Enjoyed this interview of @ntnsndr.in | @ntnsndr@social.coop by @ethanz.bsky.social | @ethanz@social.coop for #ReImaginingTheInternet. Their timeline of where social media went off the rails (from ✌️neutral✌️ platforms to a politicized spaces) was particularly interesting.
Enjoying the sakura in Vancouver 📸 🌸
I like this exercise from @gordon.bsky.social. Some excerpts:
Networks generate exponentials.
Broadcast: standardized | Network: personalized
Broadcast: manufactured consensus | Network: runaway amplification
Some things that don’t exist in a network society: facts, shared truth.
Just had the onboarding call and tech check for #FediForum which I will be attending for 2 days starting tomorrow. It is an unconference that is held entirely online. I have followed it for a couple of years but this is my first time attending.
After a month of “working” from Tokyo and Seattle… I am back to my normal schedule this morning. First day working from the new home office! 🎉
Goosing the system — Behind the scenes at the first ATmosphereConf
Sunday, March 30, 2025
As user 87 on Bluesky, I have been around the AT Protocol ecosystem — the ATmosphere — for a while. My comrade Boris Mann (@bmann.ca) started https://atprotocol.dev to serve as a place to do tech talks with developers, just like we used to do for Fission before (and Causal Islands before that and TFTRocks before that… and… 😊). When Boris was thinking of starting the first community conference for atproto devs back in early December 2024, he asked if I was in… of course!
Dinner time! 🥘 😋
Zulip finally replaced Slack in my iPhone dock. And considering the ad and IPO rumblings, it may replace Discord someday soon.
Last day of spring break: Daddy/Daughter Day at Vancouver Aquarium
all pics 📸: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7…
Just arrived! 🎲🧝♀️⚔️🪄 Looking forward to running this
Finally completed a solid year without a missed day. Not a calendar year, but I’ll take it! 🧘
“Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.”
🎯🎯🎯
@sarahp.bsky.social covers #ATmosphereConf in @techcrunch.com showing how this is COMMUNITY work, and how we want to make a difference.
Post conference rooftop drinks in Seattle 🥃
(Check out the Space Needle, and that amazing hot chocolate)
Well, everything is in the new house (still a giant mess) but the internet is working and we have clean sheets, so I guess we can call that a successful day of moving. 12 times in the last 5 years. 😮💨 But this time to our very own (and first!) home. (Love my new home office btw! 😻)
🍕 and ☕
Breakfast of champions 🏆
Started listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 📚 Needed something light for moving house tasks, and this was recommended by a DnD buddy.
Safely hauled our last possessions from Kelowna over the snowy Coquihalla pass to Surrey. We had them stored in my brother’s basement since 2022, when we suddenly moved to Kyoto to take care of my father-in-law. Now it’s all safely in the new house. By end of next week we will be fully moved in.
Currently reading: History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric 📚
I first heard Roman on Everyday Anarchism talking about Colin Ward and then again on Upstream. I look forward to listening to it as I pack up and haul our last stuff from Kelowna to the new house in Surrey.
Rainy day… back at the airport. This time to Kelowna for the weekend. Picking up the last of our stuff left there in 2022 and hauling it to the coast to move in to the new house next week.
Suddenly Tokyo
Friday, March 7, 2025
It had been years since I had been to Shinjuku, at least, around the JR Station. It was a lot dirtier than I remember, but more than 25 years had past. It was a whirlwind trip this time to Japan, all for an important meeting for a client that asked me to come and help out. Except for taking my client to Ginza by taxi for some shopping, I stayed put in Shinjuku.