Picked up these “Heritage” beans from Pilot Coffee House at Propaganda.

I like this Classic <—> Adventurous scale. I am definitely on the more dark, rich “coffee” flavours rather than light and floral mango or whatever :)

It’s @duchesscosmo o’clock. Locally made, refreshingly tangy & not too sweet, and available for delivery in Vancouver.

I got sent this Azerbaijani Country Life Vlog video blog by @florence_ann and ended up watching the entire 45 minute video.

Added to @atbrecipes.

I made a chocolate cake to use up sourdough starter discard.

It’s not a pretty cake, and making an entire sheet cake to use up a little sourdough is perhaps overkill, but I’m happy with how it turned out.

My parents are moving today. Third move in 47 years they’ve been in Canada.

Dude Chilling Park in the fall

Had these “screw buns” from Dinesty Dumpling House last night, which came with sweetened condensed milk for dipping. So pretty, so tasty!

I wrote a blog post about joining Social.Coop. It’s a co-op that runs “user-controlled social media” in the form of a Mastodon server. If you’re on Mastodon, please let me know, I’d like to follow you there!

Check out @rachaelashe’s work at The Art Shop upcoming pop up “Wood Paper Scissors: Raw Materials in Art”. Opening is Oct 23rd, runs until Nov 3rd. The space is on East Hastings, next to Strathcona Brewing and Prototype Coffee.

I just found out the mystery cheese we bought the other day is Braided Armenian String Cheese. Tomorrow is going to be a good day!

“[Vancouver has] the lowest property taxes on the continent and most of the people who complain don’t even pay these taxes, but rather pass them on to renters.”

— @seanorr in @scoutmagazine

I figured out how to properly setup the VSCode Markdown Notes extension for how I’m making my public #secondbrain notes.

Co-op and B-Corps structures are supposed to prevent this sort of thing. @jonrshell posts a thread covering the background of people soon to be in charge of MEC.

I just “finished” revamping my website, and then @bopuc left a link to Simply Jekyll by Raghu.

Pretty sure I’m going to replace what I’ve done with this template. It’s great when the data of your site is just Markdown files.

For people who like that sort of thing, I have a couple of RSS feeds on my site again.

Have a blog? Shill me your feed, I’ve got room for more reading

I wrote up some research on a System76 desktop and new Mac Minis with eGPU.

Anyone want to shill me on a desktop PC setup and/or recommend a Canadian supplier?

Chilaquiles? Migas? Some sort of Mexican creation for breakfast — tortilla strips, diced onion, fresh jalapeño, eggs, fresh tomatoes. Cumin and salt, and finished under the broiler with some cheese.

I need rain gear! Where’s the best place to buy in #Vancouver? What should I get for biking? Bonus points if anything is made in Canada.

Reply here or comment with tips here.

My bmannconsulting site is now a Jekyll-with-backlinks public notes garden #secondbrain, and it’s running on @FissionCodes.

🚧 I’m doing some funky DNS things so likely a little slow. 🚧

I just backed @doctorow’s Kickstarter for an audio book version of Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book.

DRM-free to fight Audible, which has 90% of the market.

Had a great get-to-know-you call with @JacobSayles, intro’d by @LeeLefever.

Jacob has a long history with coworking, and we ended up jamming on Community Land Trusts and related models for #Vancouver.

If you’re interested in creating new shared housing models — get in touch!

Picnic in the park yesterday. Smashed cucumber & pasta salad recipes on @ATBRecipes.

Hello #pickling friends! A quick stovetop pickle with golden beets.

Went for a tour of the in-progress @vanmuralfest murals and met animalitoland at 7th and Ontario.

Sean @coates wrote up how he checked Canada’s COVID Alert app and submitted a fix.

Thanks Sean, & thanks to the Canadian Digital Service for source code availability & responsiveness!

Montecristo Magazine talks about East Van alleys filled with oregano and other Mediterranean herbs. And yes, 6ft tall rosemary bushes are definitely common too.

The Tyee’s story of how the Himalayan blackberry came to North America is really interesting. Attached are pictures of three different kinds I took on Bowen.

