Round two of #ChefsPlate trial. Here’s the Caribbean-style Beef & Veggie Rice Bowl.
I’m picking up a few useful tricks for quick meals. I’m going to investigate some standard spice blends to have on hand, and quick aioli from mayo, minced garlic & a little water
You can find a list of 382 public #LogSeq graphs by looking at GitHub repos that depend on the logseq-publish GitHub Action
https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/63afdf50-30de-40ef-a02e-ed54abd67c2d
RT KootenayMorningRadio https://twitter.com/KootenayMorning/status/1608916432968110081
Twitter, Conde Nast and the digital wild west. @blaine aka Blaine Cook is Nelson's very own socio-technologist.
‘December 30th, 2022 - Kootenay Morning with Blaine Cook’ is on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/BcvMw
Cool! Live radio interview with @blaine right now
Just found #Plume, an #ActivityPub server focused on blogging length content. Written in #RustLang https://joinplu.me/
It’s listed as not actively maintained, and the devs point at #WriteFreely https://writefreely.org
Might be interesting for some Rustaceans to tinker with.
The #DigitalOcean setup, with options for S3 compatible storage and managed Postgres, makes the best of the #Mastodon codebase architecture as it is today https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-spaces-mastodon-hachyderm/
But one can architect #ActivityPub servers differently.
As @fm2279 points out, don’t containers solve this???
No! In fact, that’s #opensource projects architecting for last gen approaches.
Design for cloud scaling is different than manage this one Linux box, which effectively what containers give you
I just realized that for #Mastodon and #ActivityPub broadly, we’re at a similar point as when I started working on #Drupal.
One of our early contributions was improving virtual hosting, so one codebase could support multiple domains and sites.
If lots more organizations are going to run their own Mastodon instances, similar architectural changes will help.
A sign at #KillarneyLake #BowenIsland by the gravel beach:
“Killarney Lake is not recommended for swimming or wading. The lake is very shallow and is home to healthy populations of leeches.*
*Leeches are part of the lake's natural ecosystem and provide food to fish and other creatures. While they can attach to people, they are not harmful.”
We kept walking around #KillarneyLake until we got to the little gravel “beach” area. Not much of a beach left, everything swallowed by the stream and high water.
Rachael taking some photos of ice and mist on the lake.
Todays #BowenIsland walk it wasn’t raining but everything was still very wet and overflowing.
Two pictures in either direction from the bridge by the beaver dam in #CrippenPark. The path to the Meadow was completely overflowing.
Rachael on the bridge. The water is just under the bridge decking.
Leftover ice still on #KillarneyLake. I guess it must have really frozen solid.
Here’s a little clip of the water gushing out of the lagoon yesterday #BowenIsland
On #BowenIsland for a belated Christmas celebration and visit.
Yesterday was a king tide and pouring rain.
Water gushing everywhere in Killarney Creek and the fish ladder.
The king tide overflowed the causeway at the lagoon.
Rachael with umbrella at the causeway.
I (properly) figured out how #LogSeq page properties work!
TLDR; the interface has a dark background at the top where properties are newline delimited.
This does all work on mobile.
https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/how%20page%20properties%20in%20logseq%20work
My big dinner was last night on Christmas Eve. Tucking into some leftovers including fried spaetzle.
What did you have last night or tonight? Include recipe links if you have them handy and I’ll add them to my #FoodWiki
@chriscorrigan I’m reading your end of year reflection in NetNewsWire and reflect following you from afar as you began writing about Bowen close to 20 years ago.
Radical change is much on my mind these days, and I wonder if Bowen is a place that could support that. Housing housing housing!
Thanks for writing and sharing and all that you do.
Also a good excuse for me to link to the Wait Equation.
We can “see” 600M light years, what might it take to travel there https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/Wait%20Equation
I’ve totally seen this in Stellaris. Guaranteed there’s a space leviathan breeding ground in there
After getting Chefs Plate, I recreated an entire meal: the Herby Panko-Crusted Chicken. The trick is dredging the chicken in mayo instead of an egg or batter.
