2021s
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I’m testing the beta version of @logseq mobile.
Currently uses iCloud for sync, including a funky bug where folder creation hangs, but it does work. Congrats to the LogSeq team for another great milestone!
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An afternoon snowy walk on #BowenIsland: bridge & beaver lodge, ferns, and treetop wide view.
May your nights be warm & cozy, filled with the friends, family, & food of your choosing.
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Today was a gloriously sunny day in Vancouver, although when we set out there was still black ice in many places.
We did a long walk along the sea wall to Granville Island, with a pic of Science World & the public market. Insert your own visions of snow capped mountains.
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When you look at MY GitHub commits and want to hire me as a “core frontend engineer”, you’ve gone horribly wrong somewhere.
I did have a nice chat with a different engineering manager & got them to try out @fissioncodes. The reverse poach!
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Great meeting up with @MikeGartner for coffee. A member of the #ToolsForThoughtRocks community. Thinking about meetups - a conference? - in 2022.
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Whose problem is lack of OSS funding?
“If a bunch of hunters go out and shoot all the ducks to extinction, you don’t title an article that ducks have failed as a species, you say that duck hunting is a problem.”
via HN
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A great write up on community tools & trade offs by @rosano, on his new Ghost blog.
There is no one tool to rule them all, but glad to see solid #opensource pieces available.
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Whoa! My local coffee place @timbertrain moved their roasting to North Van & is going full coffee shop + in house bakery. Congrats!
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Nature is healing: tourists are returning to flock around the steam clock in Gastown.
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Weekend Adventure Day
Yesterday was a nice weekend adventure day with Rachael. Didn’t get up too early, had some nice bacon & eggs weekend... -
#BuildSoftwareTogether is a tag I’ve been using to mean that people should collaborate with developers and each other to build software … together.
And support and maintain it over time, too.
That may seem obvious but in many cases the construction of software is all by the maker, with limited input or support by people who use it.
And that in fact, the users of the software should take more responsibility as well, especially in the context of when they aren’t actually buying the software as a product.
My best suggestion on licensing is that non-commercial forms have the best trade offs: usage by those who make money with it fund the maintainers, anyone else can use it at no charge.
This article goes further to say that the corporate form of software itself is the issue:
Quirky, personal software that is aggressively unscalable & focuses on delivering human needs in human time over machine needs in machine time is nicer to write, nicer to use, and difficult for capital to subvert.
A response to:
Open-Source Needs a Reckoning, Greg Kennedy
See, the core problem with all “free” software licenses is this: they are aimed at only protecting the Product, and not the People who make or use it. The goal is to produce the best software, not the best community.
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A sit down duet (macchiato with leftover half espresso shot on the side) at @revolver_coffee with a delicious kouignette.
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The rain has been coming down hard in Vancouver so it was nice to get a bit of sun this afternoon.
Pics are of sunny Woodland Park and a view up our street, with leaves in full colour.
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Fall is here. Have you taken your vacuum cleaner for a walk yet?
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I am once again astounded by the way that TiddlyWiki is a #ToolsForThought app platform.
Check out this Zettelkasten edition “tzk”, including hour long intro video / tutorial, by Soren Bjornstad.
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As part of helping to launch the new @tiddlywiki forum, I looked at exporting data from Discourse into TiddlyWiki.
Woot! An offline version of your entire forum content!
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A walk before dinner down to the Lagoon on #bowenisland.
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Looking across Deep Bay to the mountains at the edge of Howe Sound.
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My favourite willow.
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Panorama of the causeway.
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Going to be on Bowen Island for the week. Working, but with a very nice change of scenery.
Went for a before dinner walk and saw this mink at the bridge by The Meadow.
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Nature is healing. Afternoon coffee at @revolver_coffee with @expede @midijeffg @rtanglao
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Feeling locked in by open source
Ton wrote a post about his usage of the Post Kinds plugin for WordPress and used the word “lock in”. I understand what h... -
Nanaimo day trip: breakfast at Gabriel’s, Neck Point Park, Chris & Erin at White Rabbit Coffee.
