[ { "id": 0, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh More photos from the afternoon here 🌸 www.flickr.com/photos/sa…\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-11 19:40:40 -0700", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Apr 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/11/88081263.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/88081263" }, { "id": 1, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jimray.locket.computer Oh boy. RIP your mentions Jim 🪦\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-10 11:03:48 -0700", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Apr 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/10/87996067.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87996067" }, { "id": 2, "type": "post", "title": "Podcast: Biography of Tor", "text": "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy\nThis episode of Peoples \u0026amp; Things completely nerd sniped me. On recommendation from Biella Coleman, hosts Lee Vinsel and Paula Bialski interview Ben Collier about his new book Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (available Open Access from MIT Press.\nI love ethnographic works on computing history and especially admire Biella\u0026rsquo;s book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. I used Tails on a USB stick when I was on campus at Royal Military College of Canada back in the day. I was lucky to meet Roger Dingledine at the Internet Governance Forum a few years ago. We have had Tor folks speak at a DWeb Seattle event I helped organize. And just last week at ATmosphere Conf (my recap) I met one of the inventors of onion routing in person!\nSo, between all these overlapping experiences I listened to Lee and Paula\u0026rsquo;s podcast with interest and I was not disappointed. With rising authoritarianism we could see more adoption of this useful piece of internet infrastructure. Ben tells a number of funny stories of his work in various Tor communities. And they end on a discussion about standards nerdery (and a DnD shoutout!), so what\u0026rsquo;s not to love! Give it a listen.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-09 12:39:42 -0700", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Apr 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/09/podcast-biography-of-tor.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F09%2Fpodcast-biography-of-tor.html" }, { "id": 3, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Connect, don\u0026rsquo;t collect\u0026rdquo;\nProtocols and federation \u0026gt; data hoarding silos\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-09 10:23:08 -0700", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Apr 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/09/connect-dont-collect-protocols-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F09%2Fconnect-dont-collect-protocols-and.html" }, { "id": 4, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inspired by the film, my daughter hand-sewed her own PROJECT HAIL MARY mission patch. Amaze amaze amaze!\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-09 07:14:54 -0700", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Apr 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/09/inspired-by-the-film-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F09%2Finspired-by-the-film-my.html" }, { "id": 5, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@akurjata.ca Wow! Really reminds me of the Surrey Library. Same architect?\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-08 18:45:50 -0700", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Apr 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/08/87880325.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87880325" }, { "id": 6, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The launching gantry for the SkyTrain extension is getting close to my future local train station. It is cool to see how it lifts and lines up those big concrete blocks for the elevated guideway. surreylangleyskytrain.gov.bc.ca #SurreyBC\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-08 18:42:53 -0700", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Apr 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/08/the-launching-gantry-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F08%2Fthe-launching-gantry-for-the.html" }, { "id": 7, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been really looking forward to the StatsCan results for the 2025 census to see if we are on track for Surrey to overtake Vancouver as BC\u0026rsquo;s biggest municipality soon. The old projections from BCStats signaled the overtake to happen in 2027, but a lot has changed since the census of 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-07 14:38:59 -0700", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Apr 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/07/ive-been-really-looking-forward.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F07%2Five-been-really-looking-forward.html" }, { "id": 8, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading Bob Williams “Using Power Well”\n#amreading #booksky #bookstodon\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-05 23:49:37 -0700", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Apr 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/05/started-reading-bob-williams-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F05%2Fstarted-reading-bob-williams-using.html" }, { "id": 9, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@writingslowly Thank you for the kind words! 🌸\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-05 22:34:32 -0700", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Apr 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/05/87680058.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87680058" }, { "id": 10, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying the sakura by the sea in Steveston\n#hanami #花見\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-05 15:11:02 -0700", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Apr 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/05/enjoying-the-sakura-by-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F05%2Fenjoying-the-sakura-by-the.html" }, { "id": 11, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Filed my archival requests for the Royal Geographical Society in London in a couple weeks 💪 Looking forward to seeing Younghusband’s journals and maps of the Pamirs, Kashgar, Ladakh, and Tibet! 🗺️\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-05 09:09:11 -0700", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Apr 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/05/filed-my-archival-requests-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F05%2Ffiled-my-archival-requests-for.html" }, { "id": 12, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Read in 2026: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd 📚\nChallenging. Moody. Fascinating. An admirable work of craft that inspires me to write!\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-04 23:02:04 -0700", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Apr 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/04/read-in-hawksmoor-by-peter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F04%2Fread-in-hawksmoor-by-peter.html" }, { "id": 13, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Saddle up my faerie cowboys! 🧚 🤠 ✨\n#mosstodon #lichensubscribe\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-04 11:01:28 -0700", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Apr 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/04/saddle-up-my-faerie-cowboys.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F04%2Fsaddle-up-my-faerie-cowboys.html" }, { "id": 14, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went to Project Hail Mary with my daughters, and my buddy and his daughter. Great night out! Kids were entertained and on the way home said they “like science movies”. Giving them The Martian audiobook next. 🚀\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-03 22:38:38 -0700", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Apr 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/03/went-to-project-hail-mary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F03%2Fwent-to-project-hail-mary.html" }, { "id": 15, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@laurenshof.online Great writing as always, but I am super glad you got to go to MoA and experience some of the west coast culture\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-03 22:22:59 -0700", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Apr 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/03/87574589.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87574589" }, { "id": 16, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched the Artemis II launch with my daughter live 🚀\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-01 15:47:24 -0700", "date": "3:47 p.m. on Apr 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/01/watched-the-artemis-ii-launch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F04%2F01%2Fwatched-the-artemis-ii-launch.html" }, { "id": 17, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thisismissem.social I agree totally that “for now” a single org makes sense, just to get started. I am just saying there needs to be “make a new shape” right from the beginning. Otherwise you end up with CSSWG extending its 2 year time box… for 25 years.\nCentralized Foundations are just too convenient.\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-01 12:38:39 -0700", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Apr 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/01/87417310.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87417310" }, { "id": 18, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thisismissem.social If it starts with a single foundation it either needs to be time-limited or have a requirement to spin off other foundations: drive to polycentricity.\nHow do we slice it up, and in a way where the parts must work together and no one can filibuster?\n", "dateiso": "2026-04-01 12:31:29 -0700", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Apr 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/04/01/87417311.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87417311" }, { "id": 19, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@kevindeyoungster.com Super happy I ran into you there! We gotta get together IRL in Vancouver some time.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-31 21:59:58 -0700", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Mar 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/31/87417312.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87417312" }, { "id": 20, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@schlage.town 🎂 We coulda had a pre-birthday party for you on the weekend! Congrats!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-31 14:17:14 -0700", "date": "2:17 p.m. on Mar 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/31/87360244.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87360244" }, { "id": 21, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton Lovely. I want a 4K version for my desktop!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-31 14:04:47 -0700", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Mar 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/31/87348019.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87348019" }, { "id": 22, "type": "post", "title": "Back from ATmosphere Conf 2026", "text": "Recovering from the four+ days of the second annual ATmosphereConf, this year held here in Vancouver at the UBC campus. It was more than twice as big as last year\u0026rsquo;s inaugural event in Seattle, and even more international with many folks coming from Europe, Japan, and Brazil.\nThe community is very thoughtful about how to make hashtag#opensocial better for communities, as demonstrated by some excellent presentations from folks like Erin Kissane, Blaine Cook, Rudolph Fraser and many many more. Watch out for the vids of all the sessions, they will be dropping soon.\nI MC\u0026rsquo;d the Media \u0026amp; Civics track for most of the conf, but I did get to catch up with a ton of folks, including the new Bsky Country manager for Japan Naoko Takano who is brilliant! Now that I have recovered I will write up an event report for Protocols for Publishers ✨ which will be more indepth with some important atproto and standard.site highlights for publishers. Watch out for that!\nCongrats to the conf organizers Boris Mann, Ted Han, Nick Gerakines and the local production team who did an excellent job. 🪿✨🦋\n🔖 See last year\u0026rsquo;s report here: micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-31 13:35:07 -0700", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Mar 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/31/back-from-atmosphere-conf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F31%2Fback-from-atmosphere-conf.html" }, { "id": 23, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@kawamataryo.bsky.social 来てくれてありがとうございました！お疲れ様でした。Hopefully we will see you in Japan at an AtmosphereConf in the future!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 23:09:55 -0700", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/30/87317624.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87317624" }, { "id": 24, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@werd.io My daughter’s reply: “He can read?”\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 20:47:52 -0700", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/30/87317625.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87317625" }, { "id": 25, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@david.eurosky.social Did the algorithm go to my high school?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 20:00:38 -0700", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/30/87317626.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87317626" }, { "id": 26, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🌸 Cherry blossoms in the local park. Nice walk with my wife this afternoon in great weather.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 18:17:51 -0700", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/30/cherry-blossoms-in-the-local.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F30%2Fcherry-blossoms-in-the-local.html" }, { "id": 27, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We watched the finale of REPLY 1988 today. 😭\nThe show nails anemoia — “nostalgia for a time or place one has never known.” 😊 So good!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 16:45:40 -0700", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/30/we-watched-the-finale-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F30%2Fwe-watched-the-finale-of.html" }, { "id": 28, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jlin.bsky.social Oh! I am glad I didn’t miss you then.\nIt was a great time. Love ATmosphere. ❤️\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 16:37:18 -0700", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/30/87288782.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87288782" }, { "id": 29, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jlin.bsky.social Did we cross paths at the conference and not get a chance to meet!?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-30 16:26:26 -0700", "date": "4:26 p.m. on Mar 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/30/87288783.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87288783" }, { "id": 30, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@pckt.blog But the real question: Did you all eat the same standard meal?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 23:46:52 -0700", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87235099.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87235099" }, { "id": 31, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadtmiller.com It’s an excellent image\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 23:25:52 -0700", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87234662.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87234662" }, { "id": 32, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Amazing! Thank you. I reckoned so but it is nice to get confirmation 👍 We appreciate it 🙇‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 23:24:55 -0700", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87234663.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87234663" }, { "id": 33, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@rabble.nz We missed you this year Rabble!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 22:34:31 -0700", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87232571.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87232571" }, { "id": 34, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com bsky.app/profile/kand…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 16:59:14 -0700", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87221061.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87221061" }, { "id": 35, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Community working together!\n“We can just build things… TOGETHER!”\n@ngerakines.me\n@oyster.cafe\n@bad-example.com\n@thisismissem.social\n@bmann.ca\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 11:56:00 -0700", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87218173.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87218173" }, { "id": 36, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Demo time! @kandake.africa demos @transrights.northsky.social Stratos for permissioned spaces! 👏\n#ATmosphereConf\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 11:48:45 -0700", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87218174.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87218174" }, { "id": 37, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Jonathan proposes that Annotations are labels and there should be a ref field\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-29 11:18:07 -0700", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Mar 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/29/87218175.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87218175" }, { "id": 38, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emily.space Is it all orange food because of @cloudflare.social ?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 20:40:15 -0700", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185273.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185273" }, { "id": 39, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Introducing the @aendra.com dev suite, featuring X Block, a Media Ownership labeller, and a news classifier that allows you to filer your news (eg give me everything BUT sports)\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 17:48:20 -0700", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185274.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185274" }, { "id": 40, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Some ideas 💡 from @joe.germuska.com and @werd.io\n media membership card on your PDS improve resilience against censorship newsrooms to create and share feeds for good journalism algos to recommend permissioned posts more Bristol Cables! #ATmosphereConf\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 17:04:02 -0700", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185276.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185276" }, { "id": 41, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Perfect line to close out our lightning talk session 😊 🤝 😊 from @pop.pe\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 16:56:28 -0700", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185277.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185277" }, { "id": 42, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com “What I learned is simple:\nMaking an account is easy.\nFinding people again is the hard part.”\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 16:31:06 -0700", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185278.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185278" }, { "id": 43, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com “Agentic social environment”\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 15:42:14 -0700", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185279.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185279" }, { "id": 44, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com “One more thing… “\n@sebastian.eurosky.social premiers the new Eurosky ATproto portal (built by @thisismissem.social) 👏 👏 👏 #ATmosphereConf\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 14:47:17 -0700", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87185280.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87185280" }, { "id": 45, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Broadening Digital Sovereignty\n Making it European is not enough. If public money is to be spent, than public digital infrastructure such as open social networks must be funded as well. Open social networks are a key part of achieving real digital sovereignty. ", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 13:50:42 -0700", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87160615.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87160615" }, { "id": 46, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Lauren talks about comedy, Daily Show, and Dave’s work at LNI.\n“Audience of young men use dark humour as a coping mechanism… he uses joyful comedy to capture there attention… “ and the numbers show he does!\n“Allows people who say ‘I can’t handle the news today!’ To be welcomed into the discourse”\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 12:07:20 -0700", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87159728.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87159728" }, { "id": 47, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com On sustainability:\n“For every creator that goes full time, there are 80 that don’t”\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 12:04:26 -0700", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87159729.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87159729" }, { "id": 48, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com See Justin’s project: journalismatlas.com\nSee Lauren’s project: lni.media\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 11:48:43 -0700", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87159730.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87159730" }, { "id": 49, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Talking advertising… talking @graze.social … and talking shifting economics including the pending release of permissions data on #atproto\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 11:29:32 -0700", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87159731.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87159731" }, { "id": 50, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com “Technology has democratized access.\nIt has not democratized economic value.”\n🎯\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-28 10:54:17 -0700", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Mar 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/28/87159732.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87159732" }, { "id": 51, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@burrito.space Former PLN member 🙋‍♂️😊\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-27 09:45:37 -0700", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Mar 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/27/87086979.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87086979" }, { "id": 52, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@naoko.cc 直子さんも来るんですか！？🤩楽しみ！\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-27 06:24:22 -0700", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Mar 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/27/87074511.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87074511" }, { "id": 53, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@goldavelez.org Haha! Nope. It’s the Other Chad™ 😜 (actually, I think I am the Other… 🤔)\n👉 @chadtmiller.com who does a BUNCH of stuff. You should talk to him for sure!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-26 14:15:41 -0700", "date": "2:15 p.m. on Mar 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/26/87049344.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87049344" }, { "id": 54, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@goldavelez.org Not my bot. But cool\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-26 12:37:34 -0700", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Mar 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/26/87049345.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87049345" }, { "id": 55, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com We will help you get all decorated when you get in!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-26 12:35:04 -0700", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Mar 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/26/87049346.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87049346" }, { "id": 56, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@devingaffney.com Ah so you didn’t get one of the visiting prof apartments at Carey? They are pretty nice. I’ve stayed there before with my family. But at least you won’t have a 80min drive home every night like me! 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-26 08:02:41 -0700", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Mar 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/26/87007207.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/87007207" }, { "id": 57, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started The Devils by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nNice to be back in Abercrombie’s world. Laugh out loud from the first encounter! 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-24 23:34:54 -0700", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Mar 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/24/started-the-devils-by-joe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F24%2Fstarted-the-devils-by-joe.html" }, { "id": 58, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently at the @movementyvr.bsky.social and @surreycitizen.bsky.social meeting on #transit in #SurreyBC. Once all the major projects (Broadway subway, SkyTrain Extension, KG BRT) are complete, MORE people will be able to get to Surrey Central than Waterfront in downtown Vancouver! 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-23 18:32:35 -0700", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Mar 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/23/currently-at-the-movementyvrbskysocial-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F23%2Fcurrently-at-the-movementyvrbskysocial-and.html" }, { "id": 59, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s happening! 🌸🌸🌸\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-21 17:18:55 -0700", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Mar 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/21/its-happening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F21%2Fits-happening.html" }, { "id": 60, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mmccue.bsky.social That water looks sculpted out of obsidian!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-20 20:34:11 -0700", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Mar 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/20/86651343.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86651343" }, { "id": 61, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Wow! I block just 18 accounts … how the heck did you get to 10k?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-20 11:01:51 -0700", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Mar 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/20/86621092.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86621092" }, { "id": 62, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@nevint.bsky.social Karp and Masayoshi Son\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-19 22:06:27 -0700", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Mar 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/19/86583276.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86583276" }, { "id": 63, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@ronentk.me Yes we need decentralized funding and governance for the decentralized protocol!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-19 22:02:12 -0700", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Mar 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/19/86583277.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86583277" }, { "id": 64, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@makeworld.space Looking forward to meeting you both in person!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-19 12:08:48 -0700", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Mar 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/19/86570507.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86570507" }, { "id": 65, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“And so let us beginne; and, as the Fabrick takes its Shape in front of you, alwaies keep the Structure intirely in Mind as you inscribe it.”\nStarted Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd 📚\nPreparing for my trip to London next month, arming myself to defend against Darknesse and Shaddowe\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-18 23:17:30 -0700", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Mar 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/18/and-so-let-us-beginne.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Fand-so-let-us-beginne.html" }, { "id": 66, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With the release of the Dune 3 trailer I have started Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 📚 Hopefully I will have forgotten enough by December to enjoy the film.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-18 02:13:49 -0700", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Mar 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/18/with-the-release-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Fwith-the-release-of-the.html" }, { "id": 67, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Up until 2am reminiscing with the wife about all the little neighbourhoods we lived together in in Japan: Oike and Demachiyanagi in Kyoto, Chiyoda in Nagoya (in 3 different apartments!), and of course Sakuranomiya in Osaka. There were more, but we made many memories in these.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-18 02:03:33 -0700", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Mar 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/18/up-until-am-reminiscing-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Fup-until-am-reminiscing-with.html" }, { "id": 68, "type": "post", "title": "AAS conference report", "text": " Canada Place, one of the convention centers, in the morning sun It has been almost 20 years since I attended an academic conference. Last week I joined nearly 4000 people at the Vancouver Convention Center for the Association of Asian Studies Conference. It was exciting to be surrounded by people at the edge of their field. In some sense it felt like a homecoming… like visiting a neighbourhood you used to live in many years ago. I did Asian Studies as an undergrad from 1998-2002 and focused on Japan-China relations for my Master’s degree from 2005-08. My most recent boom in studying Asian history and international relations in an academic sense was while living on Iki Island, working on my own travel history of Kyushu.Homecomings can be joyful, but they can also lead to pathos. Despite the excitement I felt a wave of sadness at the #AAS2026 conference. It was a surprising outcome which I have spent the last couple days trying to disentangle. This post is a bit of open therapy as I work through this, so excuse the maudlin sentiment. I promise there is some generalizeable insight, and at the end have included a short roundup of my conference experience at the very end.\n Vancouver Convention Center, next door to Canada Place, where most of the sessions were held First, as hinted above, I think I was feeling anemoia, a neologism that means “nostalgia for a time or place one has never known.” I have been like the proverbial message bottle, cast about upon waves of Asian Studies without ever making it to the shores of academia. What could have been? Where would I be now if I had’ve stuck to that road?But one does not need to go to uni to study and write about Asian history and politics. But I have even failed at being a popular historian. Surrounded by recognized experts talking about their latest publication, I had an overwhelming sense of guilt over my stalled book project, which still sits at just 30,000 works where I left it last in 2023.Those two feelings of anemoia and guilt are deeply personal, and best not to dwell upon. Another strand of disappointment, one that you may identify with, slowly came over me during the conference, but let’s take a moment to revel in the positive. I was very happy to meet some of my academic heroes in person. Each session was 90 mins, usually 3 or 4 presentations with some Q\u0026amp;A time. I attended 10 sessions (out of 1240!), totaling 15 hours of lectures compressed into just 2.75 days. Intellectually over-simulated I was absolutely wiped by the end of each day. Quietly browsing books in the exhibitor’s hall was a relief… but also stimulating since I don’t usually get to wander through so many displays of those kinds of books in one place!In other positives there was some satisfaction that I could listen to some of these very specialized talks and be able to follow along and even ask questions that were informed and somewhat challenging. Considering I was basically cosplaying an academic, secretly there as a fanboy of people I used to follow on the old Academic Japan Twitter, I was happy I could get something out of nearly all the talks, and wasn\u0026rsquo;t completely at sea. Still got it! 💪 (well, a little anyways).\n Another cute positive was getting recognized a few times. That was surprising and delightful! I went up to a couple of folks and introduced myself and they immediately knew who I was, and a couple of times people came up to me to introduce themselves! All of this is because of social media. Back on Iki I was posting a lot photos and facts about the history of remote islands and Western Japan. While actively researching for my book I was just a tweet away from asking a professional for advice, not having to make the trek to a conference like AAS. And in those early days of the pandemic, and the skyrocketing of apps like Clubhouse, I spent a lot of time in chatrooms with academics having excellent indepth conversations… without paying high university tuition. It was a great era.\nThen everything changed with the destruction of Twitter and the general turning against social media. Chatting with the mutuals at the conference there was a shared lamentation at the current state of social media. Many said they don’t post anymore. In the intervening years many of them had moved institutions… and I had no idea since we had lost touch! Usually when I part with a friend I used the greeting, “See you online! 👋” It is an expression of continued connection. But with these folks at AAS, I felt like this is the last time I would see them. In this sense it was a bittersweet conference experience. My last few years have had me focusing less on Asian Studies and more on web protocols. I was looking forward to connecting with some of my old online mates, and ended up feeling a profound sense of disconnection. The shadow of ATmosphere Conference at the end of the month hung over me all throughout AAS. We have to do better.\n\n📸 A few more photos from the venue →\nSession Highlights Okay, this whole blog post was a bit of a talk therapy session, so here are some highlights from the various sessions I attended (out of 1240!) to give you an idea of what being at an AAS is like:\n Cultures of Crossing: Networks and Navigation Connecting Medieval and Early Modern Japan to East Asia Pirates pirates pirates! Having sailed many of those waters and studied the region, I got a lot from this session. Power, Piety, and Patronage: Political and Royal Actors in Buddhist Diplomacy Chaired by Jack Meng-Tat Chia who I have interacted online through email in the past. This panel had a lot that I could connect to, and I met three new-to-me academics to keep in touch with in the future. Japan as Liminal Power A panel about Kei Koga and Kaori Katada\u0026rsquo;s new book: Japan\u0026rsquo;s Grand Strategy: Liminal Power in an Uncertain World. I have followed these two for a while, and often recommended Dr Katada’s previous book Japan\u0026rsquo;s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific (my review). Critical Approaches to Political and Cultural Mythmaking in Japanese Studies This was my chance to meet longtime mutual Morgan Pitelka! Unfortunately he had to cancel last minute but I enjoyed his recorded talk, and another talk on Katō Kiyomasa as a god of prostitution! 1980s Buddhism: Mobility and Materiality in South/Southeast Asia and Diasporas was a random session I attended and wow it was really interesting! Neoliberal tendencies seeping Thai temple administration in the Eighties was a surprising turn. Paper Publics: Mediums and Social Transitions in Popular Prints of Early Modern Japan I got to shake hands with Jingyi Li who let out a squeal when she recognized me. She is just as great in person as when we used to chat on Clubhouse. The Longue Durée of Social Movements in Japan: Legacies, Memories, Continuities I went to hear more about Japan Red Army leader Shigenobu Fusako in a fascinating talk. Then heard about the Japanese women’s movement in the 90s (my wife laughed to hear how she has been turned into “history” 😄), and finally an inspiring talk on AIDs activist Patrick Bonmarito. Enlivening Buddhist Heritage Parts 1 and 2 Lovely to hear my moot from Harvard Paula Kolata talk about akiya. I also learned about the Kamakura Daibutsu copy in northern Thailand. These two sessions were full of connections for me. Japan Beyond the Sinosphere, c. 250–1250 A chance to learn about the inner Asian origins of the Yamato Sky Cult, and ask about torii ⛩️ in pre-Japan Japan. Ran into social media moot Michael Röllinghoff outside! ", "dateiso": "2026-03-17 16:38:40 -0700", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Mar 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/17/aas-conference-report.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F17%2Faas-conference-report.html" }, { "id": 69, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 3 of #AAS2026 about to start on a gorgeous clear day here in Vancouver.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-14 08:09:48 -0700", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Mar 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/14/day-of-aas-about-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F14%2Fday-of-aas-about-to.html" }, { "id": 70, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This session at the Pan Pacific Hotel with Saori Katada (who wrote one of my fav books on Japanese foreign policy) and Kei Koga (a powerhouse on Japanese security policy) was excellent. Really looking forward to reading their new book. #AAS2026\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-13 12:48:58 -0700", "date": "12:48 p.m. on Mar 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/13/this-session-at-the-pan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F13%2Fthis-session-at-the-pan.html" }, { "id": 71, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After last night’s excellent panel on Northeast Asia piracy from the 14th to 17th C, starting this morning with a discussion on modern Buddhist diplomacy #AAS2026\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-13 09:13:19 -0700", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Mar 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/13/after-last-nights-excellent-panel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F13%2Fafter-last-nights-excellent-panel.html" }, { "id": 72, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All checked in! #AAS2026\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-12 18:14:32 -0700", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Mar 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/12/all-checked-in-aas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F12%2Fall-checked-in-aas.html" }, { "id": 73, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Some old travelogues:\nPart 1: chadkohalyk.com/2023/07/1\u0026hellip;\nPart 2: chadkohalyk.com/2023/07/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-12 07:52:13 -0700", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Mar 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/12/yesterday-was-the-th-anniversary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F12%2Fyesterday-was-the-th-anniversary.html" }, { "id": 74, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@paularcurtis.bsky.social Good thing you are staying so close! Take care and I hope to see you sometime this weekend. Welcome to Van!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 22:59:36 -0700", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/11/86051587.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86051587" }, { "id": 75, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com All these little stories aside, I do not feel I have the storage and memory problem solved. Flickr, a 4-bay Synology, and my wife as an iOS Legacy Contact, don’t feel sufficient. How are those alien archeologists of the future going to know how we lived around the turn of the 21st century, TRULY!? 👽\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 16:53:16 -0700", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/11/86020172.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86020172" }, { "id": 76, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com And finally, as a nearly 50 year old with a bad memory, I have forgotten a lot. I post lots, but also journal every day (in Obsidian Mike! 😉). My Flickr is the way I look up things that happened years ago to jog my memory… and my wife and I browse it occasionally for fun.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 16:53:16 -0700", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/11/86020173.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86020173" }, { "id": 77, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com My own father was semi-literate. He would walk the dog early in the morning at the local running track. I gave him an easy to use voice recorder and asked him to tell me the story of his life.\nLater, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung cancer, and died just 6 days later. That audio is precious.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 16:53:16 -0700", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/11/86020174.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86020174" }, { "id": 78, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com I am also surrounded by shoeboxes and am known as the family genealogist. I wrote about my first trip to London last month feeling a connection to my Great-Grandfather who came over to Canada as an orphan at age 7 as labour. I think about legacy a lot.\nmicro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/22/d…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 16:53:16 -0700", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/11/86020175.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/86020175" }, { "id": 79, "type": "post", "title": "Exilic design", "text": "NDC are back.\n exilic design [is] the act of knowingly building within the Para-Real… protecting our own memory through deliberate fragility.\n (Emphasis mine)\n the exilic are venueless. Their participants know the server won’t be there tomorrow. They treat the right to disappear, distort, and misremember as sacred, or at least, as inevitable. They document on their own terms, with their own tools, and preserve through adaptation. They recalibrate after loss, borrowing from sneakernet traditions for out-of-band transfer and redeployment. Because they do not fall for Barlow’s myth of the independence of cyberspace, they are deeply Para-Real: they know that their home of mind will never be separated from the real.\n The tension between the open web and the cozyweb/darkforest is just one of many tensions along different axes in our digital lives: scale, convenience, cost, etc. This conversation has been going on for decades (as captured by NDC evoking John Perry Barlow) and swings back and forth (as seen in this previous reaction against the Dark Forest). I am glad there are folks trying to forge new language and a new aesthetic of resistance out there.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 11:34:15 -0700", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/11/exilic-design.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F11%2Fexilic-design.html" }, { "id": 80, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got my dental bone graft stitches out, so I no longer have those little spiders dancing on my tongue. Now I have to wait 5½ months until the next stage where they will drill the implant into my newly reconstructed upper jaw 🦷\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 10:39:32 -0700", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/11/got-my-dental-bone-graft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F11%2Fgot-my-dental-bone-graft.html" }, { "id": 81, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Was itching to read something in paper and after a long discussion with an LLM about moody recommendations and narrowing down my massive To Read list, I ended up picking up The Buried Giant: A novel (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 15:38:30 -0700", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/08/was-itching-to-read-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F08%2Fwas-itching-to-read-something.html" }, { "id": 82, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@shannonvallor.bsky.social Amazing book. Yea!