I went out and took some pictures before shovelling. 30-40cm for sure!
Some legend shovelled the entire sidewalk of the whole block, so I just did the rest of the building’s front cement walkway.
A picture out the window here in #EastVan
It snowed a LOT last night, and it’s still snowing.
Definitely a #Vancouver shutdown day - airport shutdown, ferries cancelled.
I figured out today that #LogSeq on iOS, because it’s just Markdown files, gets automatically indexed and included in search.
So, a search for “cloud” will bring up notes that have cloud in them. Neat!
https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/63a14675-25cb-4700-b0a5-46c502f4b5e2
Hey @paul, maybe you want to add a MicroPub API to Ivory as well????
I was just musing to myself about #IndieKit once again.
Turns out @paulrobertlloyd is announcing the #opensource #indieweb #nodej server on the way to a v1.0: https://paulrobertlloyd.com/articles/2022/12/indiekit/
Congrats, Paul!
Does anyone know how to get to the source photo from the #iOS “Photo Shuffle”?
I have mine set to rotate hourly and it’s great to see them, but then I’d like to perhaps post that photo or remember where / when it was by going to it in my photo library.
You press and hold to get to this customize screen (see screenshot)
Sometimes working on my notes is exactly like using a fidget spinner.
It occupies my mind and typing fingers, but there is no outcome or forward momentum.
Tonight’s dinner was a trial run of #ChefsPlate, a meal kit service that I’m doing a trial run of.
Full write up on the blog blog.bmannconsulting.com/2022/12/17/trial-run-of.html
Hey @brewsterkahle we’re going to do a #Vancouver #DWeb social on January 25th https://lu.ma/van-dweb-social
@blaine is going to come down out of the mountains and we’ll do some talks by a few folks.
Is the Vancouver Internet Archive office available / interested as a space? Want to fly up and join us?
> “A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet, and what faster way to turn them into a friend than to just label them one?”
“Friend” Can Be the Singular of “Folks”, Paul Kafasis
https://onefoottsunami.com/2022/12/15/let-friend-be-the-singular-of-folks/
It’s fun for me to read it cover to cover, and create a #FoodWiki table of contents for the articles and recipes so I can search it and use it for inspiration https://foodwiki.bmann.ca/Cook's%2520Illustrated%2520January%2520%2526%2520February%25202023.html
Cook’s Illustrated is one of the few pieces of paper-based reading I do.
The back cover illustrations are a great excuse to learn about one topic, in this case #Tsukemono, Japanese pickles. This gets me a great index in my #FoodWiki to explore https://foodwiki.bmann.ca/Back%2520Cover%253A%2520Tsukemono.html
Lots of cleanup left to do as well as learning what LogSeq can do.
Can I mix private and public content? I am nervous / not confident about doing this.
This build produces links with hash based routing eg https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/github%20pages
As long as I can easily permalink content do I care about whether it shows up in search?
I’d like to import all of my blog content + archive to truly have everything interlinked.
It’s about 2000 posts, not clear what the performance will be like for day to day note taking.
And then what? Well, I really want to have good mobile workflows that can be published / shared online.
Working Copy on iOS and GitHub Actions work for syncing and publishing. The LogSeq mobile app works.
Let’s see if it sticks!
I got my personal site imported into #LogSeq and have a workflow where I can edit on my phone or desktop and commit / push to GitHub where it auto builds to https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com
The graph view is always fun to play with even if it’s not useful ;)
Content warning: #FoodWiki tonight’s fish dinner
Made some Skipper Otto lingcod baked with Spanish white beans, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and capers, plus some mushrooms that needed using. Cumin, paprika, and salt and pepper.
#cooking https://foodwiki.bmann.ca/December%252016th%252C%25202022.html
Great background research by @mark on the usage of the term #multiplayer in #ToolsForThought https://embed.kumu.io/62f8200f8d68facc7a028cad9bf9851b#tft-community/e40855ba-f2f6-472c-bff8-938195016ed8
More in this thread https://toolsforthought.rocks/@mark/109516477250520249
After lunch at Kozak Eatery, a Ukrainian restaurant in #Gastown, I picked up some bread, a poppyseed pastry, and a sour cherry bun to take home. They have a mini bakery & deli at the front.
