A long weekend on Bowen, in pictures;:
- shady forest walk
- huckleberries are ripe
- Crowsnest Riesling, dry, very nice flavour, that I’ll write more about
- Bowen Bay beach, where I had my first ocean swim of the season
Amusingly, I registered ‘indiegit’ about a year ago.
I went ahead and used DigitalOcean to install Cloudron, and used that to install Gitea.
The “Migrate from GitHub” is pretty straightforward.
I was reminded by @and_how that we’re just past the 10 year anniversary of HTML5 Summer DevFest, one of the first events we did together.
Here’s to many more post-pandemic events, including #22022022
A lot of thanks are owed to Kyle Mitchell for his amazing work in pioneering, evolving, and plain English improving various open licenses.
He has just published a round up of the licenses he has worked on.
“We don’t have a theory for how human decision-making operates in an algorithm-driven online network of comprising billions of souls”
@CT_Bergstrom’s new paper, Stewardship of global collective behavior
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source by @MWeinberg2D covers a recent case where the maintainer didn’t want to have to handle increased support — but then also didn’t want to be forked.
Robin Sloan’s email newsletter is just a link to a web page.
via Robin Rendle who talks about this as an antidote to the “sameyness” of newsletters cough Substack cough
Bikes at Burnaby Lake. It was extremely sunny and hot, but with a nice breeze. We didn’t last long at our usual bench — we found some shade and lay in the grass.
Exciting development in my neighbourhood: Coho Coffee now has summer drinks including espresso tonic!!!
They’re adding some house made citrus syrup & a slice of candied lemon.
Good suggestions from @genmon: Three requests for the Google Chrome team as they experiment with RSS
I disagree with: “the browser is not the best place read RSS feeds long term” — web apps are a good thing!
“Apple has served no meaningful role in the customer acquisition and “deserves” nothing more from the transaction than what a CDN and commodity credit-card processor would charge.”
Went to the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday. This giant wall mural by Lauren Brevner & James Harry was amazing to see in person.
Just ordered some live spot prawns for pick up next weekend from Skipper Otto.
Sign up for this season’s Community Supported Fishery membership ends May 31st.
A few pictures from today’s install of @rachaelashe’s “Patterns of Influence” show. Opens this Thursday at the Craft Council gallery on Granville Island.
I’m slowly adding some of my long time startup templates and resources to @VentureScoutsCA.
I just added this budget scenario template I use to help founders model expenses. Good to get comfortable with numbers!
Peace Public License, a new #EthicalSource license designed to be “a copy-farleft cooperative non-violent public license which was more publically available and which was more openly and actively maintained”.
I toured @stevekrueger’s new #EcomSquare coworking space yesterday at 1758 W 8th.
Very excited to see the space become a community hub for founders & funders in the DTC ecommerce space.
Rhubarb syrup. Chop rhubarb, cover in sugar, let sit for several days. Strain to get syrup, cook down rhubarb with water to get more liquid out.
IT’S ESPRESSO TONIC SEASON AT @timbertrain!!!!!
Made with Caliber Espresso and @FeverTreeMixers tonic. Plus a little bit of ice in a to go cup, perfect for drinking in the sun in the park.
We went for a walk in Burnaby’s Central Park.
You can take a car share & drop it right at the border, or get off at a nearby Skytrain station.
Nice to be in the big trees & lots of green.
I am very excited that my local coffee shop @timbertrain Depot is going to experiment with espresso tonics NEXT WEEK!!!
This is a [truly amazing post by @moxie and the Signal messenger team](https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/).
Even if you don’t understand all the technical ins and outs, you will appreciate the writing & tone. We need more non-profits at web scale like this.
Warren Ellis, commenting on Accelerando’s main protagonist Manfred Macx:
“If we’re not doing something with the information we’re taking in, then we’re just pigs at the media trough.”
via @BillSeitz
A blossom filled evening walk. Blossom lined streets, a glorious giant pink blossom tree, and what I think are crab apple blossoms.
Alright, who is running the espresso tonic tracker in #Vancouver?