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 11:13:13 -0700", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/08/85791232.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85791232" }, { "id": 83, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Egads… I ended up binging A Knight of Seven Kingdoms in a single day. Light and brutal 😊\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 10:55:04 -0700", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/08/egads-i-ended-up-binging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F08%2Fegads-i-ended-up-binging.html" }, { "id": 84, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@hyl.st Happy birthday! 🥳 🎈 🎂\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-05 17:58:41 -0700", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Mar 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/05/85605686.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85605686" }, { "id": 85, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@wesinjapan.bsky.social 🥳\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 14:37:27 -0700", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/04/85543727.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85543727" }, { "id": 86, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@sinalana.bsky.social @sherif.eurosky.social @sebastian.eurosky.social where is the best place to get Lana some help?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 05:41:19 -0700", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/04/85543728.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85543728" }, { "id": 87, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@sherif.eurosky.social Private data can’t come soon enough!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 00:07:20 -0700", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/04/85543729.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85543729" }, { "id": 88, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@quillmatiq.com 🐺 Alphaz!\nAre you in your XG phase yet Anuj?\nXG Tape #2 was how I discovered them.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 23:59:08 -0700", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/03/85543730.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85543730" }, { "id": 89, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@reillywood.com This has been on my list forever! Really must read it.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 20:11:05 -0700", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/03/85461796.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85461796" }, { "id": 90, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/2…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 11:53:22 -0700", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/03/85429389.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85429389" }, { "id": 91, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Speaking of layers of history (cf. my long post on London) Hari Kunzru walks the city and skates from one historical layer to another, from reality to fantasy, and back. Fabulous writing.\nharpers.org/archive/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 11:28:14 -0700", "date": "11:28 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/03/speaking-of-layers-of-history.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F03%2Fspeaking-of-layers-of-history.html" }, { "id": 92, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“You know you don’t have to hit SAVE all the time anymore right, bruh? It’s not the 1920s.”\n— my 16yo as I help her with homework\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 22:08:49 -0700", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/02/you-know-you-dont-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fyou-know-you-dont-have.html" }, { "id": 93, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Thanks to our local correspondent @matheus23.com in GERMANY for letting me know 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 14:04:29 -0700", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/02/85363089.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85363089" }, { "id": 94, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Big news!\nwww.cbc.ca/news/cana\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 14:02:57 -0700", "date": "2:02 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/02/130257.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2F130257.html" }, { "id": 95, "type": "post", "title": "Engaged Buddhism message", "text": "Doug’s Dharma speaks out against the current US regime:\n I recommend taking the time to watch the whole video, but here is a quick summary of the four actions he recommends:\n Mindfulness of exposure: Pausing to become aware of your mental state while consuming news. Noticing when “information turns into indignation”, and understanding that anger becomes toxic. Identify intoxicants Recognizing and avoiding the \u0026ldquo;24/7 propaganda\u0026rdquo; that is designed to delude and incite fear and outrage. “Put down the bottle\u0026quot; if a news source is making you feel rage or clouding your judgment. Guarding the sense doors: Filter what you allow in through your senses. Once you have the facts, stop consuming more information on the same topic. Turn off the screen, go outside, and remind yourself that political reality is not the only reality. Right action: Active engagement rather than passive consumption (which can lead to anxiety and depression). Right action, rooted in peace and compassion, is the antidote to despair and the politics of hatred. Engage in your community, get to know your neighbors, volunteer, and focus on what you can control in your immediate environment I really admire Doug for standing up to say this and encourage his viewers.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 22:29:58 -0700", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/01/engaged-buddhism-message.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fengaged-buddhism-message.html" }, { "id": 96, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perfectly clear day and a warm 12°C for my walk while listening to Dhamma talks on this uposatha day\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 18:36:54 -0700", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/01/perfectly-clear-day-and-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fperfectly-clear-day-and-a.html" }, { "id": 97, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@hacdias.com Haha let’s turn this into a sweets thread! 🍡\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 12:19:32 -0700", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/03/01/85307525.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85307525" }, { "id": 98, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@danhon.com ngl this looks like witchcraft\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 23:41:58 -0700", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/28/85307526.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85307526" }, { "id": 99, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February email update is now released! 🛫\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 20:13:20 -0700", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/28/february-email-update-is-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Ffebruary-email-update-is-now.html" }, { "id": 100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dolls are out for #ひな祭り Doll Day! We brought the entire set over in the 19 boxes we sent from Japan in 2024. We didn\u0026rsquo;t have space to get them out last year in our tiny condo. This year we still don\u0026rsquo;t have a rack for the whole set, so just the Empress and the Emperor are out. 🎎\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 19:56:25 -0700", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/28/dolls-are-out-for-doll.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fdolls-are-out-for-doll.html" }, { "id": 101, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@deamplified.com I would love to see them animated and 3D… like rotating until you can read the actual letterform. Would make a cool motion graphic (probably terrible for legibility but… )\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 19:04:12 -0700", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/28/85252022.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85252022" }, { "id": 102, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@wesinjapan.bsky.social Undergrad 01, got the job at Rits, Master 08, had to return to Apple Store Nagoya since there were no jobs in Canada and they would take me as 正社員\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 19:02:13 -0700", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/28/85252025.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85252025" }, { "id": 103, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@deamplified.com The lined version looks great!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 18:55:12 -0700", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/28/85252026.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85252026" }, { "id": 104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excellent evening of co-op showcasing, solidarity, and FOOD at www.solidstate.coop tonight! #SurreyBC\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 22:37:56 -0700", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/27/excellent-evening-of-coop-showcasing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Fexcellent-evening-of-coop-showcasing.html" }, { "id": 105, "type": "post", "title": "Newspeak House — College of Political Technology", "text": " Chad opens an event at Newspeak House At the top of Brick Lane on Bethnel Green Road in east London the streets are lined with four-storey buildings tightly packed shoulder-to-shoulder, alternating brick and plaster. At street level there are pizza parlours, cafés, vinyl record stores, and a shop that sells terrariums. One building, measuring four gabled windows across with two wide storefront windows at the ground level, has nothing in the display for sale. This is the event space of Newspeak House, where I ran my event earlier this month.\nAfter arriving at Heathrow on my 10 hour flight delayed by 3 hours I dropped my luggage at the hotel in Brick Lane and walked up to the space to meet Edward Saperia, the person who runs Newspeak House. I just wanted to get a sense of the place so I could plan the logistics of my event in a few days. I got more than what I came for.\nIt’s bigger on the inside For a few years I knew Newspeak House as an event space where lots of tech meetups happen. What I didn’t know is that above the large open meeting hall, with its speaking area near the back and its cool fully adjustable mood-lighting, were three more floors which housed a whole residential college!\nEdward Saperia not only runs an event space but is the founder and Dean of Newspeak House, The London College of Political Technology (among holding various other positions, see his profile here)). This is an independent college with a one year program where participants engage in:\n the study of institutions founded with a purpose (civic, political, public sector, charitable, activist, etc), the communities that surround them, and in particular the novel digital infrastructures that they produce and deploy.\n Fellowship-candidates are expected to work on a political technology project, not just write a thesis. There are lectures, and candidates are to run events and engage with various political technology groups in London (and… ahem… from around the world! 😄) as part of their field work. Of the most recent cohort of 18 fellow-candidates, 6 actually live in Newspeak House. Since 2015 the college has produced more than 80 fellows. Some of the more prominent ones include:\nThe current cohort has some very excellent people that I felt lucky to hang out with while I was in London. I even got to talk about my experience in the Pirate Party of Canada with former Chairman of the Board of the Icelandic Pirate Party!\nThe faculty is also full of interesting folks with intriguing experiences. See the whole list under the Faculty tab here. You are likely to recognize some of them, for example Matt Stempeck, who maintains the Civic Tech Field Guide, is the college Librarian!\n💁 Newspeak House is now open to applications for its next cohort. You can learn more and apply here: https://newspeak.house/study-with-us Floored After graduating from Cambridge with a maths degree in 2006, the future Dean Saperia went into finance for about a decade. He then started a creative studio and in 2015 “bought a derelict building in an unfashionable part of town.” Since then this area has absolutely sprouted vintage clothing shops where a pair of shoes can cost you $1000. A lot of work went into improving the building, including building a lovely outdoor terrace that is heated, covered against the rain, and has a bar! I sat out there late one night with Kevin Marks and Orion Reed talking about indieweb, Causal Islands, Ink \u0026amp; Switch, and more.\nThe ground floor is an open space with exposed brick and two storefront windows that can fit about 100 people. You can hire it out for events or pop-up stores and the like (seriously flip through the gallery on that page to get a sense of how people customize the place!).\nUp a set of narrow stairs is a common room with big poofy comfortable couches where people can sit and converse late into the night. The walls are covered with large picture frames that don’t contain paintings but blackboards. I sat in this room until late the first two evenings I was in London, talking with fellowship-candidates and other community members about a myriad of topics. Next to the common room is the shared kitchen, and on the other side of the wall is a pantry and drawing room where even more meetups happen, including the weekly Ration Club, a free community dinner for anyone interested in hearing about the college and its work that has continued for ten years.\n The next floor up is a fully kitted out classroom, an office, two rooms for residents, and a guest room for visitors. Finally, the top floor has four more rooms for residents.\nExperimenting with governance is another feature of the one year program. Each year a new cohort matriculates and the residents have to come up with a system of rules to govern the living space and its resources amongst themselves. Every year the slate is wiped clean and a fresh new experiment in communal living kicks off.\nWhat isn’t happening there!? After a long flight over the north pole, and suffering some severe jetlag, I only intended to pop into the space for a few minutes that first night. However there happened to be a meeting of the Open Rights Group happening that night so I stuck around. The following night I was back again for a presentation by two members of the Open Culture Foundation_ from Taiwan who had popped by London after their trip to FOSDEM. Then, the following two evenings I was there for Protocols for Publishers ✨. After four nights in a row I had to cut myself off so I could see the rest of London 😅.\n The truth of open source Nearly every night there are events at Newspeak House. The entire event archive going back to 2016 is available to browse. Just to give you a sense, here are a few that happened just recently:\n Peter Steinberger presenting on a little thing that would eventually molt into OpenClaw Nick Srnicek presenting on his new book Silicon Empires a screening of Koyaanisqatsi Book Club Night with the Author of There Is No Anti-Memetics Division the initial Journalism Technology London Meetup @atproto.London, Feeling of Computing, and Campaign Lab are some of the groups that have regular meetings at Newspeak. It really is a hub of the tech scene in London.\nInspired I think visitors who travel to London and see Newspeak probably all have the same reaction as I did that first night: why can’t we have a Newspeak in MY city!?\nHere in Vancouver we have cool places like Z-Space and Atelier House. DWeb Vancouver has talked about having a space of its own and is probably the most politically aligned to the work that Newspeak does.\nI left Newspeak thinking:\n Could we raise funds to “buy a derelict building in an unfashionable part of town”? Could relatively small Vancouver support a program like this? Do we have enough of a civic tech scene as a foundation (Toronto’s is much more established)? Would we start from scratch, or we have a satellite campus with a relationship with Newspeak? What does it take to set up an independent college in BC? Could it be a different shape like a co-op? Could we run Newspeak’s main Introduction to Political Technology course here at an existing college or even Z-Space? What relationships at the established colleges and universities here could we rely on? (I used to teach Digital Ethics at UBC in the Okanagan, but would have to expand my network here in the Lower Mainland) In all, as you can probably tell, I was very inspired by the existence of Newspeak House. In April I will be in Germany but will stop in London on the way for a few days to visit again.\n Ed and Chad ", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 16:48:08 -0700", "date": "4:48 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/27/newspeak-house-college-of-political.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Fnewspeak-house-college-of-political.html" }, { "id": 106, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@nichoth.com Brilliant. I feel every few years an article like this comes out just to remind us how things are fuct up, and often it is in Harpers.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 18:55:38 -0700", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/26/85127419.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85127419" }, { "id": 107, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton My fav of all the Ghibli films, even outranks Totoro 🧹🐈‍⬛🎀\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 10:39:00 -0700", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/26/85084823.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85084823" }, { "id": 108, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@debcha.bsky.social Omg I wish I knew you were here! Would’ve come out to meet you sometime. Loved your infra book.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 16:38:42 -0700", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/25/85036062.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85036062" }, { "id": 109, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social “Democracy dies behind a paywall”\nbsky.app/profile/prot…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 09:02:18 -0700", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/25/85005657.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/85005657" }, { "id": 110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated my Interesting Conferences 2026 doc with a few things. Let me know if I should be aware of more! #events\nleaflet.pub/p/did:plc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 16:07:44 -0700", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/24/updated-my-interesting-conferences-doc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F24%2Fupdated-my-interesting-conferences-doc.html" }, { "id": 111, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@werd.io Ⓐ\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 15:42:22 -0700", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/24/84958427.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84958427" }, { "id": 112, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@norman.life I have an Aranet too. +1 to “self-imposed anxiety”! 😂\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 08:11:50 -0700", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/24/84945153.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84945153" }, { "id": 113, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Yes I was not expecting to tear up at the end and I definitely think the drugs had worn off by then!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 22:44:36 -0700", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/23/84903177.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84903177" }, { "id": 114, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What an up and down day. Early morning went into surgery. Woke up around 4 feeling good. Decided to relax and watch a film. Oh whatta film! boxd.it/DUHM\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 22:19:21 -0700", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/23/what-an-up-and-down.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2Fwhat-an-up-and-down.html" }, { "id": 115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We just happened upon this Senegalese place so decided to take the opportunity. Had some Senegalese Jollof rice and veggie fataya, with Bissap Hibiscus juice and a lovely drink made of baobab fruit!\nmaps.app.goo.gl/4pm5i9CSu\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-22 20:32:38 -0700", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Feb 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/22/we-just-happened-upon-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F22%2Fwe-just-happened-upon-this.html" }, { "id": 116, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Not sure why @micro.blog chose all the VIDEO thumbnails for this cross-post? 🤔🤔🤔\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-22 11:49:56 -0700", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Feb 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/22/84804199.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84804199" }, { "id": 117, "type": "post", "title": "Discovering deep history in London", "text": "An unexpected thing happened to me on my first trip to London earlier this month.\nI stayed in Brick Lane close to the venue (which I will write about separately!) for the event I put on. The first four days I stayed in the area prepping for the event and meeting people, so pretty much just work work work… but after the event was over (and I finally got a full night’s sleep) I had 3 days to explore the city, which I did mostly on foot.\nBut first: laundry. Winding through the narrow spray-painted lanes of Shoreditch I stopped in at a non-profit laundrette established in the Nineties by the surrounding council estates. The laundry ladies were working hard folding and making change for estate folks dropping off their clothes. While I waited the ladies stepped out for a smoke. One was very thin with yellowed finger tips and grey hair. We got to chatting and I when she found out I was a first-timer from far off Vancouver she gave me all sorts of advice on how to stay safe in the grimy streets of the metropol. 😊\n📸 I will sprinkle some photos throughout this essay, but you can find all the photos in order on Flickr → Dropping off my clean clothes back in Brick Lane I took off on foot through White Chapel, across Tower Bridge, and along the south bank of the Thames. It was cloudy but thankfully not raining. Passing the other tourists I heard conversations in many languages that I could not even identify. From the south bank I photographed The City as a backdrop to a warship turned into a floating museum, satisfied with the capture of “War and Finance” in a single representative photo. Further along the south bank I squeezed through the throngs at Borough Market and into old palace grounds re-developed into a polished shopping area for tourists, framed by the still standing walls of an ancient cathedral. A dungeon near Dirty Lane had been transformed into a shiny tourist museum. Still further along is The Swan and the Globe Theatre where I popped in to check out the Shakespeare merch in the gift shop. A light rain and sore feet convinced me to take a rest and see some art in the Tate Museum of Modern Art, which is a massive factory of creativity. I spent a little over an an hour wandering the galleries and the book store. The Tate is inspiring, but at the same time I felt dejected by my own lack of creative output. Sitting in the Tate cafe with coffee and cake I reflected on this while charging my camera. Already I had taken hundreds of photos.\n London is a very spread out city and its downtown core is not dominated by skyscrapers like Tokyo or southern Manhattan, or even little Vancouver. And with 2000 years of history you can’t just be digging deep holes here and there to put up such huge towers. Most of the buildings are quite low, and London’s density is comparable to Vancouver and Kyoto. New York is twice as dense as all those cities.\nDespite being spread out, the downtown area is perfectly walkable like an old Roman city. And every street corner seems to have multiple historical stories layered upon one another, whether an incident from the bombings of WWII, to an incident from the 16th C, all the way back to the founding of Londinium. North American cities, especially in the west, are so youthful in comparison.\nSt Paul’s and Big Ben The dome of St Paul's Cathedral while crossing the Thames over the Millenium Bridge The sun came out and the rain lifted so I made my way across the Millennium Bridge to St Paul’s Cathedral. Originally founded in 604, the cathedral burned down many times and in the late 1600s was redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren into the domed masterpiece we see today. Only expecting to pop in and have a bit of a wander, I spent nearly three hours admiring the architecture.\n\n📸 See the full St Paul\u0026rsquo;s album on Flickr →\nWalking down into the crypt I wandered amongst buried historical figures like Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. There are many memorials adorning the walls such as to Florence Nightingale. I took a selfie with a memorial bust of T.E. Lawrence (the subject of some of my writing at RMC) and even spotted a bust of John A MacDonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister. There are also many memorials to World War II as the cathedral is one of the most powerful symbols of British resilience of that time. In fact, the whole building is a war memorial.\n Climbing up up up the stairs I sat quietly in the uncanny Whispering Gallery before going up up up again to the roof outside the dome to view the City, then up up again to the very top of the dome for a spectacular view of London. How did the city change since late 17th century when they were building this dome? Or compared to the 6th century when this was just a church on a hill?\n\nAs a kid growing up in the Canadian Rockies the log house that my grandfather built by hand and raised nine kids in seemed ancient. I mean, my dad had to haul water from the river every day for the family. They eked out a living in the bush in the 1950s and 60s while we had running water where I grew up in town in the 1980s — a world of difference in just one generation.\nLiving in historical cities like Kyoto and visiting places with layers of history like Istanbul or Lisbon or Kashgar or Mumbai greatly expanded my perception of living with history. But for me London is different to all those romantic and exotic cities. England is the first country I have visited other than the United States that is primarily English-speaking. Like many Canadians, I grew up with British television mixed in with American and Canadian media. Three out of four of my grandparents have British ancestry. Before visiting I could not tell you the names of the main boulevards of those historical cities I travelled to. But leaving St Paul’s and walking down Fleet Street and the Strand in the rain, it started to dawn on me the connection I have to this not-so-foreign country. I turned south towards the Thames and passed King’s College London, a school I nearly applied to a couple decades back. Walking the north side of the river the sky to the west began to clear. As the sun started its descent it illuminated Cleopatra’s Needle in a warm light just in time for a Golden Hour selfie. I detoured slightly to snap a photo of (the surprisingly small) memorial to the Imperial Camel Corps before walking over the Golden Jubilee Bridge and getting a nice late afternoon view of St. Paul’s and the City from where I just came.\nBack on the south bank I could already see Big Ben in the distance. Passing under the London Eye Ferris Wheel, I weaved through the throngs of tourists and under Westminster Bridge to get some evening shots of Westminster and its famous clock tower. On this side of the Thames is a new monument: the National COVID Memorial wall, covered in hearts and messages to lost loved ones. A heartbreaking scene and another layer to the city’s long history.\n By the time I crossed the final bridge of the day and took some selfies with Big Ben it had gotten dark. Westminster Abbey was closed to visitors so I had to be satisfied with some exterior photos before grabbing my first London cabby to Harrod’s department store. (My wife had been here when she was younger and wanted me to show her what it was like now.) After a very expensive tea and salad for dinner in the Harrod’s cafe, I made the final leg of my journey to posh Sloane Square. These streets had quite a different vibe from the non-profit estate laundrette where I started my journey in the morning. I did not tarry long and took the metro back home to Brick Lane.\nEdge to center My first day walking London was filled with sights. The second day was by comparison a much simpler agenda: a trip to North London for a tour of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and then back to the City to photograph some funky-shaped skyscrapers.\nFirst, the stadium. The Weaver Line from Liverpool Station to White Hart Lane is an above ground train affording views of different London neighbourhoods as you head out of the city: neat rows of narrow back gardens, curving streets of row housing, factories, and the occasional park passed below. It struck me how little seemed strange or out of place. Of course it was different from Canada or Japan, or any of the other places I have been. But my travel experience has been about going to places that are vastly different to me, and I was struck by my feeling of cosiness.\n\nTottenham Hotspur Stadium, rebuilt on the site of the original White Hart Lane stadium a few years ago, is home to the Premier League team I have followed for more than two decades but have never seen play in person. The team was up in Manchester while I was in London, which was disappointing, but gave me an opportunity to do the tour and be amazed by the most advanced football stadium in Europe, if not the world. The Spurs staff did an excellent job of welcoming us, and even being from so far away I felt part of the supporter community. I lingered for about 45 minutes on the side of the pitch just enjoying the view and talking to an attendant, quizzing him about being a football supporter from the neighbourhood. I won’t bore you with all the amazing facts and figures (eg. it takes about 2 hours to retract the pitch under the south stand and prepare the NFL field that is hidden underneath… and even below that there is an underground F1 go-kart track!). I took a BUNCH of selfies here with some of the first team player’s jerseys.\n\n📸 See the whole gallery in full screen on Flickr →\nAfter the tour the sun had come out some so I walked the neighbourhood around the stadium. That morning I had a real British breakfast, beans and all, at a local caf called The Tottenham Hot Spud. It was less than half the price of a basic meal in the City. I had my first British pie at the stadium cafe before getting back on the train and heading back to Liverpool Station downtown.\n On a Saturday afternoon the City is pretty dead. That’s okay because I was here to capture some of the funky architecture of the London skyline including The Gherkin, The Scalpel, and the Walkie Talkie (Sky Garden). The day before I got some views of The Shard on the south side of the river, but didn’t get close enough to get any good photos.\nIt is amazing how the wide top of Sky Garden hangs out over the street. Robert Belton on Mastodon told me that the curvature of the building focused sunlight on the street level up to 91ºC! If The Walkie Talkie wasn’t derogatory enough of a name after the fire incident the building was dubbed “the Fryscraper.” 😄\n For the rest of my day there was no destination really. I walked side streets, popped into a Waterstones, photographed random cool looking old buildings to look up later. Wandering the narrow medieval streets in some mews I came across the spot where London’s first coffee house was sited. I checked out the memorial for the Great London Fire of 1666, which I thought was just a very tall pillar but is actually massive and a building in its own right that you can go into and climb up for views.\n\nAmazed and dazed at the British Museum My final day in London was the first thing I planned on doing when I knew I was going a few months back: the British Museum. In the morning I got the train to Tottenham Court Road and saw the Banksy painting there. It was still before the museum opened so I looked for coffee and found a specialty shop operating out of a money changer! The young Turkish guy running the place knew his coffee and we conversed for a bit. I ate my sweet roll and finished my coffee in Soho Square by a 17th C statue of Charles II, and then made my way over to the Museum.\nAlready there was a massive line of people. The Museum is huge, and largely free (like the Tate Museum of Modern Art). They had two special paid exhibitions, one on Hawai’i and the other on The Samurai (which was partially curated by my moot Oleg Benesch!). But I was here to see the treasures from Babylonia, Egypt, and ancient Sumer. My goal was merely to at least walk ALL the halls… and even that low bar meant I was there for 6 hours. By the 4th hour my head was just full… if you look at the timedate stamps on my camera you will see the number of photos just drop off after hour 4. I was overwhelmed and had to sit down a few times.\nI cannot describe in words the enormity of the Museum and what they have there. I was amazed to recognize so many items from history text books. And the fact that you get right up to them! I could have put my arm around the busts of Alexander and Pericles. I saw a kid leaning on a 5000+ year old stone Egyptian sarcophagus (until his mother swatted him!).\n 📸 See the whole British Museum album on Flickr →\nDownloading the app and all the audio guide content, I listened as I walked through the ancient world, saw the Rosetta Stone, mummified cats, the Flood Tablet, tablets from Ur, the body of a man preserved in the Egyptian desert in 3500BC… The reading room in the center of the building was from a dream. And to think of the famous people who have sat here doing research and writing their master works!\n\n📸 See the whole British Museum album on Flickr →\nThe section on Roman Britain and the gorgeous Sutton Hoo belt buckle helped me situate early British history. In Canada we only really learn about British history from the beginning of our country, which means the history of the Empire from the 16th C. Learning about when Britain was invaded by the Roman Empire, and subsequently by the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons, before the Normans took over in 1066 was interesting to someone who had heard of all those things but never seen them put together in a cohesive narrative. As I walked through I was constructing a comparative timeline with Japan, how the Yayoi, Nara, and Heian periods lined up with the Romans leaving Britain in 410, the battles leading up to the Heptarchy and the English finally united under Æthelstan. In front of me were the artefacts of deep history going back two thousand years and my eyes were wide open.\nThis is what struck me in London: this was a “deep history” that I actually had a connection to. All my life I had studied the deep histories of Japan and other parts of Asia, tromping through jungles to see monuments to ancient and foreign gods, traveling over the desert trade routes of the Silk Road from the Roof of the World to caravanserais in modern day Iran. For the first time I felt a connection to my own deep history.\nMy great-grandfather came to Canada from Britain at the age of 7, an orphan brought over to the new country effectively as labour to work on farms. There were many like him. Frontier folk that came to the New World as settlers typically did not have the wherewithal to maintain strong cultural heritage practices, especially out West. Every day was a struggle to survive. Only rich settlers could thrive and carry on their legacy (and authority) here. As a fourth generation Canadian I lost all historical cultural connections, from both sides of my family, long ago. My history only goes back to the person who came over from “the old country” and my cultural heritage is basically the Sears catalog of the 1980s. Some immigrant communities do an excellent job maintaining their culture in Canada, especially nowadays. But I think there are many settlers in North America like me that had their cultural heritage cut off just a few generations before and have a sort of hole in their identity. I think I met many of those people when I lived in Japan and was studying Classical Japanese culture.\nThe ”deep history” of Turtle Island is all the fascinating histories of the indigenous nations. But that is not my heritage. In London I caught a glimpse of a cultural heritage that I actually belonged to… and it excited me!\nSo with this new insight inside me, I finished navigating the European halls of the British Museum, strolled through East Asia and India, seeing statues of the Buddha that I was well familiar with from my own studies. The Chinese art section was pretty good, and full of Chinese tour groups, but not as impressive as the National Museum in Taipei. Even though I was going at a fast pace I still spotted some treasures from Tibet brought back by Sir Francis Younghusband (a character I have a certain attachment to 😉). The final area I visited was the African section where I saw some amazing masks, dangerous looking throwing knives, and unwieldy money.\nOne last jaunt I left the British Museum about 4PM filled with the desire to return. Heading south I walked Shaftesbury Ave where all the theatre shows are, past Chinatown, and to Leicester Square packed with couples out for the evening. I took Charing Cross Road to the famous Trafalgar Square where talented street performers busked for tourists. It was getting near 5 and I was starving. I wanted to have one last fish \u0026amp; chips before leaving the UK. Crossing Trafalgar I spotted a row of Canadian flags… it was Canada House, where the Canadian High Commission is located! I took some proud selfies in front of the maple-leaf-carved doors. Britain might be were my deep history is, but I AM CANADIAN 🍁 😀\n Opening up my map I looked for a place to eat and realized just how close I was to Buckingham Palace. It was still light, so I pushed myself and hoofed it down The Mall. Most people were going in the other direction. One of the sites I had flagged before going to London was Canada Gate, the elaborate entrance to the Green Park just north of Buckingham. Luckily I still had the light to capture some shots. Even though it was getting dark and all the gates were closed there were more than a hundred people in front of the Palace taking photos. I got mine and then headed towards Victoria Station looking for a well-rated pub.\nAlong the way were modern pubs with big screen TVs showing the Sunday night football matches to people drinking on the patio with the serious faces of heavily invested fans. Off in the distance I heard chanting… was I close to a stadium? According to the map Stamford Bridge (home to Chelsea FC) was quite far away. Wow, those chanters are loud! I thought. When I rounded the bend I found myself smack dab in the middle of a giant pro-Iranian monarchy demonstration! A massive line of marchers waving huge flags chanting the name of the Pahlavi Shah in exile, escorted by uniformed Met Officers, had completely taken over Victoria Street, blocking my path. I ducked into a nearby pub to get some food and wait out the protest. Then I caught the metro from Victoria station back home to Brick Lane.\n\nConclusion Three days are all I had to explore London. Then it was back to Heathrow with sore feet answering emails from my event and eating my fourth serving of fish \u0026amp; chips for the week (they were all different! Seriously! And so much better than Canada). London is a global city like New York and Tokyo, both of which I have enjoyed. But I made a connection with London that I haven’t with those other cities… and I was not expecting that at all. Immediately I bought a book about early British history, and I am already planning to go back in April on my way to Germany. I need to return to the British Museum. And this time I was not able to reserve a showing at the Royal Geographic Society. Plus, I now have friends and an interesting community to visit when I am in the city (see this post).\nMy brother and I had always said one day we would like to go to England and from there to Ireland and Scotland to explore our lost past. Just three enjoyable days in London validated that dream, and I am very much motivated to explore the isles more fully in the coming years.\n📸 Photo Gallery Index This is the master album with ALL my London photos An album with just the British Museum Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tour Photos St Paul’s Cathedral album ", "dateiso": "2026-02-22 11:23:21 -0700", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Feb 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/22/discovering-deep-history-in-london.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F22%2Fdiscovering-deep-history-in-london.html" }, { "id": 118, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@newyorker.com Oh I am all loaded up 😃\nbsky.app/profile/chad…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 23:27:26 -0700", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/20/84800361.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84800361" }, { "id": 119, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bmann.ca What!? Wow! I wasn’t even planning on going but now I can!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 18:48:39 -0700", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/20/84800362.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84800362" }, { "id": 120, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@newyorker.com This is golden! Thank you for letting me know\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 18:34:37 -0700", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/20/84800363.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84800363" }, { "id": 121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Birthday HanSang time!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 13:55:51 -0700", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/19/birthday-hansang-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2Fbirthday-hansang-time.html" }, { "id": 122, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@phoebebarton.bsky.social Also see chadkohalyk.com/2022/01/29/l…\nAnd also Aso, which I never wrote about but it was amazing to see all the little towns INSIDE the volcano caldera\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 10:01:54 -0700", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/19/84614584.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84614584" }, { "id": 123, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@nhledbetter.bsky.social Also see chadkohalyk.com/2022/01/29/l…\nAnd also Aso, which I never wrote about but it was amazing to see all the little towns INSIDE the volcano caldera\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 10:00:48 -0700", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/19/84614586.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84614586" }, { "id": 124, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@tynanpurdy.com www.u2.com/news/title/u…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 20:56:09 -0700", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/18/84598653.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84598653" }, { "id": 125, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@itsquinns.bsky.social Well, it was a great review so I will just watch it about 400,000 times to recover those views 👍\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 15:07:52 -0700", "date": "3:07 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/18/84598655.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84598655" }, { "id": 126, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com What did you get? 😃\nA bunch of friends did it and the spread is like 13-16… and we are all nerds… but NOT Tolkien nerds I guess 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 16:04:39 -0700", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/16/84407392.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84407392" }, { "id": 127, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chronotope.aramzs.xyz tells you it was really well put together! Good game!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 12:42:56 -0700", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/16/84395511.