Doing a little holiday reading and writing here in the bright and dry Okanagan
2024
Catching a water taxi over to Granville Island to meet a mate from the Osaka tech community visiting Vancouver! 🛥️
Sitting on the patio of a roastery called Kafka, looking over Rainbow Park with prominent indigenous flags, listening to an episode of Everyday Anarchism, next to a guy reading Marx in Spanish. #onbrand
Wearing my shark shirt to the Vancouver Aquarium today. During the show a diver swims with the black-tipped reef sharks 🦈
I have a /uses page. Thinking of adding a “will not use” page 🤔: a list of software/services (eg. Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Substack etc etc etc) that I avoid, maybe with an explanatory link or two. I think RSL has a list like this. What do you think? Too long? 😅
“[Users can] access a map showing the city’s 900-plus camera network, pick the nearest camera to them, pose for the image, and capture a memory. A little button on the app captures the snap for you, and you can keep it in your phone like a photo booth strip, or as a polaroid-style photo.”
My city of just a half-million people has a network of 596 cameras. 🤯 Next hackathon I am building this.
A bit early, but here is Sunset Beach looking into English bay, downtown Vancouver 🌅
My first Espresso Soda ☕️ 🥤
Different, but good! 😋
Via @manton
Nice icon set on We Distribute with icons for many platforms and fediverse apps.
I hope @buttondown and other services adopt these soon!
Gorgeous day but only 24°C so I had to get a warm drink. (🙇♂️ Sorry FamiChiki crew back in Japan 🥵)
When you get up in the middle of the night, never check your email. Why won’t I learn!? 🥱 🥱 🥱
(Today’s gonna be a long one)
Liquid Layers and TLDraw… what a demo! 🤩
After a couple months off, I am back to the First Law series with Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. Exciting! 📚
Lovely day for a festival in #Vancouver
We representing Iki at the Powell Street Festival, the biggest Japanese Canadian festival in the country. #Japan #Canada #ikijima
Hundred Rabbits is on the Orange site and I am happy for them to get more recognition! 💯🐇
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(It’s July 31st!?)
This was a tough listen… Sometimes with @neverpo.st shows I’m tempted to skip an ep since it is not a topic I am particularly interested in, but when I do start listening they just draw me in. That team is really good at engaging audio storytelling
Day off today so I started reading the kind fantasy novel Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚
It’s about books! I love books! ❤️
Thank you to all the community organizers who participated in #LOCALHOSTVan. 🥳 We wrapped up with Van Hack Day where I saw some great demos. I am now at home about to fall on my face after 9 straight days of events… tomorrow is off. Later this week I will be doing follow up. Thanks again!
And with that, #IETF120 is over! So many new insights and friends. I have a lot to digest and follow up on. Tomorrow: OurNetworks.ca
What a day talking about interoperable instant messaging protocols, deep space networking, and a bunch of other amazing things! #IETF120 has been super stimulating. So many interesting people here. Looking forward to tomorrow morning’s Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (dinrg)
Good morning #IETF120! Today is the first day of the official meeting week. My first session is with GAIA, the Global Access to the Internet for All working group, chaired by Jane Coffin who I had the pleasure of meeting at the IGF last year.
Downtown Vancouver is hoppin’! We got #IETF120 hackathon, the fireworks, and a Caps match at BC Place ⚽️
At the #IETF120 #hackathon
Utterly wiped… Walked around the neighborhood to check the distances to the schools. Sat in the park for a bit. Coffee in a local cafe. I think after all the stress of the last two weeks, my body has finally released all that tension. We are here, it is over, we are settled. 💤
When I was just a wee lad of 12, my uncle took me here to White Rock to see the ocean for my very first time. 🌊 It has been nearly 35 years and I have returned. Fish & chips 🐟🍟 got more expensive, but the sunset’s still free 🌅
[Me about to propose a new office/livingroom/dining room layout for the new condo]
💁♂️: Dear Wife, come into my Mind Palace
👸🏻: [walks away]
💁♂️: Where are you going!?
👸🏻: To the bathroom… aka your Mind Palace 🔥
💁♂️: 💀💀💀
#truelove
Okay, so we were able to successfully sleep on beds last night, the first night in our new condo. I was totally wiped after dealing with hauling, installing, then returning a bum aircon. But got the new one in this morning so we won’t die of heat as we continue unpacking. Next up: Office.
I have traded sunsets of buildings with sunsets of forests and mountains