Many other places visited, picnics consumed, & parks hung out in, on a long, hot day. Next time, need to include an ocean swim!
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Heading to Nanaimo for a day trip. Looking back up Howe Sound as the sun rises.
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I tried out the Franklin Food Lab in my #EastVan neighbourhood this week: frozen ramen!
I bought two & had the spicy tonkatsu for lunch, the yuzu shio in my freezer for another time. Very tasty, looking forward to trying all the flavours!
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Went to the Imperfect Offerings show at the RAG yesterday.
I was blown away by Naoko Fukumaru’s work, where she does kintsugi on & with a variety of objects & materals: urchins, gilded blackberry spines, & barnacles.
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Making CRDTs faster, by @JosephGentle:
“I want Google Docs without Google…I think [CRDTs are] the future of collaborative editing. And maybe the future of all software - but I’m not ready to talk about that yet.”
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First time back dining in at Dosanko Restaurant after almost 2 years. House made tsukemono (pickles) — including local fiddleheads. To finish, their own 3 year old umeboshi (plum wine).
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“more than other networked software, tools for thought want to be owned. I don’t want to store my second brain on someone else’s computer.“
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Tonight is our third swim in the city pool at New Brighton Park. You need to book a 1.5 hour slot, so this picture is as the previous time slot clears out.
With the Port of Vancouver Pacific Elevators behind it.
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Stopped in at the new Nemesis next to Emily Carr. Incredibly gorgeous building, filled with delicious coffee & pastries & a bit of brunch.
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Miso Pork was the “sausage of the day” at Oyama today.
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Kaisereck on Granville Island now has a patio.
Currywurst, Schnitzel plates, and German wheat beer. The fries are excellent!
And it’s @rtanglao’s birthday!
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Single CLA - a contributor licensing agreement (CLA) that an individual dev only has to sign once & keep in their own git repo.
Great work by Kyle Mitchell, more in the forum forum.artlessdevices.com/t/project…
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A long weekend on Bowen, in pictures;:
- shady forest walk
- huckleberries are ripe
- Crowsnest Riesling, dry, very nice flavour, that I’ll write more about
- Bowen Bay beach, where I had my first ocean swim of the season
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Amusingly, I registered ‘indiegit’ about a year ago.
I went ahead and used DigitalOcean to install Cloudron, and used that to install Gitea.
The “Migrate from GitHub” is pretty straightforward.
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I was reminded by @and_how that we’re just past the 10 year anniversary of HTML5 Summer DevFest, one of the first events we did together.
Here’s to many more post-pandemic events, including #22022022
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A lot of thanks are owed to Kyle Mitchell for his amazing work in pioneering, evolving, and plain English improving various open licenses.
He has just published a round up of the licenses he has worked on.
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“We don’t have a theory for how human decision-making operates in an algorithm-driven online network of comprising billions of souls”
@CT_Bergstrom’s new paper, Stewardship of global collective behavior
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Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source by @MWeinberg2D covers a recent case where the maintainer didn’t want to have to handle increased support — but then also didn’t want to be forked.
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Robin Sloan’s email newsletter is just a link to a web page.
via Robin Rendle who talks about this as an antidote to the “sameyness” of newsletters cough Substack cough
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Bikes at Burnaby Lake. It was extremely sunny and hot, but with a nice breeze. We didn’t last long at our usual bench — we found some shade and lay in the grass.
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Exciting development in my neighbourhood: Coho Coffee now has summer drinks including espresso tonic!!!
They’re adding some house made citrus syrup & a slice of candied lemon.
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Good suggestions from @genmon: Three requests for the Google Chrome team as they experiment with RSS
I disagree with: “the browser is not the best place read RSS feeds long term” — web apps are a good thing!
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“Apple has served no meaningful role in the customer acquisition and “deserves” nothing more from the transaction than what a CDN and commodity credit-card processor would charge.”
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Went to the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday. This giant wall mural by Lauren Brevner & James Harry was amazing to see in person.
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Just ordered some live spot prawns for pick up next weekend from Skipper Otto.
Sign up for this season’s Community Supported Fishery membership ends May 31st.
