Just finished The Trouble With Peace and couldnโt help myself and immediately picked up The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie ๐
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Of the Top 20 Apps of 2025 on the Canadian iOS App Store there are only 4 I use, and all of them begrudgingly. I am like the Scrooge of popular technology, arenโt I? (Considering I still use an iPhone, I suppose not.)
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Coast Contra is back at The Table!! (๏พ๏ผพโก๏ผพ)๏พ๏ธต โปโโป
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So many online meetings today, back-to-back, that by the end I was losing my voice ๐ฃ๏ธ
But lots of exciting progress for the next protocolsforpublishers.com ๐ช๐บโจ
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Doing some Xmas shopping for my kids ๐
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Went to the neighborhood Holiday Party and met some more of my neighbours. Then we finished decorating the tree. ๐
Today is an uposatha day so maintaining my fast while all these cookies are being handed out did not make me a particularly holly jolly elf. ๐
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This month has beenโฆ well, not easy.
But today I have had some time to relax. So I am sitting in my reading chair catching up on @mekongreview.com which always delivers on cool insights and new books to add to the pile. ๐
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Neverpo.st interviewed Drew Lyton about building his own “cloud” server in his living room and thinkingโฆ there must be a better way. At DWebYVR we have a saying: “self-hosting is selfish.”. By the end Drew argues “the future is community-hosted”: we need a public-service cloud, a people-owned cloud.
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Set up my profile and starred a bunch of sessions for #AAS2026 @asianstudies.org
Looking forward to meeting some Asia scholars that I have interacted with online but never met in person, and also many other scholars whose books I have on my shelf.
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Been having strange dreams all weekโฆ but lying in a dark trench, cold and wet, delivering an extremely thorough explanation of all the various features of a luxury hand-stitched leather shoulder bag to Alan Rickman probably takes the cake.
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Started reading: The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie ๐
Nearing the end of the whole cycle!! ๐ Such a great series.
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It’s a bit early in the day, but went ahead and posted my summary of the month of November: includes a lotta meetups, my new project launched, dealing with a lotta stress, and getting out in the sun ๐
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My not-so-spicy ๐ถ๏ธ #UX take: in reverse chron feeds, relative dates should go back no further than “the day before yesterday” before just switching to proper calendar dates.
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This week has been a dark one, so with the sun out this morning I took to the wet trails. Despite the seemingly endless cloudy days, the moss still thrives. It is good to remember this. Here’s to a weekend of ease to you all #photography #mosstodon #lichensubscribe
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Fran Sans โ a typeface inspired by San Francisco light rail displays โ is gorgeous and this excellent article really shows you how deep a typography designer will go ๐๐๐
#typography #design
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โTis the season ๐๐
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Going with the family to the annual Vancouver Eastside Culture Crawl this afternoon. Kids are excited to see all the different kinds of artwork. I am inspired by admiring the level of craft and dedication.
#art #vancouver #culturecrawl
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“I put money down on all of us On my people now, on what I love”
I have watched this video I don’t know how many times โ
#rap #music
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A short excerpt from The Shape of Practice that I immediately thought applied to marriage. The wedding ring is the same symbol.
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Wow! This photo came up in my iOS memories. Canโt believe this was already 5 years ago! I can still feel the mist of the breaking waves and the latent power of the Pillar of Heaven in my bones
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Enjoyed this interview of @jmcelroy.bsky.social by @arshy.bsky.social
Some key bits in here for understanding Vancouver (and BC!) politics
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Bruh
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This was a good podcast interview with Shannon Vallor nominally about her new book THE AI MIRROR but it was much broader and even included her first book TECHNOLOGY AND THE VIRTUES. It gives a good sense of her approach if you haven’t read her stuff before.
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Oh! Tomorrow! ๐ง๐ผ๐ฟโธ๏ธ๐ชท
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Wow look at the lineup for this conference! Ceclia Rikap and Evgeny Morozov and more! Online reg is still available #DigitalSovereignty #event