Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

So proud of @rachaelashe’s work. Check out her work featured for #FacesOfCraftFriday by @CraftCouncilBC

Do you know the story of Sleeping Giants?

Hear about it from co-founder @nandoodles as she embarks on her next big thing, CheckMyAds.

I’m on a buying-and-downloading-actual-music-files roll! Listening to Perturbator’s “I ran to the Arcade”, from Night Driving Avenger EP bought on Bandcamp.

I think I got here through Randall’s Gunship Music reco.

This is a screenshot of Obsidian @obsdmd making a link graph of the Markdown source files of my bmann wiki and archive. After discussing with Ton, “just files” is a powerful means of ownership.

Next batch of #tepache, first time without pineapple: rhubarb, ginger, lime.

I’m testing @hopinofficial for my @drupalconNA #DrupalConGlobal presentation. Next week! On Tuesday July 14th! Drupal and the Decentralized Web

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{
  lynx "[lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/](https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=$(urlencode) "$@")"
}

Via DevTO @ThePracticalDev “What are your preferred bash aliases?"

It’s Ottawa-era Boris music this evening 🎵 Andrew Vincent and the Pirates, I Love the Modern Way

This video of the beta preview of mmhmm has been making the rounds. It’s a new video overlay / remix app, MacOS only for now, by @PLibin, who you may remember as the founder of Evernote. It looks lovely and I can’t wait to try it.

My friend @LeeLefever writes about his business @commoncraft and their start making explainer videos like “RSS in Plain English”. If you look closely, you can see my B. Mann Consulting blog there.

Via David Crow, The Difference Between Budgets, Targets, and Forecasts.

I see many startup founders afraid to really engage with their finances, from planning to maintenance. You can’t just outsource this to a bookkeeper, it’s an essential core skill.

Love your spreadsheets :)

What year is this? I just refreshed my LastFM user account. Bought a couple of @flor digital downloads. cc @walkah

digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare

— “The silence is Deafening”, by @devonzuegel, on how to improve digital discourse.

What Devon describes would be called “tummling” by @kevinmarks

A test ride to Capitol Hill Reservoir Park in Burnaby. Straight shot along the Adanac bike route. Was surprisingly fast, the ebike really helps on the hills!

Kyle writes about the evolution of @LicenseZero as an Indie Code Catalog. The tag line is “gainful open software development” — for developers looking to thrive.

Currently reading: Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat 📚

Buttondown Email is a simple email newsletter tool.

The owner also funds open source that the business relies on.

My friend Lee LeFever is building a new home on Orcas Island. He’s looking at options for whole home batteries if you have experience with them. I learned a bit about the electricity co-op on the San Juans & am inspired by co-op businesses.

Biked east into Burnaby. Some of the usual trails are under construction, which lead to some steep hills.

An old photo from my Flickr backup, taken with some sort of digital camera, not just a smartphone! A snail and an ant together, on one of the fruit trees in the back yard of my parents' place on Bowen Island.

A picture of my RadRunner 1 Ebike from the Radpower website. It also happens to be for testing what photos look like in different microblog themes.

I think I’m going to make the move to the hosted version of Micro.blog for my microblogging. I’ll keep long form posting at blog.bmannconsulting.com.

“I value allyship more than anything. Home is people. Safe spaces are people, too. Not all people. But the right ones”.

Happy 41, @benwerd. Whatever version of the web we’re on, we’re all in this together.