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A few pictures from today’s install of @rachaelashe’s “Patterns of Influence” show. Opens this Thursday at the Craft Council gallery on Granville Island.
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I’m slowly adding some of my long time startup templates and resources to @VentureScoutsCA.
I just added this budget scenario template I use to help founders model expenses. Good to get comfortable with numbers!
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Peace Public License, a new #EthicalSource license designed to be “a copy-farleft cooperative non-violent public license which was more publically available and which was more openly and actively maintained”.
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I toured @stevekrueger’s new #EcomSquare coworking space yesterday at 1758 W 8th.
Very excited to see the space become a community hub for founders & funders in the DTC ecommerce space.
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Rhubarb syrup. Chop rhubarb, cover in sugar, let sit for several days. Strain to get syrup, cook down rhubarb with water to get more liquid out.
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IT’S ESPRESSO TONIC SEASON AT @timbertrain!!!!!
Made with Caliber Espresso and @FeverTreeMixers tonic. Plus a little bit of ice in a to go cup, perfect for drinking in the sun in the park.
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We went for a walk in Burnaby’s Central Park.
You can take a car share & drop it right at the border, or get off at a nearby Skytrain station.
Nice to be in the big trees & lots of green.
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I am very excited that my local coffee shop @timbertrain Depot is going to experiment with espresso tonics NEXT WEEK!!!
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This is a [truly amazing post by @moxie and the Signal messenger team](https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/).
Even if you don’t understand all the technical ins and outs, you will appreciate the writing & tone. We need more non-profits at web scale like this.
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Warren Ellis, commenting on Accelerando’s main protagonist Manfred Macx:
“If we’re not doing something with the information we’re taking in, then we’re just pigs at the media trough.”
via @BillSeitz
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A blossom filled evening walk. Blossom lined streets, a glorious giant pink blossom tree, and what I think are crab apple blossoms.
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Alright, who is running the espresso tonic tracker in #Vancouver?
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I guess it’s tepache season again
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Easter on Bowen, continuing to help my parents move and settle in.
Forest walk with first bright pink salmon berry blossoms, mossy trees, and the reflective water at the bridge by the Meadow.
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I know, I know it’s the middle of the night.
But I had a ton of fun making a shopping list with @TiddlyWiki.
Thinking about migrating @ATBRecipes into this.
Thanks to marxsal for creating Tiddly Groceries!
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I gave a talk back in Oct 2019 about #opensource licensing evolution.
A good time to reflect about what you want from your software and your licenses.
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I have a Ghost Pro-powered links / newsletter / subscription thing now. I wrote a first post, and it has a couple of interesting links. Never mind about the monkey.
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Yesterday was spent on the North Shore. @rachaelashe has work in the art for kids show at Seymour Gallery in Deep Cove.
Then walked the Spirit Trail along the waterfront east to Cap Mall. A bit of sun sparkle & the view over to downtown Vancouver & port.
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It’s a rainy cold day, but the cherry blossoms are coming out.
Spent a couple of hours this morning inside, taking a course from Eikcam Ceramics. I made a bento box and side dishes.
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A walk to Prototype Coffee. They sell colourful potions & waffles, plus have a mirrored moss portal at their entrance.
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North: up Howe Sound towards Squamish
South: Passage Island, out of Howe Sound, across Burrard Inlet, UBC in the distance
West: Bowen Island, Snug Cove and Deep Bay, a short 20 minute ferry ride.
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Very interested in @resonatecoop’s work around Verifiable Credentials.
VCs are a DID linked “proof”, and they have a demo including a Discourse plugin to grant access to a private group. Image from technical overview flyer.
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Detail of @timbertrain Depot hand made coffe cups, and crocuses blooming in the park. Sunshine time ☀️
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My local park was gloriously sun-drenched today. The sun was warm on my face and my skin was just drinking it in.
I sat on a bench & ate some lunch, and walked some laps listening to music after 5 hours of calls.
Round two in the evening, with an energizing talk. Thanks Elty.
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Went for a walk along the Fraser and ended up over at the River District.
We biked there to see the murals as they were being painted way back in August.
