tabs for something that should be one shortcut. A simple menu-bar app or Raycast extension that sends a screenshot to Mistral OCR and drops clean Markdown on my clipboard would be incredible. Has anyone built this, or is anyone interested in building it?
