Websites from Canada

Francine Boilard created the blog Phrenssynnes in 2018. She hopes to distract and inspire her readers. Her site focuses on healthy eating habits and recipes, road trips on the American East Coast, and book reviews, especially of crime novels. She also highlights new trends and discoveries that have positively impacted her life. Since 2024, she has published books. She encourages readers to leave comments and share the blog with friends and family.

Andrew Alexander is associated with the website adrw.xyz. He has a LinkedIn and Github account. He writes blog posts, including one about Barber 💈, a tool for managing Mustache.

Mitchell Mohorovich is a software developer based in Montréal. He is currently a senior software developer at Unity Technologies, where he focuses on building an end-to-end moderation platform. Mitchell considers himself a software development generalist, comfortable working on any layer of a service stack, from legacy codebases to greenfield projects. He is a proponent of digital privacy and a donor to the Signal Foundation. He self-hosts this Ghost instance.

Jon Deaves is a web developer at @LOGO.com. He is an experienced developer specializing in interactive web applications with a passion for creating delightful user experiences. Jon is proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and various web technologies. He prefers a light and easy approach to web development, avoiding excessive graphics, animations, and interactivity.

Joseph Staples is running on Cargo. He can be contacted and stalked. He provides updates.

Velvet Wells, also known as The Velvet Duke onstage, is a multi-award winning intersectional artist and facilitator based in Ottawa. They are a Black, queer, disabled professional devised theatre artist. Velvet facilitates workshops and classes to build and sustain performance skills. They are also a master of ceremonies for events and shows. Velvet is the creator of works such as “Ice Cream Justice – The Puppet Musical”, “Heist Stakes Improv”, and “All Request Radio Live on Location”.

Mohammad Ganji is a graduate of SFU with a Master's degree. He shares his learnings and curiosities on his blog, documenting his interests. He has created a website to select blog posts for him. Mohammad is also a chess enthusiast and can be found on chess.com.

Ellen Li is a Toronto-based technologist and meditator, born in 1993 in Toronto, Canada. She previously worked as a product designer at Shopify and as a cystic fibrosis researcher at SickKids. Ellen graduated from McMaster University's interdisciplinary Arts & Science program, where she studied biochemistry and philosophy. She maintains a personal website as her own independent corner of the web, dating back to 2000.

Obspogon is a gamer with a personal site on Neocities. He enjoys coding, meeting like-minded people, video games, and internet culture. He is interested in emulation, old games and consoles, Sonic mods, idle games, retro FPSes, Doom WADs, fangames, and old internet history. He can be found on various platforms including Ko-fi, Bluesky, Mastodon, Tumblr, and Discord.

Tim Mouskhelichvili is a freelance developer and consultant specializing in React and Node.js. He offers development services for web applications. Tim also runs a blog teaching web development skills to developers worldwide.

Takuya Kitazawa is an independent consultant, mentor, and advocate for sustainable technology development. With a decade of experience in AI/ML products, data systems, and digital transformation, he is based in Canada and originally from Japan. He has lived and worked globally, including part-time residence in Malawi, Africa. Takuya is the author of "Altruistic Byte: Real-World Insights for Tech-Driven Change," "How to Talk About AI," "Becoming a Canadian," "Productizing Data with People," "Building Recommender Systems in Julia," "Digital Malawi: Developing Hope in the Information Age," and "Ethical Product Developer."

YesU is associated with the "QkUeendom of YesU," a project involving words collected by Standford Rives in the OGM. The words of YesU on the site have been refactored to reflect the editor's opinion. The site also features stream-of-consciousness writing, including reflections on family, religion, and personal struggles. E. A. Sawatsky is also associated with the site, identified as the author of "Donkhole" and working on a novella with Kyle.

Cait Gordon is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author and anthology editor. She advocates for disability, mental health, and neurodiversity representation in written works. Her books include *Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain*, *Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!*, *Nothing Without Us Too (Book Two)*, and *Nothing Without Us (Book One)*. She is also involved with the Spoonie Authors Network.

Naser Poursalavati is a Ph.D. candidate in soil virology at the University of Sherbrooke and Agriculture and Agri Food Canada. He is interested in using computers to decode complex biological data and combines his passion for coding with understanding biological systems through bioinformatics. He occasionally shares thoughts on research, life, and the things he's learning.

Chris Carlier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has been producing music for over 25 years and is known for creating "Short Songs." He also occasionally composes music for video, radio, and other projects, and sometimes writes fiction set to music. Chris co-hosts a weekly community radio program. He started playing music in 1993 and has been involved in various bands and projects, including nu metal, jam bands, electronic music, and chamber folk pop.

Gersande lives in Montréal / Tiohtià :ke with their partner Leif, and their cat and dog. They are an aspiring writer currently working on their first novel. Gersande is also the community manager and owner of millefeuilles.cloud, an anti-corporate social network for readers. They can be found on Mastodon and bsky.app.

Matthew Guy is a British-born man in his 50s living in Nova Scotia, Canada. He works in post-secondary education and strives to live by his progressive values. Matthew has over 30 years of experience working for universities and colleges in the UK and Canada. He previously served as Chief of Staff for a Member of Parliament. He has been involved in community political activities for many years, focusing on election strategy and supporting progressive candidates. Matthew's interests include technology, radio, podcasts, walking, and hiking.

Alex Hart is an Android Developer at Signal. He writes about Android development, test-driven development, and best practices for software engineers. His blog posts aim to help developers learn new skills and understand important concepts like disposability, testability, and readability.

Jon Gander is a software developer with experience in both backend infrastructure and sales enablement software. He has worked for companies ranging from large international corporations like IBM to smaller startups like Proposify. Jon enjoys learning and experimenting, which is reflected in his personal website where he explores full-stack development and shares his thoughts and experiences through blog posts. He values simplicity, performance, and continuous improvement in his work and aims to contribute to the software development community through his writing and open sharing of knowledge.

Hexaèdre is a retired physicist, entrepreneur, and coder who writes about games and code. They have been playing RPGs since 1982 and board games even longer. They got their first computer in 1981 and taught themselves machine code. They have since learned many other programming languages and have written production code used in the manufacturing industry.

Stephen Gower is a writer and podcaster. He enjoys books, podcasts, hockey, baseball, curling, and movies. Stephen currently works as the Regional Traffic Manager for Rogers Radio in Ottawa. He was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 35 and sometimes discusses it. He can be found on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads. He also has a shop at Ko-Fi where he sells various products.

Thomas Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, where he studies meta-awareness. He is the Research Director of the Psychedelic Studies Research Program and Co-Founder of the Canadian Centre for Psychedelic Science. His research utilizes neuroimaging, physiological, behavioural, and self-report data. He has conducted research on psychedelic microdosing and enjoys designing experiments.

Doug Nix is a machinery safety specialist and standards developer who lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He is married, a dog dad, and enjoys writing. He volunteers on CSA, IEC, IEEE, and ISO technical committees. His hobbies include riding a motorcycle, bicycle, canoeing, hiking, and yoga. He shares his ideas on his website, Mastodon, Friendica, and his technical blog. He is passionate about coffee, drinking 2-3 double espressos or espresso-based drinks daily.