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84395511" }, { "id": 128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app\nWow I only got 15/24! That was harder than I thought it would be! 😄\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 11:51:48 -0700", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/16/105148.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F16%2F105148.html" }, { "id": 129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 📚\nEasy to digest, but some difficult subject matter (power harassment/abuse) that was not for me. Some people gave it 5 stars so it touches others. I just hope everyone is okay.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 23:57:15 -0700", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/15/finished-katabasis-by-rf-kuang.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F15%2Ffinished-katabasis-by-rf-kuang.html" }, { "id": 130, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@ruperts.world Let me just check my Obsidian…\nThe answer is “Yes”\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 23:22:12 -0700", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/15/84378880.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84378880" }, { "id": 131, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@psingletary.com Platforms \u0026lt; Protocols \u0026lt; PEOPLE ✊\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 09:32:23 -0700", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/15/84351060.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84351060" }, { "id": 132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had some epic anime clouds above the city today. Gorgeously warm and bright for Feb 🌞\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 21:35:44 -0700", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/14/had-some-epic-anime-clouds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Fhad-some-epic-anime-clouds.html" }, { "id": 133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Of course I did mettā meditation this morning. Easy to spread the loving kindness on this day: our 20th wedding anniversary. 🎊 What an adventure it has been since that cold day in Kingston ON when we walked through snow in our wedding kimono. 👘 Can’t imagine what the next 20 will be like! 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 08:58:52 -0700", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/14/of-course-i-did-mett.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Fof-course-i-did-mett.html" }, { "id": 134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "📸 Finally uploaded all my photos from London: 278 photos 24 vids. That is down from 1200+\u0026hellip; I also broke them up a bit into British Museum, St Paul\u0026rsquo;s, and stadium tour, but this is the super album. Give it a quick scroll: www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 21:28:44 -0700", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/13/finally-uploaded-all-my-photos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F13%2Ffinally-uploaded-all-my-photos.html" }, { "id": 135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#poetry\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 19:56:27 -0700", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/13/poetry.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F13%2Fpoetry.html" }, { "id": 136, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@moja.blue Also love Wim Mertens\nyoutu.be/9tQ6oFPRe9g?…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 17:27:57 -0700", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/13/84237529.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84237529" }, { "id": 137, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@moja.blue Classic album!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 17:24:27 -0700", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/13/84237530.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84237530" }, { "id": 138, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@shiawase I’ve only been to about 16 countries, mostly in Asia, but a few in Europe. Travelling to London though felt really different… weirdly nostalgic and …comfortable? It was such an odd feeling, and made me consider my particular upbringing and experience. I have theories… 😊\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 06:50:24 -0700", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/13/84192154.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84192154" }, { "id": 139, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@shiawase Canadians only really learn about the UK from much later on. And since my grandparents were orphans (brought over for labour) we never had any real cultural connection. I spent all my time learning about Japan! But actually going to the UK awoke a new interest in me.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 06:46:49 -0700", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/13/84192029.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84192029" }, { "id": 140, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@shiawase thanks for the recco. Big podcast listener so I will check them out.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 06:45:27 -0700", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/13/84191988.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84191988" }, { "id": 141, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@shiawase There is the whole Roman-Britain and Sutton Hoo sections that I found fascinating. I never really had a sense of the layers of history… of who came when etc. Seeing it laid out really helped me get a sense of the full cake. And I realized a ton I never knew (eg Sutton Hoo)\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 15:49:29 -0700", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/12/84154874.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84154874" }, { "id": 142, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@ctwardy Mine has a removable sword and boot knife, and two tiny red stitches on his neck for… well… when he lost that battle 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 15:41:15 -0700", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/12/84154212.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84154212" }, { "id": 143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My visit to the British Museum really inspired me to learn more about early British History, so I picked up A History of Britain: Volume 1 by Simon Schama 📚\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 12:54:42 -0700", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/12/my-visit-to-the-british.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F12%2Fmy-visit-to-the-british.html" }, { "id": 144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I always said I would come back to this wonderful book… and now it has been 15 years. I am re-reading Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 📚\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 12:35:07 -0700", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/12/i-always-said-i-would.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F12%2Fi-always-said-i-would.html" }, { "id": 145, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@gregmoore Whenever we finish a long campaign we do something special too. When we finished Strahd (after 5 years of playing!) our DM commissioned crocheted versions of our characters: flic.kr/p/2pxeX7n\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 12:13:17 -0700", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/12/84141175.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/84141175" }, { "id": 146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just arrived at YVR. Some shots from the Arctic for you: mountains of Greenland, sea ice, arriving over Canada. Finally the islands of the west coast as we turn to land at YVR.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-09 17:13:49 -0700", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Feb 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/10/just-arrived-at-yvr-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F10%2Fjust-arrived-at-yvr-some.html" }, { "id": 147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay one last point ☝️🤓: a luggage trolley on the tarmac. Cheers London! It was a blast and I hope to come back soon. See ya’ll on the other side of the Pacific in 9h55m 👋\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-09 07:09:09 -0700", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Feb 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/09/okay-one-last-point-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F09%2Fokay-one-last-point-a.html" }, { "id": 148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back home from 6 hours at the British Museum, walking Leicester Sq, Trafalgar Sq, down the Mall to Buckingham, and then taking the tube back to East London. Just relaxing at the hotel and importing the 453 photos I took today 🫨 So far my whole trip count is 1185. And I was working!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-08 12:18:37 -0700", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Feb 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/08/back-home-from-hours-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F08%2Fback-home-from-hours-at.html" }, { "id": 149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh it is #superbowl across the pond today? Haven\u0026rsquo;t taken any recent owl 🦉 photos but here is the owl cafe in Kyoto\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-08 12:06:20 -0700", "date": "12:06 p.m. on Feb 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/08/oh-it-is-superbowl-across.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F08%2Foh-it-is-superbowl-across.html" }, { "id": 150, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com I almost made 6 hours but just had to leave to catch my breath. Ended up walking to Leicester Square, then Trafalgar, then down the Mall to Buckingham Palace… glutton for punishment!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-08 11:54:05 -0700", "date": "11:54 p.m. on Feb 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/08/83853275.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83853275" }, { "id": 151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hmmm… second Iranian protest I have been caught up in in my life while traveling — although for very different sides.\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-08 11:48:45 -0700", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Feb 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/08/hmmm-second-iranian-protest-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F08%2Fhmmm-second-iranian-protest-i.html" }, { "id": 152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been here for 4 hours and just gotta say the British Museum is overwhelming. Too many things to point at! 😩\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-08 07:15:27 -0700", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Feb 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/08/been-here-for-hours-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F08%2Fbeen-here-for-hours-and.html" }, { "id": 153, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@werd.io Well, glad you made it safely. I will be along to our continent in a couple of days. 🤞\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 14:55:39 -0700", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/07/83806195.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83806195" }, { "id": 154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Realized that this is the first Anglo country (other than the US) that I have ever traveled to. Usually when I go somewhere I get some foreign-language manga for my kids, but that a moot gesture here 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 14:28:48 -0700", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/07/realized-that-this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F07%2Frealized-that-this-is-the.html" }, { "id": 155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 6: Walked around the downtown core which is pretty quiet on a Saturday and saw The Gherkin, The Scalpel, Sky Garden, all of which cannot really be explained. Finally there is the The Monument to the Great Fire of London (1666) which is MASSIVE\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 12:16:40 -0700", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/07/191640.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F07%2F191640.html" }, { "id": 156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 5: Random Edition including the I Goat, the site of London\u0026rsquo;s first coffee shop, the White Hart Lane train sign, and myself at the Bubble Bond outside Liverpool Station\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 12:08:25 -0700", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/07/190825.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F07%2F190825.html" }, { "id": 157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey! It’s your Canadian 🇨🇦 Dad in London 🇬🇧. Let me show you what I found down this sketchy alley\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 09:47:33 -0700", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/07/hey-its-your-canadian-dad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F07%2Fhey-its-your-canadian-dad.html" }, { "id": 158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 4: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The boys are up in Manchester this weekend so I took the stadium tour. Took a ton of pics of the pitch, and of course the mural of Sonny\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 06:48:35 -0700", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/07/chad-points-at-things-london.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F07%2Fchad-points-at-things-london.html" }, { "id": 159, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton “Building trust” is such a good point, and a huge reason I moved to Mb\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 00:42:20 -0700", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/07/83766905.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83766905" }, { "id": 160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 3: Not so much pointing in this edition which focuses on tall pointy things. Walked down Fleet St and the Strand, past King’s College, saw the Camel Corps Memorial, Cleopatra’s Needle, crossed the Thames again, saw the Eye and then it was Big Ben time.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-06 12:05:11 -0700", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Feb 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/06/190511.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F06%2F190511.html" }, { "id": 161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 2: St Paul’s Cathedral where I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at the dome, avoiding walking over people in the crypt, huffing up tight circular stairs to the roof, then freezing while taking in the view.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-06 11:54:41 -0700", "date": "11:54 p.m. on Feb 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/06/185441.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F06%2F185441.html" }, { "id": 162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 1: Tower Bridge, the Globe Theatre, the absolute unit of a building Tate Modern Art Museum, then crossing the bridge to St Paul’s\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-06 11:48:06 -0700", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Feb 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/06/chad-points-at-things-london.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F06%2Fchad-points-at-things-london.html" }, { "id": 163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Omg I slept 9 hours.\nTime to do some laundry then explore London.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-06 02:56:12 -0700", "date": "2:56 p.m. on Feb 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/06/omg-i-sleep-hours-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F06%2Fomg-i-sleep-hours-time.html" }, { "id": 164, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Cheers mate! On the way to the coffee trough now\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-05 01:43:32 -0700", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Feb 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/05/83674527.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83674527" }, { "id": 165, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com めっちゃめっちゃ背高っ！！\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-05 01:18:42 -0700", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Feb 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/05/83674528.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83674528" }, { "id": 166, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@protocolsforpublishers.com Sorry we just aren’t set up for that. I wish I could have flown Eli out to help!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-04 06:48:19 -0700", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/04/83604987.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83604987" }, { "id": 167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Attended a talk by some g0v.tw and ocf.tw reps from Taiwan at Newspeak House. They covered the evolution of the #opensource community in Taiwan, the relation with the gov, and the \u0026ldquo;Bloody Truth\u0026rdquo; of OS economics :lolsob: We then had a wide-ranging conversation and 🍕💖\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-03 15:04:09 -0700", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Feb 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/03/attended-a-talk-by-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F03%2Fattended-a-talk-by-some.html" }, { "id": 168, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com I am but people are messaging me on Bsky. Good point, i should advertise that more\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-03 09:34:30 -0700", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Feb 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/03/83519755.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83519755" }, { "id": 169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After having a massive fish \u0026amp; chips I stopped by a Sainsbury\u0026rsquo;s and picked up some Jaffa Cakes and Walker\u0026rsquo;s Salt \u0026amp; Vinegar before heading back to the hotel. 🇬🇧 Might have to put on some Doctor Who to round out the evening. 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-02 16:28:51 -0700", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Feb 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/02/after-having-a-massive-fish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F02%2Fafter-having-a-massive-fish.html" }, { "id": 170, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chrisaldrich Saw this in YVR and thought of you\nwww.flickr.com/photos/sa…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-02 16:15:02 -0700", "date": "4:15 p.m. on Feb 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/02/02/83449602.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83449602" }, { "id": 171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Also, Brick Lane is a dream for street photography. I will have my GRIV out tomorrow for a wander 📸\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-02 16:07:53 -0700", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Feb 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/02/also-brick-lane-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F02%2Falso-brick-lane-is-a.html" }, { "id": 172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Checked out the Newspeak House venue to prep for #PfP✨London, ended up staying for the Open Rights Group meetup, then got a massive fish\u0026amp;chips and hung out with faculty and fellows and even met some visitors from the Taiwan open source community passing through from FOSDEM. 💖\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-02 16:06:25 -0700", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Feb 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/02/checked-out-the-newspeak-house.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F02%2Fchecked-out-the-newspeak-house.html" }, { "id": 173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a 3 hour delay due to a water pump issue—which they couldn’t fix so just shut down the system resulting in no coffee, tea, or running water in the bathrooms for the 9hr flight—I finally took off to London 🇬🇧 Slept the whole way and checked into my hotel. Everything is so… British 😂\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-02 10:01:07 -0700", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Feb 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/02/after-a-hour-delay-due.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F02%2Fafter-a-hour-delay-due.html" }, { "id": 174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How boring people people are actually interesting (and how they can help you do crimes) — advice for a 14 year old from the inimitable Mike Monteiro 😊\nbuttondown.com/monteiro/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 09:40:48 -0700", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/02/01/how-boring-people-people-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F02%2F01%2Fhow-boring-people-people-are.html" }, { "id": 175, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Bards are the best class, objectively.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 23:38:47 -0700", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/31/83329707.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83329707" }, { "id": 176, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First newsletter of the year is out the door! Can\u0026rsquo;t believe I have been writing these little notes since mid 2020\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 21:29:16 -0700", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/31/first-newsletter-of-the-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F31%2Ffirst-newsletter-of-the-year.html" }, { "id": 177, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@moja.blue ATTN @jimray.bsky.team\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 20:00:00 -0700", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/31/83325309.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83325309" }, { "id": 178, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Nice find! How did you figure it out?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 10:27:58 -0700", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/31/83296271.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83296271" }, { "id": 179, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com I can’t tell. But those sources are real:\nwww.edisonresearch.com/the-infinite…\nwww.iab.com/insights/us-…\noxfordroad.com/thought-lead…\nwww.magellan.ai/research/qua…\nsoundsprofitable.com/research/ad-…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 09:42:40 -0700", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/31/83293880.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83293880" }, { "id": 180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bunch of info in here, but the migration to YT and Spotify is real and worrisome (/cc @justinjackson.ca @dmathewwws.com)\npodcasts.rip\n#podcasting #rss #ads\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 09:20:41 -0700", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/31/bunch-of-info-in-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F31%2Fbunch-of-info-in-here.html" }, { "id": 181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Played my first game of MOTHERSHIP tonight. Lots of fun! 👽🚀 #ttrpg\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 00:03:55 -0700", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/30/played-my-first-game-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F30%2Fplayed-my-first-game-of.html" }, { "id": 182, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mikerugnetta.com @hansbuetow.bsky.social @georgiahampton.bsky.social\nAnd please let me introduce you to @sprk.so made by our Internet mate @joebasser.com and the unstoppable @knotbin.com in Brooklyn, all here on the AT Protocol\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-30 10:19:12 -0700", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Jan 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/30/83259486.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83259486" }, { "id": 183, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mikerugnetta.com @hansbuetow.bsky.social @georgiahampton.bsky.social\nPlease let me introduce you to @skylight.social made by our lovely friends @buildwithtori.com and @reedharmeyer.bsky.social right here on the AT Protocol\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-30 10:15:03 -0700", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Jan 30, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/30/83259487.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/83259487" }, { "id": 184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a lovely compliment this morning in a meeting: “You are a Zipper, always bringing communities together!” 🥹\nMy wife remarked, “Are you sure he wasn’t just telling you to shut up?” 😏🤐 🤣\nStay grounded out there! 😘\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-28 13:31:42 -0700", "date": "1:31 p.m. on Jan 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/28/had-a-lovely-compliment-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F28%2Fhad-a-lovely-compliment-this.html" }, { "id": 185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Church bells in the evening in Vancouver ⛪️🔔\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-27 21:31:29 -0700", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Jan 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/27/church-bells-in-the-evening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F27%2Fchurch-bells-in-the-evening.html" }, { "id": 186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At The Permanent for a little Internet Archive Canada thing 🥂\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-27 18:32:44 -0700", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Jan 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/27/at-the-permanent-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F27%2Fat-the-permanent-for-a.html" }, { "id": 187, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@wesinjapan.bsky.social Omg that takes me back. Either that or Sherdog\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-27 00:51:22 -0700", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Jan 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/27/82990105.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82990105" }, { "id": 188, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@quillmatiq.com Google Duo me\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-27 00:50:49 -0700", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Jan 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/27/82990106.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82990106" }, { "id": 189, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bisn.ucho-ten.net Engineering Cafe! ローリーさんによろしく！✌️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-27 00:49:39 -0700", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Jan 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/27/82990107.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82990107" }, { "id": 190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched The Sound of Music with the kids tonight 🎶 🦌🌞🤳🏃‍♂️‍➡️🪡⬅️🫖\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 23:41:03 -0700", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/26/watched-the-sound-of-music.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F26%2Fwatched-the-sound-of-music.html" }, { "id": 191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a weekend. After seeing the sunset on the beach we had Indian-Chinese food for dinner, then the next day my wife baked roht at her Afghan cooking class, after which we popped over to the farmer\u0026rsquo;s market to shop for nuts at the Armenian dealer. Surrey is great!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 11:09:43 -0700", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/26/what-a-weekend-after-seeing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F26%2Fwhat-a-weekend-after-seeing.html" }, { "id": 192, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@crossingthethreshold 🙏🙏🙏\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 12:12:26 -0700", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/25/82847303.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82847303" }, { "id": 193, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a talk from Ajahn Nisabho 🙏 🪷\n The Buddha said “I praise the killing of one thing: anger.”\n Take care of your heart ❤️ my friends.\n #buddhism #politics\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 12:03:23 -0700", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/25/what-a-talk-from-ajahn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F25%2Fwhat-a-talk-from-ajahn.html" }, { "id": 194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally started Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 📚\nTracking on Hardcover here\nPre-ordered the special edition a few months ago: micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 00:22:03 -0700", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/24/finally-started-katabasis-by-rf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F24%2Ffinally-started-katabasis-by-rf.html" }, { "id": 195, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Bunch more photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/sandb…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-24 21:47:29 -0700", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jan 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/24/82808992.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82808992" }, { "id": 196, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent the afternoon by the water, watching this sunset 🌅 (Crescent Beach, Surrey and White Rock BC)\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-24 21:20:43 -0700", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Jan 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/24/spent-the-afternoon-by-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F24%2Fspent-the-afternoon-by-the.html" }, { "id": 197, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@madformaple.bsky.social Been on my bucket list forever! Thanks for the pics\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 23:04:53 -0700", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/23/82775593.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82775593" }, { "id": 198, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@tobiasharris.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/stew…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 22:16:16 -0700", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/23/82775594.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82775594" }, { "id": 199, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Yeah I can get that.\nI used Bookwyrm for a couple of years, but I just don’t think a social-centric book tracker is what want. The thing I like about Hardcover is the team and the way they handle data. Easy to put in, easy to pull out, patron funded (no VC)… ticks a lot of boxes.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 22:13:10 -0700", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/23/82743108.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82743108" }, { "id": 200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been enjoying Hardcover so much I went ahead and imported all my Goodreads stuff into it. Come join us!\nhardcover.app/@chadkoh\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 20:46:40 -0700", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/23/been-enjoying-hardcover-so-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F23%2Fbeen-enjoying-hardcover-so-much.html" }, { "id": 201, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jacky.wtf I have been using @hardcover.app this month which is pretty good. The team there is pretty open and responsive. Still a WIP but looks and feels pretty nice. I find Bookhive and Popfeed too noisy… the social feed is only one part of a book tracking site.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 19:19:34 -0700", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/23/82737256.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82737256" }, { "id": 202, "type": "post", "title": "Competition Bureau Canada report on Data Portability", "text": "\nLast week the Canadian Competition Bureau released the report Your Data, Your Control: How data portability can unlock competition and empower consumers. The surprisingly readable report centers around an experiment exploring data portability in the insurance sector, calculating that “introducing data portability could save Canadians \u0026ldquo;between $1.10 billion and $3.83 billion in both time and money on their annual costs.” I decided to read the report to understand how the Canadian federal government thinks about data portability in general, with an eye towards other digital spaces like social media, cloud, AI, and the types of stuff I am interested in. What follows are some highlights from the paper and some questions for the Canadian Competition Bureau on where to go next.\nWhat is data portability? The paper spends a significant amount of time in the first chapter breaking down data portability in an easy to read manner. The very first sentences are:\n Data portability gives consumers the power to transfer their personal information easily and safely between service providers. This creates more freedom, choice, and convenience. When consumers can take their data with them, it increases competition and fuels innovation across sectors (pp. 5)\n Portability is obviously considered a good thing. And not just for consumers.\n With data portability, firms can more easily access markets. Customer acquisition costs may go down, particularly for new companies.\n Other examples such as if a firm wants to transfer its records from one provider to another demonstrate that data portability benefits more than just individuals.\nThe paper describes data portability success cases such as mobile number portability, open banking, and digital health records.\nIt also covers industry-led and regulation-mandated cases. To give an example that is not in the paper: in the 1990s telecoms in Canada worked together to allow people to text between carriers. This didn’t happen in Japan until way later — you actually had to use a mobile EMAIL to contact friends on other carriers! The Canadian providers needed to attract more cellphone customers overall so they worked together. However, it took government intervention to allow you to keep your phone number when you wanted to move cellphone providers.\nThis kind of nuance around how to “design a data portability framework that balances the interests of all stakeholders” was quite useful to read about. The Competition Bureau is worried about imposing rules that could end up harming Canadians. For example they identify consumer switching as key to competition, but also present the dangers of too much portability:\n Data portability makes it easier for consumers to switch providers. It could also lead to more data being shared with established firms, making their market position stronger. This effect, known as the demand-expansion effect, can make it harder for new firms to enter.\n If data portability rules make certain key information effectively transparent, firms could more easily collude and lock up a market, or even collect information on consumers that aren’t their customer (ahem looking at you Facebook). Furthermore, larger firms might be the only ones that can afford to implement porting capabilities locking out smaller firms. And if data portability rules are too rigid and sweeping, “firms may be less likely to innovate in how they collect, process, and use consumer data.” The paper covers many economic, security, and privacy risks that need to be balanced when designing data portability policy and makes note of the EU looking into easing reporting rules originally mandated in the GDPR.\nWho has the right Data portability is the right a person has to obtain and transfer their personal data in an easy and secure way from one data holder (the sender) to another (the receiver)… Data portability commonly refers to a person’s ability to transfer their data to themselves or to a third party in a structured, machine-readable format. (pp 11)\n That second sentence is the only line in the paper mentioning people transferring data to “themselves.” Otherwise it only describes situations of porting data from one third party to another. User-owned data in the sense of what we worked on at Fission, in the wider Local First movement, or Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid, is not even hinted at. It’s all about corporate-controlled APIs and common formats.\nHowever, I would like to point out the use of \u0026ldquo;right\u0026rdquo; in that sentence. Later in the paper they do a comparative analysis of data portability regimes in a number of countries, presenting a map showing all the jurisdictions that enshrine a “right to data portability”:\n About 60 countries, 6 US states, and 1 Canadian province have data portability rights In Canada it is only the province of Quebec that has such a right. PIPEDA does not enshrine a right to data portability. Makes me wonder why all Canadians can\u0026rsquo;t enjoy this right? 🤔 I am not sure if this is the case, but the report notes that the structure of Canada’s federation can be a challenge to implementing regulations like these.\nWhat about Interop? The paper identifies 3 levels of data portability:\n Level 1: Manually move all your data from one system to another, possibly by re-entering it in, or downloading bits and uploading bits in a piecemeal manner. Level 2: Download data from one service and immediately upload to the other service since the format is recognized. Level 3: A convenient API or service-to-service integration. (Mastodon is an example of how there are levels to these levels. 🙃)\n Meaningful data portability depends on interoperability. Basic data downloads do not offer as much value as seamless, API-driven continuous exchange that truly empowers consumers while balancing security and implementation costs. (pp 36)\n The best kind of data portability is interoperability.\nThe OECD agrees. And the Competition Bureau thinks:\n That is why data use and access, including data portability and interoperability is a possible key area where regulations may be needed to ensure we bring more competition into the market. (pp 14)\n In fact, they say:\n Structural interoperability’s main challenge is that it requires communication and coordination across firms within an industry to establish a standardized data format. This form of interoperability often needs government help (e.g., fines for non-compliance). (pp 47)\n (Emphasis mine.) Why does “government help” need to be punitive? Couldn’t they support the standards process which is often already captured by big corporations? (Yes, yes, I can hear you frustratedly screaming “ITU!” in frustration both with me and with them and their member nations shenanigans 😄)\nBut I digress. The paper touches on interop here and there, but it is focused on a data portability framework and not necessarily regulating interoperability.\nI get twisted over the intertwingling of the concepts of data-portability and interoperability. I don’t want just a simple way to switch mobile providers or social media services: I want the ability to switch providers and still be able to communicate with the friends I left behind. Mere data portability does not go far enough.\nConcluding remarks I am reading this report with social media and other consumer digital experiences other than insurance (or banking or health) in mind. Although easy to read, and nuanced in its explanation of the various trade-offs to consider, I came away with a few fundamental questions.\n The very final chapter “Towards a Canadian data portability framework” is just over a page long and though it opens with “it is essential for policymakers to develop and implement a comprehensive data portability framework in Canada” there are no next steps. Basically it is “ya’ll should think about this, and look at all the other countries who have.” This tells me that Canadian regulators recognize they are behind on the topic.1 The Competition Bureau says for data portability policy “to be successful … We need to ensure strong interoperability… (pp 5).” So why are we targeting portability rather than interop? Why not go for the whole biscuit? This signals that either the Competition Bureau is not thinking ambitiously enough, or (probably more likely) there are some political reasons that contribute to such incrementalism and narrow scoping. I would love to hear the inside scoop on this from someone like Keldon Bester! There was no discussion about how to actually implement this kind of legislation. The paper basically just recommends that it should be done, but no discussion on the “how” or on what has blocked it from being done already. Would the government ever mandate social media interop? Would they regulate social media (other than bad “save the children” policies or requests for encryption backdoors)? I think they might be convinced. This report centers consumer pricing as a primary KPI, and the Bureau is also obviously concerned with competition and innovation. But they also consider factors like time costs, privacy, security, and consumer empowerment and control:\n Empowering Canadians to control their own data could transform our digital economy. … It can drive economic growth while putting Canadians in control of their digital footprint. (pp 6)\n I would very much like to see a study about consumer empowerment, time savings, economic and innovation impacts of social media in Canada.\nTo wrap this already long post up, there are a number of other issues covered in the paper that I have not included here, including: difference between user data and derived data; horizontal and vertical interop; economic and psychological reasons why people don’t switch providers (reasons like loyalty, perceived effort etc but the amazing finding that privacy-conscious consumers were least likely to participate!); how public understanding of data portability is lacking (70% of participants reported having no knowledge of data portability); how people often don’t trust automated migration services out of fears of security and privacy (43% of participants viewed data portability as risky); a suggestion that a trusted oversight body could help with adoption;\nI am no competition legal expert, yet I found this report to be clear and concise and to bring up some provocative points. It is not exactly a muscular manifesto for taking action, but if you are even slightly interested in these topics it is worth the read.\n ADDENDUM: I suppose I should also point out this recent news about the federal government cutting 24 jobs from the Competition Bureau which won\u0026rsquo;t help.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 17:18:32 -0700", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/23/competition-bureau-canada-report-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F23%2Fcompetition-bureau-canada-report-on.html" }, { "id": 203, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thebeanpod.bsky.social That is frickin epic!! 🤘\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 23:15:50 -0700", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/22/82698195.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82698195" }, { "id": 204, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@erlend.sh Really amazing!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 16:58:08 -0700", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/22/82698197.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82698197" }, { "id": 205, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@genmon.fyi Haha! Perfect. Orion is great\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 13:26:51 -0700", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/22/82641662.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82641662" }, { "id": 206, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@genmon.fyi This sounds like it could be a Lu Wilson comment 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 13:24:41 -0700", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/22/82641663.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82641663" }, { "id": 207, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Full talk is here if you want to hear more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tejA…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 11:38:38 -0700", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/22/82633877.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82633877" }, { "id": 208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I LOL\u0026rsquo;d when I saw Ajahn Kovilo say this during the full talk 🤣 I am so glad they turned it into a Short:\n Full talk is here if you want to hear more.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 11:35:15 -0700", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/22/i-lold-when-i-saw.