#foodwiki https://foodwiki.bmann.ca/December%252012th%252C%25202022.html
Is how I do posting too convoluted? Can one join the worlds of RSS and blogs with ActivityPub & microblogging?
Well, here’s my write up of how I’ve used the #MicroDotBlog features to import all of my Mastodon posts via RSS into my blog https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/2022/12/11/one-feed-to.html
Which you can follow at @boris@blog.bmannconsulting.com ;)
Thanks @manton
Went to the Brendan Lee Satish Tang & Sandeep Johal _New Works_ show at Gallery Jones yesterday.
* http://www.brendantang.com/
* https://www.sandeepjohal.com/
Plus a bonus Mira Song in the back room https://www.mirasong.com/
So it turns out #MicroDotBlog _retroactively_ imports your feed. See screenshot from my blog of my #ToolsForThoughtRocks account posts imported.
And hashtags link to a hashtag search on the server on which the account is - pretty cool.
New to me is that I can post here to my Mastodon account, and [use Micro.blog’s feed import feature to post to my blog automatically](https://micro.blog/manton/14824539).
Testing as of this post!
I was just looking for some other photos around that time, so this “Social Media Cabal at The Templeton” is also from 2008. Darren Barefoot, Monique Sherrett, and Megan Cole.
With a Globe & Mail newspaper on the table!
Memories from 2008 - @Miss604 posting this snippet from when I was the “third most influential online person in #Vancouver” https://twitter.com/Miss604/status/1601677515290193920
Post by @mjg59 on how #e2ee messaging needs more than #libsignal https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62598.html
Cryptography is hard! UX is hard!
We really do need to make it easier to be more secure with systems designed to be composed.
Went to the Krampusmarkt at Strange Fellows tonight: a craft & artisan market that runs all this weekend.
Wide view of the back room + our friends Hive Printing. https://strangefellowsbrewing.com/event/krampusmarkt-strange-fellows-brewing/
Went to the Krampusmarkt at Strange Fellows tonight: a craft & artisan market that runs all this weekend.
Wide view of the back room + our friends Hive Printing.
Thanks Langston Barrett https://langston-barrett.github.io/ for contributing to #TiddlyWiki https://opencollective.com/tiddlywiki
Robin Sloan’s lab newsletter has been making the rounds https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/
Lots of things to agree with here.
The last para describes what we’re trying to build at Fission: what if localStorage, but synced between browsers? #xp
Here’s @gordon presenting #Noosphere & #Subconscious https://youtu.be/tGdqG0Hzcjk
Just watched the Betaworks #THINKCamp demo day presentations https://www.betaworks.com/thinkcamp-demo-day
Lots of #ToolsForThought represented, many of whom have presented at a TFTRocks event in the past.
Another #TiddlyWiki Open Collective contributor just now. Thank you Eberhard!
There isn’t a Mastodon account for TW yet, although it will likely be on the Fosstodon server.
The Twitter account auto-posts a few things, including end of month summaries https://twitter.com/TiddlyWiki/status/1598104923098566656
Thanks @drhayes for becoming a contributor to the #TiddlyWiki OpenCollective! https://opencollective.com/tiddlywiki
For all three, I’d be using a #GithubActions flow in order to publish.
This means doing a Git check-in and push in order to publish, which means no publishing from mobile.
I’m thinking #LogSeq, with its mobile app, is best suited for what I want: management of everything from notes pages to blog posts.
For all of these, I might revive my #micropub setup using [[IndieKit]] https://getindiekit.com/ to make for easy live posting / publishing on mobile.
The reason I went this route before is because of the availability of mobile clients.
Given the growth of #ActivityPub, getting an AP compatible login could mean re-use of all the great AP mobile clients.
