https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings Notes on building real products with AI-assisted development, from mobile games to news aggregators. en-ca Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:46:17 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/toraffic https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/toraffic Toronto keeps having the same transportation argument, and it rarely starts from the data. Toraffic.ca pulls seven City of Toronto open datasets into one map and adds an OSRM-based impact score, labelled honestly as an estimate, so the debate can start from evidence instead of conclusions. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/toronto-park-atlas https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/toronto-park-atlas Most park guides rank by which one is nicest. The Toronto Parks Atlas asks a different question: is this park doing the urban work parks are supposed to do? Scoring all 3,273 of Toronto's parks across two axes reveals a bimodal city where only 7% of parks score well on both urban integration and natural comfort. Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/zeever-canadian-ai https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/zeever-canadian-ai Canada has committed billions to sovereign AI, but what happens when you actually try to build something? Zeever.ca repurposes a desktop GPU, an existing VPS, and open models to answer real municipal questions using Canadian data. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/evd2 https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/evd2 Most EV websites are graveyards of yesterday's news. We built something different. EVD2.ca tracks Canada's EV market the way a stock trader watches a portfolio, following vehicles instead of articles. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/model-trust https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/model-trust Which AI model can you actually trust? I built an evaluation framework that sends the same prompts to GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, then uses an AI judge to score their reliability and flag disagreements. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/cash-grab-ng https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/cash-grab-ng Cash Grab started as a Cocos2d prototype years ago. Here's how AI helped me rebuild it from scratch in Swift and ship it to the App Store. Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/fresh-news https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/fresh-news Fresh News started as a PHP project with Roy Pereira years ago. After running on WordPress for a while, I rebuilt it from scratch with Next.js and Claude Code. Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/wolf-wednesday https://www.ideawarehouse.ca/learnings/wolf-wednesday Part Shopify experiment, part tribute to the Wolf Wednesday legend. I learned about custom t-shirt margins, print-on-demand vendors, and what makes a wolf shirt people actually want to wear. Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT