A bit early, but here is Sunset Beach looking into English bay, downtown Vancouver 🌅

beach and water with ships at anchorage. the sun is still high in the sky but is starting to go down

My first Espresso Soda ☕️ 🥤

Different, but good! 😋

Drink glass on a wooden counter. The glass reveals three layers: clear soda on the bottom, dark brown espresso in the middle, and light brown crema on the top

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 🥵)

Chad selfie sitting on a cafe patio looking up at the clear sky with sunglasses on, holding a paper cup of coffee

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! 🤩

grantkot.com/draw/

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

Water street in Gastown. The sun shines through the leaves of overhanging trees, Harbour Center visible in the distanceClose up of the famous Steam Clock with steam risingChad selfie at Canada Place. North Shore mountains in the distanceHarbour Center against a perfect blue sky. In the foreground Waterfront Station

We representing Iki at the Powell Street Festival, the biggest Japanese Canadian festival in the country. #Japan #Canada #ikijima

Chad and his daughter pose in front of a mikoshi wearing t-shirts from Ikijima

Hundred Rabbits is on the Orange site and I am happy for them to get more recognition! 💯🐇

news.ycombinator.com/item

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(It’s July 31st!?)

Chad selfie on the ice at public skating

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

www.neverpo.st/to-brb-or…

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

Chad’s ratty IETF badge held up with the Vancouver Art Museum in the background

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.

Chad holds a Parallel 49 coffee and bag of Lucky’s donuts in front of an IETF meeting sign

Downtown Vancouver is hoppin’! We got #IETF120 hackathon, the fireworks, and a Caps match at BC Place ⚽️

North side of BC Place with Science World in the distanceWest entrance of BC Place with banners for the Vancouver Whitecaps

At the #IETF120 #hackathon

Tabletop easel with the words “OAuth & atproto identities”. On the table is a t-shirt commemorating IETF120 in Vancouver

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. 💤