I now have three simultaneous conversions of my custom #Jekyll second brain / blog / archive.
(experimenting in parallel with git branches)
1) #TiddlyWiki - I can pour all the markdown in easily. The workflow of static publishing I’m just getting done & automated.
2) #LogSeq - static publishing currently uses hash routing which won’t index well.
3) #SilverBullet - brand new, I don’t like the split between tags and backlinks. Opinionated on file naming.
I did some more tinkering with #SilverBullet last night.
You can run it locally, so I had it on my desktop and then editing it from my phone in the living room.
This could be combined with @tailscale to just keep it running and be able to access from anywhere.
Formatting is a little wonky on mobile, and nowhere near as interesting as my current home page https://bmannconsulting.com
#dwarffortress - a legendary simulation game that’s been in development for 20 years - is out today on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
Am I reading this correctly, that it’s Windows only???
I found @harper’s reading list and started Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
It’s lovely writing so far. A far future #scifi set in Tel Aviv. And there’s a character named Boris, which is not very common. https://reading.lol/books/central-station/
I found @harper’s reading list and started Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
It’s lovely writing so far. A far future #scifi set in Tel Aviv. And there’s a character named Boris, which is not very common.
Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐
I put the pasta in at the same time. Pappardelle made with egg. Bought from #BosaFoods here in #EastVan
Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐
Added the prawns to the pan and some capers.
I would like triple the amount of capers but Rachael is not as much of a fan as I am.
Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐
Adding in sliced orange and yellow bell peppers.
I’m not totally sure what else I’m going to do with this. It needs to be at least a little saucy, but don’t want to overpower the prawns.
I’ll add some pasta water and capers to finish I think.
Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐
Sautéing a big onion (sliced - you can see my shoddy knife work!) and a lemongrass stalk in butter and olive oil. Added some salt and a goodly amount of fresh cracked pepper.
Doing this on high heat for a bit to get some browning, then adding 2 cloves of sliced garlic and turning it down.
Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐
One of the things I splurged on in using up my #SkipperOtto community supported fishery #CSF share was frozen spot prawn tails.
This is going to be a #cooking thread.
[[Silver Bullet]], a backlink enabled #opensource #ToolsForThought app https://silverbullet.md/
#TypeScript, #React, uses #CodeMirror as editing interface, #Markdown native, supports Jekyll-style front matter for custom attributes.
Experimental “Google Doc style” real time collab using #Yjs and a central #WebSocket server.
via @walkah
View looking west from Bowen Bay. #BowenIsland, July 3rd, 2021
Content warning: Food - Donuts 🍩
Brought some donuts home. One on the left is pink peppercorn chai mochi donut (Rachael’s pick) and right is chocolate glaze + sprinkles on a cruller donut.
I _really_ don’t like the texture / flavour of mochi, the cruller was great!
Went to Their There, a little cafe with coffee, donuts, and breakfast sandwiches on West 4th. They have a few ceramics & other neat things for sale, plus screens showing peaceful waves. https://www.theirthere.ca
Went to Their There, a little cafe with coffee, donuts, and breakfast sandwiches on West 4th. They have a few ceramics & other neat things for sale, plus screens showing peaceful waves.
Content warning: Food - Broth for Mussels
One of the things I got from #SkipperOtto was fresh mussels.
Here’s the base of bacon, garlic, shallots, and lemon grass, all sautéed in butter.
Next I added celery salt, chili flakes, and black pepper, plus a couple of cups of water, and boiled the mussels in the broth.
So good I drank much of the broth.
Picked up the last of my membership shares from #SkipperOtto tonight.
Beautiful #FalseCreek #GranvilleIsland #Vancouver view
Here’s a nostalgia bomb - MacOS themes https://botsin.space/@osxthemes
Many many more things to tinker with in there, but I’m glad I can now have a properly permalinked version of my long running food / stores / ingredients / recipes / travel journal published.
A #ToolsForThought, but for food shopping!
Anyone else seen examples of this sort of food / recipe focused interlinked site? I’d love to find more and see other approaches.
