2023s
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I added Rio Friendly Meats, a butcher at 2477 E Hastings in #EastVan, to #OpenStreetMap via Organic Maps.
#Vancouver #buylocal
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Learning that Apple Maps has guides (collections of places) and ability to contribute photos to places (I don’t really ever use it).
Organic Maps has bookmarks which can be organized into lists.
Here’s Bloedel Conservatory, a classic #Vancouver destination for me when it rains for weeks.
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I think the future is divergent mutual incomprehension and that’s good.
Part of a post by Venkatesh Rao @vgr on Farcaster. He wrote Divergentism which goes into more detail.
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Installed linkding shared bookmarking on the #CommonsComputer
As written up in the link, I’m still working out how to describe these shared services.
I have an OpenCollective for #ToolsForThoughtRocks but want to set things up that people can join the commons generally.
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I’m on Bowen Island for the holidays visiting my parents, so here are pictures from our usual Killarney Lake walk. Views East and West from the Meadow Bridge.
#BowenIsland #CrippenPark
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Tinkering with Organic Maps, realizing I only have one bookmark in it: Mirika, a cafe in Berlin with great coffee, pastries, and classic German hot lunches.
Organic Maps is no-charge, open source offline maps based on OpenStreetMap.
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RSS and Mastodon could fit in the same app…I’d start with the social media experience: the single timeline of posts. Very simple sidebar. No article view. No read/unread status — just position in the timeline.
Brent Simmons, On Mastodon Support in NetNewsWire
#RSS #Mastodon
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Did you know that Skipper Otto community supported fishery has multiple #EastVan community pick up spots?
I’m picking up my last order of the season at the Off the Rail Brewing spot on Adanac off Clark: conveniently just a couple of blocks from my house.
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I made lasagna yesterday. Like most of my cooking, I just sort of winged it.
I did buy some ingredients earlier in the week, including Italpasta Oven Ready Lasagna Noodles.
Here’s the package recipe, also on FoodWiki along with notes on my own recipe.
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The earth is too small to eat alone
The original title The earth is too small for private dinner parties is an epilogue to a cookbook by The Frugal Gourmet.... -
Most productivity advice is BS…The only productivity advice that matters is getting clarity on what matters to you. You just feel differently about the world when you know what you care about.
Sari Azout continues with questions on getting to clarity on this
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The next version of Wiki.js sounds like it could be a pretty good Gitbook replacement.
And yes, it’s a Cloudron app of course ;)
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Inventing the future with Doruk (mostly him)
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I am attending IPFS Connect in Istanbul!
And also testing the Sparkles micropub client posting to MicroDotBlog, which has an RSVP type.
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That’s what social media did for people. We could click on a reply button, and in the same place we were reading, address a response specifically to that person, creating a thread. A conversation. There’s basically no way to do that in blogs or using RSS”
Stephen Downes, Different from blogging
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Spooky Postcard Show at Tangible Interaction /Ironworks Building. Rachael made some paper cut spooky eyeballs to put in the show.
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Mah Milk Bar on Victoria Drive is now open:
Mah Milk Bar is part neighbourhbood grocery store and part cozy coffee shop. We are passionate about supporting local brands, making delicious coffee and creating a warm, welcoming spot for the community to meet!
Tasty coffee & chai!
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“All the Little Fires”, a painting by Leanne Romak currently at the Hearth Gallery on Bowen Island.
The description is by her uncle of how moonshine got made in 1940s Manitoba.
Put (sugar) in a barrel with yeast and water. Add some barley, wheat, potatoes. Not in the house because the police come check. Put it in the bush.
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I have been looking for a fresh Asian noodle source in Vancouver for a long time.
I bought some Win Full Ramen at Donalds and made it for lunch today: the ramen was excellent.
And Win Full Foods seems awesome: looks like you can pick up from their store in East Van.
