Setting the table for a special dinner tonight #IYKYK
2024
Lovely walk and talk in the forest with a friend this afternoon. We talked travel, politics, games, and the joys of back-end infrastructure… all while surrounded by GREEN
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I… AM… CANADIAN! 🇨🇦 🦫 🍁
I blazed through the book, and have a lot more thinking to do, but am glad I could spend some more time processing by listening to this excellent conversation:
It me
Coffee time ☕️
Last night I started The Armageddon Protocol by @danmoren.com 📚
This is the final book of his Galactic Cold War series. Congrats to Dan who I have listened to for years on The Incomparable. 👏👏👏
Only a few more letters needed for the Internet Society’s campaign against Bill S-210 which jeopardizes user privacy and encryption. If you are in Canada it only takes a minute to add your voice:
Started The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The first chapter is a breath-taking departure essay for the book on the purpose of writing — in one word: clarity. I can see how this projected started as his “On Writing” or “Why I Write”. 📚
Ghetts is a master craftsman. I have been listening to him non-stop for the last month. I remember him from back in the day, but only recently came back to his newer work which is amazingly intricate. Levels! Who else on the UK Drill scene has this level of wordplay that I should be checking out?
I did the thing! #cdnpoli #bcelxn
Woke up from a dream that I was still at the conference, meeting with all the people that I didn’t get a chance to talk to. 🥰
Look who’s back 🇨🇦
🚈🚄✈️✈️🚝🚝🚌
BER → FRA → YVR
Goodbye Germany! It was fun!
Check out the list of participants in the #OpenSourcePledge #opensource
“Hoi, chummer! Slot your hoop and get ready to dance with the chrome. This sprawl’s got more heat than a dragon’s drekhole, so keep your wits jacked and your nuyen close. Welcome to the Big Smoke - time to run silent, run deep.” 👨🎤
Some shots of the Festival of Light in #Berlin tonight down at Alexanderplatz
Causal Islands Berlin
Sunday, October 6, 2024
“What if people could just… do things?” This was one of the themes of Causal Islands Berlin, the fourth iteration of the “Future of Computing” conference, and the first one to take place in Europe. I flew out from Vancouver last week to reconnect with some old friends and meet new potential collaborators. I have been involved with CI since the beginning but this was the first one I could attend in person.DJ party at the cafe in Berlin
What’s gud, peasants?
CURRENT STATUS: Baroque
Feeling terribly jet lagged? Some Classic Quebec Poutine will help right? Right?
I missed sending out my personal newsletter last month so this is a double, but I kept it short.
Had a nice time walking around Mannheim taking selfies in front of old/impressive things
Now that I’ve been in Germany for more than 24 hours, some impressions:
🚗 fast driving 🎨 graffiti ✝️ churches ⛪️ more churches ◼️squat square buildings 🗼lotta round towers…? 🍞 bread 🥖
Took the train from Frankfurt to Mannheim. Really enjoyed seeing some of the countryside. Inter-city train travel is so civilized… reminds me of Japan
Wandering around some European plazas recently myself, I am so glad for this! Amazing that they turned these lovely spaces into car parks!
Saturday, September 28, 2024 →
Started listening to Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie on the plane to Germany. Loved his First Law series and looking forward to getting back into the universe! 📚
Saturday, September 28, 2024 →
Made it to Frankfurt 🇩🇪
(Squeezed out that long blog post just as the call for boarding happened! Enjoy the Taiwan photos. I will be posting lots of Germany photos next)
Taiwan Trip Report pt 3: Taipei
Friday, September 27, 2024
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here → Despite being the beginning of May Taipei was very warm. The sun was out as we walked the wide sidewalks around Taipei Station downtown, cars and scooters zooming by. Even when it was cloudy, crossing the Keelung River through the tech area of town (I spotted the Foxconn tower), the lush green mountains of the north were a tropical reminder.