The author of Murderbot Diaries is @marthawells1, who just posted a bunch of book recommendations. Here’s a direct link to her RSS feed (as I continue to add feeds to my reader). Permalink
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“…the trust between users and the people who run [Internet services] is breaking down.” — @cdixon, Computers that can make commitments. On blockchain as the beginning of tech that is more autonomous. Permalink
“We’re just as capable of collaborating on our ethics and their implementations as we can on our software.”— Kyle Mitchell, from his Talking Points on Ethical Licenses. Permalink
Went for lunch at Nine Dumplings today. Congrats to Yves on @lexxgill review.
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I’m now at 2 years with Chromebook & iPad Pro as primary devices. @soapdog writes about his post-Mac experiences with Surface devices — including low-powered Surface Go. Permalink
A thread by @rabble talking about his new company @planetaryinc. Love this phrase “healthy commons”, as we mostly hear about the tragedy version. Permalink
Good explanation by @gruber on Apple’s reasoning around end-to-end (E2E) encryption. From a UX standpoint, the worry is that users would lose their passwords, thus losing access to their data. Permalink
And lo, the time zones have decreed that now is tomorrow, for the purpose of making @GreatDismal’s new book Agency available for download on Kindle 📚 Permalink
I continue to experiment with cloud gaming services. This VentureBeat article covers Rainway, which is one of the few that has iOS client apps. Permalink
James Wanless covers a move from Vancouver to Victoria — and back again! @jiminalizm includes veggie eats, craft beer, running Permalink
Hometown is a fork of federated social network Mastodon by @tinysubversions. Focuses on local only posts for more private communities, plus inline full length article reading. Permalink
“tech” over the last decade went from being perceived as a vertical sector to now being horizontal, where tech has or will permeate most if not all industries, one reason @semil covers in Why Seed Funds Have Scaled Permalink
A thread on engineering performance management by @bcantrill “Daniel Pink summarizes these motivators concisely: people are motivated by autonomy, mastery, and purpose“ Permalink
You can edit .git/info/exclude to ignore things locally, without editing or checking in a .gitignore file. via the git docs, and me searching for this answer multiple times :)
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Via @StephenPiment, a conversation about a sci-fi tabletop RPG called Traveller, which likely was a strong influence on Whedon’s Firefly universe. Permalink
I grew up on Bowen Island, a small island just off Vancouver. @chriscorrigan writes about The Bowen Island Way — which many will recognize as the story of communities, whether virtual or physical. Permalink
First rule of RSS Club is talk about RSS Club! Discovered via @ton_zylstra’s feed, the concept is to make unlisted posts that only get shared via RSS.
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From @ton_zylstra exploring new apps, user-controlled data is a big deal: “It strikes me as wrong that many applications don’t make very clear where and in which format they store the information you create in them.” Permalink
The @RoamResearch note-taking, second-brain-building app is in beta, and people love it. @nateliason wrote 3K words about it. Permalink
“Repeatedly choosing to be uncomfortable is the only way to learn how to be uncomfortable and to get good at working through discomfort productively” from @vaughn_tan’s Time for a Change, Uncertainty Mindset Permalink
Also from @firt, as of a year ago, you can publish PWAs into the Google Play Store. You still need to make a little native shell of a launcher, but looks like a relatively low barrier. Permalink
"I’m defining in 2020 a PWA as a design pattern to develop app experiences using web technologies with different APIs", Progressive Web Apps in 2020 by @firt. Photopea and Tweetdeck are 2 desktop PWAs I have installed on both MacOS and ChromeOS. Permalink
"I value allyship more than anything. Home is people. Safe spaces are people, too. Not all people. But the right ones". Happy 41, @benwerd. Whatever version of the web we're on, we're all in this together. Permalink
Just got on the NetNewsWire Public iOS beta. It’s free and open source and a good excuse to reboot your RSS habits. Shill me your feeds, please ;) Permalink
“Every time you pip install, go get or mvn fetch something , you’re doing the equivalent of plugging a thumb drive you found on the sidewalk into your production server”, OSS is Under Attack by @lorenc_dan Permalink
I just added jekyll-mentions to my blog: it links usernames that are @-mentions to a social network of your choice. I have mine set to Twitter, but already filed a feature request to support multiple. Permalink
Using C to build your website; the @hundredrabbits team talk more about their (ideological) usage of C and assembly on their Patreon. Permalink
Manyverse, a distributed social network powered by the Scuttlebutt (SSB) protocol, is now available as an iOS app: “your friends' posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone” Permalink
I agree with a lot of this article — “Chrome OS has stalled out” by @RDRv3 — even while I like my Chromebook. But I basically use it as a stable, inexpensive Linux laptop. Permalink
“Using Google Cloud Platform for Cloud Gaming on Chrome OS” has tips and tricks for running Parsec or new-to-me Rainway. Permalink
11 ideas about the decade that killed iTunes, by @yayitsrob. “Infinite” cloud storage and algorithmic feeds mean we don’t file, but also that “the clock is always running, and that the work will never end” Permalink
Saving this dig DNS txt record one liner for posterity.
