🌧️ Raining in Vancouver. Man comes out of a shop with a very large format book 📕 I watch aghast 😮 as he walks slowly towards his car 🚗 with the book open in both hands, reading 💦 📖
He gets to his vehicle and closes the book to get in and I catch a glimpse of the title:
Weather
SMDH ☠️
What is a “moment”?
What is it like to be in one? What are we experiencing when we realize we are having one?
Moments are periods of dis-alienation.
(I think this is from Henri Lefebvre 🤔)
Knowing this makes me want to experience even more moments. Let’s get together!
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Went for a walk in the forest with one of my oldest friends and his dog. Very content. 📸
These leaves are sooooo red! 🍁🇨🇦📸
These and a few more fall photos uploaded to www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Every year I post a list of cool conferences that I want to go to. I have already gotten started on my 2026 list. Take a look, let me know if I will see you somewhere, and if you know of anything else interested please suggest! (oh and also share me your list and I will link it)
Good morning.
Looking out the window.
Contemplating impermanence.
Generative AI and news report from Reuters Institute:
A significant ‘comfort gap’ exists between AI- and human-led news production, with only 12% of respondents comfortable with fully AI-generated news compared to 62% for entirely human-made content
#ProtocolsForPublishers
Started listening to The Hobbit as narrated by Andy Serkis 📚
After one chapter it is delightful.
I am going to do a reread of the main four books and then expand into the full Tolkienverse over the next few years.
Finished Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis 📚
Really useful book. 👍 Will write a bit of commentary later this week.
Finished A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie 📚
The last 20% of the book was basically setup for the next book. That said, he sure packed in a lot in those two closing chapters.
5th Abercrombie I have read this year. Sheesh! can I hold off for the last two of the series!?
The #polyglotunconf afterparty was held at the False Creek Yacht Club. The organizers did a great job at making the weather nice 😎 Had a good time connecting with some very interesting folks. This is a great conf for bringing together people from many different walks of computing life.
Just finished #polyglotunconf 🎉 300 people showed up and collaboratively created a multi track conference. I went to sessions on building an eng team post-AI, LoFi software, self-hosting, and managing context in enterprise. Met a TON of new people. Now off to the afterparty 🍻
Gotta go to sleep early tonight since I need to bring the energy to www.polyglotsoftware.com unconf tomorrow!! 🎉🙌
#polyglotconf
mikerugnetta.com’s excellent essay on slopaganda, agit slop, and what it really says about power
Been a year so I updated my Uses/Don’t Uses page: chadkohalyk.com/about/use…
Share me yours!
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Indigenous Nations Plan a Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across the US-Canada border
We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.
Tsukimi Moon Viewing celebration at Vancouver Public Library featured shakuhachi, calligraphy, ikebana, poetry, dance, and of course viewing the moon from the roof garden of the library! 🌕🎑
Younger daughter made dango 🍡 (coloured for hanami 😅) with kinako and Okinawan kuromitsu. A moon cake 🥮. A full moon stream on YouTube. And some of that grass that cut me earlier today 🌾
Happy Moon Viewing! 🎑