OK! With a bunch of help from Saq, I got my #GithubActions automated static site publishing with #TiddlyWiki up and running.
Say goodbye to #TWGroceries, say hello to #FoodWiki https://foodwiki.bmann.ca/
Making progress on turning my #TiddlyWiki #TWGroceries wiki into a static site.
The screenshots are an example of part of today's Journal entry, and then inline transclusion of me jotting down a recipe I made tonight.
Sunrise over Fisherman’s Wharf next to Granville Island, plus one of the new murals painted on the wharf.
I’m over on this side of the city temporarily while some renovations get done to our apartment.
#GranvilleIsland #Vancouver #mural #art
“To a great extent, history is simply the ephemeral in large enough aggregate.”
A thread on the importance of post migration, not just as a technical solution, but as something that can be better than corporate systems.
by @jplebreton
Here’s an example of the output, by @utopiah
Turns out, #LogSeq can’t handle 35K small files.
The script is fast and easy.
Do I need my #TwitterArchive as one page per tweet as a #Hugo compatible set of #Markdown files?
Probably good for importing into #LogSeq or #ObsidianMd or similar tools.
Follow developer @joeycastillo
Sunday Adventures:
Morning coffee with old friends downtown
Tona Chocolates dessert pop up at Oidé Coffee
Oona Clothing upcycled clothes
Made a balti with Monsoon Coast spices & new pink plates from Mongey Ceramics
Posted to Twitter here https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1593356131081940993
Andy Matuschak is launching a research fellowship
> “I’m offering six months of funding and mentorship to you, an aspiring interface inventor, to pursue a research project we’ll choose together.”
Apply by November 25th https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Research_fellowship
Fall view of Woodland Park #eastvan
Anyone saying “Mastodon should do X” should understand a couple of things.
There are 4 staff listed as working for the German non-profit, incorporated in 2021
ActivityPub-the-protocol is the bigger ecosystem, also without a “lead”
If you’re on the “main” MastoDotSocial server, I encourage you to find a cozier home server for yourself. Lean into federation! Explore! Experiment!
More on account moving here
Did a walk around the neighbourhood with @RachaelAshe before leaving for Berlin.
These are the fruit of the Pacific Dogwood tree, which is supposedly edible but described as “mealy”. Maybe I’ll do a jam test when I get back.
Went to Hapag Ihaw-Ihaw Grill this week, great Filipino food on Victoria Drive. Thanks @rtanglao for organizing.
Photos: 1) @fmedeats poses in front of menu, 2) Pile of crispy pata to share, 3) Vegetable spring rolls, 4) Chicken inasal combo with garlic rice, pickles & slaw.
A few #BowenIsland photos to round out the week:
Last night, 1) the causeway at sunset
This morning, 2) view from meadows bridge & 3) Killarney Lake lily pods
Afternoon, 4) bounty on parents deck
Leaving from Horseshoe Bay, and then half way across to Bowen Island.
It was a long, hot, half day of travel, with ferry shenanigans as sometimes happens.
It’s been a while since some good #pickling content got shared!
On the left, refrigerator pickles with white vinegar and brine. Will take about 3 days to sour.
Right, just brine, will take 7-10 days to ferment, with a fancy Kraut Source fermentation lid.
A new to me term, “recommendation media” as driven by algorithms, from the article “The End of Social Media” by @mignano
This observation comes as TikTok algos reign supreme, Insta cranks up algos, & even FB deprioritizes friends.
First swim of the year at New Brighton Park. Sun setting at end of day, Burrard Inlet & north shore mountains behind.
We’ll try for a couple more dips this week while temperatures are high.
“If you decentralize, the system will recentralize, but one layer up. Something new will be enabled by decentralization.”
— @gordonbrander, Decentralization enables permissionless innovation
If you ever want to have a digital tool to help with session voting and scheduling for #unconference -style events, the app created for @polyglotconf is great!