The _dnslink subdomain is used by IPFS as the well known location to look for a content address of a site’s root folder:
dig -t txt short _dnslink.boris.fission.name
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“In IPFS, you are looking content up by its hash. In Dat, you are looking content up by a public key”, Comparing IPFS and Dat, which are both distributed file systems, by @arcalinea Permalink
This very long analysis by Ferdy Christant on “The rise, fall, and resurrection of Flickr” is most excellent for defining tiers of photo sharing Permalink
“no-code is just programming, at a higher level of abstraction” — No Code is New Programming by @jeremyqho Permalink
More experiments in #opensource licensing. @feross publishing an NPM package under Prosperity license. Permalink
“If code signing is a requirement to distribute free software, then we need a Let’s Encrypt-style alternative for code signing” — Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software, by @byuu_san Permalink
“We miss the old internet and we miss Making Websites.” — Letting Go of the Old Internet by @thedezzie People “just want a place on the web to display something about themselves” Permalink
Just finished reading And Shall Machines Surrender by @benjanun_s — sci-fi far future AI cyborgs in space. Getting through lots of holiday reading! Permalink
Write up by @daemonsy on using the Heroku static buildpack. There is also a straight NGINX buildpack, but the static buildpack is setup out of the box for static sites. Permalink
The Return. Of dangerousmeta. To blogging. And self-hosting.
“I don’t care what you use, or how you use it, but get the hell off the commercial social services and get an independent weblog.”Permalink
Path of Exile is a free-to-play action RPG with unique gem-socketing-based skills, and a level tree that’s more of a spiral / mesh that lets you build any type of character. Permalink
Rachael and I made ebelskivers (Danish jam filled pancake balls) for Christmas morning breakfast. Hope you’re having relaxing and tasty holidays! Permalink
If you have video game time scheduled over the holidays, Grim Dawn, an action RPG successor to Titan Quest (2 classes per character!), is on sale at GoG for $7. Permalink
A full afternoon of cooking. @rachael_ashe made roti, I made Trinidadian chicken curry & lamb coconut mango curry & two side salads. Permalink
Retrowave / Dreamwave / Synthpop / Outrun / Retr 🎧 playlist created by NewRetroWave - some creative sounds inspiring some memetic warfare #screamingsnakecase Permalink
Just figured out how to get @usefathom working with @discourse – it's an SPA so you need to tell Fathom to track the push state Permalink
Chain link fence, cranes at the port, and sunlit mountains Permalink
Finally fixed my blog front page to show all recent posts - microblog posts, bookmarks, and IG cross posts. Reminds me that it’s been too long since a full-length blog post! Permalink
I should probably write an actual blog post about how I’ve been enjoying using Discourse forums. Great OEmbed support and auto transclusion / linking between posts. Permalink
I posted a #cookstorm on Twitter as I made this Chicken Eggplant Coconut Curry tonight. Pretty happy with how it turned out! Permalink
Testing posting from the MicroDotBlog iOS client. Permalink
I got access to @GoogleStadia yesterday. My controller doesn’t arrive until next week, so I played Destiny2 on my Chromebook with mouse and keyboard. Worked well! Permalink
At @rachael_ashe’s new studio, her studio mate Ted has a cookbook collection! The author photo is amazing. And of course I want to learn how to flame things table side. Permalink
Sitting in the office at the end of the week sponsoring some cool projects on Patreon and drinking a Brassneck Yuzu beer. Have a great weekend, everyone! Check out #eastsideculturecrawl & @RachaelAshe if you're in #Vancouver. Permalink
This MONOLISK game is pretty interesting. You build levels and other people play them, while you level up different characters with equipment - mage, warrior, etc. Here’s the link for following me. Permalink