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F22%2Fi-lold-when-i-saw.html" }, { "id": 209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 📚\nHere is a short review: hardcover.app/books/a-p\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-21 21:43:21 -0700", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jan 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/21/finished-a-peoples-history-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F21%2Ffinished-a-peoples-history-of.html" }, { "id": 210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice walk in a very sunny forest 🌞🌲🪾🌳\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-21 17:45:34 -0700", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Jan 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/21/nice-walk-in-a-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F21%2Fnice-walk-in-a-very.html" }, { "id": 211, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@knowtheory.net It is not an “anti” coop approach, but it is very different. I will wait till the talk comes out from London to report more.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 19:54:21 -0700", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/20/82508408.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82508408" }, { "id": 212, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chronotope.aramzs.xyz Justin @buttondown.com is a super nice guy. Maybe he can help out?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 17:17:21 -0700", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/20/82501008.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82501008" }, { "id": 213, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@quillmatiq.com bsky.app/profile/chad…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 16:11:43 -0700", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/20/82497164.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82497164" }, { "id": 214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who do I know that lives in the Fraser Lowland? A friend has started a fellowship program to support projects focusing on localism there. If you know anyone please tag me and share them this: fraserlowland.org\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 12:56:38 -0700", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/20/who-do-i-know-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F20%2Fwho-do-i-know-that.html" }, { "id": 215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Clear Mountain Monastery found land just outside of #Seattle! 🪷 They have a beautiful vision and raised 99% of the funds. I really love this community and have made a small contribution. If you are interested in having authentic #Buddhism nearby learn more: www.friendsofclearmountain.org 🙏\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 09:11:53 -0700", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/20/clear-mountain-monastery-found-land.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F20%2Fclear-mountain-monastery-found-land.html" }, { "id": 216, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bmann.ca It was super sunny in Surrey but when I drove down into the valley towards YVR to pick up my wife it was pea soup the whole way! Great shots 👌\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 10:12:58 -0700", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/19/82466811.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82466811" }, { "id": 217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good first ep in @themaybe.org\u0026rsquo;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 🫨\nwww.themaybe.org/podcast/t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-16 18:48:43 -0700", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jan 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/16/good-first-ep-in-themaybeorgs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F16%2Fgood-first-ep-in-themaybeorgs.html" }, { "id": 218, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@dholms.at\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-16 15:01:35 -0700", "date": "3:01 p.m. on Jan 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/16/82234646.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82234646" }, { "id": 219, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mikerugnetta.com I too am a poem freak. Keep them coming. Also, take a look at @theincomparable.com’s website for a long running podcast that covers a lot of stuff. They have excellent metadata to help you find back eps. Shorter single purpose eps will surely help tho. More poetry?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-15 17:58:40 -0700", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Jan 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/15/82166693.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82166693" }, { "id": 220, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@aishiterutokyo.bsky.social Dan, you could try the Hacker News Tokyo community too. There are a lot of designers in that community.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-15 16:00:54 -0700", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Jan 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/15/82166694.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82166694" }, { "id": 221, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@aishiterutokyo.bsky.social Just wondering if you know anyone?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-15 14:47:21 -0700", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Jan 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/15/82166695.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82166695" }, { "id": 222, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@aishiterutokyo.bsky.social @emgoto.com ATTN\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-15 09:55:51 -0700", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Jan 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/15/82166696.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82166696" }, { "id": 223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 💰🧧\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-14 15:30:04 -0700", "date": "3:30 p.m. on Jan 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/14/wife-brought-back-a-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F14%2Fwife-brought-back-a-nice.html" }, { "id": 224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-14 13:48:12 -0700", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Jan 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/14/interviewing-surrey-and-vancouver-school.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F14%2Finterviewing-surrey-and-vancouver-school.html" }, { "id": 225, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com @ntnsndr.in I know this book is in GovSpaces biblio, but I couldn’t find a reference to the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium in the text of the book. Do you know what happened to that Bill of User’s Rights? (Maybe it is later in the People’s History… just got excited by the precendent)\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 23:19:59 -0700", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/13/82041889.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82041889" }, { "id": 226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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!\nhardcover.app/books/a-p\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 23:13:49 -0700", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/13/chapter-of-a-peoples-history.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fchapter-of-a-peoples-history.html" }, { "id": 227, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social Are those gold FANGS? Or grillz?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-12 16:01:26 -0700", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Jan 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/12/82016041.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/82016041" }, { "id": 228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 \u0026ldquo;dancing\u0026rdquo; with the Chinese masters… all with his earthy, saintly, demeanor. Profound and joyful (and a side of swear words)\n ", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 21:21:00 -0700", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/11/this-interview-with-legendary-translator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F11%2Fthis-interview-with-legendary-translator.html" }, { "id": 229, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@richardsmart.bsky.social I went back and finally watched In Bruges, but I think this is better. They are such good actors!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 19:27:15 -0700", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/11/81863314.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81863314" }, { "id": 230, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@richardsmart.bsky.social It’s such a lovely film! I was glued to the screen\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 19:24:21 -0700", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/11/81863315.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81863315" }, { "id": 231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ooooh! Massive list of #opensource events. Will need to parse and integrate into my own list of conferences for 2026\ngithub.com/Everythin\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 12:37:14 -0700", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/11/ooooh-massive-list-of-opensource.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F11%2Fooooh-massive-list-of-opensource.html" }, { "id": 232, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@navneetalang.com Damn, and I was looking forward to nachos\nbsky.app/profile/rach…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 23:21:26 -0700", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/10/81805415.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81805415" }, { "id": 233, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jpbradley.bsky.social We talk a lot about what satisfies us as players and have come up with a number of different quadrants and axes to self reflect on the kinds of games we enjoy. It is also nice to learn cool new mechanics. Fun to reflect with one another…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 17:59:21 -0700", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/10/81795191.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81795191" }, { "id": 234, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jpbradley.bsky.social Shoulda read your profile. You likely already know about Quinns.\nMy group of 13 years finally broke up with DnD last year and we have spent the last 12 months trying Blades in the Dark, The One Ring, Mythic Bastionland, Mothership, Delta Green, Dolmenwood, and more. So much out there!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 17:59:21 -0700", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/10/81795192.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81795192" }, { "id": 235, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jpbradley.bsky.social Lots of great recommendations and deep dives on @itsquinns.bsky.social for you to peruse and find something that intrigues you. Recommended!\nwww.youtube.com/@Quinns_Quest\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 17:55:32 -0700", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/10/81795063.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81795063" }, { "id": 236, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A People’s History of Computing in the United States 📚\nCh3 (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 →\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 17:13:36 -0700", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/10/a-peoples-history-of-computing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fa-peoples-history-of-computing.html" }, { "id": 237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Damn! Riz Ahmed is brilliant and this looks intense\n ", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 15:27:29 -0700", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/10/damn-riz-ahmed-is-brilliant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fdamn-riz-ahmed-is-brilliant.html" }, { "id": 238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 13:11:02 -0700", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/10/every-time-i-am-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fevery-time-i-am-at.html" }, { "id": 239, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com One more thing on the clicktatorship which takes online causes to make offline results. It reminds me of @nathanjurgenson.com’s theory of Cyborgology from 10+ years ago, the critique of “digital dualism” what he calls the false separation of the “online” and “offline” worlds into distinct realms.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 13:03:24 -0700", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/10/81780920.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81780920" }, { "id": 240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-08 22:03:26 -0700", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Jan 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/08/i-am-testing-out-hardcover.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F08%2Fi-am-testing-out-hardcover.html" }, { "id": 241, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@simonwillison.net Listening to it now! Kapapos FTW!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-08 13:01:21 -0700", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Jan 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/08/81669048.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81669048" }, { "id": 242, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thisismissem.social If you can make it as far as London it would be great to have you @protocolsforpublishers.com even just to be part of the Stakeholder Forum and spend time with publishers, protocol and T\u0026amp;S people.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 23:20:44 -0700", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/07/81669049.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81669049" }, { "id": 243, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@kevindeyoungster.com Awesome! Can’t wait to meet you in person. We are overdue!\nAnd @teonbrooks.com is coming too! We were at the meetup in NY together last August.\nGonna be a great time 🚀\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 23:16:02 -0700", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/07/81669050.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81669050" }, { "id": 244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 📚\nTracking progress and chapter updates in Hardcover as a test this month: hardcover.app/books/a-p\u0026hellip;\n#books #amReading\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 21:27:46 -0700", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/07/started-a-peoples-history-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F07%2Fstarted-a-peoples-history-of.html" }, { "id": 245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚\nLike 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.\n#Reading #Books\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 17:06:40 -0700", "date": "5:06 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/07/finished-orbital-by-samantha-harvey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F07%2Ffinished-orbital-by-samantha-harvey.html" }, { "id": 246, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@cassidyjames.com Lu.ma has the juice in a bunch of communities. Could try there?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 09:20:26 -0700", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/07/81549173.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81549173" }, { "id": 247, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com Or does it not show because we DONT have any shared reads? (I have yet to import my library and have only like 2 books… but another good thing about GR Compare Books is you can compare TBRs as well! Really gives you a flavour of whether you vibe with a person or not)\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 23:15:26 -0700", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81519687.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81519687" }, { "id": 248, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com Oh do I need you to follow me to so I get that subhead? (“Shared reads” is not on my page)\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 23:12:57 -0700", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81519444.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81519444" }, { "id": 249, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com I don’t see it on your profile. Searching the page for “compare” is not turning anything up. I would expect it to be around here, since it has to do with connecting with a person\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 23:05:55 -0700", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81519277.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81519277" }, { "id": 250, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com btn == button\nI don’t see a Compare Books button when I go to your profile. 👀\nAnd yes on the notes. For example see my chapter notes here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/…\nNote that they are about 300 characters, so shareable on social media too.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 22:55:42 -0700", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81518683.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81518683" }, { "id": 251, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com … which you can do for Reviews. When you see a user’s Liveblog you should be recommended similar ones if they exists at the end of the stream… Maybe you can group them together by nearest page number or % progress… but that might get too finicky.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 17:46:19 -0700", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81506950.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81506950" }, { "id": 252, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com Nice compare! But, needs a btn still?\nFor the Journal I get how you would want to think about how to architect that. Probably many use cases out there. But I think Notes are special: that is your “liveblog” while you read… and it probably doesn’t make sense to mix that with other user updates…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 17:46:19 -0700", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81506951.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81506951" }, { "id": 253, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com It had to do with me trying to customize the read start dates, somehow deleting ALL dates, which meant no progress could be adjusted. From the Books page it gives you the right error and the opportunity to fix it. But from Dash the book context menu doesn’t have the same logic.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 17:16:20 -0700", "date": "5:16 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81505302.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81505302" }, { "id": 254, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com Oh and Compare Books with other users. Killer feature in GR. I should at that to the requests.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 17:14:50 -0700", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81505303.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81505303" }, { "id": 255, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com Yeah that for sure. Not only do I want to go to a person’s journal for a book I am reading to see what they think, I want to see all their journaled books in a nice, filterable list.\nAs I put in my Feature Req: if Harcover could be the Blogger of book review sites, that would be my dream.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 17:14:25 -0700", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81505304.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81505304" }, { "id": 256, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com There are a bunch of improvements to the journal I would make. But that is a massive project and might not align with @adamfortuna.com’s vision\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 16:49:13 -0700", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81503457.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81503457" }, { "id": 257, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com Mostly just UI bugs. And some funky stuff with the reading dates logic. Like unable to set read progress from Dashboard unless a start date is set … but no error thrown and no way to set read date from Dash. Inconsistencies like that. Some load errors too occasionally and slowness. But, you know 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 16:47:57 -0700", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81503317.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81503317" }, { "id": 258, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@emgoto.com After using it for 5 days added + voted up a bunch of Feature Requests. I haven’t done any bug reporting, but I will get around to that.\nI like the base of what has been done. Looks really great. Data ownership (ability to export journal) is probably my main issue. But will keep going for a bit 💪\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 14:53:23 -0700", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81497020.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81497020" }, { "id": 259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wife surprised my anime loving daughter with the hotel upon arrival in Tokyo 😄\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 14:05:24 -0700", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/06/wife-surprised-my-anime-loving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F06%2Fwife-surprised-my-anime-loving.html" }, { "id": 260, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Plus shoutouts to:\n@hackshackers.com\n@standard.site\n@sphericalcowconsulting.com\n@werd.io\n@pboehler.net\nHNY 2026! Looking forward to more @protocolsforpublishers.com this year\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 07:29:31 -0700", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81493818.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81493818" }, { "id": 261, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bmann.ca Haha same! 😊\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 07:15:25 -0700", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/06/81493820.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81493820" }, { "id": 262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listened to half of this today: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚\nVery poetic and introspective so far.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 00:07:45 -0700", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/05/listened-to-half-of-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F05%2Flistened-to-half-of-this.html" }, { "id": 263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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! 🍀\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 14:35:55 -0700", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/05/at-vancouver-international-airport-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F05%2Fat-vancouver-international-airport-just.html" }, { "id": 264, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@quillmatiq.com You shaved your beard?!\nLooking sharp! 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 12:20:40 -0700", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/04/81420906.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81420906" }, { "id": 265, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@burrito.space Check this out: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/train-from…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 12:19:46 -0700", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/04/81420910.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81420910" }, { "id": 266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 \u0026amp; homemade guacamole, all the while catching up and talking about going to the local Korean Spa. Feel lucky to live here 😊\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 19:20:28 -0700", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/02/my-old-friend-i-met.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Fmy-old-friend-i-met.html" }, { "id": 267, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@hollie @sgtstretch Just started using Hardcover yesterday. It has some bugs but I really like what the small team has done so far. Very smooth to track pages and some good organization make it better than Storygraph or Bookwyrm for me. 2026 is the year I finally get off GR! 💪\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 14:51:39 -0700", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/02/81224240.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81224240" }, { "id": 268, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com Bell tower aftermarket is creative I suppose 😉\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 14:42:53 -0700", "date": "2:42 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/02/81223765.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81223765" }, { "id": 269, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@chadkoh.com This will be useful\nisbndb.com/blog/book-tr…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 20:47:24 -0700", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/01/81175055.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81175055" }, { "id": 270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 20:31:33 -0700", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/01/okay-i-it-is-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fokay-i-it-is-that.html" }, { "id": 271, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@patrickrhone Amazing. Splitting them up by year is a great idea. My journal shelf has volumes of different height, patter, thickness and purpose — a weird hodgepodge, kinda like my life! 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 20:28:05 -0700", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/replies/2026/01/01/81174276.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/chadkoh/81174276" }, { "id": 272, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "明けましておめでとうございます\n\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 11:41:35 -0700", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/01/104135.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2F104135.html" }, { "id": 273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "新年おめでとうございます🎊㊗️\n今年もよろしくお願いします🎍\nfrom the west coast in Canada 🇨🇦\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 01:04:53 -0700", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/01/from-the-west-coast-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Ffrom-the-west-coast-in.html" }, { "id": 274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New Years Noodle Time 🎊🍜\n#年越しそば\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-31 20:39:10 -0700", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Dec 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/31/new-years-noodle-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Fnew-years-noodle-time.html" }, { "id": 275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The last post of the year is up, so here is the last Newsletter of the year.\nNow back to end of year cleaning 🧹🧽\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-31 12:27:20 -0700", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Dec 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/31/the-last-post-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Fthe-last-post-of-the.html" }, { "id": 276, "type": "post", "title": "Best of 2025", "text": " I suppose this is my favourite photo of the year, a snap of Mundy Lake on my iPhone while walking with a friend. Perfect blend of photographic serendipity and symmetry. End of the year round-up time. Personal highlights for me include going full-time consultant, PfP✨, buying our first house, travelling to Quebec and Ontario, and going on meditation retreat. Seeing my daughters perform in the city dance festival and high school musical were proud Papa™ moments. And meeting a ton of excellent, amazing, inspiring people along the way — too many to list here, you know who you are!\nOther than the personal stuff, 2025 had a lot of community organizing. I wrote an annual roundup for DWeb Vancouver. I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up doing more in 2026. That community is really growing! And we started another group, the Meetup Meetup which is having their second meeting January 19th 2026.\nRounding up a whole year of adventures is pretty daunting, so I am going to fall back on my most recent framework of Best of Reading, Best of Watching, and 40 Questions.\n40 Questions Another year, another opportunity to look back and answer Steph Ango’s 40 Questions. Some highlights I can share:\nDid you keep your new year’s resolutions?\nI think I did 2.3 out of 17 😅\nOne of those goals was to go to 2 conferences. I went to 8. I got my list for 2026 started already so let me know if we can meet up somewhere.\nThe other two (partial) successes were go on retreat (which I did), and get a dental implant (I had the first of three surgeries towards this on just two weeks ago, so I am on the way! 🦷)\nThe failures were things like “get a dog”, “lose 5 kilos”, and “try therapy… maybe” 😅\nDid anyone close to you give birth?\nYes! One of my best friends had their first baby after a lot of trying. Very happy for them.\nWhat was the best thing you bought?\nHouse, for sure.\nWhat did you do on your birthday?\nSadly stared at a lake on a cloudy day. Haha.\nWho was the best new person you met?\nToo many to choose from!\nWhat is a quote that sums up your year?\n \u0026ldquo;Fault-finding is not wisdom\u0026rdquo;\n Best of Reading One of my failed 2025 goals was to read a lot more papers than books. To this effort I set my To Read target to half my normal goal = 20 books. However, I ended up joining two book clubs and reading 38 books 😅 and that includes nearly two Malazan books that on page-count alone should easily push me over the 40 books mark. The simple breakdown is 21 fiction and 17 non-fiction.\nIn 2026 I would like to migrate my reading tracking and chapter notes to something ATproto based and finally get off of Goodreads. I have been watching that ecosystem for a while, but it is time to commit to something.\nThere are no “best” books, just ones that give you a great reading experience. Here are my notable books of the year:\nFiction Despite the fact that I read 6(!) books by Joe Abercrombie, and finished the 10th volume of The First Law Series, I won’t pick any of those excellent books which gave me a lot of reading pleasure… and actually I picked them last year 😅.\nSo I would like to turn your attention to House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich, first novel (!) which you can buy off his site. Here is my quick little review:\n Wonderful world-building saturated with details like a vivid Ghibli movie, soaked in themes of obligation: the debt, oaths, contracts, and duty that we have towards our communities and the land, and when we need to break those constraints in order to heal.\n Non-Fiction I did a lot of reading about AI this year. Unfortunately I did not write a lot of book reviews. But you can see my chapter notes on Goodreads. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle expanded how I thought about intelligence in the first place. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u0026rsquo;s OpenAI by Karen Hao confirmed my worst suspicions about the AI hyperscalers. But it was The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor which showed the way to ethically approach AI that influenced my thinking the most. I went back to that book multiple times and recommended it a lot this year\nBuddhism Books on Buddhism is the third genre of reading that I do and this year I read two bangers that I would like to share: What Comes Before Mindfulness?: Right Effort and the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment by my teacher, Ajahn Sona; and Awakening from the Daydream: Reimagining the Buddha\u0026rsquo;s Wheel of Life by David Nichtern.\nThe former I read through slowly and highlighted a ton, and it changed the way I think of meditation. It is his best book I think, and well recommended if you want to get into the 6th of the Noble Eightfold Path.\nThe latter I picked up because it was short and wanted to listen to something while traveling on trains and buses in Quebec. I knew of David Nichtern, but I did not expect this book to be a good as it is! The audiobook is narrated by the authour and is very accessible. If you are looking for something a little deeper than a dhamma talk or podcast, but don’t want to commit to listening to something massive like the Middle Length Discourses, then try dipping your toes in this.\nBest of Watching Only 13 films this year (and 4 in December!). Each year I seem to watch less and less, and this year I got trapped into watching a lot of Reactors on YouTube, which is basically like emotional crack and probably not a good practice. Anyways, the standout film for the year is K-Pop Demon Hunters, which must count for like an extra +10 since I watched so many Movie Reactors react to it. When the trailer came out my whole family gathered around to watch (we have a lot of K-Pop fans under this roof), so we watched it all together on the big couch in front of the new television together.\nFor TV I didn’t watch much. I will finish Pluribus this week which is interesting, but I was all about Andor Season 2 when it dropped. I watched that religiously week-to-week, listening to the podcasts and talking about it with my friends.\nBut that is about it for watching. Next year I think I will get off of reactors and explore more cinema, a pursuit I have had on my spare resolutions list for many years.\nThe Numbers for 2025 🖋 28 long-form posts on the blog\n✉️ 12 email monthly newsletters sent\n📸 1,714 photos and vids on Flickr\n📚 38 books read\n🎞 13 films watched\n🧘 647 day meditation streak maintained\nPrevious annual wrap-ups Best of 2024 Best of 2023 Best of 2022 2021 in Books Best of 2020 The best of 2019 A quick end of year roundup (2018) Best of 2016 The best of 2015 The best of 2014 The best of 2013 My year in film and books (2012) My year in books (2011) ", "dateiso": "2025-12-31 12:02:54 -0700", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Dec 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/31/best-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Fbest-of.html" }, { "id": 277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Scrolling through all the #Kohaku commentary from last night. I miss the live back chatter on New Year’s Eve in Japan. All this is out of context.\nCould probably make an app that displays posts in sync with the show based on time stamps. But then I wouldn’t get to participate in the snark! 😔\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-31 10:25:01 -0700", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Dec 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/31/scrolling-through-all-the-kohaku.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Fscrolling-through-all-the-kohaku.html" }, { "id": 278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a flood we plant trees so their root systems join to protect the vulnerable area. The key to resilience is local relationships. Come to our meetup for meetup organizers and let’s build a resilient community together. 🌲🤝🌳\n#vancouver #events #communitybuilding\nmeetupmeetup.com\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-30 17:24:11 -0700", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Dec 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/30/after-a-flood-we-plant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F30%2Fafter-a-flood-we-plant.html" }, { "id": 279, "type": "post", "title": "Surburban Development Cycle — a case from Japan", "text": "For a couple of years we kept a very small apartment in Kyoto for monthly visits while we were taking care of my parents-in-law. The rent was cheaper than getting a hotel each time, and my parents stored stuff there which justified the expense. The apartment was on the very edge of southwest Kyoto in a neighbourhood called Rakusai Newtown, a housing project started in the 1970s for the families of men working in the factories of West Kyoto.\nRakusai sits at the foot of the mountains along the west of Kyoto where there are many temples and the farms of Ōharano. A river runs through the center of the community lined by cherry blossoms. It was an amazing place to stay during the pandemic, we had many walking routes! With over 70 apartment buildings, row housing, a hospital and many shops, Rakusai is a perfect little community, with everything you need within walking distance. However in the 1980s the planned subway extension that never materialized, making the community inconvenient to get to. The Rakusai population was declining even by the 1990s. While we lived there from 2020 to 2022 it was mostly retired folks that did not need to commute and could live comfortably on the cheap rent. There were so many old people in the apartment complexes that were not very mobile that about once a week 7-11 would send a little van to park at the foot of our building so people could \u0026ldquo;go to the convenience store.\u0026rdquo; A kind of konbini food truck. Pretty cool service!\nIn the core shopping area there are a couple of grocery stores, dollar store, bookshop, pharmacies, banks, and more. The anchor tenant was a Takashimaya, the big European-style Japanese department store founded in 1831. When we first looked at Rakusai as a place to rent we were surprised to see this! It meant we didn’t have to go all the way to downtown Kyoto. It was always pretty dead, but we were happy to have it nearby, even if we didn\u0026rsquo;t buy that much from there.\nI just found out today that the Rakusai Takashimaya finally closed down this summer. So why am I going on about an old department store shutting down in a remote neighbourhood of Kyoto? Heck, there are lots of department stores that anchored malls all over North America that have been shutting down (Hudson’s Bay Company liquidated just this year!) — it\u0026rsquo;s to be expected I suppose. But the reason this particular case shook me has to do what they are planning on replacing the empty department store with: housing for seniors! Wow, this will be very convenient as it is already connected to the mall, and they can use the opportunity to update the facilities since the apartments are all pretty old and not super convenient.\nUpon hearing about this I was struck by the idea of re-developing a neighbourhood originally made for people at the beginning of their family life, to support people at the end of their life. It makes sense I suppose, and maybe this is commonly done 🤷‍♂️, but it got me thinking about the lifecycle of infrastructure in times of growth and contraction… a more holistic perspective.\nAnd it also excited me… maybe we can go back to Rakusai someday when we get old… someday. 😅\n Here is an album with some photos from our time around Rakusai:\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 19:13:53 -0700", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/28/surburban-development-cycle-a-case.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fsurburban-development-cycle-a-case.html" }, { "id": 280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "10 years ago today I swore off meat. I adopted a plant-based diet because according to Drawdown it is one of the most impactful things an individual can do to fight climate change, especially in Canada which is a large country with a concentrated beef sector, contributing to a lot of GHGs. 🥗\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 10:43:10 -0700", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/28/years-ago-today-i-swore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fyears-ago-today-i-swore.html" }, { "id": 281, "type": "post", "title": "Judging AI on its ability to expand capacity", "text": "From Evgeny Morozov’s essay Socialism After AI:\n The driving imperative would not be “growth” measured as ever more commodities, but the enlargement of what people are actually able to do and be, individually and collectively.\nOn that view, AI would be judged by whether it opens new spaces of competence, understanding, and cooperation, and for whom. A tool that lets teachers and students work in their own dialects, interrogate history from their vantage points, and share and refine local knowledge would score highly. One that smooths people into passive consumers of autogenerated sludge, or concentrates interpretive power in a handful of machine‑learning priests, would score poorly, whatever its efficiency.\n Agency… on the individual, community, state, and interstate levels.\nInstead of one giant super model, imagine a plethora of models trained by local communities, libraries, schools, cooperatives, firms, etc… and then a fleet of search engine-like agents that can pool information from across that sea of local models, then contextualize that information in both in a data synthesis sense but also in terms of cultural and historical context. These would be small language models (SLMs) that wouldn’t require massive data centers to train, but due to their modularity and composability, a network of which could rival the hyperscaler Monolith Models. Basically… an internet of AIs. Furthermore SLMs are a rejection of technological universalism and could lead to emergent properties not possible under the centralized, consolidated, command economies of LLMs we are currently hurtling towards now.\n… anyways, some late night unstructured noodling as I read this lengthy article by Evgeny trying to imagine a better world and a better socialism debate.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-27 23:07:42 -0700", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Dec 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/27/judging-ai-on-its-ability.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F27%2Fjudging-ai-on-its-ability.html" }, { "id": 282, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daughter and her friends just showed up at our front door singing Xmas carols. They have been going around the neighbourhood. Apparently it is an annual tradition for the Drama kids here. 😄\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-24 18:00:21 -0700", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Dec 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/24/daughter-and-her-friends-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F24%2Fdaughter-and-her-friends-just.html" }, { "id": 283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nThis is the 10th book in The First Law world, and the finale of The Age of Madness. (Also the 6th book of Joe’s I read this year!)\nPhew! Epic! Done! So good!\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-24 15:25:24 -0700", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Dec 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/24/just-finished-the-wisdom-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F24%2Fjust-finished-the-wisdom-of.html" }, { "id": 284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A few more shots from our pre-Xmas celebrations in Vancouver on a pretty nice day! (which means overcast but no rain)\nwww.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 23:01:44 -0700", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/23/a-few-more-shots-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fa-few-more-shots-from.html" }, { "id": 285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the Hyatt was the annual Gingerbread House display, with a couple dozen gingerbread houses in all sorts of designs. Here are some wild examples:\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 22:38:43 -0700", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/23/at-the-hyatt-was-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fat-the-hyatt-was-the.html" }, { "id": 286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cool live jazz at the skating rink in Robson Square ❄️⛸️🎺🥁\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 22:27:33 -0700", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/23/cool-live-jazz-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fcool-live-jazz-at-the.html" }, { "id": 287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Midnight Xmas tree 🎄 at the library\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 01:15:16 -0700", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/23/midnight-xmas-tree-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fmidnight-xmas-tree-at-the.html" }, { "id": 288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Haha the chaotic energy in this! 😂 But @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surfed on it 🏄 Hilarious and insightful.\n ", "dateiso": "2025-12-19 14:38:25 -0700", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Dec 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/19/haha-the-chaotic-energy-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F19%2Fhaha-the-chaotic-energy-in.html" }, { "id": 289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Japanese Canadian Legacies Society launched a new website with educational resources for K-12 teachers. It has lesson plans, exercises, and tons of images to help students learn about the internment of 22,000 Japanese-Canadians from 1942 to 1947.