Mural artist Fernanda Ribeiro, IG:littelost_fe
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After getting @mamrotynka to go to Pacific Bread Company, we went to for a walk today and stopped at the yarn store and the Polish deli, Polonia.
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I was surprised to see QR codes in the latest edition of Cook’s Illustrated.
It works pretty well, where this Armenian Vospov kofte recipe leads to a video of how to make it.
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The Pacific Bread Company has a delicious selection of pastries as always, and that’s without taking a picture of the other case filled with cakes and colourful macaroons.
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A walk around the neighbourhood after too much time indoors. It was a nice evening, I got to pet a dog, and the sunset light was lovely.
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Autonomic is a tech co-op that just announced “Co-Op Cloud”:
“using existing open standards to build a catalogue of apps, & a CLI client to read the catalogue and deploy those apps”
Co-op Cloud docs cloud.autonomic.zone
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The rain and cloud have moved in today on Bowen.
Plus, an incredible selection of fresh pastries & sandwiches at Artisan Eats.
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Robin Rendle, Inheritance, on the longevity (or not) of the web:
“the web forgets everything because you’re just renting space…In sixty years will my grandchildren read my blog?”
This is part of why I’m interested in IPFS.
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View from Artisan Suites on Bowen Island. We’re helping my parents partially move into their new place this weekend.
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I’m very happy to have my #secondbrain notes site auto-building and publishing to @fissioncodes with GitHub Actions.
I also have IndieKit running so I can post from my phone over Micropub to a git commit. Longer write up soon ;)
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Here’s a few photos from @bloedelconserv.
You book a 45min slot to wander among the plants & birds & warm air. It didn’t hurt that the sun was out & shining through the dome as well.
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A picture of me in the lobby of our apartment.
It’s my birthday today. We’ll visit the Bloedel Conservatory for some nice warmth, jungle plants, & bird life as an antidote to the gray Vancouver winter.
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Are you annoyed by #opensource Contributor License Agreements (CLA) assigned to a single corporation?
@kemitchell made a form of XLC that lets contributors pool and manage relicensing without a central entity: Cross License Foundations
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This past weekend I started using my new @reMarkablePaper e-ink tablet.
So far, I’ve written two long form blog posts by hand, including this one documenting my first usage.
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Happy Valentines Day! Here are the cards Rachael and I gave each other, plus a sketch we had made in a market in Berlin 3 years ago.
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Sitting at the breakfast table writing what will become a blog post on drop in audio.
Yes, it’s a new reMarkable “paper” tablet. I’m using it in the hopes of better deep reading and writing.
Except for a quick microblog to post a picture of it!
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Go read @genmon’s Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas:
“And it’s interesting, right, this accretive note-taking and the process of taking core samples through the deep time of your own ideas.”
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Today’s evolving #opensource licenses are part of a long line of open licenses designed to attack certain business models.
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I bought this Mac Mini before the M1 announcements & it’s likely my last Intel Mac.
I finally completed this surgery to bump it up to 32GB of RAM.
The saga of screwdrivers 🪛 goes all the way back to mid October! 🙈
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I dropped in on a Saturday night friend Zoom with some old friends from Ottawa.
It was great to see everyone, & it reminded me about Untappd that everyone was using to rate beers.
I signed up in 2011 & last used it in 2015. So many social networks!
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Looks like Sublime Text is moving to a subscription model, plus videos on new features, post by @brianwisti
Lots of #indiebiz experiments around charging for software.
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Bandcamp Friday: Lambs & Wolves
I realized that Bandcamp Friday is continuing, where Bandcamp passes all sales on to artists on their platform without t... -
Yay! @louderthanten is turning 11 years old, and they’re becoming a worker-owned cooperative.
“We’re here to upend the traditional principles and values of project management that treat people like economic units”
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I went for a long walk in the sun along Wall Street in #eastvan.
My shadow posed for pictures at the parks along the way, facing the water and the North Shore mountains.
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Take out from Aleph Eatery, a Middle Eastern inspired vegan restaurant.
This is the Shawarma Rice Bowl, made with Enoki mushrooms, plus a side of hummus.