“the venture capital industry has evolved in a way that makes the fundamental incentives at work for VCs and founders difficult to align”— Why is venture capital so misaligned? Jodi Jahic by @jodij Permalink
Why yes, I am still experimenting with drinking vinegars. Newest orange-quince + white wine vinegar on the left, orange-ginger + sherry vinegar on the right. More on the new forum at allthebest.recipes Permalink
Going from a Debian container to Ubuntu on your Chromebook looks relatively straightforward, via @MakeTechEasier. Permalink
Interesting “triangle” mini PC made of wood and aluminum, the Acute Angle AA B4 (techradar article). Ships to Canada from China for about $220CAD. Permalink
Diced quince and sugar after 48 hours. Made 2 cups of quince syrup, then added 1 cup champagne vinegar. Voila! Quince shrub. Permalink
Cultivate Tea on Main had a collaboration with Goose, making Onigiri 🍙. Went well with a kombucha flight. Permalink
A lovely summer evening to be heading over to #bowenisland on the ferry. Permalink
Turkish coffee made from Guatemalan beans at Ben Rahim in #Berlin Permalink
Was following a bookmark to Backpfeife bakery and found a whole art / food / drink / hang out space by the Spree #berlin Permalink
Brassneck Brewery @brassneckbrew is our office neighbourhood craft beer. Xenophile, a “tart fruit beer with apricots” is what we’re trying today. Permalink
Wirecutter has officially updated their best Chromebook to the new Asus C434. In the meantime, the previous pick C302 (which I have Permalink
New Brighton Park, on the edge of #eastvan, next to the wheat loading port, is an amazing summer evening experience Permalink
A towering “icy” - shaved ice & eight toppings with self serve sweetened condensed milk - and a hot sweet soup of rice wine with sesame balls. With @misobarb & @rachael_ashe & Simon. Permalink
People in Berlin talked about using clauses in the German constitution to expropriate privately owned apartments Permalink
Vancouver’s airport, YVR, is a “community-based, not-for-profit airport”. I did not know that, until I watched this promo trying to get @VancityReynolds to be the airport spokesman. Permalink
#Vancouver is so lucky to have this massive selection of craft beer. And! Look at all the colour & design that it’s funding as well! Permalink
Just found out about @smallbatchvan, which produces content about BC food producers. Subscribed! Permalink
Chicken curry (@monsooncoast balti with added turmeric) and some deep fried plantains (Koji salt from @dosankorestaurant) Permalink
Have my TekSavvy cable setup and working. Arrived in the mail, I plugged it in, it just works. Here's the Speedtest: 88Mbps down, 7.72 Mbps up Permalink
Finally getting home Internet switched from Shaw to TekSavvy. Half the price, twice the integrity. Permalink
Spreading the gospel of espresso tonic in #vancouver at @bumpngrindcafe with James the barista. Bought some tonics at Choices, fingers crossed it becomes a menu item. Permalink
A visit to Sawada Coffee in Chicago. @be.zelenka waves. The coffee is a “Black Camo” - matcha + espresso. Permalink
Went on adventures in Richmond industrial parks today, and found delicious food including Lamajoun, an Armenian bakery. Wrote it up on the wiki — includes surprise chocolatier discovery! Permalink
Made it to Lamajoun, the Armenian bakery in Richmond. The “dough boat” is called a pide, house made basturma (cured beef), khinkali beef dumplings, jazzve coffee. Permalink
New business cards! We’re on the road next week in #seattle & #chicago so needed some new ones. And yes, QR codes now that iPhone camera supports them are surprisingly useful! Permalink
If this works, it came from posting via Micropub from Indigenous, an iOS app that supports micropub and microsub. Permalink
Spent the weekend on Bowen and did a bunch of cooking. Wrote up directions & photos of beef shoulder stew, rhubarb cake, and a kale & roasted beet salad, all on the wiki. Permalink
Made some schug, a hot sauce of fresh parsley & cilantro, with garlic, jalapeño, Thai red chilli, lemon juice, coriander, cardamom, salt, & canola oil. Permalink
Lucky enough to do some test eating @shiok.ca - new cheap & cheerful Singaporean opening on Kingsway west of Victoria. Immediate top 4 #laksa in Vancouver. Permalink