\njapanesecanadianhistory.com\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-18 10:32:51 -0700", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Dec 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/18/the-japanese-canadian-legacies-society.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F18%2Fthe-japanese-canadian-legacies-society.html" }, { "id": 290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy to be alive … and to know all of you wonderful, inspiring people!\n(Also, I’m pretty sure all the sedatives from yesterday have worn off 😊)\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-16 13:59:34 -0700", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Dec 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/16/happy-to-be-alive-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F16%2Fhappy-to-be-alive-and.html" }, { "id": 291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today been a busy. Launched Protocols for Publishers ✨ London early in the morning, then took a taxi to get surgery. Now just woke up. Feeling groggy with a pool of blood on my pillow. Answered a few messages, mostly inbox is full of reservation notifications for the event. Lovely! Back to sleep 😴\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-15 18:31:34 -0700", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Dec 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/15/today-been-a-busy-launched.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F15%2Ftoday-been-a-busy-launched.html" }, { "id": 292, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished The Trouble With Peace and couldn’t help myself and immediately picked up The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-12 23:47:53 -0700", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Dec 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/12/just-finished-the-trouble-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F12%2Fjust-finished-the-trouble-with.html" }, { "id": 293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Of the Top 20 Apps of 2025 on the Canadian iOS App Store there are only 4 I use, and all of them begrudgingly. I am like the Scrooge of popular technology, aren’t I? (Considering I still use an iPhone, I suppose not.)\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-11 20:19:53 -0700", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Dec 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/11/of-the-top-apps-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F11%2Fof-the-top-apps-of.html" }, { "id": 294, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coast Contra is back at The Table!! (ﾉ＾◡＾)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻\n ", "dateiso": "2025-12-10 18:01:56 -0700", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Dec 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/10/coast-contra-is-back-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F10%2Fcoast-contra-is-back-at.html" }, { "id": 295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So many online meetings today, back-to-back, that by the end I was losing my voice 🗣️\nBut lots of exciting progress for the next protocolsforpublishers.com 🇪🇺✨\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-10 17:02:36 -0700", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Dec 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/10/so-many-online-meetings-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F10%2Fso-many-online-meetings-today.html" }, { "id": 296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doing some Xmas shopping for my kids 🎁\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-09 00:04:26 -0700", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Dec 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/08/doing-some-xmas-shopping-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F08%2Fdoing-some-xmas-shopping-for.html" }, { "id": 297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went to the neighborhood Holiday Party and met some more of my neighbours. Then we finished decorating the tree. 🎄\nToday is an uposatha day so maintaining my fast while all these cookies are being handed out did not make me a particularly holly jolly elf. 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-07 21:39:18 -0700", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Dec 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/07/went-to-the-neighborhood-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F07%2Fwent-to-the-neighborhood-holiday.html" }, { "id": 298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This month has been… well, not easy.\nBut today I have had some time to relax. So I am sitting in my reading chair catching up on @mekongreview.com which always delivers on cool insights and new books to add to the pile. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-06 17:17:32 -0700", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Dec 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/06/this-month-has-been-well.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F06%2Fthis-month-has-been-well.html" }, { "id": 299, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Neverpo.st interviewed Drew Lyton about building his own \u0026ldquo;cloud\u0026rdquo; server in his living room and thinking… there must be a better way. At DWebYVR we have a saying: \u0026ldquo;self-hosting is selfish.\u0026rdquo;. By the end Drew argues \u0026ldquo;the future is community-hosted\u0026rdquo;: we need a public-service cloud, a people-owned cloud.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-05 12:37:52 -0700", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Dec 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/05/neverpost-interviewed-drew-lyton-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F05%2Fneverpost-interviewed-drew-lyton-about.html" }, { "id": 300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Set up my profile and starred a bunch of sessions for #AAS2026 @asianstudies.org\naas2026.eventscribe.net\nLooking forward to meeting some Asia scholars that I have interacted with online but never met in person, and also many other scholars whose books I have on my shelf.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-05 12:26:34 -0700", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Dec 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/05/set-up-my-profile-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F05%2Fset-up-my-profile-and.html" }, { "id": 301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been having strange dreams all week… but lying in a dark trench, cold and wet, delivering an extremely thorough explanation of all the various features of a luxury hand-stitched leather shoulder bag to Alan Rickman probably takes the cake.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-03 09:06:17 -0700", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Dec 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/03/been-having-strange-dreams-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F03%2Fbeen-having-strange-dreams-all.html" }, { "id": 302, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nNearing the end of the whole cycle!! 🙀 Such a great series.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-02 21:02:01 -0700", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Dec 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/02/started-reading-the-trouble-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F12%2F02%2Fstarted-reading-the-trouble-with.html" }, { "id": 303, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s a bit early in the day, but went ahead and posted my summary of the month of November: includes a lotta meetups, my new project launched, dealing with a lotta stress, and getting out in the sun 🌞\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 12:08:44 -0700", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/30/its-a-bit-early-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fits-a-bit-early-in.html" }, { "id": 304, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My not-so-spicy 🌶️ #UX take: in reverse chron feeds, relative dates should go back no further than \u0026ldquo;the day before yesterday\u0026rdquo; before just switching to proper calendar dates.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 11:13:28 -0700", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/30/my-notsospicy-ux-take-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fmy-notsospicy-ux-take-in.html" }, { "id": 305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week has been a dark one, so with the sun out this morning I took to the wet trails. Despite the seemingly endless cloudy days, the moss still thrives. It is good to remember this. Here\u0026rsquo;s to a weekend of ease to you all #photography #mosstodon #lichensubscribe\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-28 15:19:44 -0700", "date": "3:19 p.m. on Nov 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/28/this-week-has-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F28%2Fthis-week-has-been-a.html" }, { "id": 306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fran Sans — a typeface inspired by San Francisco light rail displays — is gorgeous and this excellent article really shows you how deep a typography designer will go 👏👏👏\nemilysneddon.com/fran-sans\u0026hellip;\n#typography #design\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-24 09:14:54 -0700", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Nov 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/24/fran-sans-a-typeface-inspired.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F24%2Ffran-sans-a-typeface-inspired.html" }, { "id": 307, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "‘Tis the season 🔔🎁\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-23 19:47:32 -0700", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Nov 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/23/tis-the-season.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Ftis-the-season.html" }, { "id": 308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going with the family to the annual Vancouver Eastside Culture Crawl this afternoon. Kids are excited to see all the different kinds of artwork. I am inspired by admiring the level of craft and dedication.\nculturecrawl.ca\n#art #vancouver #culturecrawl\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-23 10:07:17 -0700", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Nov 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/23/going-with-the-family-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Fgoing-with-the-family-to.html" }, { "id": 309, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;I put money down on all of us On my people now, on what I love\u0026rdquo;\n I have watched this video I don\u0026rsquo;t know how many times ✊\n #rap #music\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 15:00:23 -0700", "date": "3:00 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/22/i-put-money-down-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Fi-put-money-down-on.html" }, { "id": 310, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A short excerpt from The Shape of Practice that I immediately thought applied to marriage. The wedding ring is the same symbol.\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-18 12:02:18 -0700", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Nov 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/18/a-short-excerpt-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2Fa-short-excerpt-from-the.html" }, { "id": 311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow! This photo came up in my iOS memories. Can’t believe this was already 5 years ago! I can still feel the mist of the breaking waves and the latent power of the Pillar of Heaven in my bones\nchadkohalyk.com/2020/07/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 21:24:27 -0700", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/16/wow-this-photo-came-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Fwow-this-photo-came-up.html" }, { "id": 312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoyed this interview of @jmcelroy.bsky.social by @arshy.bsky.social\nSome key bits in here for understanding Vancouver (and BC!) politics\npodcasts.apple.com/us/podcas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 19:39:25 -0700", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/16/enjoyed-this-interview-of-jmcelroybskysocial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Fenjoyed-this-interview-of-jmcelroybskysocial.html" }, { "id": 313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bruh\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-15 14:26:38 -0700", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Nov 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/15/bruh.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F15%2Fbruh.html" }, { "id": 314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was a good podcast interview with Shannon Vallor nominally about her new book THE AI MIRROR but it was much broader and even included her first book TECHNOLOGY AND THE VIRTUES. It gives a good sense of her approach if you haven\u0026rsquo;t read her stuff before.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-14 19:04:08 -0700", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Nov 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/14/this-was-a-good-podcast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F14%2Fthis-was-a-good-podcast.html" }, { "id": 315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh! Tomorrow! 🧎🏼📿☸️🪷\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-14 00:30:12 -0700", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Nov 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/13/oh-tomorrow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F13%2Foh-tomorrow.html" }, { "id": 316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow look at the lineup for this conference! Ceclia Rikap and Evgeny Morozov and more! Online reg is still available #DigitalSovereignty #event\nas.nyu.edu/research-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-12 17:41:26 -0700", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Nov 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/12/wow-look-at-the-lineup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2Fwow-look-at-the-lineup.html" }, { "id": 317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Making quesadillas just like that Sri Lankan chef taught me at the Buddhist monastery deep in the Canadian mountain forest. 🙃\nLife can be stranger than fiction. Love it! 😊\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-12 12:18:32 -0700", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Nov 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/12/making-quesadillas-just-like-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2Fmaking-quesadillas-just-like-that.html" }, { "id": 318, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun gallery of laptops covered in stickers\nHere\u0026rsquo;s mine. You may be able to spot some of your favs.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-12 10:50:20 -0700", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Nov 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/12/fun-gallery-of-laptops-covered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2Ffun-gallery-of-laptops-covered.html" }, { "id": 319, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Moseyed on down to 0th Avenue to have a gander over the ditch and see how things are going in America.\nmaps.app.goo.gl/XPFkoyif6\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-10 18:19:39 -0700", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Nov 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/10/moseyed-on-down-to-th.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F10%2Fmoseyed-on-down-to-th.html" }, { "id": 320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fascinating discussion at PITG.network with Fiona Alexander about her new book \u0026ldquo;Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core\u0026rdquo; 📚\nAppreciated her professional take as an insider.\n#InternetGovernance #PublicInterestTechnologist\nlink.springer.com/book/10.1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-10 09:06:09 -0700", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Nov 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/10/fascinating-discussion-at-pitgnetwork-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F10%2Ffascinating-discussion-at-pitgnetwork-with.html" }, { "id": 321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Talking a walk in the forest listening to a Dhamma talk contemplating wisdom, surrounded by many handfuls of leaves. ☸️\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-09 16:19:42 -0700", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Nov 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/09/talking-a-walk-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F09%2Ftalking-a-walk-in-the.html" }, { "id": 322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous documentary on kathina featuring Wat Marp Jan (Ajahn Anan’s monastery). Anumodana! 🙏\n #Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-07 00:51:56 -0700", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Nov 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/06/gorgeous-documentary-on-kathina-featuring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F06%2Fgorgeous-documentary-on-kathina-featuring.html" }, { "id": 323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson 📚\nHere’s to the next thousand pages …\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-06 23:59:34 -0700", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Nov 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/06/currently-reading-deadhouse-gates-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F06%2Fcurrently-reading-deadhouse-gates-by.html" }, { "id": 324, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last night we gathered community builders to ideate on how we can rebuild Vancouver\u0026rsquo;s once-thriving meetup scene. 🥳 What resources can we pool for the betterment of the ecosystem? 🤔 It was a total blast and we are collating our findings and planning Stage 2. 📈 If you\u0026rsquo;re an organizer, REACH OUT 🤝\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-06 14:53:24 -0700", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Nov 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/06/last-night-we-gathered-community.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F06%2Flast-night-we-gathered-community.html" }, { "id": 325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dosa time\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-02 21:09:46 -0700", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Nov 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/02/dosa-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F02%2Fdosa-time.html" }, { "id": 326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daddy daughter time at the #archery\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-02 19:33:28 -0700", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Nov 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/11/02/daddy-daughter-time-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F11%2F02%2Fdaddy-daughter-time-at-the.html" }, { "id": 327, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excellent interview with Joe Watkins about his new book \u0026ldquo;Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future\u0026rdquo; by @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. I learned about Shakushain\u0026rsquo;s Revolt. Upopoy is the only National Museum I have not been to. Gonna get this book! 📚\n#Japan #history #ainu\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 16:13:08 -0700", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/31/excellent-interview-with-joe-watkins.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Fexcellent-interview-with-joe-watkins.html" }, { "id": 328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sent out my monthly newsletter a little early. We got everything from reflecting on history, legacy, \u0026ldquo;moments\u0026rdquo;, and of course AI — which I am sure you haven\u0026rsquo;t heard enough about yet 😏\n(Oh and also a million photographs, but that is just a given 🤷‍♂️)\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 11:57:08 -0700", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/31/sent-out-my-monthly-newsletter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Fsent-out-my-monthly-newsletter.html" }, { "id": 329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social 📚\nGenAI shows us what we already are. A mirror can be useful, showing us what we cannot normally see, but it can occlude and distort.\nAlso re-reading her Technology and the Virtues which I used teaching Digital Ethics at UBC\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-29 21:51:06 -0700", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Oct 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/29/started-the-ai-mirror-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F29%2Fstarted-the-ai-mirror-by.html" }, { "id": 330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photos from around my city today\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-29 19:26:32 -0700", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Oct 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/29/photos-from-around-my-city.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F29%2Fphotos-from-around-my-city.html" }, { "id": 331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Me: Look! Here is a picture of me in 1995! 🎞️\nMy 16 year old daughter: OMG when you said that the first thing that popped into my mind was World War 1. 🪖\n💀💀💀\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-29 11:42:50 -0700", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Oct 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/29/me-look-here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F29%2Fme-look-here-is-a.html" }, { "id": 332, "type": "post", "title": "You live the story you write", "text": "During my recent meditation retreat at Birken Forest Monastery I had two interesting encounters.\nA retreatant from Edmonton who had spent a lot of time in Myanmar recommended the book Mindfulness with Breathing by Buddhadasa. It is apparently a very popular book and by a famous monk named Ajahn Buddhadasa that I didn’t know.\nLater I met a different retreatant who told a story about going to Thailand in the 1990s where her brother was about to ordain as a Forest Monk. She was inspired to learn to meditate, so they sent her to monastery that taught beginners. This was Suan Mokkh in southern Thailand whose abbot was… Ajahn Buddhadasa.\nInteresting! Two references to Ajahn Buddhadasa in one day. 🤔\nThis got me thinking a little. Suan Mokkh is a monastery in southern Thailand near the city of Surat Thani. In March of 1995 I was in the area on a school trip. We visited a monastery and I remember walking around the grounds, through the trees, and seeing the biggest spider I have ever seen in my life just hanging out in a massive 5 foot tall web, nobody bothering him. It was my first lesson in ahimsa or “non-harm”. I took a photo of the spider that I didn’t realize was super blurry because… well, film camera. Anyways, at that monastery was the first time I ever interacted with a Buddhist monk (as I have mentioned before). I was 16 years old.\nI got to thinking… could it be?\nThen I jumped out of bed at midnight and dug around in my memory box. I found that photo of the giant blurry spider and another picture of a young monk. But no shots of the entrance or any signs of the place. As is the unsatisfactory nature of life, I kept on digging around until I found my travel journal from that trip.\nTurning to the page marked “March 18 1995” it said:\n The next stop was at a place called Suan Mokkh. This little enclave of monks was the home of Ajahn Buddhadasa, a famous monk who is said to have reached enlightenment. The monastery was very interesting and we talked with two monks, about the Dhamma of course. One told us a story of the turtle, and the other told us of the deer with one head and four bodies. … He also showed us a picture of the pyre where they cremated Ajahn Buddhadasa. The amazing think is, you can see a fire that looks suspicious like the Ajahn, wai-ing, formed by the flames!\n ", "dateiso": "2025-10-29 08:57:28 -0700", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Oct 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/29/you-live-the-story-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F29%2Fyou-live-the-story-you.html" }, { "id": 333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Stillness Flowing: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Jayasaro 📚\n#Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-28 23:47:54 -0700", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Oct 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/28/started-stillness-flowing-the-life.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F28%2Fstarted-stillness-flowing-the-life.html" }, { "id": 334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚\nStarted the Andy Serkis narrated version. Already 10% in but is it only Ch2! There have already been about 8 prologues and prefaces and various philological treatises. I just wanted to get to the bloomin’ party! 🍖🎇\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-26 18:42:59 -0700", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Oct 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/26/currently-reading-the-fellowship-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F26%2Fcurrently-reading-the-fellowship-of.html" }, { "id": 335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going through some old photos. Here’s the Lions Gate Bridge in 1959\n#vancouver #history\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-23 21:54:59 -0700", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Oct 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/23/going-through-some-old-photos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F23%2Fgoing-through-some-old-photos.html" }, { "id": 336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sound on. Let’s chant together:\n#jomo #jomo #jomo 🧘 😂\njomo.lol\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-21 08:33:33 -0700", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Oct 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/21/sound-on-lets-chant-together.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F21%2Fsound-on-lets-chant-together.html" }, { "id": 337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Diwali! 🪔\nLast year it fell on Halloween which was lots of fun. All the kids would say “Trick-or-treat! Happy Diwali!” 🎃 🪔\nThis year it falls on the anniversary of us viewing and putting an offer on our house 🏡\nAnd Bandi Chhor Divas is when the offer was accepted 🤝 🥰\nLight to you all!\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-20 07:59:04 -0700", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Oct 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/20/happy-diwali-last-year-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F20%2Fhappy-diwali-last-year-it.html" }, { "id": 338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A slip of the tongue talking about social issues in Canada and USA gave me a particularly useful new word: 北米人 → 白米人 😜\nThe existence of hakubeijin implies the existence of 玄米人 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-19 16:39:16 -0700", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Oct 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/19/a-slip-of-the-tongue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F19%2Fa-slip-of-the-tongue.html" }, { "id": 339, "type": "post", "title": "Vancouver’s “Powerbroker” — a sort of review of “Becoming Vancouver”", "text": "On a pleasant summer’s eve, as the setting sun lit the tops of classic New York skyscrapers, I sat in Madison Square Garden Park in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Ultimately it was here that lead me to pick up Daniel Francis’s Becoming Vancouver, a quick history of the city of a city that has been central to my whole life.\nYou see, while watching the crowds in the Manhattan park during my trip to New York last August (photos) I started listening to 99% Invisible’s breakdown of The Powerbroker, a veritable tome by celebrated author Robert Caro which chronicled the career of power-hungry urban planner Robert Moses, a man who transformed New York City over a 40 year career, and certainly not all for the good. The podcast series is excellent and I have been recommending it non-stop. It really is a sordid tale with many generalizable lessons on leadership, ambition, and justice. Once 99pi concluded the series they had a Breakdown of the Breakdown episode when they were asked by listeners: are there any other Robert Moses-like figures in other cities?\nLooking for a Moses Which brings me to Daniel Francis’s excellent book Becoming Vancouver. Weighing in at less than a fifth of Caro’s Powerbroker, and covering three times the timespan (from the Musqueam meeting the first Spanish explorers to the havoc wrought by COVID), it is a breezy read filled full of the kind of content you expect in a city biography: factoids about geography, place name etymology, maps showing the expansion of the city, funny anecdotes, serious incidents, and in general the book simple answers the perennial question “Why is our city like this?”\nWhat a great reflection! Why is our city the way it is? It is really important that we know the history and stories of our shared community. It is what puts us on the path to being citizens, rather then mere passive consumers.\n Some related posts about a previous city of mine:\n Why Kyoto is the way it is Walking and talking: a review of Another Kyoto New Yorkers have much love for their city, but also a multitude of complaints (as you will hear if you pick up the 99pi podcast) — many of which can be tied back to the urban planner Robert Moses.\nVancouver certainly has its share of inconveniences, inconsistencies, and hypocrasies. So I set out to find if Vancouver had it’s own Robert Moses.\nDaniel Francis has written a number of works on the history of Vancouver. Reading Becoming Vancouver I learned many tidbits of our shared history, for example:\n Jericho used to be known as “Jerry’s Cove” named after logger Jeremiah Rogers On Jan 1, 1922 traffic was switched from the left (British-style) to the right-hand side of the road 1400 citizens died in WWI Mostly it was interesting to see a few of the “red threads” that have strung their way throughout Vancouver history since the beginning: the role of real estate speculation, the city’s battle with drugs, and race relations. Throughout the book are constant tales of housing shortages, police incompetence, and just endless incidents of racism against every sort of non-white person regardless whether they were here before or came after the British settled the area. Francis does an excellent job engaging critically with the history. Furthermore he also weaves another thread:\n the always present fault line in Vancouver\u0026rsquo;s history between the globalists, who promoted a vision of unlimited growth, and the localists, who preferred to emphasize their version of liveability.”\n There is tension between preserving Vancouver’s natural beauty and pushing forward it’s urban development.\n Vancouver skyline with mountains in the background and water in the foreground. Source The coming of a powerbroker Like any urban biography Becoming Vancouver is features vignettes of a number of politicians, planners, and all-round characters, but the one that jumped out to me was Gerald Sutton Brown described as was “the most powerful bureaucrat in the city” during the 1950s and 1960s.\nBorn in Jamaica, Sutton Brown was educated in Southampton, UK and ended running the county planning office that included the cities of Manchester and Liverpool. He came over to Canada in 1952 to become Vancouver’s first chief planner.\nYou can learn more about the background of Sutton Brown and his impact on the city in this video by former Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan:\n Source\nWhile there are some great visuals and some interesting facts, that video is particularly hagiographic, pushes a market-based agenda, and completely ignores the problematic aspects of Sutton Brown’s policies.\n Photo of Gerald Sutton Brown, from the Vancouver Archives Daniel Francis’s book treats the Great Freeway Debate of 1967 with a more critical eye. Sutton Brown’s “Project 200” proposed a waterfront freeway cutting through Vancouver’s Chinatown and Hogan’s Alley, the core of Vancouver’s Black community. Sam Sullivan’s video does not question why it was stopped. The answer is the story of the Chinese community organizing and fending off the freeway plan, saving their houses. This case is important, and in fact is the final study in the book Moved by the State which covers how “the Canadian government relocated people, often against their will, in order to improve their lives” during the 1950s to 1970s. Although their protest was successful, it was not complete. Hogan’s Alley, Vancouver’s small black neighbourhood, was razed in the late 1960s in the name of “urban renewal”, and the Georgia Viaduct still stands in its place. (Check this out if you are interested in learning more about Hogan’s Alley).\nGod, or just a mid-century white dude Was Sutton Brown a “powerbroker”? I could find no Caro-like biographies of the man, but I did come across this paper that paints Sutton Brown in a most Robert Moses-like light: “Is Sutton Brown God?”: Planning Expertise and the Local State in Vancouver, 1952-73” The paper’s title comes from a protest sign during the Great Freeway Debate of 1967. Sutton Brown, the “firm-handed dictator of city services” had “predetermined the freeway route without ever engaging the political process.” This will sound entirely familiar to those that know the legacy of Robert Moses in New York.\nFurthermore:\n Between 1967 and 1972, the public, aldermen, provincial politicians, academics, the press, and elements within the civic bureaucracy repeatedly criticized the role of planning expertise in the affairs of the local state. “Who is really running the city?” was the headline that summed up sentiment.\n After a more than 20 year long career, Sutton Brown resigned his position (some said before he could be fired).\n The Province, no friend of TEAM [a political party], wrote that Sutton Brown’s departure was a “guillotine job,” citing his twenty-one years of “brilliant service,” even if he was “an aloof dictator.” Similarly, Alderman Hardwick said that he did not blame Sutton Brown for being the real mayor of Vancouver as council had pushed the role on him instead of doing its job.\n I am not sure if Sutton Brown is was a powerbroker in the mold of Robert Moses, or was just a powerful white British man during the 1950s, doing what he do. But I do think his case is worthy of a more indepth investigation. If Daniel Francis doesn’t want the assignment, maybe 99pi will take it? 😉\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-19 14:43:00 -0700", "date": "2:43 p.m. on Oct 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/19/vancouvers-powerbroker-a-sort-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F19%2Fvancouvers-powerbroker-a-sort-of.html" }, { "id": 340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🌧️ 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 💦 📖\nHe gets to his vehicle and closes the book to get in and I catch a glimpse of the title:\nWeather\nSMDH ☠️\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-18 14:47:50 -0700", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Oct 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/18/raining-in-vancouver-man-comes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F18%2Fraining-in-vancouver-man-comes.html" }, { "id": 341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is a \u0026ldquo;moment\u0026rdquo;?\nWhat is it like to be in one? What are we experiencing when we realize we are having one?\nMoments are periods of dis-alienation.\n(I think this is from Henri Lefebvre 🤔)\nKnowing this makes me want to experience even more moments. Let\u0026rsquo;s get together!\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-17 19:21:31 -0700", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Oct 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/17/what-is-a-moment-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Fwhat-is-a-moment-what.html" }, { "id": 342, "type": "post", "title": "Re-framing Franz Fanon", "text": "Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon\nThis is a beautiful interview with Lewis Gordon, scholar of the work of Franz Fanon. Gordon contends that many people mis-interpret Fanon, especially around his views of political violence. Gordon\u0026rsquo;s reframing of Fanon is succinct and captures a side I didn\u0026rsquo;t get before.\nHere are couple of choice quotes, but the episode is short and I encourage you to listen tot he whole thing. Dr Gordon is a great speaker.\n As a psychiatrist:\n [The book] Black Skin White Masks is the argument that there is such a phenomenon as a sick society. Sometimes the people who suffer the most in a society suffer from actually being healthy. Fanon argues that colonialism produces what he calls sociogenetic, and this means socially produced forms of disorders that take the form not only of mental disorders, but forms of suffering that are political. As a consequence, if there are politically induced forms of suffering, then one has to develop political solutions for them.\n (my emphasis added… just look around!)\nAs an activist:\n In other words, Fanon argued that if you’re in a war, your goal should be to end a war to start a struggle for coexistence. Whereas there are people who are in a war who are onlly focused on one thing: the elimination of the enemy. So for them, even if they win, they keep fighting because their ultimate goal is noncoexistence, the absolute elimination of the other. And that’s what Fanon was against.\n and:\n The issue was the liberation of humankind. He was a radical humanist.\n As an existentialist:\n Well, here’s the thing. There are varieties of idealism. There are idealisms that are based on the notion of absolute perfection, but there are other idealisms that are based on the notion of reasonability and maturity. For instance, if you think about being a parent, what is an ideal parent? An ideal parent is a parent who is reasonable enough to enable their children to grow up and have room to live their lives. However, an ideal perfect parent in some models is like a god. A parent so perfect that there’s no room for the subsequent generations to grow, to emerge because daddy or mommy were absolutely perfect.\n I like to think that this is the sort of idealist that I strive to be: one that can welcome others and co-create a pluralistic utopia. See: \u0026ldquo;we all can\u0026rsquo;t be Buddhas\u0026rdquo;\nAnd finally, a testament from his own brother:\n fireworks on the outside, fireworks on the inside\n What a description of the man!\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-17 17:21:16 -0700", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Oct 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/17/reframing-franz-fanon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Freframing-franz-fanon.html" }, { "id": 343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went for a walk in the forest with one of my oldest friends and his dog. Very content. 📸\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-17 17:10:29 -0700", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Oct 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/17/went-for-a-walk-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Fwent-for-a-walk-in.html" }, { "id": 344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These leaves are sooooo red! 🍁🇨🇦📸\nThese and a few more fall photos uploaded to www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-17 09:47:00 -0700", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Oct 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/17/these-leaves-are-sooooo-red.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Fthese-leaves-are-sooooo-red.html" }, { "id": 345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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)\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-16 10:26:37 -0700", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Oct 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/16/every-year-i-post-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F16%2Fevery-year-i-post-a.html" }, { "id": 346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning.\nLooking out the window.\nContemplating impermanence.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-16 08:23:44 -0700", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Oct 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/16/good-morning-looking-out-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F16%2Fgood-morning-looking-out-the.html" }, { "id": 347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Generative AI and news report from Reuters Institute:\n 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\n #ProtocolsForPublishers\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-15 20:51:17 -0700", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Oct 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/15/generative-ai-and-news-report.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F15%2Fgenerative-ai-and-news-report.html" }, { "id": 348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to The Hobbit as narrated by Andy Serkis 📚\nAfter one chapter it is delightful.\nI am going to do a reread of the main four books and then expand into the full Tolkienverse over the next few years.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-14 22:28:57 -0700", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Oct 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/14/started-listening-to-the-hobbit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2Fstarted-listening-to-the-hobbit.html" }, { "id": 349, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis 📚\nReally useful book. 👍 Will write a bit of commentary later this week.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-14 15:44:26 -0700", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Oct 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/14/finished-becoming-vancouver-by-daniel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2Ffinished-becoming-vancouver-by-daniel.html" }, { "id": 350, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nThe 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.\n5th Abercrombie I have read this year. Sheesh! can I hold off for the last two of the series!?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-13 21:29:06 -0700", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Oct 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/13/finished-a-little-hatred-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F13%2Ffinished-a-little-hatred-by.html" }, { "id": 351, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 20:45:54 -0700", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/11/the-polyglotunconf-afterparty-was-held.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fthe-polyglotunconf-afterparty-was-held.html" }, { "id": 352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 🍻\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 16:58:00 -0700", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/11/just-finished-polyglotunconf-people-showed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fjust-finished-polyglotunconf-people-showed.html" }, { "id": 353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gotta go to sleep early tonight since I need to bring the energy to www.polyglotsoftware.com unconf tomorrow!! 🎉🙌\n#polyglotconf\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-10 19:59:52 -0700", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Oct 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/10/gotta-go-to-sleep-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F10%2Fgotta-go-to-sleep-early.html" }, { "id": 354, "type": "post", "title": "Exploring AI and American Fascism", "text": "Really appreciate @mikerugnetta.com\u0026rsquo;s audio essay on Neverpo.st about the aesthetics of US Fascism and AI slopaganda/agit slop. He asks: \u0026ldquo;Is there something inherently fascistic about these technologies as many of these takes and headlines seem to suggest?\u0026rdquo; and takes a deep dive into media theory, coming away with a nuanced understanding of AI, its usage, and its relationship to a hollow power.\nSome choice quotes (with my emphasis):\n [Walter Benjamin] declared famously that fascism seeks to give the masses expression, but nothing else, thus compacting those masses into a frenzied block. No rights, no change in property relations, just feelings of power and feelings of dominance through available imagery. No actual political agency is granted. No self determination is awarded.\n Talking about the Trump administration:\n They are knowledgeable about, maybe even obsessed with, the media. How it\u0026rsquo;s made, how it\u0026rsquo;s useful, the social and economic position it occupies, and the power it commands. Slop, sludge, slopaganda, and agit slop included. They are posters at heart more so than they are leaders. They would appear to put more effort, effort into creating the appearance of a fascist state, a state itself all about appearances, than anything beyond that.\n And finally the kicker:\n artificial intelligence is not a tool of this administration, but a crutch for a group of people who otherwise don\u0026rsquo;t really know how to do much of anything… what happens when you find a way to take away that crutch? Would they not stumble?