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From Robin Sloan’s latest I learned about the singer Lorde’s newsletter:
it feels like…a long rambly email from a (very smart, hugely successful) friend. Lorde’s messages do not belong to the internet of Twitter or Instagram
Quoting Lorde:
Everyone’s gotten really good at the same thing.
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I’m in St. Louis for a conference and went to a cute local coffee shop, Goshen Coffee.
I’m slowly starting to gather coffee shop stickers on my travel mug.
Also pictured: wall of colourful bean packaging, dogs of Goshen, and seasonal beans.
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However, browsers selling users to search engines to keep the web going is a bit like selling weapons in a war zone to bankroll cancer research.
Robin Berjon suggests that we need to fix search on the Internet. And yes it means figuring out how to fund browsers, too.
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“I think I’ve reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level, if that’s what you mean.”
— Revelation Space, Alistair Reynolds
#quote #book #reading #scifi 📚
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That thing where it’s been a long week, but it’s also been too long since you cooked a proper meal, and that proper meal is delicious pulled pork, but you don’t have a dishwasher, and you have to slog through a mountain of dishes.
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I’m in London, Ontario for the week. We’ve explored a couple of “variety stores”, which are corner cafes / brunch / diner places.
Here’s brunch at The Bag Lady Variety. Shared a cinnamon swirl French toast with maple syrup, side of bacon, and fruit bowl. Plus 50s-60s Canadiana. Ceramic poodles!
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Was at Raincity Games at International Village Mall.
Bought Teenage Mutant Dirtbags (mutant animals with attitude) & Scum and Villainy (scifi space capers using Forged in the Dark).
Plus photos of Faerie Fire & Witch-Craft by local #Vancouver makers, & Dialect about language.
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Pastries at Nemesis Coffee on Hastings in #Vancouver
The cruffins are the most decadent, like blueberry pavlova.
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The Subconscious Beta is out now.
The client app going into beta is a single player MVP.
But underneath the Noosphere protocol syncs and links notes and files planetwide, talks IPFS, and is open source.
Blogging, round two, but for tools for thought.
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In August 1991, the first website was published. We’re celebrating 32 years of HTML with a hangout in the park!
A fun ongoing event in #Toronto. Join them Saturday, Aug 19th, 2-5pm in Dovercourt Park. Bring your own HTML writing machine!
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re:Mix is a kitchen blender which you use with your own glass jars. It’s made in Berlin and “open source”, and the intent is for others to build & sell in their local region.
This is a model I’ve been waiting to appear! Who wants to build in Vancouver / BC?
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Spent some time working out of Timbertrain Depot.
On my way out, I got to taste test this espresso tonic with orange juice.
Choice of name was “Orange is the new Black” (overplayed in my opinion) or “Clockwork Orange” (dark, mysterious, my vote). Delicious with a fruity bright Ethiopian bean.
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jwz writes up some Mastodon’ts. The big one is to give the original post (OP) control over replies in the thread. So an OP is more like a blog.
I initially thought this was a bad idea, but yeah, if you’re doing a In Reply To, you shouldn’t get to ride along the OP reach.
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From Scout Magazine comes word of Mah Milk Bar opening on Victoria Drive in the old South China Seas location.
In Australia [a milk bar is] a go-to spot for daily basics, synonymous with a corner store
This sounds like a great community oriented place!
#Vancouver #EastVan
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Hanging outside with Kaz the cat for his evening outdoor time on the deck. Last night in Nanaimo, back home in Vancouver tomorrow.
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Picture of the New Brighton Park Pool from yesterday. Not many people and amazing cloud formations over the north shore mountains.
We’re making Mondays our swim night.
#Vancouver #EastVan #swimming
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Just got my Similkameen Valley variety pack of wine dropped off.
Here’s a quick photo of the label for Pamplemousse Jus. I’ll add all the bottles to the FoodWiki later.
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This post by Devon Zuegel describing the unconference toolkit is great.