Made my first salt-baked salmon tonight. Full step-by-step photos on @ATBRecipes. Definitely want to try more salt-baked things ;)

Zettlr, an #opensource desktop markdown editor. Zettelkasten support, tags, and more.

via @brianwisti

Success with the lactic fermented tomato 🍅 #pickling experiment! Less garlic next time.

I found @hecker’s “thoughts on Mozilla for people who don’t know Mozilla” to be a good read.

If you’re not in the tech industry, this adds lots of background.

“Lost in this billionaire slapfight…is the salient point that Epic is not actually wrong here.“

— @imranzomg, writing for IGN on Epic vs Apple and Google’s app store policies.

“If we want to maximize opportunities for safe social interaction, and build up physical and mental health, we need to socialize in parks”

— Parks and Bars: Socializing with Lower Risk, SFU MAGPIE Group

Ok shiny happy #pickling people, here’s some fermented rhubarb getting started, with orange peels and cardamom.

Back to important #pickling content. Lacto fermenting some tomatoes with garlic and some fresh green peppercorns.

I like this future where I can be emailing my local grocer and they’re asking if I want 6lbs of heirloom plum tomatoes delivered. Yes, obviously!

The Changli is a $1200USD electric car that you can order from Alibaba. Jalopnik bought it and road tested it in the US.

I kind of want to do a bulk order to Vancouver…

This is basically a pickle / fermentation appreciation account now. Bought this kit at Welk’s today, plus two more lids & springs.

New podcast: Value in Open, about doing #opensource for a living:

Any open source value creator is deserving of a fair share of the profits that their work generates for others. But figuring out reasonable ways to “collect” without running afoul of deeply rooted open source principles is an incredible challenge. – @erlend_sh

I’ve really enjoyed Martha Wells’ MURDERBOT books. On special today.

Barbados is offering a 12 month “remote work” visa

I don’t think this is the only one of these we’ll see. As remote employment becomes normalized, cities & countries will compete for workers.

On the fifth anniversary of Ben Thompson’s Aggregation Theory, @PackyM posts his Entropy Theory: “most successful businesses are those that use the latest technology to wrangle that chaos”

Turning a giant head of green cabbage into Kimuchi and some pickled cabbage & jalapeños, from The Joy of Pickling

Pineapple 🍍 Mango 🥭 #tepache with a knob of ginger. Back to basics!

“We want our house to be made from sustainable materials that last multiple decades, are resistant to rot, and require very low maintenance.”

@LeeLefever has a different definition of smart home, and a great write up of choosing yakisugi siding.

My bike against the textured wall across from @DLChicken1

So proud of @rachaelashe’s work. Check out her work featured for #FacesOfCraftFriday by @CraftCouncilBC

This is a screenshot of Obsidian @obsdmd making a link graph of the Markdown source files of my bmann wiki and archive. After discussing with Ton, “just files” is a powerful means of ownership.

Next batch of #tepache, first time without pineapple: rhubarb, ginger, lime.

I’m testing @hopinofficial for my @drupalconNA #DrupalConGlobal presentation. Next week! On Tuesday July 14th! Drupal and the Decentralized Web

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Via DevTO @ThePracticalDev “What are your preferred bash aliases?”

This video of the beta preview of mmhmm has been making the rounds. It’s a new video overlay / remix app, MacOS only for now, by @PLibin, who you may remember as the founder of Evernote. It looks lovely and I can’t wait to try it.

My friend @LeeLefever writes about his business @commoncraft and their start making explainer videos like “RSS in Plain English”. If you look closely, you can see my B. Mann Consulting blog there.

What year is this? I just refreshed my LastFM user account. Bought a couple of @flor digital downloads. cc @walkah

digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare

— “The silence is Deafening”, by @devonzuegel, on how to improve digital discourse.

What Devon describes would be called “tummling” by @kevinmarks

A test ride to Capitol Hill Reservoir Park in Burnaby. Straight shot along the Adanac bike route. Was surprisingly fast, the ebike really helps on the hills!

Kyle writes about the evolution of @LicenseZero as an Indie Code Catalog. The tag line is “gainful open software development” — for developers looking to thrive.

Buttondown Email is a simple email newsletter tool.

The owner also funds open source that the business relies on.