Taste of North York isn’t just at Mel Lastman Square.

The festivities are actually going on all over the area, and are promoting all of the amazing restaurants that are available in this wonderful region of Toronto.

While I was walking through the square today, it didn’t look like there were any specifically Halal food setups but, I am sure there are some in there somewhere. If you aren’t finding anything Halal, you can always go for the vegetarian options in the square. Always remember, when in doubt, just ask what the ingredients are, and maybe, just maybe, bring your own spoon.

The spoon is just in case there are some novelty iced-cream flavours available which come in small amounts but are all on a single order. I have no evidence that this is not the case.

Various Cultural Treats will be showcased.

That is an absolute certainty but, we can only truly confirm the state of affairs by investigating the situation manually. There may be cakes, and other confections, having various types and densities. It is entirely possible that there might be specialty cookies present within the festive areas.

Here are some places to get Halal food.

• Shawarma MAX, always a good choice, always Halal
• Villa Madina, always Halal, super good food
• There’s actually so many good places that are always 100% Halal, I don’t know anymore why I started a list but, there is no reason to abandon the list and then reformat this section because it’s just a casual blogging style of writing over here at DCKIM toronto tech blog.

Best wishes to everyone who is enjoying this festival. Always consider how fortunate you are that you have been blessed with safety and other wonderful things which you cannot provide for yourself but, only can be provided for us all from the creator of all things, Allah(SWT).

Maybe when I get around to it, I will install the big paper sign again? Hey, why not. It got some attention last fall, and now HDUB Pixel Art Edition is hitting the streets.

I can hardly believe that last years sign stayed up on that community sign-board for as long as it did. For a simple paper sign made out of bristol-board, four months is a long long time. Every time it rained, I wasn’t expecting it to make it through the week. I actually made three more which all were ripped off by wind and rain. The only one that lasted was the first one that I placed near the Famous Owls Meat Shop. I have no idea why it lasted, maybe it’s not a very windy location. Some-how, some-way, it stayed up on that post for such a long time.

I don’t know when it actually got torn off. Some time through the snowy brutally cold winter, that’s my guess. Good thing I had a backup set of letters, so making up the new signage wasn’t too much work. I just need to paint up a little more to finish it out: HTML Hobby (above) and Craft HTML (below). Hopefully it will be similar to the little single page flyer design. I really like the flyer.

HDUB Pixel Art Edition is out already

In reality I haven’t touched the code in a few weeks but, maybe there are a few last tricks to be pulled to make this thing even a little bit hotter. Still, from what I am seeing, there is nothing even remotely similar for making Artistic HTML websites. Everything seems to be geared towards Static Site Generators (SSGs) like this one (HUGO). Those are great for blogs and news websites but, for more Artistic stuff, you need more freedom, and it has to be more about the graphics than the text. You need more control over the positions of your imagery so that you can have the freedom to overlap components and design the way that you decide.

That’s what HDUB is about, freedom. It’s main focus is making it easy by letting you treat the HTML pages in the same way that you would treat any artistic canvas.

The absolute best thing about HDUB as a piece of software is that it works completely offline, and your intellectual property and artworks remain completely yours. You don’t need to sign-in or sign-up to use it. Just download the little file (~1.5mb) and the program is yours forever.

This one doesn’t do anything funny like updating itself etc. and it doesn’t have anything built in to track you or send any of your data etc. to a company. That’s because HDUB isn’t even a company, and there is no corporation which has control over it. It’s just a clean piece of Canadian Software which works for the user.

I’m still working on advertising.

You might find it surprising that advertising and gaining any measure of visibility is the greatest challenge for such a small project as DCKIM. It’s hard to get any attention at all but, this tiny, microscopic little project has been seen by some legendary professionals in the software and technology industry.

The first top expert who made mention of the project was a guy named Glyph. If you haven’t heard of him, you maybe also haven’t heard of the Python programming language. Everyone who knows Python, almost certainly has heard of him because he is an early ‘Python Pioneer’ known mostly for his vital contribution, namely ‘Twisted Python Framework’. This guy is huge. He link ‘dckim.com’ in a post back in late October 2025.

Soldier of FORTRAN (phil young), the mainframe computer security expert boosted this site. Unreal.

The next top expert, an absolute legend in his field, who literally invented the ‘pen-test’… and I can’t even explain how this ever happened, or how he even found my posts, then boosted my french language post, not only once but, twice within a 72 hour period. I thanked him after the first re-post, and he responded by posting it again.

That I could hardly even believe, and I just thought to myself ‘This has to be the absolute biggest moment for the project’.

Nothing can really be bigger than that for such a small project like this… It just doesn’t get bigger than this.

https://mastodon.social/@dckim/116478303440989514

Don’t worry Toronto, I got this

I’ve been pumping out ads on Mastodon since last August. It’s the only service that doesn’t ban all advertisement. Every other social media thing requires payment for any advertisement or they ban you for life. Not so with Mastodon, it’s free and it’s open, and it’s packed with tonnes of experts across all sorts of interesting fields.

It still has that ‘small-town’ atmosphere, and where else could you casually correspond with multiple astrophysicists or even astronomers? or even… you name it, that’s where the pros are hanging out.