Fresh & good. Recommended!
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Perfectly fitting that I’ve had @kartick_vad’s Enjoy the Best, Not The Latest, Media sitting open in a tab for months.
And niches, too:
“better to watch something a million people love than 10M thought OK”
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Moa Party is a Mastodon / Twitter cross posting tool by @foozmeat.
I just inquired in the issue queue whether I can help fund getting the Instagram API working again <github.com/foozmeat/…>
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This is one of two hot chocolate + pastry combos we got at Bench Bakehouse as part of the Vancouver Hot Chocolate festival: a kouign aman covered in caramel & filled with maple cream. The sign photo has the full decadent list of flavours.
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“We will know our movement is succeeding if we are contributing to privileged wealth being more widely and equitably distributed.”
From @erlend_sh’s Open Source for Everyone. Discussion at Artless Devices forum forum.artlessdevices.com/t/open-so…
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Feedback to Ben
I read Ben Werdmüller’s post on his Medium experiment and started writing in his comment form, and ended up here1. Mean ... -
“Life’s too short to spend days of wall-clock time reading slightly new ways to say the same old thing.”
@kemitchell celebrates his standardized NDA, Waypoint, turning 2 years old.
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The new Gowalla, and open data around places
I saw that Richard Eriksson shared news about the “new Gowalla”. I replied to Richard’s tweet: I haven’t delved i... -
“I see some tweets from people I know, but a robot locked in a basement somewhere decided the order of this particular timeline, so I don’t trust it”
— @rands on using Twitter with Tweetdeck to find & follow info
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Unexpectedly pleased with tonight’s dinner, which I call Balti Chicken with Noodles.
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Via @nogoodtwts the amazing phrase “gaming surveillance systems in order to bend attention casinos to your will”, sharing @itsmeardenleigh’s post attempting to summon advertising
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Our Saturday walk took us to the industrial waterfront views of New Brighton Park.
Plant life everywhere was crunchy with frost.
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Yesterday’s sunny #eastvan walk.
Picked up a few things at Donald’s. They have a really broad selection of nice chocolate. I like how colourful the packaging is.
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Listening: Hotel Neon, via Flow State
Unfortunately, I don’t remember at all where this link came from. Flow State is a newsletter which promises &ldquo... -
Today’s meetings include people in Switzerland, Chicago, New York, Oakland, and Nelson, BC.
Plus chat, forum posts, and other connections across half a dozen more cities and countries.
Sometimes this World Wide Web is a pretty great thing.
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What is great about meeting with note taking enthusiasts is that you get really good meeting notes!
I met with @flancian this morning, and he took notes in his [[Boris Mann]] page on his [[agora]].
I love that he captured my [[chicken fingers vs. tentacles]] quote.
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Listening: theNewDeal
I was delighted to find theNEWDEAL on Bandcamp! I watched them live in Ottawa when I was living there in the early 2000... -
How can federated social media, with its plethora of domains and dozen or so software implementations, leverage social media icons?
I prefer the WebFinger semantics that look like email:
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“Today, the 16th day of January 2021, is the ten-thousandth day of September 1993”
— viznut explains the concept of Eternal September, and with recent events how we might redesign “entertainment-oriented social media”
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My sunny lunch spot in the Woodland Park community garden, and the @timbertrain smoked meat panini they newly have on the menu.
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Cultural deafness and controversy in tech debates, by @baldur
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We stopped in at Smith’s Bagelry today.
Bought fresh simit (pictured), as well as a slice of San Sebastián style gluten free cheesecake. A bit sweet for me, but light & fluffy.
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Licorice ferns along one of the Pacific Spirit Park trails. Many good doggos out for a walk.
I got to pet a Bouvier.
Don’t tell my favourite Bernadoodles…
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Reflecting on 20 years of Drupal & my personal mission
Dries, founder of the Drupal project, posted his thoughts and wishes from 20 years. He included 3 birthday wishes. The f... -
We’re lucky: no reported transmission at any barbers in BC.
@crowsnestbarber in #eastvan chopped my mop and trimmed my wizard eyebrows.