I’ve been meaning to write down something similar, this is an amazing resource to share.
What is an #unconference ?
- participant-driven
- a shared project
- choose-your-own-adventure
- the board is the center of the event
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Community Pizza on The Drive is close to us and has a delightfully shady patio for when it’s hot.
- Building mural
- Breakfast Pie, except pizza
- Avocado Toast, also pizza
- Flight of beers, all sours & radlers
#FoodWiki
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Evening walk with some murals in an alley, and ending in gelato (peanut butter for Rachael, cherry mania + raspberry lemonade for me)
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New Brighton Park Pool in #EastVan
We like to go swimming at least once a week in the evenings. Last night it was really empty — maybe 20 people total.
The sky, sun, and mountain views are all amazing and we always enjoy our swim. Lucky to have our #Vancouver public pools.
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Got out of a movie tonight and saw this amazing sky above #Vancouver on the way home.
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We’re having a #DWebYVR catch-up in the collective garden at Scotia & East 4th.
It’s run by coFoodVancouver which is all about collaboration + food.
It’s my first time here. It reminds me of the back deck at c-base in Berlin a bit.
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I went to the New Media Gallery “DUST” exhibition today.
These are pictures of two of the pieces, Herman Kolgen’s Dust Surface (video on flat panels), and Michael Saup’s DustVR (particulate live sensor data with VR visualization).
The 3rd piece has a gasp worthy surprise that I’ll leave secret.
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Bottled one batch of tepache and started a second.
This new version has the leftover skin and core from one pineapple, 3/4 cup of organic cane sugar, fresh ginger, bay leaves, szechuan peppercorn. First time I’ve used savoury spices.
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Pulpfiction Books has a great thread talking about their business & why they are closing their Kitsilano location in Vancouver. What a great line about retail:
When we opened Kits, 21 years ago, I think there was still a case to be made for a business model I’ll call “a person sitting in a room full of interesting things.” – @pfbvan
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Killing Community on community as villages, whereas scaled social media prevents this through a “sustained large influx of strangers”.
It’s no longer a village, but something like a train station. The default mode of being is passing through. People come and go, and there’s no real sense of belonging.
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Ben Thompson’s Stratechery post on Apple Vision gives us a framework for spatial computing taking on work (displacing multiple monitors) as well as consumption of immersive content.
This has very much been my thought about this category.
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building the next generation of social tools…as infrastructure on which existing and nascent communities can build places that are safe and connected, joyful and challenging, wide-ranging and deeply human.
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Kharis O’Connell has written up his extensive background in spatial computing, including when we worked together at the HUMAN product studio.
I’ve known that an Apple Headset like this has been coming, it’s just been a matter of when.
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Made grilled romaine with Korean spicy chicken and rice noodles for dinner.
R said: “it’s good! Like a Bodega Ridge meal smashed together with Fresh Prep”
Full recipe on FoodWiki.
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Went to Tall Shadow Bakery both days this weekend.
Saturday was later in the day and lots was sold out. Tried their pizza pocket pastry & a giant square of cornbread.
Sunday we went early to try the “pop tarts” pastry. Filled with berries, not to sweet. Tasty!
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A week of delicious food at Bodega Ridge
I just got back from a company retreat1 at Bodega Ridge, a large group event space on Galiano Island. It’s owned & o... -
The structures of our network commons have concentrated our responses to the forces already pressing against our livelihoods and children and futures. Within their engagement-optimized interfaces, we’ve built ourselves into a standing wave
Erin Kissane writes Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, next in her exploration of social networks and digital spaces.
We’re stuck by their current design & structure, with expectations from clout chasing influencers to people practicing digital civics.
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Lunch at Dosanko on Friday.
Tsukemono, including some fiddleheads
Ramen salad with cold noodles and miso tofu crumble.
Japanese milk bread cheese toast
Koji description. I bought some more koji salt to have.
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Had a lovely meal at The Pie Shoppe.