\n We cannot afford cede this technological ground, we must seize the means of compute.\nGive the whole thing a listen.. It is thought-provoking, plus the funky interstitials are banging this week. 🥁\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-10 12:25:00 -0700", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Oct 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/10/exploring-ai-and-american-fascism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F10%2Fexploring-ai-and-american-fascism.html" }, { "id": 355, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been a year so I updated my Uses/Don’t Uses page: chadkohalyk.com/about/use\u0026hellip;\nShare me yours!\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-09 07:47:26 -0700", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Oct 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/09/been-a-year-so-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F09%2Fbeen-a-year-so-i.html" }, { "id": 356, "type": "post", "title": "New Kit! Ricoh GR IV", "text": "Early Xmas!🎄🎁 New kit! 📷 I mulled getting a Fujifilm X100VI when they came out but wanted something smaller. Been watching the iteration of GRs and when they announced the IV I signed up right away. Gonna carry this thing everywhere!\n#photography\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-08 13:26:37 -0700", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Oct 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/08/early-xmas-new-kit-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F08%2Fearly-xmas-new-kit-i.html" }, { "id": 357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "✊\nIndigenous Nations Plan a Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across the US-Canada border\n We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.\n ", "dateiso": "2025-10-08 07:22:59 -0700", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Oct 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/08/072259.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F08%2F072259.html" }, { "id": 358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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! 🌕🎑\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-07 20:33:45 -0700", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Oct 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/07/tsukumi-moon-viewing-celebration-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Ftsukumi-moon-viewing-celebration-at.html" }, { "id": 359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 🌾\nHappy Moon Viewing! 🎑\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-06 21:56:15 -0700", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Oct 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/06/younger-daughter-made-dango-coloured.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F06%2Fyounger-daughter-made-dango-coloured.html" }, { "id": 360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous day for a walk in the forest. The leaves are turning in the warm sun and I sliced my finger pulling wheatgrass for the moon viewing fest tonight 🎑\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-06 18:24:37 -0700", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Oct 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/06/gorgeous-day-for-a-walk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F06%2Fgorgeous-day-for-a-walk.html" }, { "id": 361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last trip to the Richmond Night Market before it closes for the season\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-05 21:57:43 -0700", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Oct 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/05/last-trip-to-the-richmond.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F05%2Flast-trip-to-the-richmond.html" }, { "id": 362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OpenMedia ran a survey on #AI regulation and #DigitalSovereignty.\nThe findings show a \u0026ldquo;strong preference for self-hosted, locally developed AI\u0026rdquo; and a rejection of \u0026ldquo;one-size-fits-all\u0026rdquo; policy.\nMeanwhile ISED is running a public consultation on #Canada\u0026rsquo;s AI strategy open until Oct 31.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 10:12:17 -0700", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/02/openmedia-ran-a-survey-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fopenmedia-ran-a-survey-on.html" }, { "id": 363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tried to hold off, since I want First Law to last forever, but I just was itching for some Steven Pacey-narrated Joe Abercrombie grimdark fantasy: A Little Hatred Book 1 of the final trilogy (and the 8th I have read in the series) 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-01 20:59:44 -0700", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Oct 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/01/tried-to-hold-off-since.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F01%2Ftried-to-hold-off-since.html" }, { "id": 364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " common needs need commons\n and:\n We believe in proliferation, not scale\n Both statements got me right in the cockles. 🫀\nCheck out the folktechnology.org Principles and come to Vancouver on Oct 18 for their event at Z-Space.\n#folktech #technology #event\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-01 10:52:30 -0700", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Oct 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/01/common-needs-need-commons-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F10%2F01%2Fcommon-needs-need-commons-and.html" }, { "id": 365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This 👇\nblog.discourse.org/2025/09/w\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-30 18:50:28 -0700", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Sep 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/30/185028.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F30%2F185028.html" }, { "id": 366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you want to learn about how the Greeks influenced early #Buddhism (writing, analytical thinking) this lecture by Ajahn Sona is pretty mind-bending\n ", "dateiso": "2025-09-30 12:17:59 -0700", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Sep 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/30/if-you-want-to-learn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F30%2Fif-you-want-to-learn.html" }, { "id": 367, "type": "post", "title": "Back to Birken", "text": " After 6 years I finally returned to Birken Forest Monastery for a 7 day meditation retreat.\nSee previous travel reports from Birken Forest Monastery:\n My first retreat in 2017 My most recent retreat in 2019 Finishing the one year program I took remotely through Birken in 2023 Upon arrival the leaves on poplar trees surrounding the vihara were about half green and half yellow. By the time I left they were mostly coloured gold, glowing with the rays of the early fall sun. There have been many changes at the monastery since my last visit: a new flower garden, three new rock gardens, a series of tiered decks, a covered walkway between the main house and the office/recording studio. Much of this and more was done during 2021 in the early part of the COVID pandemic when there were no guests. The monastery also installed Starlink which gave them a much faster Internet connection allowing Ajahn Sona to do Sunday livestreams on YouTube, answering questions from around the world.\nThose global live streams have had an effect. One of the guests at the retreat was an Ajahn Sona YouTube fan coming all the way from Belgium! He was very excited to see Ajahn Sona during Tea Time, which happens twice a week in the intimate setting of the tea room. (He is always better up close and in person when he can really feed off the crowd! 😄). The kitchen steward was from Ithica, New York, also attracted to the monastery via Internet broadcast. Other guests came from the Vancouver area, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, and of course nearby Kamloops. There were 10 of us in all. Most were staying for the week, but some were 3 weeks into a month-long retreat.\nFour monastics live at the monastery full time, as well as three stewards. The monastery is a bit short-staffed right now (and is hiring for a few positions if you are interested.)\nThis week was for personal retreats, each person moved at their own pace. Everyone would get together at 5:30am for a 45 minute seated meditation session in the sala (meditation hall), and then again at 7pm for some chanting and meditation. We would meet for a light breakfast together at 7am, and then again at 11:30 for the main meal of the day (I have to say that of all the temples and monasteries I have been to, Birken has the best tacos! 🌮). At 5pm we would gather for some tea (and maybe a chocolate or two) and ask questions of the monastics. I gained many insights into wisdom during these discussions.\nOther than that everyone was left on their own to do walking or sitting meditation, reading, yoga, or hiking — which a lot of people did because the weather was so fantastic. The pre-autumn air is so crisp, and the gold poplar leaves danced in the wind against brilliant clear blue skies. The closes neighbour to the Birken Forest Monastery is 10km away, so there is plenty of space to wander through the woods contemplating life, or walk with new dhamma friends talking through one another’s journey on the Buddhist path.\n Some scenes from around the monastery by resident monk Ajahn Jotipalo\nThere was stress at the monastery when one day we had a bit of a COVID scare. A couple of people had been exposed outside the monastery the previous week. Immediately they masked up and took tests. After a while Ajahn Sona came down the stairs into the dining hall where the rest of us waited: “Here is the announcement!” he said, raising his arms, “There is a lot of negativity in here! As in, the tests were all negative. Excellent!” he broke out in a big grin, and we knew we could continue on in silent calm.\nThe last time I was at Birken was 2019, a very stressful time as I was planning to end my career in edtech and an out to embark on a journey living on a remote island between Japan and Korea. In the intervening years I completed the Upasika Program (through Birken) and maintained a meditation practice (I am currently on a 552 day streak, but probably have only missed about 7 or 8 days in the past 3 years). My home and work life have both relatively settled. So I was not anywhere as stressed out as back then. Even so, I basically slept for the first two days as my body relaxed, of wringing out all of my stress.\nFor me, this retreat was about settling my mind to consider next steps. 2025 is the Year of the Snake, when you are meant to explore this way and that, and not make any big commitments. It is a time for re-invention, to shed your skin. This advice has served me well this year as we have been settling into our new house and I started consulting for a few different businesses. We have been exploring our new community to determine exactly where best to commit in the near future.\nSpending a week at the monastery has let my mind calm. Like the proverbial pond after a storm: the muddied water gently floats to the bottom and the pool is clear again, allowing me to better see my options. It has also energized me to continue my study and participation in this community. I really appreciate being at the monastery, able to interact with others on the same spiritual journey, and getting advice from the monastics.\nNext time I won’t wait 6 years to return.\n 📸 See whole album on Flickr →\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-27 12:24:00 -0700", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Sep 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/27/back-to-birken.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2Fback-to-birken.html" }, { "id": 368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started this for our Metagov book club later this week The Dispossessed: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 21:15:12 -0700", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/26/started-this-for-our-metagov.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fstarted-this-for-our-metagov.html" }, { "id": 369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Read this during my meditation retreat. It is a bit academic, and there are many more simpler takes, bit it did bring some clarity that I appreciated. Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization by Bhikkhu Anālayo 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 21:06:05 -0700", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/26/read-this-during-my-meditation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fread-this-during-my-meditation.html" }, { "id": 370, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just returned from my 7 day silent retreat at Birken Forest Monastery. I’ve been offline the entire time. It was really lovely. Still somehow took 120+ photos. Will post a travelogue tomorrow. May you all be safe, healthy, and happy 🙏 #Buddhism #Meditation\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 20:58:32 -0700", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/26/just-returned-from-my-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fjust-returned-from-my-day.html" }, { "id": 371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished the penultimate ep of 99 Percent Invisible’s breakdown of The Powerbroker, an excellent episode where we see both petards and hoists. It also features an interview of Brennan Lee Mulligan who talks about using an undead Robert Moses as the Big Bad in his D\u0026amp;D campaign! ⚔️ 🎲 🧟‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-20 14:08:16 -0700", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Sep 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/20/just-finished-the-penultimate-ep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F20%2Fjust-finished-the-penultimate-ep.html" }, { "id": 372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Anyway, we’re moving to Mattermost. This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too.\n skyfall.dev/posts/sla\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-18 08:06:51 -0700", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Sep 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/18/anyway-were-moving-to-mattermost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F18%2Fanyway-were-moving-to-mattermost.html" }, { "id": 373, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Me: How many flamingos 🦩 will you have at your wedding?\nDaughter massively eye-rolling like she talking to a boomer: OMG dad… that’s a funeral thing 😒🪦\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-13 09:50:32 -0700", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Sep 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/13/me-how-many-flamingos-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F13%2Fme-how-many-flamingos-will.html" }, { "id": 374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026lsquo;Carney also said he will ask the MPO [Major Projects Office] to help with the development of a \u0026ldquo;Canadian Sovereign Cloud\u0026rdquo; that would build data centres and computing capacity in a way that ensures the country\u0026rsquo;s competitiveness and digital sovereignty.\u0026rsquo;\n One of the 5 Nation-Building projects announced by our PM\nwww.cbc.ca/news/poli\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-11 12:05:13 -0700", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Sep 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/11/carney-also-said-he-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F11%2Fcarney-also-said-he-will.html" }, { "id": 375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inspired by listening to The Powerbroker podcast about Robert Caro’s classic book on NYC master planner Robert Moses, I picked up this recent and well-regarded history: Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 20:06:42 -0700", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/07/inspired-by-listening-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Finspired-by-listening-to-the.html" }, { "id": 376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New #book haul! 📚\n ", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 14:34:12 -0700", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/07/new-book-haul-youtube-ortlazuuhs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fnew-book-haul-youtube-ortlazuuhs.html" }, { "id": 377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gotta catch ‘em all!\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-06 13:12:52 -0700", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Sep 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/06/gotta-catch-em-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F06%2Fgotta-catch-em-all.html" }, { "id": 378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last week I pre-ordered a GR IV. Last night I had my first dream using it in different light conditions.\nIt’s gonna be a long wait until that order is fulfilled.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-05 08:53:30 -0700", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Sep 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/05/last-week-i-preordered-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F05%2Flast-week-i-preordered-a.html" }, { "id": 379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch 📚🦊\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-04 22:14:33 -0700", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Sep 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/04/started-listening-to-what-abigail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F04%2Fstarted-listening-to-what-abigail.html" }, { "id": 380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started listening to 99pi’s series on The Powerbroker about Robert Moses while sitting in a park in Manhattan. I left NYC the next day but I am still many hours into the podcast series because it is so good! So many lessons on leadership and community building (mostly what not to do 😅)\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-03 17:43:04 -0700", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Sep 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/03/i-started-listening-to-pis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fi-started-listening-to-pis.html" }, { "id": 381, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The 1982 Put-That-There demo by the Architecture Machine Group at MIT as an example of intent-based computer interaction.\nFrom @genmon.org\u0026rsquo;s post on AI interfaces\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-03 09:21:51 -0700", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Sep 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/03/the-putthatthere-demo-by-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fthe-putthatthere-demo-by-the.html" }, { "id": 382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Would love to buy a Neverpost shirt (I like the cleaver one because I am a fan of split keyboards 🙃) but it is USD$26 to ship to Canada making the total CAD$77 (plus I will get dinged for import fees). Sad. But just because I can’t buy one doesn’t mean you shouldn’t! Support @neverpo.st!\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-03 08:46:51 -0700", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Sep 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/03/would-love-to-buy-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fwould-love-to-buy-a.html" }, { "id": 383, "type": "post", "title": "Revisiting Malazan", "text": "Ambition In the preface to Steven Erikson’s notoriously “difficult” novel Gardens of the Moon the author describes the first book of his Malazan series as beginning “halfway through a seeming marathon — you either hit the ground running and stay on your feet or you are toast.” The world-building of Malazan is rich and lived-in, full of character gems, jaded by a grimdark world of warfare:\n I’m writing a history and fictional or not, history has no real beginning point\n Fantastic realism.\n And sometimes, on midnight afternoons, I ask myself: what if I’d picked up that fat wooden ladle, and slopped the whole mess down the reader’s throat, as some (highly successful) Fantasy writers do and have done? Would I now see my sales ranking in the bestseller’s lists?\n No Steven! Don’t sell us short!\n One last word to all you nascent writers out there. Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.\n That’s right! 💪 Talk yo sh✻t!\nMedium matters To be honest, when I first read Gardens of the Moon in 2017 I bounced off the book. From my original review:\n This is the first in 10 novels, but reads like it is about novel number 6. About halfway through he finally settles on a group of characters to follow — at least, it seems that way, but he keeps introducing new characters and even new unknown baddies right up to the final chapters! I don\u0026rsquo;t know who edited this book, but that person needed reinforcements. Erikson has a million ideas for world-building, and every time I was about to give up on the book, he would keep me around for some intriguing concept or set piece. However the lack of any narrative build just renders this story as overly complex and disorienting. I am not likely to pick up the second.\n Why did I bounce so hard? I think it was because of the medium. The nice thing about listening to audiobooks is you can do other things while you are “reading”… but some books cannot be given just a portion of your attention.\nThis time around I got the book in dead tree format so I could keep things grounded.\nSupplements For this marathon you gotta be in shape, so my friends got me some supplemental material to help me along the way.\nFirst, this useful blog series originally from Tor which features two people reading a couple chapters at a time and writing down their commentary. One person is a new reader and the other is a veteran who is careful not to give any spoilers from the future. More than once they caught things that I missed, which helped me feel like I wasn’t falling behind.\nAnother useful aid is this set of companion guides. Each scene from the book is captured on a single slide with important bits you are supposed to remember conveniently highlighted. This is great for when you need to refresh your memory a bit, say after having put the book down for a few days.\nReading tips The Malazan series is consistently rated up there with the best fantasy series of all time. And like most things that are difficult but worth it, going in with the right mindset can be a game-changer. Gardens of the Moon is not a lazy book, and you gotta be an active reader. Here are some tips to help you lock-in:\n Read it “scene by scene” Browsing YouTube before reading the book I came across this complete random short:\n What amazing advice! So thankful that the YT algo surfaced this for me. There is a lot going on in GotM, but with aid of the supplements and this guy’s advice, I enjoyed it so much that I ordered the sequel before finishing it.\nRead it like you read Shakespeare The first draft of GotM was a film script. Erikson writes a lot of snappy dialogue, but you still have to read between the lines. By combining the supplemental material and the technique of reading scene by scene, reading GotM is almost like reading a Shakespeare play. The clues are right there on the page, and it is rewarding to feel like you are an audience member in the know. Oh, and there are laughs everywhere, too.\nRead it like you are listening to your rapper’s favourite rapper Erikson is a writer who loves a bit of wordplay. Like a talented rapper (eg Avelino or Ghetts or the Coast) he’s got bars. Doubles and triples all over the place! Be prepared to catch the punches.\nIs this even a book review? Hell no! I don’t want to spoil anything. I am merely preparing you for your own journey. Once you are done, then we can talk about the book.\n ", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 19:25:00 -0700", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/02/revisiting-malazan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Frevisiting-malazan.html" }, { "id": 384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From today’s iOS Memories… I miss this big guy!\n#ikijima\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 14:25:41 -0700", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/02/from-todays-ios-memories-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Ffrom-todays-ios-memories-i.html" }, { "id": 385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch 📚\nGood episode. Nice to have Kobna back in my ears. And Abigail! The two first-person characters, not to mention the rest of the fam getting involved, was well-handled, especially in a new setting. More: www.goodreads.com/review/sh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-31 17:26:28 -0700", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Aug 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/31/finished-stone-and-sky-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F31%2Ffinished-stone-and-sky-by.html" }, { "id": 386, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Amazing track from Jesse 📿\n ", "dateiso": "2025-08-31 15:43:58 -0700", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Aug 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/31/amazing-track-from-jesse-youtube.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F31%2Famazing-track-from-jesse-youtube.html" }, { "id": 387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excellent issue of IXP this week re Euro digital sovereignty showing the level of dependency (92% of Euro data sits in US clouds), the problem of lack of political will and \u0026ldquo;The Buy European Trap\u0026rdquo;. Lots of lessons! (Also some great links at the bottom including to #ProtocolsForPublishers 😉)\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-28 09:24:52 -0700", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Aug 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/28/excellent-issue-of-ixp-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F28%2Fexcellent-issue-of-ixp-this.html" }, { "id": 388, "type": "post", "title": "Summer Travel", "text": "The past few weeks have seen a lot of travel and I am well backed up with uploading photos. I may not get the opportunity to write any in-depth travel reports, so I thought I would just make some quick notes.\nQuebec and Ontario This September my oldest daughter will enter Grade 11. Things are starting to get serious on the academic front. Next year will be prepping for university, with campus visits and the like. So this summer’s vacation was probably our last big one as a family.\nOriginally we thought we would do the Grand Canyon, but with the situation in the US, we decided to stay in Canada. My oldest went for a 5 week French language program in Quebec City at Laval University, so we made the Belle Province our summer destination.\nI won’t got into all the gory details, and I still have over 2000 photos to process and upload to Flickr, but here are just a few highlights from our 16 days of travelling In Quebec and eastern Ontario:\n Montreal After having our plane cancelled, put on a new flight redirected through Toronto, we finally got to our McGill University dorm hotel only to have the fire alarm go off after midnight… three times Saw the Notre Dame Basilica, met with Vincent from Hypha, ate lobster poutine and went to Just for Laughs pics → Walked a lot of streets and saw some of the famous sites of Montreal (pics →) and live-blogged a witch cafe → Domes → Ran into former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Cirque du Soliel is mind-boggling 🤯 We saw Luzia Quebec City Took a bus across the flatlands of Quebec to the oldest city in Canada pics → Really enjoyed the Old Town both Upper and Lower pics → Did the K-Drama pilgrimage pics → Did a tour of Château Frontenac pics → Made some 360s of the St Lawrence river and the Château at dusk Kingston This side trip was purely for nostalgia. I lived in Kingston for 2 years during grad school, and we got married here nearly 20 years ago. We visited our old apartments, my old alma mater Royal Military College of Canada, and a number of our old hangouts. Lots of memories. Drinking in the old pub with my kids! 🤯 Had dinner at the place we had our wedding banquet. Still great! Ottawa Parliament, Museum of Nature, National Gallery of Canada and Canadian Museum of History, Met a dog, saw the famous Churchill photo… and Hitler’s car pics → Walked around the Canadian War Museum video → Met up with some old friends from my grad school years Yasuke beer And even though I have been to Ottawa a bunch of times in the past, this was my first time walking down the locks and crossing the river. No wonder it is a world heritage site! (Photos and vids coming soon) Quebec is a must-go for Canadians like me from the West. There is just something about seeing historical spots that help you really understand the history. It was also interesting to see how they present indigenous history… or the lack thereof. I think in BC we have come a long way in recognizing the victimization of indigenous groups, but in Quebec with the spotlight on the Quebecois (and Acadians), the indigenous experience is still left in the shadows.\nOne other note: the pedestrian streets in Montréal are amazing. Vancouver really needs pedestrian streets and a nice walkable shopping and food area like the Montréal Old Town.\nQuick drive to the Okanagan After we got back from Quebec we quickly jumped in the car and drove to Kelowna for a couple of days for a friend’s baby shower. Not much to report from this trip other than we spent time with my family and with a bunch of friends, ate loads of cake, and it was great.\n”Concrete jungle where dreams are made of” 🗽 Once back from Kelowna I had a day to pack and prep for a week in New York. I stayed in Manhattan, worked out of betaworks, ran a 2-day event with publishers like WaPo, ProPublica, Semaphor and many others (I will write this up in the future but here is some coverage already) and then attended an atproto hackathon in Brooklyn. It was pretty packed but on Saturday we did a walking tour of Manhattan hitting a lot of the famous parts, like:\n The Highline, the Shed, the Foot Fountain and Grand Central pics → Times Square, St Patricks, got rainbow bagels and then Central Park pics → Strand, Union Square pic → Took a lot of selfies 🤓 Empire State Building pics → It was a great experience. I hadn’t been there since 2006. I spent most of my spare time just walking the streets, moving from movie set to movie set.\nNext up? I am holding still in Surrey for the next few weeks with no travel plans until I go to Birken Monastery for a week-long meditation retreat at the end of September. Until then I am just happy to be still for a while, in my comfortable home office… it will give me a chance to process all these photos!\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-27 09:45:38 -0700", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Aug 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/27/summer-travel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F27%2Fsummer-travel.html" }, { "id": 389, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When thinking about \u0026ldquo;sovereign\u0026rdquo; AI consider the difference between digital sovereignty and digital nationalism. Take the Swiss model vs the Korean. Listen to @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and think about our approach in Canada as we pursue #publicAI.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-25 16:23:17 -0700", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Aug 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/25/when-thinking-about-sovereign-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F25%2Fwhen-thinking-about-sovereign-ai.html" }, { "id": 390, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch 📚 on the plane back from New York. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is so great on audio!\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 18:09:58 -0700", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/24/started-listening-to-stone-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Fstarted-listening-to-stone-and.html" }, { "id": 391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "16 days in Quebec. Just 4 days home before going to Kelowna flr a couple days for a baby shower. Then a week in New York. Now I am home… and have no more travel booked until I go to the monastery on retreat at the end of September. Feels good to be home! 😎 🏡\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 15:20:17 -0700", "date": "3:20 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/24/days-in-quebec-just-days.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Fdays-in-quebec-just-days.html" }, { "id": 392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks New York 🗽 Won’t forget you.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 08:05:31 -0700", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/24/thanks-new-york-wont-forget.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Fthanks-new-york-wont-forget.html" }, { "id": 393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Final night in New York. Had a lovely meal and am now just hanging out in Madison Square Park watching the people and listening to a podcast about Robert Caro’s book about Robert Moses.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-23 16:32:23 -0700", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Aug 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/23/final-night-in-new-york.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F23%2Ffinal-night-in-new-york.html" }, { "id": 394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Control the means of inference”\n— @wang.social at #ATProto_NYC\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-22 17:21:04 -0700", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Aug 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/22/control-the-means-of-inference.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F22%2Fcontrol-the-means-of-inference.html" }, { "id": 395, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After working the morning @betaworks.com I had a lobster roll in Chelsea Market like a real New York tourist and now heading to Hex House in Brooklyn for #ATProto_NYC\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-22 11:24:49 -0700", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Aug 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/22/after-working-the-morning-betaworkscom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F22%2Fafter-working-the-morning-betaworkscom.html" }, { "id": 396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coming down from #ProtocolsForPublishers. Lots of processing to do. Was great to meet people like @ivansigal.bsky.social‬ | @ivansigal@social.coop and @werd.io | @ben@werd.social in person. @julietshen.bsky.social‬ is a star 🤩 There were many more! Writing up reflections now…\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-22 08:06:22 -0700", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Aug 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/22/coming-down-from-protocolsforpublishers-lots.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F22%2Fcoming-down-from-protocolsforpublishers-lots.html" }, { "id": 397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently ‪@betaworks.com‬ in NYC ahead of #ProtocolsForPublishers. Tomorrow night a BUNCH of cool people will be in here to talk about how we can ensure both the distribution AND the app layer of the web can remain open using #openProtocols for #ai and #opensocial\n🎟️ pfp.unternet.co\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-19 08:04:18 -0700", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Aug 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/19/currently-betaworkscom-in-nyc-ahead.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F19%2Fcurrently-betaworkscom-in-nyc-ahead.html" }, { "id": 398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was a bit nervous trying to sleep last night before coming to the US, so I started Living Theravada by Brooke Schedneck 📚 #Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-18 19:59:38 -0700", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Aug 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/18/i-was-a-bit-nervous.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F18%2Fi-was-a-bit-nervous.html" }, { "id": 399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All packed and ready for flying to NYC early tomorrow morning. Excited to meet old friends and make new ones at #ProtocolsForPublishers and #ATProto_NYC\n🕸️ pfp.unternet.co 🪿 atprotocol.dev/atproto-n\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-17 17:49:23 -0700", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Aug 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/17/all-packed-and-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F17%2Fall-packed-and-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look what arrived! 📚 othernetworks.net by @loriemerson@post.lurk.org 🎉 (with the @z-space.ca‬ server rack in the background) Also see her talk (via pinhole security camera) from last year\u0026rsquo;s Our Networks youtu.be/LjS5_dsuF\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-13 09:44:24 -0700", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Aug 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/13/look-what-arrived-httpsothernetworksnet-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F13%2Flook-what-arrived-httpsothernetworksnet-by.html" }, { "id": 401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The broken image icon is just the 🍒\n😂\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-11 21:34:53 -0700", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Aug 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/11/the-broken-image-icon-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F11%2Fthe-broken-image-icon-is.html" }, { "id": 402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who is using literal.club I haven\u0026rsquo;t started and am thinking about giving it a go. There are already a couple of bookshelf apps on atproto. I want something that can track reading (which is why I haven\u0026rsquo;t had much joy with Bookwyrm or Storygraph. GR makes this easy) #amReading #books 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-10 16:38:42 -0700", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Aug 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/10/who-is-using-httpsliteralclub-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F10%2Fwho-is-using-httpsliteralclub-i.html" }, { "id": 403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the plane back to Vancouver. 🛫 Goodbye Ottawa! 🏛️ Thanks for the memories Kingston. 💍 Loved the Cirque, Montréal. 🎪 Quebec City, I hope to return to the Château Frontenac in 19+ to see the new colour of the ceiling! 🏰 Summer hols are almost over. Regular programming starts Monday. 👋\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-09 14:40:33 -0700", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Aug 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/09/on-the-plane-back-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F09%2Fon-the-plane-back-to.html" }, { "id": 404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More Ottawa adventures: Stewart the Service dog who greets people at the hotel and lives in a castle in the lobby, the portrait of Churchill that was stolen from Château Laurier and wasn’t noticed for 8 months and later returned, and Hitler’s car.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-08 18:09:27 -0700", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Aug 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/08/more-ottawa-adventures-stewart-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F08%2Fmore-ottawa-adventures-stewart-the.html" }, { "id": 405, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today’s exploration in Ottawa: the Canadian War Museum. This place has a massive collection of equipment you can walk around and view.\n ", "dateiso": "2025-08-08 17:20:53 -0700", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Aug 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/08/todays-exploration-in-ottawa-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F08%2Ftodays-exploration-in-ottawa-the.html" }, { "id": 406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today\u0026rsquo;s adventures in Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada and Canadian Museum of History 🇨🇦\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-07 19:17:25 -0700", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Aug 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/07/todays-adventures-in-ottawa-national.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F07%2Ftodays-adventures-in-ottawa-national.html" }, { "id": 407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Found this cool beer called Yasuke, named after the famous African samurai who first landed in Shimabara Japan in 1579. The company Mascot is from Toronto and apparently the only Black-owned brewery in Ontario. mascotbrewery.com\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 17:40:00 -0700", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/06/found-this-cool-beer-called.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Ffound-this-cool-beer-called.html" }, { "id": 408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated my \u0026ldquo;Interesting Conferences in 2025\u0026rdquo; list. Tomorrow is the start of #DWebCampCascadia which I helped out with a bit but can\u0026rsquo;t attend due to being in Ottawa right now 😅, but there are some others coming up. Any suggestions, leave a comment!\nhackmd.io/@chadkoh/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 17:27:30 -0700", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/06/updated-my-interesting-conferences-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fupdated-my-interesting-conferences-in.html" }, { "id": 409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The national Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa is a very impressive building. Built in \u0026ldquo;Scottish Baronial\u0026rdquo; design, it features of all sorts of animals 🫎🐺🦬🦫 on the outside and depicted in the stained glass. Also it has giant Earth 🌎 and Moon 🌖 globes!\nnature.ca\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 15:40:14 -0700", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/06/the-national-canadian-museum-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fthe-national-canadian-museum-of.html" }, { "id": 410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made it to the capital 🇨🇦\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-05 18:34:03 -0700", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Aug 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/05/made-it-to-the-capital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F05%2Fmade-it-to-the-capital.html" }, { "id": 411, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tomorrow will be a nice #meditation milestone\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-05 07:07:14 -0700", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Aug 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/05/tomorrow-will-be-a-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F05%2Ftomorrow-will-be-a-nice.html" }, { "id": 412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "https://stephango.com/ramblings\nThis from @stephango.com | @kepano@mastodon.social is similar to the #monologue channels we used at Fission. We didn\u0026rsquo;t do the strict threading tho. You could leave a note \u0026ldquo;on a person\u0026rsquo;s desk\u0026rdquo; without notifying them, useful as we were across 5 continents.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 20:43:00 -0700", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/03/234300.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2F234300.html" }, { "id": 413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In downtown Kingston there is a bar called The Toucan where 19 years ago me and my friends would go every Thursday for “Grad Student Night”.\nI am here now with my children 🤯\n🍻\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 17:52:49 -0700", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/03/in-downtown-kingston-there-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2Fin-downtown-kingston-there-is.html" }, { "id": 414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After one last trip to Notre Dame, we left Montreal and drove to Kingston, Ontario. We are staying in my old neighborhood from grad school, and tonight will eat at the restaurant where we held our wedding banquet in 2006! 😱 🎉 👰‍♀️💗🤵‍♂️\nAmazing to be back here with our children 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 15:16:14 -0700", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/03/after-one-last-trip-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2Fafter-one-last-trip-to.html" }, { "id": 415, "type": "post", "title": "Why BrainRot", "text": "In the second segment of this Neverpo.st episode researcher Emily Owens discusses “BrainRot” as a rare method of decompression for today’s teenagers:\n There are loads of things you could do to decompress. Sometimes it is use your phone, but oftentimes it\u0026rsquo;s go for a walk, like go for a swim, take your bicycle out, paint a painting, write a little story. And we\u0026rsquo;re, I think, systematically discouraged from doing those things because those things don\u0026rsquo;t make anybody any money. And that\u0026rsquo;s my beef with BrainRot. It\u0026rsquo;s not that it exists or that young people are doing it. I think that\u0026rsquo;s fine. We should let kids do what they want. If they\u0026rsquo;re enjoying it, who cares? It\u0026rsquo;s more that there\u0026rsquo;s this bigger systematic problem that all of our time is being capitalized on.