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Best of 2025
Notable reads, watches, and questions for the year
Good first ep in @themaybe.org’s new series on Digital Public Infrastructure with a wild story about how Walmart and Google ended up owning the digital pay rails in India 🫨
Wife brought back a nice Ebisu omamori for from Osaka for my home office. Keep the house safe, business successful, and also a bag to hold happiness 💰🧧
Interviewing Surrey and Vancouver school officials @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social learns about how they teach critical media literacy. Luckily all of them have defunct Twitter accounts except BC gov. However they all still list X on their sites.
Chapter 5 of A People’s History of Computing in the United States has this amazing anecdote of how the statewide computer network was governed by the users via a bill of rights!
This interview with legendary translator Red Pine is pure poetry! From his story of learning Chinese at random, moving to Taiwan on a whim, and “dancing” with the Chinese masters… all with his earthy, saintly, demeanor. Profound and joyful (and a side of swear words)
Ooooh! Massive list of #opensource events. Will need to parse and integrate into my own list of conferences for 2026
A People’s History of Computing in the United States 📚
Ch3 (41%) BASIC becomes the people’s language. Meant for networked computing and timesharing, easy to mod and fork… much easier than FORTRAN which biz uses and less likely to share programs… READ MORE →
Damn! Riz Ahmed is brilliant and this looks intense
Every time I am at the grocery store standing in front of a glass case waiting 5 mins for someone to come unlock a stick of deodorant, I reflect that we went from family-run neighborhood shops who knew your kids, to impersonal big box stores, to every customer being criminalized. 😔
I am testing out Hardcover as a book tracking and journaling app this month in my 2026 journey to get off of Goodreads for once and for all. If you are using it, HMU I need to find more peeps to follow to test it properly! https://hardcover.app/@chadkoh #books
Started A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 📚
Tracking progress and chapter updates in Hardcover as a test this month: hardcover.app/books/a-p…
#books #amReading
Finished Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚
Like the novelization of a David Attenborough film on the planet. Gorgeous meditation on the fragility of the planet, and of people. Lovely. Audio was great, but I can see myself picking up the text and reading again much closer in the future.
#Reading #Books
Wife surprised my anime loving daughter with the hotel upon arrival in Tokyo 😄
Listened to half of this today: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚
Very poetic and introspective so far.
At Vancouver International Airport. Just dropped off my wife and older kid who are doing a Mommy-Daughter trip to Japan. Meanwhile I will be single-dadding it here in Canada. Good luck to us all! 🍀
My old friend I met in Tehran 22 years ago came over and we ate Japanese New Years food, Xmas cookies baked by my daughter, then chips & homemade guacamole, all the while catching up and talking about going to the local Korean Spa. Feel lucky to live here 😊
Okay, it is that time of year again where I look for a Goodreads replacement 📚. Would love if it worked on atproto. I need organizing (shelves, lists, or tags), progress tracking (pages, %), the ability to post chapter notes, and cross-posting to Micro.blog/Bsky/Mastodon. Send me your reccos!
明けましておめでとうございます
新年おめでとうございます🎊㊗️
今年もよろしくお願いします🎍
from the west coast in Canada 🇨🇦
New Years Noodle Time 🎊🍜
#年越しそば