Thanks @ksgyoung for sharing this github.com/kyoung/un…
Chairs in the park with a Timbertrain Depot espresso tonic.
“build new decentralized things, throw new parties. …build many decentralized things…where any one extinction does not take everything down with it.”
Summer evening in Woodland Park #eastvan
I heard this (old! released 1998!) song by Placebo, Pure Morning, and have been obsessed by it.
Crunchy guitars. Kind of ambiguous quirky lyrics. “A friend in need is a friend indeed”
Nudelauflauf: made with ricciarelle noodles (a bit like skinny lasagna).
Remembered the trick of using a box grater to grate fresh tomatoes, made a very garlicky sauce, then put in cooked noodles and broiled with raclette on top.
Got out for a walk in Pacific Spirit Park. It was warm (finally!) and the light was dappling through the green everywhere.
On the way, an awesome lunch at Simit Bakery on West 4th. Got the Turkish breakfast - no photo, but recommended!
“Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is” — Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven
Eating out at restaurants is still a new thing, so it’s special to go to Kulinarya, a Filipino restaurant in our neighbourhood.
Okoy (vegetable fritters), tortang talong (eggplant omelette), and “sizzling” sisig (crispy pork ear), plus garlic rice.
It’s #pickling season! Trying out my new Kraut Source fermentation lid. Cabbage, radishes, and carrots.
Rain is exploding pink blossoms off the trees, plus spring crocus & magnolias. Just now feeling springlike in #Vancouver
Me, clueless, ordering a random lager on tap. @sonia, galaxy brain, asks for and receives a Guiness.
“many of the modular boundaries which had been drawn for docs are now in the wrong place for apps”,
@gordonbrander The internet is modular
This doc web vs app web continues to come up.
Countertop roasters at Prototype Coffee, all powered by ASUS Zenbooks. Sponsorship opportunity??!
It’s spring in #Vancouver. The “pink poofs” of various cherry blossoms are out, and Dosanko has sakura onigiri 🌸 🍙 on special.
AND: an amazing cat display at Oomomo!
Weekend adventures:
Shawn Hunt at @equinoxgallery.
Bottle shop at bistro & grocer Collective Goods.
Lemon tart from Flourist.
Vintage clothing at Slice of Life Mini Mart.
Happy Pancake Tuesday! German Eierpfannkuchen, served both sweet & savoury for dinner.
Exciting weekend adventures in Hastings-Sunrise.
London Drugs has a sale on German stuff, including this Kühne yogurt salad dressing, a favourite in our house.
Plus amazing selection at Pacific Bread Co. Best Kouign Amman in Vancouver!
Went for a long sunny & windy walk along the Richmond West Dyke Trail & Terra Nova. Ended the trip with a hot drink at Rocanini’s in Steveston.
As part of a studio clean out, I got to help myself to a couple of mortar & pestles. The collection has everything from ceramics, to brass, to science-y ones.
I ended up with a cast iron red one and a Japanese ripple ridge one.
Wandered around downtown checking out AR installations @winterartsfest.
Photos are @rachaelashe cloaked in Patternity by @soshallwork and the #GlitchGoddess soft sculpture by @TheMarjan
I did a quick walk & coffee this morning and listened to the free, short version of @rosano’s new Strolling podcast.
Now, sunny Woodland Park, paired with the member’s extended edition. Lovely to hear from Judy Perly of Free Times Cafe.
Sometimes you just need a big bowl of pasta with a ton of fresh parmesan. Tomatoes, garlic, onion, olive oil, chilies.
Just wow: TiddlyWikiPharo is @Tiddlywiki implemented in @pharoproject & #GToolKit.
Shared on the Talk TW forum & created by @offrayLC
An unusual #Vancouver sight: first footsteps in deep powdery snow, plus our snowy East Van street.
Apparently it’s going to rain today & turn this into an icy mess.
New year, new routines! Cappuccino and water to start the day (with global timezones on the wall), and a picture of the hang out room at @MakeshiftSpaces, cloud cover hiding Vancouver’s north shore mountains 🏔