\n Emphasis added, and felt in my bones.\nThis whole episode is recommended.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 06:44:33 -0700", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/03/why-brainrot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2Fwhy-brainrot.html" }, { "id": 416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now for some Cirque du Soleil 🎪\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-02 17:30:50 -0700", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Aug 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/02/now-for-some-cirque-du.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F02%2Fnow-for-some-cirque-du.html" }, { "id": 417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "2 last morning shots of le Château Frontenac before we get on the train to Montréal. Over the past 100 years it has been expanded 5 times, taking the room count from 160 to over 600. In the 90s they almost lost their 5 ⭐️ rating for lack of a pool and spa so they built one! 🏊 🧖‍♀️\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-02 07:19:37 -0700", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Aug 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/02/last-morning-shots-of-le.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F02%2Flast-morning-shots-of-le.html" }, { "id": 418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We GOBLIN’d it up in Quebec today #kdrama\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-01 20:20:48 -0700", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Aug 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/01/we-goblind-it-up-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F01%2Fwe-goblind-it-up-in.html" }, { "id": 419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Navigating the unfamiliar campus of Laval to pick my daughter up from her university for the first time. So THIS is what it feels like to be that awkward/proud parent 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-01 05:56:29 -0700", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Aug 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/01/navigating-the-unfamiliar-campus-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F08%2F01%2Fnavigating-the-unfamiliar-campus-of.html" }, { "id": 420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Crossed the plains of Quebec to the capital city, founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain and the only walled city north of Mexico. We checked in at the hotel, did a walkaround, and ate some crepes. Tomorrow we reunite with our older daughter who has been here 5 weeks studying Français!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-29 18:24:17 -0700", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jul 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/29/crossed-the-plains-of-quebec.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F29%2Fcrossed-the-plains-of-quebec.html" }, { "id": 421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the rooftop of the place we are staying and we got one of these tower thingies. Le Fancy!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-29 14:31:24 -0700", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Jul 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/29/on-the-rooftop-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F29%2Fon-the-rooftop-of-the.html" }, { "id": 422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: Quebec City ⚜️\nThis is the furthest east I have ever been in my life‡ 🙀\n ‡ Most of my travels have been in the Far East\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-29 12:53:53 -0700", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Jul 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/29/current-status-quebec-city-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F29%2Fcurrent-status-quebec-city-this.html" }, { "id": 423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day in Montréal! Walked a bunch including up the mountain! 🥵 Lovely view. Had amazing handmade spicy noodles 🍜 for dinner. (Seriously get the Oil Spill noodle, spicy cucumber, and spicy tofu strips. Perfect for a hot day!). Bon nuit Montréal! 🌇\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-28 17:52:31 -0700", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Jul 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/28/last-day-in-montral-walked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F28%2Flast-day-in-montral-walked.html" }, { "id": 424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: Awakening from the Daydream by David Nichtern 📚\nTakes a modern twist to teach the Six Realms of the classic Wheel of Life (Bhavacakra)\n#Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-27 18:42:42 -0700", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Jul 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/27/started-reading-awakening-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F27%2Fstarted-reading-awakening-from-the.html" }, { "id": 425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today was \u0026ldquo;Dome Day\u0026rdquo; in Montréal for us. We first visited the Biodome by the Olympic stadium dating from Olympics in 1976. Afterwards we saw the Biosphere designed by Buckminster Fuller himself for the 1967 Expo.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-27 18:19:06 -0700", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Jul 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/27/today-was-dome-day-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F27%2Ftoday-was-dome-day-in.html" }, { "id": 426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The sun sets on a hot and smoky day in Montréal. We walked around quite a bit. Sunburned. Saw The Ring. Ate crepes. Hit Schwartz’s. Walked by a ton of murals. Drank with witches. Daughter pet cats. What a day!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-26 17:22:17 -0700", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Jul 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/26/the-sun-sets-on-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F26%2Fthe-sun-sets-on-a.html" }, { "id": 427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wife \u0026amp; daughter went to a cat cafe 🐈🫖 but my allergies prevented me so I opted for the Witch Cafe 🧙☕️ across the road. Drinking a sage latte, checking out the wands and spell components. You can get a tarot reading! Blessed 💫✨😊 www.instagram.com/moonbrewm\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-26 13:09:42 -0700", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Jul 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/26/wife-daughter-went-to-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F26%2Fwife-daughter-went-to-a.html" }, { "id": 428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a full day in Montréal: met with a friend, a lot of walking around, visited the Notre Dame Basilica, ate lobster poutine, and saw Just for Laughs on stage! #travel #photography\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-25 20:14:37 -0700", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Jul 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/25/had-a-full-day-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F25%2Fhad-a-full-day-in.html" }, { "id": 429, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Walking around Montreal this morning I stumbled upon the Just for Laughs Festival! Other than smoked meat sandwiches this is probably the thing most Westerners like me know about Montreal. I grew up watching the Anglo comics on stage. Cool to see it in person!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-25 10:26:59 -0700", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Jul 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/25/walking-around-montreal-this-morning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F25%2Fwalking-around-montreal-this-morning.html" }, { "id": 430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally touched down in Montréal. That’s a LOT of travel just to end up in the same country. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-24 17:54:44 -0700", "date": "5:54 p.m. on Jul 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/24/finally-touched-down-in-montral.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Ffinally-touched-down-in-montral.html" }, { "id": 431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woke up at 5am, ready to head to the airport for our family trip to Quebec. 🥱\nCheck email ✉️\nFlight cancelled 🙅\nEarly morning panic 😵‍💫\nCheck in to rescheduled flight 👨‍✈️\nGo back to sleep for an hour 😴\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-24 05:28:19 -0700", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Jul 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/24/woke-up-at-am-ready.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Fwoke-up-at-am-ready.html" }, { "id": 432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚\nWhoever thought Napoleon crushing Europe could be described as \u0026ldquo;light\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;fun\u0026rdquo;? 🙃 Well, there are dragons and this isn\u0026rsquo;t Malazan.\nAnyways, I am 22/20 for my 2025 Reading Goal. Was shooting for more papers but can\u0026rsquo;t quite help myself. #books #reading\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 21:40:25 -0700", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/22/finished-black-powder-war-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Ffinished-black-powder-war-by.html" }, { "id": 433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚 in the car on my drive to Kelowna and back. Got 71% the way in over the weekend. Fun to be with these characters again, and a nice light break from Malazan.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-21 09:04:10 -0700", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Jul 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/21/started-listening-to-black-powder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Fstarted-listening-to-black-powder.html" }, { "id": 434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back through the mountains 🏔️ to the coast 🌊\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-20 16:30:42 -0700", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Jul 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/20/back-through-the-mountains-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F20%2Fback-through-the-mountains-to.html" }, { "id": 435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s that time of year where I visit my pal Nathan and check out his new keyboard with custom printed angled keycaps. #keebs\nLast year\u0026rsquo;s edition: www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-18 21:41:23 -0700", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jul 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/18/its-that-time-of-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F18%2Fits-that-time-of-year.html" }, { "id": 436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Driving up into the mountains for the weekend\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-18 08:53:56 -0700", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jul 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/18/driving-up-into-the-mountains.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F18%2Fdriving-up-into-the-mountains.html" }, { "id": 437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new GAIIN (The Global AI Initiatives Navigator) released by the OECD is a pretty amazing resource for tracking #AI policy and investment country by country. Here is the profile for #Canada: oecd.ai/en/dashbo\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-18 06:33:56 -0700", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Jul 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/18/the-new-gaiin-the-global.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F18%2Fthe-new-gaiin-the-global.html" }, { "id": 438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got my latest enjoylunacoffee.com order ☕️\nLooking forward to some lovely Ethiopian beans\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-14 17:14:18 -0700", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jul 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/14/got-my-latest-httpsenjoylunacoffeecom-order.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F14%2Fgot-my-latest-httpsenjoylunacoffeecom-order.html" }, { "id": 439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Catching up on this year’s Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. Looks so hot! 🥵\n ", "dateiso": "2025-07-13 22:42:11 -0700", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Jul 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/13/catching-up-on-this-years.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F13%2Fcatching-up-on-this-years.html" }, { "id": 440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bloedel Conservatory\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-13 18:18:45 -0700", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Jul 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/13/bloedel-conservatory.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F13%2Fbloedel-conservatory.html" }, { "id": 441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Date night in Olympic Village. Lovely view of Science World.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-11 23:32:33 -0700", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Jul 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/11/date-night-in-olympic-village.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F11%2Fdate-night-in-olympic-village.html" }, { "id": 442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are setting up our #meshtastic devices together @z-space.ca and just added a ton of new nodes in Vancouver! I can see nodes all the way to Seattle!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-11 19:36:00 -0700", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Jul 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/11/we-are-setting-up-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F11%2Fwe-are-setting-up-our.html" }, { "id": 443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Empire of AI by Karen Hao today 📚\nAlready 20% in. Very readable!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-10 21:00:43 -0700", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jul 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/10/started-empire-of-ai-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F10%2Fstarted-empire-of-ai-by.html" }, { "id": 444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did I just have the perfect evening? 😻 #ra-men #archery #ra-rchery\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-09 21:01:46 -0700", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jul 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/09/did-i-just-have-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F09%2Fdid-i-just-have-the.html" }, { "id": 445, "type": "post", "title": "TTRPG hole", "text": "Unboxing my new Starter Set of The One Ring. (Now some very personal blogging that will only interest a few of you) Last week I wrote about the fantasy hole I have been in. Contributing to this is the fact that we are also in a Table Top Role Playing Game hole as well.\nI have been playing TTRPGs with the same group since 2013. We started together after a big Board Game Night where we organized two simultaneous sessions of The Red Box to introduce people to tabletop gaming. My oldest friend helped found the group (I first learned to play DnD2E with him back in ‘92). We would go on to play other games like Shadowrun, classic Star Wars, MechWarrior, In Nomine, and probably a bunch other games I have totally forgotten.\nOur Kelowna group has kept stable over the years. When I went to Iki it was the beginning of the COVID pandemic so we all just played online together. We kept going, and even today I beam in via FaceTime to a laptop on a round wooden table where they gather together in person every few weeks. A couple times a year I will drive up to Kelowna to play in person. These are usually 3 day events where we will play DnD, board games, drink, and cook together. Basically it is camping for nerds.\nIn 2013 with Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons 4th Edition and soon made the transition to 5th Edition. We have also down some Shadowrun and Star Wars, but mostly we have been a DnD5E group. A few years ago there were some controversies with how Hasbro was managing Wizards of the Coast, the stewards of the Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons franchise. As a group we made the decision to transition to another game system… and then proceeded to take like another 3 years to finish our massive Curse of Strahd campaign (which took a total of 5 years of our lives to play) 😅😅😅\nAnywho, earlier this year we wrapped up the final DnD campaign and now are finally looking for something new. That’s right! We are basically divorced DnD Dads, looking to play the TTRPG field a bit. (So cool! 😎)\nTTRPG Speed Dating DnD is great and all, but is basically the overwhelming default roleplaying game due to its mindshare of appearing in pop culture (Stranger Things) all the way back to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. (If you are interested in a history, check out my review of Of Dice and Men). Defaults are okay, and can actually act as an easy on ramp tot he hobby, but it is pretty sad how many people just stay on that boring old freeway — there are so many more choices than just dungeons or dragons.\nAs an experienced group of DMs we decided to do a little speed dating. Of course we could just fire up Pathfinder or Daggerheart, but why not get a little more… adventurous 😉\nTogether we listed up a number of games that interested us, not only by genre but also by game system. We wanted to explore things like the FATE or Apocalypse system. We put all kinds of interesting systems in the pot, things we had heard about from others, or systems featured on the excellent Quinn’s Quest. Once we generated a good list, each person went off and bought the system(s) they were interested in running and started reading. Here are a bunch we are looking at:\n The Wildsea (QQ review) Blades in the Dark The One Ring Mothership (QQ review) Shadow Dark Heart: The City Beneath (QQ review) Slugblaster (QQ review) … and more! The idea is that if we do 3-5 sessions of each system we will have quite a runway of games over the next year. By then we will have fully recovered from 5 years exclusively in the land of Lord Strahd and be ready for a more long term campaign and can commit to one of the systems we tested.\nSo far we have already had a few sessions of Blades in the Dark which I really like. We usually end each session with 45 minutes of reflection, talking through what we have learned about the mechanics of the game, analyzing it for features that we enjoy and figuring out what trade offs there are in the design and how the game is trying to be fun (and if this is how we want to have fun). We really want to give each of these systems a good chewing over, and since we know one another really well and have lots of trust at the table, I think we are doing a great job getting to the bottom of the system.\nThis exploration of game systems and settings is another reason I feel like I am down a sort of Fantasy Hole. This is not taking any more time out of my already sparse recreation time, but it is strangely focused. I am usually exploring such a wide variety of things in my non-work life (and my work life tbh) that it feels strange to me just to have a couple of things on my plate and not feel bored.\nWhile we are changing things up… We started playing DnD before the Snowden revelations. We relied on all sorts of mainstream technical infrastructure to keep in touch, build community, plan and document sessions. We were very aware of our lock-in and often discussed migrating away from things like Slack (or being force-migrated off Google Plus just to give you a sense). So, since we were getting off the mainstream TTRPG, we thought it was a good opportunity to get off mainstream digital platforms too. The cool thing about RPGs is that while you can buy and run adventures off the shelf, you are free to modify them to fit your group or even come up with your own… and nobody can take away those fun memories. It should be the same with technology infrastructure.\nHere are a couple of things we have done:\n Swapped out Slack for Zulip which we can self-host and never loses our lengthy chat history. In Zulip we have dedicated channels for each game system. While doing research we can post insights to this research channel to inform everyone else of cool tidbits from the system. We also have a dedicated channel for memes… which is self-explanatory. Documentation for each system and each campaign has moved out of a handful of giant Google docs to a self-hosted Outline. We currently don’t have any virtual table top management solutions since we play hybrid, but in the past we used the excellent local-first serverless VTT called Owlbear Rodeo. The new version is SaaS which sucks but the legacy version is still available.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-08 20:58:29 -0700", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Jul 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/08/ttrpg-hole.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Fttrpg-hole.html" }, { "id": 446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love taking people into our nearby forest and walking around the bend and saying “Hey look over there 👉 “\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-08 17:14:06 -0700", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jul 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/08/i-love-taking-people-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Fi-love-taking-people-into.html" }, { "id": 447, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dentist in the morning. Haircut in the afternoon (sat there with a frozen jaw 😬). Now it is evening and I am kicking back with a gold drink and a good book #amreading\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-07 22:05:21 -0700", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Jul 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/07/dentist-in-the-morning-haircut.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F07%2Fdentist-in-the-morning-haircut.html" }, { "id": 448, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent the evening at the Richmond Night Market 🍡🍧🧋🥡🍢🌮\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-06 21:28:42 -0700", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Jul 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/06/spent-the-evening-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F06%2Fspent-the-evening-at-the.html" }, { "id": 449, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Checking in to the Vegetarian Festival at Thrangu Monastery\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-06 16:50:34 -0700", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Jul 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/06/checking-in-to-the-vegetarian.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F06%2Fchecking-in-to-the-vegetarian.html" }, { "id": 450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As former remote island residents ourselves, we’ve been keeping an eye on the ongoing earthquake activity and evacuations in the Tokara Island chain centered on Akusekijima 悪石島 or “Evil Rock Island” 😳 #japan #earthquake\nwww3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-05 11:13:08 -0700", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Jul 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/05/as-former-remote-island-residents.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F05%2Fas-former-remote-island-residents.html" }, { "id": 451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Moonrise on #ikijima 2023 #memories\nThose lights are Fukuoka on the mainland, but there might be one or two squid boats too\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-03 23:40:58 -0700", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Jul 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/03/moonrise-on-ikijima-memories-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F03%2Fmoonrise-on-ikijima-memories-those.html" }, { "id": 452, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Unboxing with @bmann.ca! We got our meshtastic devices and will be setting them up all together with @dwebYVR.org next week together, peer-AND-peer 👯👯👯\nlu.ma/vv90wwej\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-03 19:58:06 -0700", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Jul 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/03/unboxing-with-bmannca-we-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F03%2Funboxing-with-bmannca-we-got.html" }, { "id": 453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back at the range, this month with second daughter. Getting some decent grouping!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-02 22:32:55 -0700", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Jul 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/07/02/back-at-the-range-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F07%2F02%2Fback-at-the-range-this.html" }, { "id": 454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sent out my monthly personal newsletter 📬 Lots of links and emoji in this edition 🔥🔥🔥 Oh and very bad French\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-30 18:14:41 -0700", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Jun 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/30/sent-out-my-monthly-personal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Fsent-out-my-monthly-personal.html" }, { "id": 455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Love this pullover\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-30 16:49:08 -0700", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Jun 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/30/love-this-pullover.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Flove-this-pullover.html" }, { "id": 456, "type": "post", "title": "Fantasy hole", "text": "Yeah, I have fallen down one in the past few months for sure.\nLast year my brother introduced me to The Blade Itself (2006) by Joe Abercrombie, part of the (currently) 10 book series called The First Law. A year later and I have completed the first trilogy, the three standalone novels, and the short story collection. Keep in mind that I am not one to binge book series… in fact I like to spread them out a little since I prefer variety in my reading diet week-to-week.\nIt had been a while since I got this excited about fantasy. I read a lot when I was a kid starting with Kaz The Minotaur introduced to me in Grade 6 by one of my best friends (even today!). Two years after that we would meet another of my best friends (even today!) who would be the Dungeon Master of our very first Advanced Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons (2nd Edition) tabletop role playing game adventure! In those days my fantasy reading was deep in D\u0026amp;D content marketing realms which are best forgotten.\nAs a more adult reader I am not looking for pure escape. I prefer a challenge… commentary… which tends to be more on the speculative fiction side of the ledger. Except urban fantasy, which being situated in our world demands a story to have a relevant politics. This is why I very much enjoy the Rivers of London series. But the modern fantasy movement over the past couple of decades has really pushed social commentary forward. Think of dark academia books like The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik, and Babel by Rebecca Kuang. Amazing! (ADDENDUM: Oh and if you are looking for an alternative to that wizard, check this out)\nThat said, the past five years of my life (and the 12 moves induced by it) have had some trials, and I discovered the joys of curling up with a cozy fantasy like Legends \u0026amp; Lattes or A Psalm for the Wild-Built\nBut back to The First Law. It is not so much a social commentary as an exploration of the human condition. Joe Abercrombie’s ability to personify deep human traits and play them out on a grim dark fantasy backdrop is just so much more satisfying than the types of stories I read (and wrote!) as a kid. Highly recommended.\nI suppose the lesson is: if you are looking in the right sub-genre of fantasy, you can find what you need. In fact, if you want to take a tour of many of the sub-genres of fantasy, check out this video by fantasy YouTuber Daniel Greene:\n This video has motivated me to explore more branches of the wider fantasy genre. It is like when we read Among Others for my old Genre Fic book club in Kelowna ten years ago: a network analysis of related books to help you find more of the kinds of books you will enjoy.\nSince I have read many of the books on the map, I am going to be jumping in the deep end with the first book of the Malazan series by Steven Erickson: Gardens of the Moon. If you want to get into your own slightly less deep fantasy hole, I would like to recommend House of the Rain KIng an independent first novel that I recently finished and love. It is a standalone story (no 10 book commitment like Malazan!) and is more of a “low” fantasy in the vein of some of the less child-targeted Ghibli films (my spoiler-free mini-review).\nLet me know if you have any recent recommendations!\nAlso, speaking of book clubs… I should really find (start?) one here in Surrey. 🤔 Would be a good way to find some of my people. 💪\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-30 16:20:27 -0700", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Jun 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/30/fantasy-hole.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Ffantasy-hole.html" }, { "id": 457, "type": "post", "title": "Scale", "text": " It is possible to identify a natural scale. When an enterprise grows beyond a certain point on this scale, it first frustrates the end for which it was originally designed, and then rapidly becomes a threat to society itself. These scales must be identified and the parameters of human endeavours within which human life remains viable must be explored.\n — Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (1973)\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-30 11:37:33 -0700", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Jun 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/30/scale.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Fscale.html" }, { "id": 458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson 📚\nOkay, it has been 8 years since the last time I attempted Malazan. This time I bought a paper copy which I hope will be easier to handle than the audio of my previous attempt.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-29 22:39:27 -0700", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Jun 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/29/started-gardens-of-the-moon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Fstarted-gardens-of-the-moon.html" }, { "id": 459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished House of the Rain King 📚\nWonderful world-building saturated with details like a vivid Ghibli movie, soaked in themes of obligation: the debt, oaths, contracts, and duty that we have towards our communities and the land, and when we need to break those constraints in order to heal.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-29 13:04:25 -0700", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Jun 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/29/finished-house-of-the-rain.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Ffinished-house-of-the-rain.html" }, { "id": 460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I was 16 I went on a 2 week trip to Thailand and Hong Kong. It was life-changing. I really hope she has an excellent time in Quebec studying French.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-29 00:07:53 -0700", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Jun 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/29/when-i-was-i-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Fwhen-i-was-i-went.html" }, { "id": 461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Midnight at YVR seeing off my daughter who will be spending the next 5 weeks in Quebec! 🛫 First big trip on her own! 🥲\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-28 23:56:58 -0700", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Jun 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/28/midnight-at-yvr-seeing-off.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F28%2Fmidnight-at-yvr-seeing-off.html" }, { "id": 462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Catching up on my @mekongreview.com backlog and damn this is a great review of Cher Tan’s book Peripathetic by Ruby Thiagarajan. I love the meta-meta-analysis. Gonna buy the book and follow the reviewer 👏 mekongreview.com/we-are-go\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-28 10:40:01 -0700", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Jun 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/28/catching-up-on-my-mekongreviewcom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F28%2Fcatching-up-on-my-mekongreviewcom.html" }, { "id": 463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been reading a lot of AI critique so needed something light to fall back on for a bit\u0026hellip; 😅\nGlobalists by Quinn Slobodian 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-27 20:44:20 -0700", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Jun 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/27/been-reading-a-lot-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F27%2Fbeen-reading-a-lot-of.html" }, { "id": 464, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026lsquo;Twas the first day of summer break, when all through the house\nNot a child was stirring, not even a mouse.\nThey all slept in soundly without worldly cares,\nWhile poor Daddy continued to work in his home office downstairs.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-27 10:19:55 -0700", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Jun 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/27/twas-the-first-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F27%2Ftwas-the-first-day-of.html" }, { "id": 465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-21 23:24:43 -0700", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Jun 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/21/started-house-of-the-rain.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F21%2Fstarted-house-of-the-rain.html" }, { "id": 466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking through the photos of my time in Iran. Beautiful country. Lovely people. 💔\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-21 20:30:36 -0700", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Jun 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/21/looking-through-the-photos-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F21%2Flooking-through-the-photos-of.html" }, { "id": 467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Me hugging her: “I love you!”\nHer hugging back: “I love money!”\n#truelove\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-18 14:42:37 -0700", "date": "2:42 p.m. on Jun 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/18/me-hugging-her-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F18%2Fme-hugging-her-i-love.html" }, { "id": 468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-16 20:47:20 -0700", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Jun 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/16/currently-reading-the-ai-con.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F16%2Fcurrently-reading-the-ai-con.html" }, { "id": 469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Father’s Day! 👔 Family got me a nice hand grinder ☕️ so I was up this morning and cracked open my new Joan Vergara Java Variety from Luna Roasters. Very fruity and full-bodied! Looking forward to dialing this in.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-15 09:58:50 -0700", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jun 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/15/happy-fathers-day-family-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F15%2Fhappy-fathers-day-family-got.html" }, { "id": 470, "type": "post", "title": "Coffee recommendations in Kyoto and Osaka ☕", "text": "I was watching this cool tour of coffee shops and roasteries in Vancouver that hits a lot of the famous places. The Youtuber does some of these tours when he visits locations so I prepared some reccos for him for the next time he is in Western Japan. Thought I should share them here for you\nKYOTO WEEKENDERS COFFEE TOMINOKOJI maps.app.goo.gl/yX4yemvBa\u0026hellip;\nAmbiance is top. They aren\u0026rsquo;t open very often. Don\u0026rsquo;t bother bringing a laptop since there are no tables. Moon viewing benches or rocks only.\nOkaffe ROASTING PARK maps.app.goo.gl/D2vFkVTrX\u0026hellip;\nA coffee FACTORY. Cool vibe. I sit on the outdoor upstairs. Watch out for bees in the spring since there are so many flowers.\nGoodman Roaster Kyoto maps.app.goo.gl/cZUnK4adw\u0026hellip;\nGreat cakes!\nBlue Bottle Coffee - Kyoto Kiyamachi Cafe maps.app.goo.gl/7YEKH1pZm\u0026hellip;\nOkay, just a regular Blue Bottle, BUT the location is amazing (in an old elementary school!) and the outdoor park is amazing at night. Also, Blue Bottle in Japan sells this amazing yōkan that is matched to coffee rather than matcha!\n Here are some old school Kissa if you are interested:\nOtafuku Coffee maps.app.goo.gl/ae1UDN9Dw\u0026hellip;\nThe classic. It is in Merry White\u0026rsquo;s book \u0026ldquo;Coffee Life in Japan\u0026rdquo; and they have her book on display! Be prepared to breathe decades worth of second-hand cigarette smoke seeped into the furniture.\nSmart Coffee maps.app.goo.gl/xBRWRc8ZV\u0026hellip;\nFounded in 1932, this is also old school. They have very good Japanese style sandwiches and pancakes here.\n If you want the tea ceremony experience in English, go to my friend\u0026rsquo;s cafe RanHotei. Make a reservation and he will take you through the whole matcha process and answer all your questions. maps.app.goo.gl/4GM17iCTV\u0026hellip;\nOSAKA Sanwa Coffee Works maps.app.goo.gl/5TMvD9yPZ\u0026hellip;\nLovely place to work. Good roasts. Good pastries. Nice owner.\nHAIKU COFFEE ROASTERS maps.app.goo.gl/t2XRQNBDm\u0026hellip;\nHusband and Wife duo. She is from Maui. This shop is all about the regulars\u0026hellip; and they have a lot! Coffee nerd Mecca. You can do a pan roasting workshop here. Coffee is people.\nSalon de AManTo maps.app.goo.gl/fpxLPa1U2\u0026hellip;\nAmbiance is WILD (Pics)\nGLITCH COFFEE OSAKA maps.app.goo.gl/9nwmo6KMN\u0026hellip;\nVery fancy coffee under the stairs. Get ready to SPEND 💰 (Photos)\nAkutagawa Coffee Shinfukushima maps.app.goo.gl/EBoVkbCdp\u0026hellip;\nAnother place with cool ambiance. Good desserts too!\n There are TONS more excellent shops, these are just a selection of ones that I went back to often.\nSome more shops:\n micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/1\u0026hellip; micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/1\u0026hellip; micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/2\u0026hellip; micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/0\u0026hellip; BONUS if you are in Shinjuku:\nAfter All Coffee maps.app.goo.gl/QuCDG5Ze8\u0026hellip;\nThe owners were super nice and laughed at my Kansai-ben.\ncoffee swamp maps.app.goo.gl/ms5q8PzHe\u0026hellip;\nI squeezed into this tiny hole in the wall to get out of the rain. The wife was working the cash register and the husband was doing pourovers with wicked precision. Behind him were tons of vinyl on display. There was a tiny record player on the counter with this weird single little speaker beside him. At one point between pours he quickly flipped the record before going back to the pour! 💫\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 18:53:22 -0700", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/14/coffee-recommendations-in-kyoto-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fcoffee-recommendations-in-kyoto-and.html" }, { "id": 471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yo she did it again!\n ", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 14:04:20 -0700", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/14/yo-she-did-it-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fyo-she-did-it-again.html" }, { "id": 472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“… so I was giving fishing vest advice to Vitalik’s girlfriend…”\nWhat a party tonight! 🍻\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 00:55:28 -0700", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/14/so-i-was-giving-fishing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fso-i-was-giving-fishing.html" }, { "id": 473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “The Twitter leaver\u0026rsquo;s oath. I will not be terminally online. My friendships and community will outlive this website. My heart cannot be monetized. I will not become food for monsters. Should their claws find my flesh, may they drown in my blood.”\n 🔥\n@thedoorthedoor.bsky.social‘s last tweet. h/t @neverpo.st from their most recent Mailbag #8\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-11 19:14:48 -0700", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Jun 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/11/the-twitter-leavers-oath-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F11%2Fthe-twitter-leavers-oath-i.html" }, { "id": 474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started: Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nLast one in the First Law series. I thought I would wait a little longer but just can’t. Love these books.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-09 21:34:35 -0700", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Jun 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/09/started-sharp-ends-by-joe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F09%2Fstarted-sharp-ends-by-joe.html" }, { "id": 475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting speculation into the future of UI for Apple as per their hints for the upcoming WWDC: www.lux.camera/physicali\u0026hellip;\nSebastiaan’s example of “the exhaust flare being reflected in the video playback bar” shows you the level of detail. 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 18:31:12 -0700", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/08/interesting-speculation-into-the-future.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Finteresting-speculation-into-the-future.html" }, { "id": 476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished What Comes Before Mindfulness? by Ajahn Sona 📚\nThis book ended on such a high note that I am biased and putting it at 5 stars. I read it over a very long time—it was my “late night can’t get to sleep” book — but as soon as finishing I thought “I can’t wait to read this again.”\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 11:04:32 -0700", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/08/finished-what-comes-before-mindfulness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Ffinished-what-comes-before-mindfulness.html" }, { "id": 477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚\nSolid intro. Shoulda read this when it first came out. Probably woulda given it more stars. It is very short, and touches on a lot of very deep issues, which is useful for the complete novice, but will be unsatisfying for anyone looking for real answers.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 12:32:02 -0700", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/07/finished-cointelligence-by-ethan-mollick.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Ffinished-cointelligence-by-ethan-mollick.html" }, { "id": 478, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Keynoting Day 2 of #Fediforum is Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop | @dustyweb.bsky.social‬) talking about what Bsky and AP can learn from one another. \u0026ldquo;But 2010s-style social media is no longer enough!\u0026rdquo; She gives us an update on Spritely and OCapN and what the future could look like.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-06 08:37:28 -0700", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Jun 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/06/keynoting-day-of-fediforum-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F06%2Fkeynoting-day-of-fediforum-is.html" }, { "id": 479, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now for Cory Doctorow at #fediforum 🤩\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 12:04:39 -0700", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/05/now-for-cory-doctorow-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fnow-for-cory-doctorow-at.html" }, { "id": 480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently listening to Ian Forrester @cubicgarden@mas.to at #FediForum. Next up is Cory Doctorow. Lots of exciting guests and so many friends! Will be popping in an out of the conference for the next three days.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 08:25:45 -0700", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/05/currently-listening-to-ian-forrester.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fcurrently-listening-to-ian-forrester.html" }, { "id": 481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " The villain in the original Tron is called Master Control Program. MCP.