“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.
Cultural deafness and controversy in tech debates, by @baldur
We may all be writing in English, debating in English, and working in English, but the web dev scene is thoroughly mult...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…
Reflecting on 20 years of Drupal & my personal mission
Dries, founder of the Drupal project, posted his thoughts and wishes from 20 years. He included 3 birthday wishes. The f...We’re lucky: no reported transmission at any barbers in BC.
@crowsnestbarber in #eastvan chopped my mop and trimmed my wizard eyebrows.
Not Played: working my way through my music collection, and listening to Primus (again)
I’ve got myself setup to go through my “old” music collection, carried through into this digital strea...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.
Music from Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock
We watched the Lovers Rock movie, part of the Steve McQueen’s Small Axe BBC film series. It’s all about musi...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.
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.
Campbell's Dec 2020 Playlist
Campbell @cambel sent along a note over the holidays with a link to a Spotify playlist of some music that he has been gr...Listening: Jesse Bru, The Coast
I don’t remember how I ended up finding Jesse Bru’s The Coast. He’s even Vancouver based! I’ll q...“The code you depend on depends on you” @kemitchell’s commercial license sales for public software
“the code you depend on depends on you” Kyle Mitchell is working on the next iteration of a standardized non-commercia...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.
Today’s #eastvan coffee shop is Pallet. No rain and a touch of blue sky!
Plus: view from the corner of Meditation Park. East Van’s waterfront is mostly blocked off because it’s the commercial Port of Vancouver space. Wall Street has several small view parks like this.
Tide data as a calendar subscription
My mom recently told me that the site she used to use for subscribing to an annual calendar of local tide heights and su...Engineering vs writing code, @benwerd
“The goal is a creative, detail-oriented [software] team that finds the best solution using the full weight of their di...Today’s outside time was a rainy walk & stop in at @timbertrain depot. I’m loving the super cute skull-with-toque design on the t-shirt.
