Feeling locked in by open source
Ton wrote a post about his usage of the Post Kinds plugin for WordPress and used the word “lock in”. I understand what h...Nanaimo day trip: breakfast at Gabriel’s, Neck Point Park, Chris & Erin at White Rabbit Coffee.
Many other places visited, picnics consumed, & parks hung out in, on a long, hot day. Next time, need to include an ocean swim!
Heading to Nanaimo for a day trip. Looking back up Howe Sound as the sun rises.
I tried out the Franklin Food Lab in my #EastVan neighbourhood this week: frozen ramen!
I bought two & had the spicy tonkatsu for lunch, the yuzu shio in my freezer for another time. Very tasty, looking forward to trying all the flavours!
Went to the Imperfect Offerings show at the RAG yesterday.
I was blown away by Naoko Fukumaru’s work, where she does kintsugi on & with a variety of objects & materals: urchins, gilded blackberry spines, & barnacles.
Making CRDTs faster, by @JosephGentle:
“I want Google Docs without Google…I think [CRDTs are] the future of collaborative editing. And maybe the future of all software - but I’m not ready to talk about that yet.”
First time back dining in at Dosanko Restaurant after almost 2 years. House made tsukemono (pickles) — including local fiddleheads. To finish, their own 3 year old umeboshi (plum wine).
“more than other networked software, tools for thought want to be owned. I don’t want to store my second brain on someone else’s computer.“
Tonight is our third swim in the city pool at New Brighton Park. You need to book a 1.5 hour slot, so this picture is as the previous time slot clears out.
With the Port of Vancouver Pacific Elevators behind it.
Stopped in at the new Nemesis next to Emily Carr. Incredibly gorgeous building, filled with delicious coffee & pastries & a bit of brunch.
Miso Pork was the “sausage of the day” at Oyama today.
Kaisereck on Granville Island now has a patio.
Currywurst, Schnitzel plates, and German wheat beer. The fries are excellent!
And it’s @rtanglao’s birthday!
Single CLA - a contributor licensing agreement (CLA) that an individual dev only has to sign once & keep in their own git repo.
Great work by Kyle Mitchell, more in the forum forum.artlessdevices.com/t/project…
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.