At @rachael_ashe’s studio for First Saturday. She’s showing off some of her custom papers. Studio sale! Come by until 4pm. Permalink
Lots of web designers use SVG for logos by default these days. But many apps don't support SVG natively. I brew installed rsvg to easily convert SVGs to PNGs, including an OS X Automator app. Permalink
For @misobarb’s birthday week, we went to the new Hanoi Old Quarter, 36th & Victoria, Northern Vietnamese style. Counterclockwise from top left: fish with dill, duck & banana stew, appetizer platter & a delicious soup. Permalink
We went to @tworiversmeats in North Van on the weekend. Full service butcher counter plus a licensed cafe-style restaurant with many meaty eats. Permalink
Revolver, right at 7:30am opening. The front porch of Gastown. Permalink
Sunday morning in #Berlin. The signs says “no laptops on weekends”, so bringing out the planning sketchbook. PS @fissioncodes is a thing now. @ Populus Coffee Permalink
Hipster coffee & tasty breakfast in #Berlin. Including a “ginger shot” that burns so good. Permalink
Remote working shift start at the beautiful #Vancouver public library. The top floor has work stations and an awesome patio. Permalink
Dear Berlin: I’m coming to visit next week, so I’m practicing by having lunch at @bestiewurst here in #Vancouver. Permalink
I’ve been using an Asus C302 Chromebook for a year now. The new Asus C434 looks great - a little bigger, much more powerful, & support for Linux apps (which is what I’m missing to complete local development). Permalink
Delicious meal at Dosanko in #EastVan. They use rice fungus (koji) to make lots of their own dishes, including this koji-cured beef belly. Permalink
Worked out of Propaganda Coffee in Vancouver’s Chinatown today, & @be.zelenka showed off her ridiculously awesome custom Mac OS + Firefox + tiling WM + mechanical keyboard. Permalink
Incredible meal with @rachael_ashe at @stlawrencerestaurant for our 11th anniversary. Not a lot of French Canadian cuisine on this coast - this was top notch. Permalink
MIT & BSD #opensource licenses, dating back to the 80s, should be considered deprecated writes @kemitchell. Permalink
Early start, prepping for my session. A pastry & coffee on the bench outside a great little bakery. Permalink
Wandered the Paris streets. Found this chill cafe with good music. My first pain au chocolat of the trip. Permalink
Thanks Fernando @fmedeats for this list of Paris restaurants by David Lebovitz. Permalink
Working out of @thisfreespace newest location, WHITE in Yaletown. Permalink
A date tart with rose jam at Moltaqa. Permalink
Great story by the founder of creator e-commerce platform Gumroad @shl about his failure to build a billion-dollar company. His learnings about “The market you’re in will determine most of your growth” are especially interesting. Permalink
Who doesn’t order a Friday brunch & boozy coffees??? From @tuccraftkitchen where I’m coworking most days thanks to @thisfreespace Permalink
You’re working from home & then realize you’ve got Montreal-style brisket to make lunch with. 😍 Permalink
Sunrise on Orcas, looking west over President Channel towards Canada. Permalink
So many delicious baked goods at Bakery Sate. Road trip supplies! Permalink
Stopped in for an afternoon coffee & pastry taste test at @liviasweets yesterday. Congrats on your opening week! @ LIVIA Permalink
Blood oranges are awesome Permalink
Deep fried tofu tossed with chili-garlic, quick bok choy & broccoli stir fry with a little soy sauce. Permalink
The infamous, original #eastvan craft brewery: Storm 🍺 Permalink
I’m pretty lucky in my #eastvan neighbourhood to have great businesses close to home. Permalink
Shared a selection of appetizers at Moltaqa for lunch. Chicken pastilla, lamb merguez, stuffed eggplant, & white bean stew. Permalink
Cassava cake. Last of the ingredient experiments - grated fresh cassava, coconut, & various canned milks. Permalink
A cold but sunny walk from Jericho to Spanish Banks and back. A view over to West Van & downtown Vancouver. Permalink
Re-reading my 2016 post on moving from Flickr to self-hosted photos. My timer runs out beginning of February 2019. What are you doing to move on from Flickr? Permalink
