Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

Dec 2022

I found @harper’s reading list and started Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

It’s lovely writing so far. A far future set in Tel Aviv. And there’s a character named Boris, which is not very common. reading.lol/books/central-stat

Dec 2022

I found @harper’s reading list and started Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

It’s lovely writing so far. A far future #scifi set in Tel Aviv. And there’s a character named Boris, which is not very common.

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐


Final . Yes that’s a lot of prawns to shell and eat, with a pile of pappardelle underneath.

Guten Appetit!

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐


I put the pasta in at the same time. Pappardelle made with egg. Bought from here in

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐


Added the prawns to the pan and some capers.

I would like triple the amount of capers but Rachael is not as much of a fan as I am.

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐


Adding in sliced orange and yellow bell peppers.

I’m not totally sure what else I’m going to do with this. It needs to be at least a little saucy, but don’t want to overpower the prawns.

I’ll add some pasta water and capers to finish I think.

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐


Sautéing a big onion (sliced - you can see my shoddy knife work!) and a lemongrass stalk in butter and olive oil. Added some salt and a goodly amount of fresh cracked pepper.

Doing this on high heat for a bit to get some browning, then adding 2 cloves of sliced garlic and turning it down.

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - #cooking prawns 🦐


One of the things I splurged on in using up my community supported fishery share was frozen spot prawn tails.

This is going to be a thread.

Dec 2022

[[Silver Bullet]], a backlink enabled app silverbullet.md/

, , uses as editing interface, native, supports Jekyll-style front matter for custom attributes.

Experimental “Google Doc style” real time collab using and a central server.

via @walkah

Dec 2022

View looking west from Bowen Bay. , July 3rd, 2021

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - Donuts 🍩


Brought some donuts home. One on the left is pink peppercorn chai mochi donut (Rachael’s pick) and right is chocolate glaze + sprinkles on a cruller donut.

I _really_ don’t like the texture / flavour of mochi, the cruller was great!

Dec 2022

Went to Their There, a little cafe with coffee, donuts, and breakfast sandwiches on West 4th. They have a few ceramics & other neat things for sale, plus screens showing peaceful waves. theirthere.ca

Dec 2022

Went to Their There, a little cafe with coffee, donuts, and breakfast sandwiches on West 4th. They have a few ceramics & other neat things for sale, plus screens showing peaceful waves.

Dec 2022

Content warning: Food - Broth for Mussels


One of the things I got from was fresh mussels.

Here’s the base of bacon, garlic, shallots, and lemon grass, all sautéed in butter.

Next I added celery salt, chili flakes, and black pepper, plus a couple of cups of water, and boiled the mussels in the broth.

So good I drank much of the broth.

Dec 2022

Picked up the last of my membership shares from tonight.

Beautiful view

Nov 2022

Here’s a nostalgia bomb - MacOS themes botsin.space/@osxthemes

Nov 2022

Many many more things to tinker with in there, but I’m glad I can now have a properly permalinked version of my long running food / stores / ingredients / recipes / travel journal published.

A , but for food shopping!

Anyone else seen examples of this sort of food / recipe focused interlinked site? I’d love to find more and see other approaches.

Nov 2022

OK! With a bunch of help from Saq, I got my automated static site publishing with up and running.

Say goodbye to , say hello to foodwiki.bmann.ca/

Nov 2022

Making progress on turning my wiki into a static site.

The screenshots are an example of part of today's Journal entry, and then inline transclusion of me jotting down a recipe I made tonight.

Nov 2022

Sunrise over Fisherman’s Wharf next to Granville Island, plus one of the new murals painted on the wharf.

I’m over on this side of the city temporarily while some renovations get done to our apartment.

#GranvilleIsland #Vancouver #mural #art

Nov 2022

“To a great extent, history is simply the ephemeral in large enough aggregate.”

A thread on the importance of post migration, not just as a technical solution, but as something that can be better than corporate systems.

by @jplebreton

mastodon.social/@jplebreton/10

Nov 2022
Nov 2022

Turns out, can’t handle 35K small files.

The script is fast and easy.

Nov 2022

Do I need my as one page per tweet as a compatible set of files?

Probably good for importing into or or similar tools.

Follow developer @joeycastillo

mastodon.social/@joeycastillo/

Nov 2022

Sunday Adventures:

  • Morning coffee with old friends downtown

  • Tona Chocolates dessert pop up at Oidé Coffee

  • Oona Clothing upcycled clothes

  • Made a balti with Monsoon Coast spices & new pink plates from Mongey Ceramics