“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
Kickstarting an app ecosystem
I’ve been thinking about kickstarting a couple of different app ecosystems. I’m going to be a bit vague here, but imagin...Last Weekend in May 2022
Looking back at this weekend, it was filled with adventures and cooking AND relaxing. I had a fancy work lunch on Friday...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.
Some Mastodon Notes
If you’re checking out Mastodon the open source Twitter-like microblogging service, my first recommendation would be to ...“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