Christmas braised lotus roots. Main flavours dried sour cherries, maple syrup, and a little sriracha. Permalink
Lotus root soaking in water with lemon & sour cherries. I have no idea if this is going to work out. Permalink
Christmas Eve duck Permalink
German Rouladen just starting to braise. Thin sliced beef filled with mustard, sautéed onions, bacon, & pickles. Permalink
I mean, I only sort of bought turkey. This is what Columbus calls a “turkey hill”. Stuffed with sausage, wrapped in bacon. Permalink
Columbus Meat Market super packed before Christmas of course. I’m pretty happy with the duck, turkey & pork I picked up. Permalink
My first Filipino Kamayan meal - a dinner feast eaten by hand, served on banana leaves Permalink
A coffee rub & smoked salt bought at a neighbourhood craft market. By @falterfarms Permalink
3Box, social profiles on Ethereum: "We think these capabilities will make it extremely easy to build the next generation of more social apps on Ethereum, and contribute to making web3 a more safe and familiar place for our users and communities." Permalink
As I was looking at @OpenCollect I found this great project of theirs called BackYourStack - search dependencies your org uses & financially support them. Permalink
A lovely Moroccan lamb tangia at Moltaqa in the winter sun. (Old ACME Cafe location) Permalink
Coming into the dock at cloud island. Permalink
Roast chicken. Kinda sorta spatchcocked. Parsnips & rutabagas. Permalink
Rainy Save on Meats neon, waiting for my bus. Permalink
Really, is there such a thing as too many computing devices? Installing Ubuntu on my old Mac Mini. Permalink
@rachael_ashe made a delicious arugula salad, and I made the vegetarian version of Catalan chick peas with mousseline. Both are on the wiki. Permalink
I’ve been ranting about ActivityPub as a standard to use on Ethereum and other Web3 systems without enough context. The Mastodon project wrote about it earlier this year. Permalink
Lots of travel, back in Raincouver at Revolver. Enjoying a duet - a macchiato with the leftover shot on the side. Permalink
Stages 2 - 4 of Pulled Pork: halfway through 6 hours of cooking, “pulled” pork, and dinner tonight. Permalink
The absolute abundance of a California grocery store. Permalink
By @KyleSamani, a post on token distribution models, including @LivePeerOrg's merkle-mine approach: "We encourage every team that’s building a layer-2 token or a PoS blockchain to consider some permissionless way for passionate community members to participate that’s not an ICO" Permalink
Stage 1 of pulled pork. Who says you can’t cook when business traveling? Permalink
From @kemitchell's @LicenseZero initiative, an article mapping open business models:
"Vigorous copyleft serves not just the currently underserved among open source contributors, but the open source movement as a whole, by preserving the broad base that made it relevant to begin with."Permalink
Grabbing a moment of peace in the crowded Blue Bottle. Working on telling the story of FISSION & collaborating with great people across the Ethereum ecosystem is a lot of work, but is keeping me energized. Permalink
If you'd like to have a continuous copy of your twitter archive, @mhawksey's Google Apps Script to Github Pages has been running reliably for me for years. Permalink
Dim Sum for 2 at the Pink Pearl. Top right counterclockwise: bean curd & sticky rice, egg tarts, pumpkin shrimp dumpling, shrimp dumpling. @ Pink Pearl Chinese Restaurant Permalink
Made a nice piece of halibut with za’atar & sumac & garlic, cooked in butter / olive oil / onions plus fresh lemon juice. Permalink
A Georgian Restaurant in Prague, dishes clockwise from top right: chinkali, marinady, kababi, saslik, salad with walnut sauce. @ Bistro u Gogi Permalink
An Italian Osteria with great desserts. We had dinner too but it was less exciting. @ Osteria il Piano Permalink
A brewery built in 1431, wild boar goulash with dumplings, and a beer taster that is bigger than I expected. @ Pivovar U Supa Permalink
Trdelnik in #Prague - rolled dough that is wrapped around a stick & grilled over charcoal, then covered in sugar. @ Old Town Square Permalink
