Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

Today’s meetings include people in Switzerland, Chicago, New York, Oakland, and Nelson, BC.

Plus chat, forum posts, and other connections across half a dozen more cities and countries.

Sometimes this World Wide Web is a pretty great thing.

What is great about meeting with note taking enthusiasts is that you get really good meeting notes!

I met with @flancian this morning, and he took notes in his [[Boris Mann]] page on his [[agora]].

I love that he captured my [[chicken fingers vs. tentacles]] quote.

How can federated social media, with its plethora of domains and dozen or so software implementations, leverage social media icons?

— MediaFormat

I prefer the WebFinger semantics that look like email: bob@example.com

“Today, the 16th day of January 2021, is the ten-thousandth day of September 1993”

— viznut explains the concept of Eternal September, and with recent events how we might redesign “entertainment-oriented social media”

My sunny lunch spot in the Woodland Park community garden, and the @timbertrain smoked meat panini they newly have on the menu.

We stopped in at Smith’s Bagelry today.

Bought fresh simit (pictured), as well as a slice of San Sebastián style gluten free cheesecake. A bit sweet for me, but light & fluffy.

Licorice ferns along one of the Pacific Spirit Park trails. Many good doggos out for a walk.

I got to pet a Bouvier.

Don’t tell my favourite Bernadoodles…

We’re lucky: no reported transmission at any barbers in BC.

@crowsnestbarber in #eastvan chopped my mop and trimmed my wizard eyebrows.

I just posted my second playlist deep dive, based on Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock film.

The Pressure Sounds discography was the coolest find — all those 45 records, just like in the film.

My answer to “how do you stop people using your #opensource software to do bad things?” has been “code of conduct”.

@kemitchell analyses a new, combined license + CoC.

Comments in the forum

Cappuccino from @timbertrain thanks to @ewise who “sent me a coffee” over Interac. Thanks Evan!

And blurry seagulls in the park. A brief walk and text chat away from my Zoom room.

I discovered yesterday that the @MicroDotBlog desktop MacOS app has support for importing a data export of your Instagram account.

I’m working my way through importing a chunk of photos at a time. Instagram was iOS only, so my account starts with my first iPhone.

This thread by the @HakaiInstitute cataloging what creatures made their home on a whale skeleton is fascinating.

I had never heard of this South Coastal BC org - looks like they do great work.

We did a walk around Burnaby Lake yesterday.

We’ve got weeks of rain — and then maybe snow in February??? — forecasted, so we make sure to go outside and enjoy the sun.

The entire lake loop is 10km+. Much longer than we had planned for, but worth it.

Matt Webb @genmon: social networks are getting smaller and more private — eg Discord servers or a WhatsApp group.

“As the global timelines get abandoned, this is where people are homesteading”

Read Robin Rendle on Newsletters.

Which is really about making the web easier for everyone rather than falling in the pit of email that is newsletters. Also, RSS and web monetization.

This very much aligns with @FissionCodes.

I had sourdough bread success today. I’ll take it.