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Not Played: working my way through my music collection, and listening to Primus (again)
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I just posted my second playlist deep dive, based on Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock film.
The Pressure Sounds discography was the coolest find — all those 45 records, just like in the film.
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Music from Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock
We watched the Lovers Rock movie, part of the Steve McQueen’s Small Axe BBC film series. It’s all about musi... -
My answer to “how do you stop people using your #opensource software to do bad things?” has been “code of conduct”.
@kemitchell analyses a new, combined license + CoC.
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Cappuccino from @timbertrain thanks to @ewise who “sent me a coffee” over Interac. Thanks Evan!
And blurry seagulls in the park. A brief walk and text chat away from my Zoom room.
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I discovered yesterday that the @MicroDotBlog desktop MacOS app has support for importing a data export of your Instagram account.
I’m working my way through importing a chunk of photos at a time. Instagram was iOS only, so my account starts with my first iPhone.
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This thread by the @HakaiInstitute cataloging what creatures made their home on a whale skeleton is fascinating.
I had never heard of this South Coastal BC org - looks like they do great work.
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We did a walk around Burnaby Lake yesterday.
We’ve got weeks of rain — and then maybe snow in February??? — forecasted, so we make sure to go outside and enjoy the sun.
The entire lake loop is 10km+. Much longer than we had planned for, but worth it.
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Campbell's Dec 2020 Playlist
Campbell @cambel sent along a note over the holidays with a link to a Spotify playlist of some music that he has been gr... -
Listening: Jesse Bru, The Coast
I don’t remember how I ended up finding Jesse Bru’s The Coast. He’s even Vancouver based! I’ll q... -
“The code you depend on depends on you” @kemitchell’s commercial license sales for public software
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Matt Webb @genmon: social networks are getting smaller and more private — eg Discord servers or a WhatsApp group.
“As the global timelines get abandoned, this is where people are homesteading”
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Read Robin Rendle on Newsletters.
Which is really about making the web easier for everyone rather than falling in the pit of email that is newsletters. Also, RSS and web monetization.
This very much aligns with @FissionCodes.
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I had sourdough bread success today. I’ll take it.
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Today’s #eastvan coffee shop is Pallet. No rain and a touch of blue sky!
Plus: view from the corner of Meditation Park. East Van’s waterfront is mostly blocked off because it’s the commercial Port of Vancouver space. Wall Street has several small view parks like this.
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Tide data as a calendar subscription
My mom recently told me that the site she used to use for subscribing to an annual calendar of local tide heights and su... -
Engineering vs writing code, @benwerd
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Today’s outside time was a rainy walk & stop in at @timbertrain depot. I’m loving the super cute skull-with-toque design on the t-shirt.
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I made a bunch of small, granular TODOs today. And I got a handful of them checked off!
Also generally wrote down my worklog for the day, which really helps with these micro tasks.
I will take the small feel goods as part of getting back to productivity.
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I bought my Skipper Otto 2021 membership today. It’s a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) – you buy credits and order seafood through out the year.
I haven’t found the right CSA in Vancouver yet, but that’s another goal for the year. Suggestions?
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Playing: Monster's Den Godfall
Monsters' Den: Godfall by Monstrum Games is a turn-based RPG. You manage characters in teams of 4 (initially only a sing... -
Most of my work team and many other colleagues are east of me, time zone-wise. This means my mornings are full and I have to make time to get up and move around.
It’s cold and rainy, and nearby Woodland Park is filled with seagulls as I loop around to get some steps in.
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“notfoundbot is a GitHub Action that helps you automatically maintain the correctness of your website’s outgoing links.”
I definitely need to run this on my archive.
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Via Chris Wiegman’s post on leaving big tech, I learned about Hetzner.com’s hosted Nextcloud service.
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Regular reading, playing, and listening: intentional media
Ben Werdmüller writes up monthly reading, watching, playing, using posts. I like these type of posts, and have been enjo... -
Happy New Year! Went outside for a walk along a soggy Jericho Beach. I’ve been sick for a week, with a negative COVID test in the middle. Glad to be feeling better and to have a new year ahead.