"Share for gratitude, not for rules and license terms" Alan Levine @cogdog writes The Road to to Sharing is Not Paved with Licenses, referring to CC licenses. The purpose of licensing is top of mind for me recently. Permalink
Great first meal for me at Dosanko in old Fat Dragon location. Tsukemono, tuna tataki, & chocolate + hazelnut dessert. They are making their own koji, miso, & soy sauce. @ Dosanko Permalink
An important read, Mongo submitting Server Side Public License to OSI. When software is no longer “linked”, but is connected through APIs & network services, copyleft needs to evolve. (via @LicenseZero) Permalink
Is this my final espresso tonic of the season? A glorious sunny day in Vancouver. @ Revolver Permalink
He was there at the emergence of Seed VCs, and @bryce reflects on that time and where IndieVC-style revenue financing is at. Standardization, collaboration, and metrics are the next steps. Permalink
Watched the first episode of “Salt Fat Acid Heat” on Netflix. Now I want to make Ligurian Focaccia. Permalink
Back home from our Portland / Eugene trip. These are the condiments from Indigo Traders: Duqqa, Harissa, & Za’atar. Permalink
Stopped at Snappy Dragon on the drive north. House-made noodles & dumplings - we got pork jiaozi. Huge lunch special mapo tofu. @ Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon Restaurant Permalink
The trees in Portland are pretty amazing colours, and hanging all over the road. @ East Portland, Oregon Permalink
Went to the very amazing Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene. Two great shows - Paper Weight by Elsa Mora, & Plastic Entanglements. @ Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Permalink
A middle eastern kitchen & home store, Indigo Traders. We sipped Turkish tea, I bought some condiments, browsed a lot of Turkish towels & other fabrics. @ Indigo Traders Permalink
Breakfast in Multnomah Village at Marco’s Cafe. @ Marco's Cafe and Espresso Bar Permalink
Made it to Portland. Went to a night market, which had excellent food truck options: bao with fried chicken & @pipsoriginal donuts. @ East Portland, Oregon Permalink
Road tripping to Portland and Eugene. First stop in Fife. @ Poodle Dog Restaurant Permalink
Super fun local community coffee place. Road trip begins! Permalink
Egg(s) in Purgatory - slightly spicy tomato sauce, black kale, soft cooked egg hidden under all that cheese @caffelatana Permalink
Trying out @caffelatana for breakfast. So excited to have this next door. Permalink
Yay! A fun first Vancouver IndieWeb / Homebrew Website Club tonight. @patdryburgh wrote up some more. I’m happy I got OwnYourGram working, so I will be using Instagram again. Permalink
This would be @patdryburgh, super excited that I forced him to setup cross posting from Instagram to his blog #IndieWeb @ Milano Coffee Roasters Permalink
Leftover potato dumplings that get sliced up and pan fried in a little duck fat are pretty delicious. Permalink
OK! It's 🇨🇦🦃 and I started cooking yesterday, have a turkey stock that got turned into stuffing already. Here's the stock after I came home last night: 
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Amazing interactive, participatory experience with @kidkoala tonight: Satellite, with us as Turntable Orchestra. That’s @rachaelashe flicking the fader.
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A great thought experiment by @erlend_sh on how to evolve funding for #opensource, specifically for infrastructure where "SaaS or open core" won't work: The Fair Share Clause, sort of like Fairtrade certification for software. Permalink
This comparison of deployment / hosting options by @hugo__df is exactly what I would have written. I still favour Heroku over Dokku because my time is most definitely worth $7 / month per app I care about. Permalink
We’re meeting next Tuesday, Oct 9th, at 6pm, in #Vancouver to talk #indieweb websites, wikis, and podcasting. @patdryburgh @rtanglao are coming. Maybe @stv @owenmead @apike. Leave a comment if you’re coming. Permalink
Caught up with @Stv who is doing great work in his new role at TELUS in #Vancouver. He is building awesome Node / React teams tackling some really big systems across Canada.
