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.
I made a bunch of small, granular TODOs today. And I got a handful of them checked off!
Also generally wrote down my worklog for the day, which really helps with these micro tasks.
I will take the small feel goods as part of getting back to productivity.
I bought my Skipper Otto 2021 membership today. It’s a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) – you buy credits and order seafood through out the year.
I haven’t found the right CSA in Vancouver yet, but that’s another goal for the year. Suggestions?
Playing: Monster's Den Godfall
Monsters' Den: Godfall by Monstrum Games is a turn-based RPG. You manage characters in teams of 4 (initially only a sing...Most of my work team and many other colleagues are east of me, time zone-wise. This means my mornings are full and I have to make time to get up and move around.
It’s cold and rainy, and nearby Woodland Park is filled with seagulls as I loop around to get some steps in.
“notfoundbot is a GitHub Action that helps you automatically maintain the correctness of your website’s outgoing links.”
I definitely need to run this on my archive.
Via Chris Wiegman’s post on leaving big tech, I learned about Hetzner.com’s hosted Nextcloud service.
Regular reading, playing, and listening: intentional media
Ben Werdmüller writes up monthly reading, watching, playing, using posts. I like these type of posts, and have been enjo...Happy New Year! Went outside for a walk along a soggy Jericho Beach. I’ve been sick for a week, with a negative COVID test in the middle. Glad to be feeling better and to have a new year ahead.
Reading: N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance and Alastair Reynolds' Revenger
Being sick over Christmas meant that I was flat on my back with lots of time for nothing but reading. N. K. Jemisin&rsqu...Playing: Deep Sky Derelicts
I bought this on sale from Steam. It’s a fun sci-fi RPG, rogue-lite, turn-based card battler. I’ve put about...I’ve been sick with a bad flu since Christmas Day. 🤒
I went and got a COVID test first thing yesterday morning, and by last night I got notice that I tested negative.
A relief, but a pretty sucky way to spend Christmas downtime. Stay safe and be well!
I just finished N. K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy. Conveniently, it’s on sale right now.
Forcing Amazon to Behave
“Amazon wants to replicate every product it sells, discarding partnerships once they have their own version of that par...Roland is working remotely with shifted hours, so he often bikes down to Revolver in the afternoons, Vancouver-time. I bumped into him in the rain.
Riad and I walked around in the rain, and then retreated for a green tea & a whiskey to catch up. Tech Nomads of the Universe is Riad’s book, which includes an interview with me. Predictably, I talk about community :)
I ended up buying an Arturia Keystep MIDI keyboard recommended by bgins. So cool to use this in a web browser with WebMIDI + Moon Forge. I really have no idea what I’m doing, but making sounds is fun.