Pepperoni Supreme with ricotta & spicy honey
Morels & Goat with white wine cream sauce and asparagus.
And pies for dessert! Victoria sponge with rhubarb, salted honey cheesecake, and grapefruit & sweet vermouth.
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I just finished an intro call with a community mesh networking project here in #Vancouver called #StolonMesh www.stolonmesh.ca/, being initiated through 221A.
I’m excited about supporting this with #DWebYVR after the first time we tried this back in 2006!
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We were on Bowen Island for the long weekend and visited a couple of stores in Artisan Square.
We had a great time meeting Dana Lee Brown and her farm-to-hangar clothing, recently covered in Scout Magazine.
I got a picture of her examples of cotton & wool from raw to finished cloth.
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On Thursday I went for an afternoon bike ride out to Burnaby Lake along the Central Valley Greenway.
Turns out this bench has public wifi access.
My RadRunner ebike with laptop. Basically a standing desk!
#Vancouver #Burnaby #biking
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Evening walk on #BowenIsland down to the Causeway. View over the Lagoon, facing west. Next view facing east, the mainland mountains still lit by the sun.
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Bluesky #ATProtocol uses domain names as user handles. Parker Higgins did a great write up that mostly focuses on the possibilities of what using domains can enable.
“Verification by HTML reflects a web-first mindset, verification by DNS reflects a net-first mindset.”
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Yesterday was glorious sunshine & warmth in Vancouver. Today was gray and overcast in East Van, but still many excellent blossoms.
Japanese quince & then two excellent front yards filled with tulips.
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A walk in the sunshine around East Van with blossoms everywhere.
Magnolias are shedding. Pink poofs are open. Street of pink blooms. Sweet smelling rhododendron with Rachael.
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Rachael visits with a horse on #BowenIsland
And also a test of the #BlueSky posting support now live on #MicroDotBlog
June 1st, 2020
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How it started, how it’s going. Me at 7 and 48.
My parents are scanning old photos so I’ll share a couple. And I got back from the barber yesterday ;)
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Went for a walk around the new trail around Grafton Lake on #BowenIsland. So many different greens - ferns, moss, skunk cabbage. And massive stumps from the original old growth. Nice to have a new-to-me walk on the island!
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My first computer, a TI-99/4A. This is me at home on #BowenIsland in 1985 at 10 years old.
It’s plugged into a black & white TV. I eventually got a cassette recorder and saved BASIC programs to it.
It was discontinued so bought on sale at Sears? Or Eaton’s?
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Skipper Otto made a list of Metro #Vancouver area Community Supported Agriculture #CSA programs.
Skipper Otto is itself a Community Supported Fishery #CSF that I’m a member of.
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Exit past the Water Cooler, a write up by Kharis O’Connell @rmtwrkr on the change of the pandemic for the future of work, and how Big Tech may now more closely resemble the old era of big corps. And the lie of innovation by water cooler talk :)
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I bought all three Site Nonsite albums on #Bandcamp: Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Osaka. Described as electronica with “Japanese Ambient aesthetics”.
“Documenting connections to place. Site is the source, Nonsite is the personal response.”
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WorldWideWeb is a new to me app by Iconfactory written in #Swift that runs a full web server on #MacOS #iPadOS #iOS.
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Jay Graber wrote an update about the Bluesky Private Beta - a sample client to help flesh out the AT Protocol. It’s inspiring, with examples for devs & creators.
“open protocols are locked-open APIs” is a great phrase.
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I did an exchange to Germany 32 years ago, & joined my host family for their vacation in France. Before leaving, I had my first epic French meal.
Turns out Restaurant Le Savoie still exists: in Margaux, north of Bordeaux.