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Was out on the water last night with my friend Mike. Here’s sunset over the RVYC Jericho docks as we were coming back in.
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Post installation of the @KnowRoaming Global SIM "sticker". It goes on over the contacts on your existing SIM card. Going to be doing some more travel soon & this is easier than SIM swapping. 
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From meeting @kemitchell, it's clear to me that open source licenses are going through a time of innovation. Check out License Zero and also Kyle's writing. No, really, go read his last 10 blog posts. Permalink
“The web is the way now that we distribute information. We will need the web pages we create now to be readable in 100 years time, just as we can still read 100-year-old books.” — The 100 Year Web (in praise of XML), Steven Pemberton Permalink
“In popular terms, to be true, a meme must first be minimally viral so it can be meaningfully thought at all.” — Dodo Thoughts by @vgr Permalink
Blockchain Governance 101 - Vlad Zamfir’s current thinking on the topic of blockchain governance, with a couple of different flavours possible. “if a coordination mechanism is legitimate, people will (justifiably) act like it’s a fact that people will use it” Permalink
"Following someone on twitter is like having a direct line into their brain" @borismus in Make twitter great again?, with some further notes on the broken RSS ecosystem & Twitter design choices. Permalink
Ok! We’re going to make Czechoslovakian Cabbage Soup.
Starting with the meat, carrots, onions & garlic ready to roast.
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OK! I now have 1) micropub clients talking to 2) a micropub glue server, 3) pushing to git, pushing to Netlify, which builds my Jekyll blog, producing feeds that 4) @microdotblog cross posts to Twitter, Medium, and LinkedIn. Full write up here Permalink
Stopped in at Pure Bread for a coffee and a butter tart. So many baked goods!
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Setting up the office with proper supplies - ramen, Kind bars, Ethernet cabling & a few crypto specific items ;)
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It's past midnight, is it working yet? Permalink
I may quite possibly be posting this via micropublish.net, to my own micropub server on Heroku, which turns it into Jekyll compatible md file and posts it to Github, which sends it to Netlify, which creates a feed for MicroBlog. Permalink
I think I’m about to put “Full Time Open Sourcerer” on my business card. A lot more fun than Head of Operations & Community. More on this dev.to thread. (via @expede) Permalink
Went to the Art Breakers market at Heritage Hall yesterday. Bought several prints & also collected business cards for some upcoming commissions I want to do.
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Just added Columbus Meats to my wiki. Going to make these meat rolls for dinner.
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slashman/jsrl, a JavaScript Roguelike Boilerplate (via @ryanszrama). Of course I have time to fork this and build my own JavaScript roguelike. Permalink
First espresso tonic of the season @revolvercoffee. So excite! @ Revolver Permalink
Great Iranian meal at Yaas in North Van with @misobarb @roland @rachael_ashe @ Yaas Grill House Permalink
Curator & grape vendor @civilianstripes at @crissyarseneau’s opening at Kafka. @ Kafka's Coffee and Tea Permalink
#bowenisland for the weekend. Lovely clear sky & sun, still brisk. Home town. @ Bowen Island, British Columbia Permalink
The Narcissus is a little cafe at the north end of Commercial, across from our storage unit. Run by Japanese owners, they are doing “matured” fruit drinks, which sit in simple syrup & are then served as sodas or flavoured lattes. @ The Narcissus Permalink
Bulk Barn. The colour red. Swedish berries. @rachael_ashe. Amazing. @ Bulk Barn On Yates Permalink
Took all the selfie shots at the Royal BC Museum. @ Royal BC Museum Permalink
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Yesterday’s #ramen, plus pickled daikon with turmeric bought @nikkeimuseum event. Permalink
Starting to think about food & cooking oriented projects for 2018. This is a spaetzle maker, for making German egg noodles. Could we build a kitchen library in Vancouver for sharing space & under-used tools? Tag something you might want to share with #vancouverkl Permalink
Finally got the pork belly lettuce wraps at Damso on Bute. Comes with scissors for cutting these giant pork chunks up. @ DAMSO on Bute Permalink