Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

Checked in at 1931 Gallery Bistro. Halloumi galette for her, Peking duck eggs benny for me. Also first time at a #restaurant in 4 months.

Checked in at Vancouver Art Gallery. Starting Rachael’s birthday with this exhibit about #BC craft and design. “Shadow Wood” is a type of plywood that was produced locally.

Barbados is offering a 12 month “remote work” visa

I don’t think this is the only one of these we’ll see. As remote employment becomes normalized, cities & countries will compete for workers.

That last post was testing OwnYourSwarm, to use MicroPub to send FourSquare Swarm check-ins here. Worked!

Checked in at Dude Chilling Park. Cuban Taxi Guava Gose #beer from Callister Brewing. Remember: #gose is basically German gatorade.

Treats from Pacific Bread Company for Rachael’s birthday girlfriends gathering. PBC has excellent pastries.

The Impact of the Coronavirus on Software Valuation Multiples, Tomasz Tunguz

“The bigger question is whether software purchasing habits change because of reduced travel and networking. We will see that in the earnings reports coming out over the next month, and startups may begin to observe it in longer sales cycles.”

via @davidcrow

What’s that vague unease about Fava beans? Oh yeah, you need to take them out of their pods and shell them before cooking.

“we’re not replacing front-end devs with attention-layer-stacks anytime soon.”

Agustin Lebron in Marginal Revolution, The case against the import of GPT-3, referencing this React layout generator.

DaveO has just posted two kitchen posts. One on salt fermented pickles, the other on preparing two food gifts, tai snapper fish and wagyu beef.

Yum! Clearly I need to go visit DaveO in Japan so we can cook epic feasts together.

Eggplant and okra in a peanut coconut sauce. I felt good about the flavour balance in this.

Did I really need to cook two dishes tonight and make the house hot??? 👨‍🍳

A variation on my last brown butter and fresh peas pasta. No scapes, 3 minced bacon slices, minced onion & lemon juice & zest, served over macaroni.

Lovely animations illustrating Ralph Ammer’s Make me think!: rather than using design to shield people from complexity, use it to empower people. “Should the technology grow — or the person using it?”

(via @baldur)

On the fifth anniversary of Ben Thompson’s Aggregation Theory, @PackyM posts his Entropy Theory: “most successful businesses are those that use the latest technology to wrangle that chaos”

If you need to delete a known host in Blink.sh, you’ll need to use this sed hack:

sed -i.bak '5d' known_hosts

Where 5 is the host line number. Although apparently Blink will ship with a full editor soon.

Step two of kimuchi and pickled cabbage. The kimuchi will sour for 3 days in a corner, the cabbage goes to the back of the fridge for 3 weeks.

Turning a giant head of green cabbage into Kimuchi and some pickled cabbage & jalapeños, from The Joy of Pickling

Currently reading: The Joy of Pickling by Linda Ziedrich 📚

I’ve written up a bit of a “best of” of a bunch of mainly food / grocery places for North Commercial Drive / Grandview-Woodland. My neighbourhood is a really nice place to live, shop, and eat ;)

Pineapple 🍍 Mango 🥭 #tepache with a knob of ginger. Back to basics!

Straight & Marrow is going into the old Bistro Wagon Rouge space, Scout Magazine

Looking forward to trying this new place. Bistro was pretty classic French bistro, the updated room looks spectacular.

“We want our house to be made from sustainable materials that last multiple decades, are resistant to rot, and require very low maintenance.”

@LeeLefever has a different definition of smart home, and a great write up of choosing yakisugi siding.

Om asks whether to pay for Pocket or Instapaper. I think a lot of people don’t know that Mozilla acquired Pocket back in 2017. Support Mozilla!