#BorisEuropeExchange
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Snowy weekend on #BowenIsland
- Last night, towards the Causeway
- This morning turning on to Melmore from Millers
- on the Causeway looking east towards the mainland
- my parents’ place in the snow
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Where are we on the sigmoid curve of ChatGPT and related AI tech? Is this a 1999 Napster point in time? Or is it a PhotoShop-like productivity enhancer.
Tom Scott has a video titled “I tried using AI. It scared me”
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Two Japanese places
I read two stories about tourism and Japanese villages. The first is The Morioka Experience by Craig Mod. Why Morioka? ... -
I had the best burrata I’ve ever eaten.
Half with a straccetti pasta with tomato mushroom parsley sauce, half with a baby arugula salad with agrodolce lemon dressing.
Full details on the #FoodWiki.
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Chatter Net is a decentralized social protocol built out of #DID and #ActivityStreams.
The README on GitHub has a great overview. It has a sample social app you can try at conversely.social
via @erlend_sh
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From today’s #Vancouver adventures along Main Street, stopped in at Balance Botanicals.
Bought some sweet paprika, Sichuan peppercorn, and the new-to-me black cumin. #FoodWiki
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Quiet Sunday, working on my #FoodWiki by making an index of the latest Cook’s Illustrated.
This gets me researching, like learning about black vinegar, this is Heng Shun Zhenjiang-style from my pantry.
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Went to Kouign Cafe @kouigncafeyvr today.
This is the Purple Rain brown butter bread pudding with ube, and Midnight Sky black sesame baguette in the background.
This is a cool cafe with unique hot/cold drinks & eats at the slumbering edge of Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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The widget on my phone surfaces past photos. This is from a meal March 1st, 2020, in #Tofino at a Japanese restaurant called Kuma that sadly is no more.
Last trip that Rachael and I took right before the pandemic shutdown.
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Kyle Mitchell, open source licensing expert, is hosting office hours:
“…anyone can call in and ask questions, including legal questions in my field. Think legal clinic, but completely public”
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The Internet Transition, @robinberjon:
“we’re trying to run a planetary society that needs to solarpunk the fuck out of itself in a hurry on the collective intelligence of an 18th century principality that’s heard of the Enlightenment from some guy at the pub.”
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I’m really happy with how tonight’s dinner turned out: my own Lingcod in Coconut Broth with Flat Noodles.
Lime leaves for that classic Thai tanginess made the broth #FoodWiki
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2023 is #AppleHeadset release year!
I wrote some notes on recent rumours
What I think is correct:
- hand tracking as interface
- headset as second monitor.
- collaboration with #XR FaceTime calls
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Brad is writing 10,000 Food Words:
“a daily shot of 100 food words for 100 days. Like a shot of verbal espresso, or maybe shochu, depending on the time of day.”
Subscribed!
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The coffee at my local cafe Timbertrain is always good, but today I took a sip of my cappuccino… & it was just great! Their “regular” Caliber espresso.
I haven’t tried their “Sweet Thing” holiday blend, but the packaging is cute!
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I made pho for lunch today with a packaged spice paste. With fresh Thai basil, some steak, and… green beans 🤷♂️
Full details on the #FoodWiki
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Spent the afternoon wandering Main Street. Had lunch at Coco et Olive, of which the most amazing part was this slice of chocolate cake.
More on the FoodWiki
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Coolest part of #Tweetback is that you can register your self hosted archive location with Tweetback Canonical https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback-canonical
This means all the archives will actually link to each other over time.
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Ran #Tweetback locally and it generates a bunch of stats.
Am I … a reply guy????
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I got my #TwitterArchive poured into #Tweetback today, a self hosted solution built on @eleventy by @zachleat
https://bmannconsulting.com/#/page/63b23cbf-0728-414e-9590-01edaed57d56
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Happy New Year from UTC-8!
It's past 1am here in #Vancouver, because I decided to sit down and flip the switch for my main site to now be powered by #LogSeq
Published to #IPFS and served up via the @fission gateway
2750 "pages" from ~20 years of blogging, links, tags, and notes.