\n 😅\nvia @komorama.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/k\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 21:56:37 -0700", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/02/the-villain-in-the-original.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fthe-villain-in-the-original.html" }, { "id": 482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 21:27:28 -0700", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/02/started-reading-cointelligence-by-ethan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fstarted-reading-cointelligence-by-ethan.html" }, { "id": 483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Posted a couple of things from attending #Websummit this year\nwww.linkedin.com/posts/cha\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 21:25:43 -0700", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/06/02/posted-a-couple-of-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fposted-a-couple-of-things.html" }, { "id": 484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Greatest newsletter confirmation screen of all time. ☕️ 🥊 From enjoylunacoffee.com\nWell, its not really my style, but I heard a techno song one time that went like...\" ", "dateiso": "2025-05-31 08:46:06 -0700", "date": "8:46 p.m. on May 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/31/greatest-newsletter-confirmation-screen-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F31%2Fgreatest-newsletter-confirmation-screen-of.html" }, { "id": 485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New kit! Mac Studio M4 Max with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 1TB HDD and 128GB of RAM. 🏎\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-30 11:32:32 -0700", "date": "11:32 p.m. on May 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/30/new-kit-mac-studio-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F30%2Fnew-kit-mac-studio-m.html" }, { "id": 486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy to be in this packed room with Dr Cornell West and Ramesh Srinivasan taking questions from the crowd #websummit\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-28 13:38:08 -0700", "date": "1:38 p.m. on May 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/28/happy-to-be-in-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F28%2Fhappy-to-be-in-this.html" }, { "id": 487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s #websummit time here in Vancouver!\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-28 09:32:19 -0700", "date": "9:32 p.m. on May 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/28/its-websummit-time-here-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F28%2Fits-websummit-time-here-in.html" }, { "id": 488, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh wow! I really hope they do a good job on this! 🎬\nyoutu.be/UxaOmae6R\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-27 23:54:23 -0700", "date": "11:54 p.m. on May 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/27/oh-wow-i-really-hope.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F27%2Foh-wow-i-really-hope.html" }, { "id": 489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Everyone was piling into the new Mission:Impossible 🎬 but me and my nerd family were learning from our grampa about the absolute carnage of bottom trawling. Here’s to them making it illegal at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference 🪸🐠🦀🐙🐋🦈🐬🦭\nwww.oceanfilm.net/synopsis/\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-25 20:27:40 -0700", "date": "8:27 p.m. on May 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/25/everyone-was-piling-into-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F25%2Feveryone-was-piling-into-the.html" }, { "id": 490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Dad I had a dream … I had a pet octopus … but it was constipated … but I knew to push these pressure points … and then everything was okay”\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-25 10:44:43 -0700", "date": "10:44 p.m. on May 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/25/dad-i-had-a-dream.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F25%2Fdad-i-had-a-dream.html" }, { "id": 491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Met this tree on my walk tonight 🌲 This dude has seen a lot.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-24 21:22:22 -0700", "date": "9:22 p.m. on May 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/24/met-this-tree-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F24%2Fmet-this-tree-on-my.html" }, { "id": 492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beautiful clear, warm day. Everyone was out so I was gonna write. But just could not find the motivation. Do I do this? Or that? One of those days where I could just not pick a direction and just stewed in unproductive unsatisfactoriness. Decided to meditate. It’s okay to have days like this.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-24 20:46:38 -0700", "date": "8:46 p.m. on May 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/24/beautiful-clear-warm-day-everyone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F24%2Fbeautiful-clear-warm-day-everyone.html" }, { "id": 493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Use GitHub Actions? Use github.com/zizmorcor\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-23 11:32:26 -0700", "date": "11:32 p.m. on May 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/23/113226.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F23%2F113226.html" }, { "id": 494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Learn about a new massive data set for tracking open source, and how it helps fund #opensource projects not merely based on popularity, but on their criticality to the ecosystem as a whole. From @sustainoss@hachyderm.io | @sustainoss.bsky.social‬ podcast.sustainoss.org/270\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-23 11:27:18 -0700", "date": "11:27 p.m. on May 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/23/learn-about-a-new-massive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F23%2Flearn-about-a-new-massive.html" }, { "id": 495, "type": "post", "title": "Une petite catharsis of anomie — a review of Deep Work by Cal Newport", "text": "Deep Work is Cal Newport’s highest selling book. He published it in early 2016 and it made waves at the time since he strongly argues against social media. Cal is infamously not on social media (unless you count blogging and podcasting 😜) so it is a little ironic that the reason I finally decided to pick up this book was due to a post I saw on social media.\nAlthough the book explores quite a few topics, to sum it up from my perspective, he introduces a term well known in software circles to a more general audience: context switching. Basically, this is the idea that constantly switching between tasks carries a cost to your overall productivity. This is true for computers, for software developers, and for knowledge workers. Furthermore, in our hypermedia world, where everything is vying for your attention, we really need to guard our focus if we want to do this thing called “Deep Work”. I am going to get into that definition in a moment, but to break the book down a little more, he argues:\n You need to train train your capacity for concentration You need to overcome your desire for distraction For Step One he is full of the kind of productivity tips you have probably heard of elsewhere: aggressively scheduling blocks of productivity; bucketing the “shallow work” or figuring out how to delegate it away; pomodoro-like sprinting methods; deep work retreats; say NO!; getting proper sleep and taking proper downtime; etc etc. It’s all good stuff. If you have never read a productivity book this is a great place to start since he introduces you to lots of methods for you to pick and choose from.\nStep Two includes things like scheduling your internet distraction time; spending time assessing how you spend your time and harshly cutting it down to only the stuff from which you get the most benefit; and other bit. He introduces a few techniques that help with self reflection, which I can always get behind. Mostly though, it is about quitting social media. He argues against the trend of the time that authors needed to be on social media to sell books. He thinks it is a giant time suck (not wrong!) and argues that social media benefits heavily from the ”Any Benefit Mindset”, which is when any positive benefit justifies the use of a tool, no matter the negative impacts. It reminds me of the old saying “free shit is still shit.” Social media has too many drawbacks:\n Attention hoarding Context switching Addiction Empty information calories A big chunk of the book goes through cost-benefit analyses of social media which made me at least feel a little guilty 😅. (Related: Checking in on online media usage)\nThere are a couple more things I would like to shout out in this book. Although he positively profiles lots of terrible people (eg DHH, Jack Dorsey, and Zuckerberg) he actually has a serious discussion about “internet as ideology” with reference to people like Neil Postman and Evgeny Morozov. This was a change from Slow Productivity which I was pretty critical of for not being critical.\nAnother topic that Newport returns to often is metrics, an important challenge in knowledge work that I think he covered well in Slow Productivity. In Deep Work he doesn’t spend a lot of time on the bigger argument, but defers to the 4DX Framework. To quickly review:\n focus on the wildly important. (no multitasking! Very “deep work”) focus on lead measures. (this is a great insight) keep a score card. (Eg Bullet journal, Leaderboards, etc) establish a cadence of accountability (periodic meetings to confront and review the scoreboard) For the hardcore productivity tips there is a lot more in this book. You can read a breakdown from the productivity company Todoist here) if you want to get into more of that content. But I would like to turn away from the practical advice in the book and discuss how this book made me feel.\nThe Feels \u0026gt; Productivity My hypothesis is one reason this book is so successful is due to anemoia, a neologism that means “nostalgia for a time or place one has never known.” I think this feeling afflicts many modern knowledge workers, and something that Cal Newport taps into in Deep Work.\nCal Newport defines “deep work” as:\n Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.\n He peppers the book with references to concepts like ”craftsmanship”, encouraging you to take a more intentional approach to your work and the choosing your tools, “flow state”, and has a whole chapter intro dedicated to a room built for eudaimonia. Deep work is meaningful, important, a way to the good life. Shallow work is the opposite. He doesn’t quite go as far as Graeber in Bullshit Jobs but it smells similar.\nWhat knowledge worker has not, at one time or another in their career, looked over at a craftsperson like a furniture maker with a sense of envy? Or think of the proverbial software developer that turns into a farmer? Those are “real” jobs, with “real” skills right? Not this weird thing we do shuffling around emails and kanban cards.\nI think this is also the reason why so many knowledge workers refer to themselves as a “writer” — this title has way more connotations to craft than say an “operations manager” 😜\nThere is a widespread anomie in the white collar working class that I think Deep Work really gets. It is something that Cal Newport himself wrestles with, and I think the resulting emotions of trying to inject real meaning into our work is (one reason) why this book is so praised. It is kind of like that cathartic feeling of crying at a sad movie. Nothing has changed, but we do feel a little better after a good cry. 🥲 In the end, that is why I preferred this book to Slow Productivity. For all its practical productivity propositions, it encourages us to self-examine exactly what we are doing with our time each day, and whether it is worth it. (And usefully it does so with a lighter touch than Byung-Chul Han, which although is extremely valuable, can be a conversation-ender when talking to your virtual cubicle mates around the #water-cooler). A worthy read.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-22 08:00:00 -0700", "date": "8:00 p.m. on May 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/22/une-petite-catharsis-of-anomie.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F22%2Fune-petite-catharsis-of-anomie.html" }, { "id": 496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Holy he did it! #COYS\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-21 14:30:39 -0700", "date": "2:30 p.m. on May 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/21/holy-he-did-it-coys.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F21%2Fholy-he-did-it-coys.html" }, { "id": 497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice!\napply.coop - Matching people with jobs that fit their values \u0026amp; passions\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-21 08:23:27 -0700", "date": "8:23 p.m. on May 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/21/nice-httpsapplycoop-matching-people-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F21%2Fnice-httpsapplycoop-matching-people-with.html" }, { "id": 498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy 47th birthday 🎈\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-19 16:04:12 -0700", "date": "4:04 p.m. on May 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/19/happy-th-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F19%2Fhappy-th-birthday.html" }, { "id": 499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A programming language resembling magical circles 🧙‍♂️\nsuberic.net/~dmm/proj\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 18:47:10 -0700", "date": "6:47 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/17/a-programming-language-resembling-magical.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Fa-programming-language-resembling-magical.html" }, { "id": 500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“I have friends everywhere.”\nfin\nFive stars.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 22:18:08 -0700", "date": "10:18 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/15/i-have-friends-everywhere-fin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Fi-have-friends-everywhere-fin.html" }, { "id": 501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Key findings and recommendations from the Critical Infrastructure Lab\u0026rsquo;s new report on the EU’s digital innovation funding (like Horizon) and tech sovereignty. Lessons for Canada 🤔 #tech #techpolicy #digitalSovereignty\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 09:49:49 -0700", "date": "9:49 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/15/key-findings-and-recommendations-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Fkey-findings-and-recommendations-from.html" }, { "id": 502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why Bell Labs Worked from @1517.bsky.social\nThis is familiar and correct… and very hard to do in today\u0026rsquo;s economic climate (as noted in the piece). Le sigh 😮‍💨\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-14 11:02:30 -0700", "date": "11:02 p.m. on May 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/14/why-bell-labs-worked-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F14%2Fwhy-bell-labs-worked-from.html" }, { "id": 503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Read in 2025: The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚\nStopped at the end of The Summer Tree. Struggled. This book is dated… that is the kindest thing I can say. Not going to continue.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-13 23:51:52 -0700", "date": "11:51 p.m. on May 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/13/read-in-the-fionavar-tapestry.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F13%2Fread-in-the-fionavar-tapestry.html" }, { "id": 504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Downtown Kelowna at the marina. Happy Mother’s Day!\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-11 09:43:40 -0700", "date": "9:43 p.m. on May 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/11/downtown-kelowna-at-the-marina.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F11%2Fdowntown-kelowna-at-the-marina.html" }, { "id": 505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started What\u0026rsquo;s Left by Malcolm Harris 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 22:19:25 -0700", "date": "10:19 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/07/started-whats-left-by-malcolm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Fstarted-whats-left-by-malcolm.html" }, { "id": 506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Timeline of web features: Baseline timeline\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 11:07:25 -0700", "date": "11:07 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/07/timeline-of-web-features-baseline.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Ftimeline-of-web-features-baseline.html" }, { "id": 507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-06 22:36:33 -0700", "date": "10:36 p.m. on May 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/06/started-listening-to-parable-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F06%2Fstarted-listening-to-parable-of.html" }, { "id": 508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been having these weird recurring dreams of being photographed in train stations in the Netherlands 🤷‍♂️ I’ve never even been to the Netherlands 🤔 What could this mean? 😳\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-05 07:51:40 -0700", "date": "7:51 p.m. on May 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/05/been-having-these-weird-recurring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F05%2Fbeen-having-these-weird-recurring.html" }, { "id": 509, "type": "post", "title": "Checking in on online media usage", "text": "The latest Neverpo.st roundtable asks: “Is the internet driving you to the brink?”\nMike points out that a first Trump admin, followed by Covid, and then another Trump admin, has turned many people’s online brains into mush.\nHow do you keep up or stay informed, without driving yourself insane?\nA dozen years ago I tackled this problem, taking an information fast and reading The Information Diet by Clay Johnson.\nThings have gotten away from me over the past few years, but recently I have been leaning more into RSS and trying to read more blogs. I am way better at not reading a ton of international news everyday, preferring more local sources that impact my life more directly. Quitting Twitter a couple years ago had helped. I still post on Bluesky and Mastodon, but not very much. One of the feeds I fight is YouTube, which while it can be a great source of educational material, also traps me in endless UK drill reactions or nostalgic movie reacts. (A lot of evenings in March — a very packed and stressful month — were whiled away watching people cry over films from the nineties).\nAnyways, like meditation practice, every once in a while you have to go back and re-up. What I mean is: most meditators will plateau in their practice, lose motivation or intensity over time. And that is why they periodically go on retreat, a time of intense practice with others, which reminds them why they practice in the first place, “re-upping” their dedication to practice. The same goes for maintaining mindfulness around your info diet. Periodically we just need to check in with our friends. This episode of Neverpo.st was that for me.\nSo, in the interest of transparency, here are my phone usage numbers (go to Settings \u0026gt; Screen Time and tap See All Website \u0026amp; Activity on your phone to see your numbers)\n ⏱️ Daily Avg = Between 5 and 5.5 hours. A lot of this is podcast usage. A media I consume a lot of. 🤳 Pickups = around 100. Podcast app and messaging apps being the leaders. 🔴 Notifications = 80-140. Lots of variation here. I don’t feel overwhelmed, but this is a lot of distraction. ", "dateiso": "2025-05-04 17:31:50 -0700", "date": "5:31 p.m. on May 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/04/checking-in-on-online-media.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F04%2Fchecking-in-on-online-media.html" }, { "id": 510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely Saturday. Bought some handmade chili crunch and chocolate at the Nikkei Centre market, took a bunch of photos with family at our local wisteria trellis, and watched 2 eps of Andor.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-03 21:59:49 -0700", "date": "9:59 p.m. on May 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/03/lovely-saturday-bought-some-handmade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F03%2Flovely-saturday-bought-some-handmade.html" }, { "id": 511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of my all time fav photos came up in my Memories today: the eaves of Bukko-ji, our neighbourhood temple in Kyoto, against a clear blue sky. Shot on this day 2 years ago.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-02 22:58:55 -0700", "date": "10:58 p.m. on May 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/02/one-of-my-all-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F02%2Fone-of-my-all-time.html" }, { "id": 512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Opera time! #vancouveropera\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 19:13:12 -0700", "date": "7:13 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/01/opera-time-vancouveropera.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Fopera-time-vancouveropera.html" }, { "id": 513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excellent ep of @techwontsave.us I\u0026rsquo;ve known Son from way back, but did not know about the Sheldon Adelson connection. @lalehkhalili.bsky.social\u0026rsquo;s story of Trump teaching Son how to comb his hair is wild\ntechwontsave.us/episode/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 14:06:02 -0700", "date": "2:06 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/05/01/excellent-ep-of-techwontsaveus-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Fexcellent-ep-of-techwontsaveus-ive.html" }, { "id": 514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a note and some links from April for you:\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 22:02:16 -0700", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/30/just-a-note-and-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fjust-a-note-and-some.html" }, { "id": 515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow this is pretty great! #localfirstsoftware #lofisoftware\nwww.localfirst.fm/landscape\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 22:01:21 -0700", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/29/wow-this-is-pretty-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Fwow-this-is-pretty-great.html" }, { "id": 516, "type": "post", "title": "Boats to Nanaimo for the National Association of Japanese Canadians conference", "text": "This past weekend we were blessed with gorgeous clear blue skies as we took the ferry from Tsawwassen across the Georgia Strait to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island.\nSwartz Bay? But, it says \u0026ldquo;Nanaimo\u0026rdquo; in the title? you observe. And yes, you are correct. Although there is a ferry from Tsawwassen direct to Nanaimo, we decided to land at the southern end of the island and spend the Friday afternoon driving up the east coast of the island, visiting all those tiny little towns that I have heard about but have never actually visited before.\nOnce on the island we took the Mill Bay ferry to avoid Victoria (a city that I will visit again soon… lots of friends to see there!). We lunched in Cowichan Bay, ate ice cream in Duncan, and quickly checked out the famous murals of Chemainus. But the clock was ticking so we had to skip Ladysmith in order to get to Nanaimo in time for a special pre-conference dinner.\nArriving on Friday and leaving on Sunday at noon meant it was a whirlwind trip, and we barely got out of the hotel. The conference was about building capacity for Japanese Canadian community organizations with delegates from Nanaimo, Victoria, Greater Vancouver, the Okanagan, and the Yukon. With the BC government putting up $100 million dollars in redress funds for interning much of its Japanese heritage population during and after the Second World War, there is renewed interest in building a more united Japanese-Canadian community, those from earlier generations and newcomers.\nAfter many hours of deliberation we caught the noon ferry home. It was a really nice trip. The conditions were excellent, and we met all sorts of interesting new people. Now we must think about what we can do to effectively build a sustainable community across western Canada.\nHere is a gallery of photos that you can see in full-screen on Flickr →\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 19:33:00 -0700", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/29/boats-to-nanaimo-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Fboats-to-nanaimo-for-the.html" }, { "id": 517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hit a nice meditation milestone today. 🧘\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-28 16:10:44 -0700", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Apr 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/28/hit-a-nice-meditation-milestone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F28%2Fhit-a-nice-meditation-milestone.html" }, { "id": 518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went on a short walk in the rain 💦 and did the thing! 🙌 Also took some shots of wet flower petals and small waterfalls 🌸\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-28 14:06:43 -0700", "date": "2:06 p.m. on Apr 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/28/went-on-a-short-walk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F28%2Fwent-on-a-short-walk.html" }, { "id": 519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on the last boat! Heading home ⛴️\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-27 12:57:00 -0700", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Apr 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/27/im-on-the-last-boat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F27%2Fim-on-the-last-boat.html" }, { "id": 520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made it!\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 19:47:59 -0700", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/25/made-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fmade-it.html" }, { "id": 521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Totem pole and cherry blossoms in Duncan BC 🌸\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 15:27:22 -0700", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/25/totem-pole-and-cherry-blossoms.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Ftotem-pole-and-cherry-blossoms.html" }, { "id": 522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on another boat! ⛴️\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 13:45:59 -0700", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/25/im-on-another-boat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fim-on-another-boat.html" }, { "id": 523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in a boat! ⛴️\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 11:41:31 -0700", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/25/im-in-a-boat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fim-in-a-boat.html" }, { "id": 524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on a boat! ⛴️\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 10:11:37 -0700", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/25/im-on-a-boat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fim-on-a-boat.html" }, { "id": 525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this our “freedom fries” moment?\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 09:09:29 -0700", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/25/is-this-our-freedom-fries.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fis-this-our-freedom-fries.html" }, { "id": 526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let’s go back to a website 🎶\n(When there used to be an end to the page 🎵)\n ", "dateiso": "2025-04-21 23:47:55 -0700", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Apr 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/21/lets-go-back-to-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F21%2Flets-go-back-to-a.html" }, { "id": 527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really like this convention. Helps to make very readable commit messages.\ngist.github.com/joshbuche\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-20 12:04:51 -0700", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Apr 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/20/i-really-like-this-convention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F20%2Fi-really-like-this-convention.html" }, { "id": 528, "type": "post", "title": "Vaisakhi Parade in Surrey", "text": "The Vaisakhi parade in Surrey is said to be the biggest in the world, attracting over 500,000 people! (See these aerial photos from last year to get a sense of the crush).\nThis year\u0026rsquo;s parade also saw the appearance of two of the candidates in the upcoming election for our next prime minister: Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre.\nI was down on the ground, in the mix, surrounded by the celebratory masses with my older daughter. We parked in Strawberry Hill and then walked a couple of blocks via Komagata Maru Way to the corner of 122nd and 75th. Together we weaved through the crowd, catching narrow rivulets of people as they flowed this way and that, angling towards tents to get some of the free food being handed out, or find a better perch to see the floats from. We had some pakora and took some photos and video.\n\nThe parade goes from morning until evening, following a path around one of the central neighbourhoods of the city. We just popped in for a little while to see what it was like. I had only ever been to Vaisakhi in Kelowna, which is a much smaller scale, but still a very big annual event there. One thing that felt different in Surrey, besides the sheer size, was the prominence of flags for Khalistan. They were everywhere! Moninder Singh, the spokesperson for the B.C. Gurdwaras Council, said the parade was dedicated to the memory of Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was allegedly killed by the Indian government.\nDespite the serious political context, the parade was light-hearted and joyful. It had a real matsuri air, something you don\u0026rsquo;t get that much in Canada. We had a fun and look forward to going next year when I hope to spend more time. See the photo gallery below but since there are a bunch of videos I recommend looking at the gallery on Flickr →\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-20 11:19:51 -0700", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Apr 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/20/vaisakhi-parade-in-surrey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F20%2Fvaisakhi-parade-in-surrey.html" }, { "id": 529, "type": "post", "title": "Cherry Blossoms of Vancouver", "text": "For the past couple of years in Japan I have been really enjoying the cherry blossoms. I made cherry blossoms the theme of the Micro.blog photo challenge last year.\nPrior to that, in Kelowna, we didn\u0026rsquo;t really have the cherry blossoms… for years…\nBut now, here in Metro Vancouver, I have noticed how many sakura trees there are around the city! Cherry blossom viewing is a real event here, with a festival and everything!\nThus I was able to get a number of cherry blossom shots from a few different neighbourhoods this year. It really made me (and my wife!) very happy ☺️🌸\nI collected up a bunch of the photos that you can see in the gallery below (or on Flickr)\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-18 21:11:56 -0700", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Apr 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/18/cherry-blossoms-of-vancouver.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F18%2Fcherry-blossoms-of-vancouver.html" }, { "id": 530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daddy and daughters at the range 🏹🎯\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-16 20:46:17 -0700", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Apr 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/16/daddy-and-daughters-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F16%2Fdaddy-and-daughters-at-the.html" }, { "id": 531, "type": "post", "title": "“Even in Kyoto, I long for Kyoto”", "text": "Very nice to see this send-off of John Dougill, an influential member of the English-speaking community in Kyoto. I have a number of his books and he came to Iki for a few days while I was there. I had the privilege to tour him around the island and talk about travel writing. I learned some valuable lessons during that trip.\nHere are a couple of his blog posts from Iki:\n Banging out your age Japan by Train 23: Iki Island As per the Writers in Kyoto link above, John is returning to the UK for health reasons. I wish him a safe journey and better health.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-16 09:46:02 -0700", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Apr 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/16/even-in-kyoto-i-long.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F16%2Feven-in-kyoto-i-long.html" }, { "id": 532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Completed rewatching S01 of Andor tonight. Ready for season 2! 💫\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-12 21:48:00 -0700", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Apr 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/12/completed-rewatching-s-of-andor.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F12%2Fcompleted-rewatching-s-of-andor.html" }, { "id": 533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished listening to The Martian Contingency by @maryrobinettekowal.com 📚 I love all the (good) characters, and it is so cool to read about \u0026ldquo;real life\u0026rdquo; issues in space! As always her narration is top notch. This one was sexier 🌶 than the others… but I guess it is set in the \u0026rsquo;70s 😉\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-11 21:02:41 -0700", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Apr 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/11/finished-listening-to-the-martian.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F11%2Ffinished-listening-to-the-martian.html" }, { "id": 534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Berlin Tech Workers Coalition will host the largest English speaking and tech worker-led conference in Germany, together with their trade unions ver.di B+B and IG Metall Berlin. April 11, 9am CET. Berlin, DE.\n h/t Internet.exchange\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-10 10:47:51 -0700", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Apr 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/10/berlin-tech-workers-coalition-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F10%2Fberlin-tech-workers-coalition-will.html" }, { "id": 535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh man tonight at archery was over-rotating and pulled something in my neck 😬 🏹\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-09 21:38:29 -0700", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Apr 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/09/oh-man-tonight-at-archery.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Foh-man-tonight-at-archery.html" }, { "id": 536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh! Just got the notification I was accepted to Birken Monastery for a week-long retreat in September! The last time I was there was in 2019, just before we went to Iki Island. Been really looking forward to going back. 🧘\nchadkohalyk.com/2019/08/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-09 14:39:07 -0700", "date": "2:39 p.m. on Apr 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/09/oh-just-got-the-notification.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Foh-just-got-the-notification.html" }, { "id": 537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Congrats to Graham Culbertson of Everyday Anarchism who completed his nearly 2 year long chapter-by-chapter podcast mini-series David Graeber\u0026rsquo;s Debt. 👏👏👏 I have been waiting for the completion of the series to start my own re-read of this excellent book. Anyone want to join? 🙋‍♂️📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-09 14:32:25 -0700", "date": "2:32 p.m. on Apr 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/09/congrats-to-graham-culbertson-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Fcongrats-to-graham-culbertson-of.html" }, { "id": 538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I know I said things are finally settled down since the move, but there is so much inspirational stuff happening in my various communities that I had to take a quiet walk this morning just to process.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-09 12:11:06 -0700", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Apr 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/09/i-know-i-said-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Fi-know-i-said-things.html" }, { "id": 539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hanami mode 🌸\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-05 15:25:41 -0700", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Apr 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/05/hanami-mode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F05%2Fhanami-mode.html" }, { "id": 540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal on the way home tonight on the train. Lovely to be back in this series! 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 20:23:32 -0700", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/03/started-listening-to-the-martian.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Fstarted-listening-to-the-martian.html" }, { "id": 541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoyed this interview of @ntnsndr.in | @ntnsndr@social.coop by @ethanz.bsky.social | @ethanz@social.coop for #ReImaginingTheInternet. Their timeline of where social media went off the rails (from ✌️neutral✌️ platforms to a politicized spaces) was particularly interesting.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 16:43:14 -0700", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/03/enjoyed-this-interview-of-ntnsndrin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Fenjoyed-this-interview-of-ntnsndrin.html" }, { "id": 542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying the sakura in Vancouver 📸 🌸\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 11:08:17 -0700", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/04/03/enjoying-the-sakura-in-vancouver.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Fenjoying-the-sakura-in-vancouver.html" }, { "id": 543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like this exercise from @gordon.bsky.social. Some excerpts:\n Networks generate exponentials.\n Broadcast: standardized | Network: personalized\n Broadcast: manufactured consensus | Network: runaway amplification\n Some things that don’t exist in a network society: facts, shared truth.\n ", "dateiso": "2025-03-31 13:18:21 -0700", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Mar 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/31/i-like-this-exercise-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F31%2Fi-like-this-exercise-from.html" }, { "id": 544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just had the onboarding call and tech check for #FediForum which I will be attending for 2 days starting tomorrow. It is an unconference that is held entirely online. I have followed it for a couple of years but this is my first time attending.\nfediforum.org\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-31 08:48:17 -0700", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Mar 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/31/just-had-the-onboarding-call.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F31%2Fjust-had-the-onboarding-call.html" }, { "id": 545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a month of \u0026ldquo;working\u0026rdquo; from Tokyo and Seattle… I am back to my normal schedule this morning. First day working from the new home office! 🎉\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-31 08:14:18 -0700", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Mar 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/31/after-a-month-of-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F31%2Fafter-a-month-of-working.html" }, { "id": 546, "type": "post", "title": "Goosing the system — Behind the scenes at the first ATmosphereConf", "text": "As user 87 on Bluesky, I have been around the AT Protocol ecosystem — the ATmosphere — for a while. My comrade Boris Mann (@bmann.ca) started https://atprotocol.dev to serve as a place to do tech talks with developers, just like we used to do for Fission before (and Causal Islands before that and TFTRocks before that… and… 😊). When Boris was thinking of starting the first community conference for atproto devs back in early December 2024, he asked if I was in… of course! But with the sudden trip to Japan and moving house, my March was very busy and I told him I couldn’t help out much with organizing this time around. So the day after the house move, when I picked him up and we drove down to Seattle, I was in for a shock.\nATmosphereConf took place over two days at the lovely University of Washington Campus in Seattle, WA. Originally envisioned as an unconference (I dunno like 40 people in a basement with some pizzas 🤷‍♂️) I soon found out that there were about 170 in person attendees and about the same online! We ended up with 354 attendees in total.\nBoris had recruited a great team of organizers and volunteers including Ted Han (@knowtheory.net) who helped MC the conference. Peter Singletary (@psingletary.com) managed the online experience and we streamed the whole conference on stream.place, basically Twitch on atproto, who were one of the sponsors of ATmoCon.\nIsn’t it amazing that we streamed the first atproto conference using the AT protocol!?\nAnother amazing thing is though we excellent sponsor support, the largest amount of money came in from ticket sales!\nAtmosphereConf was set up as a project fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, which was started by my friend Nathan Hewitt. It is amazing how quickly ATmoCon got up and running with help of so many good folk willing to pitch in. That set the tone the conference as the energy during the event was amazing.\nAll the videos from the two days of presentations are on this playlist, but I would like to embed the opening talks for each day which shows how this community is different\n (Erin has appeared on this blog previously but I have been following her forever since the A Book Apart days).\nHard choices Even though there was a powerful lineup of speakers, we hadn’t quite given up on the unconference. Community-led discussions were held in four other rooms. Some were pre-vetted ahead of time on the ATP community Discord, but all were scheduled on site. Starting late Friday night Boris, Ted, and I would stare at a big Excel on the screen of the TV at our AirBnB, desperately needing to go to bed and trying to solve an impossible puzzle. There were too many good topics! Hard choices lead to hard choices, and we tried to schedule discussions alongside talks with minimal disruption to attendees, but it is an impossible job. After a day of conference then dinner and afterparties (see below) we slunk back to the house to schedule the next day’s discussions, taking into account new requests made at the conference. On the final day we ended up triple tracked! 😱 I joked that all the content we were jamming onto the schedule had turned this into a turducken of a conference. There was so much people wanted to talk through!\nAn undercurrent of lore Speaking of avians, probably the standout of the show was our mascot Gustopher. Designed by Andy, our friend at Internet Development Studio Company, people really took to the character. So much so that a fandom arose and started shipping Gustopher with the Untitled Goose Game Goose, and some fiction of the two appeared on AO3 which I am not going to link to for obvious reasons 🙈\nAmazing.\nOn the floor at ATmoCon It wasn’t just atproto devs at ATmoCon. We had Bluesky and open social media enthusiasts, investors, and people building other apps that were curious about using atproto, for example as an identity substrate to their own apps.\nSince I knew about half the people there, much of my time was spent connecting different parties. I was able to take in a couple of talks and contribute to a couple of discussions, but mostly I played a concierge/connector role which worked out pretty well. This was a great learning for future events.\nWhat was discussed Oh boy, a lot was discussed. The videos are all out, and the notes from the discussion sessions will be released soon. But overall I saw a couple of trends.\nFirst of all, this conference was unlike other dev conferences in that it didn’t focus so much on the “how” of the tech, but there was a big emphasis on the “why”, as captured in Sarah Perez’s (@sarahp.bsky.social) article for TechCrunch: A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people (Bluesky CEO Jay Graber was there with her Mundus sine caesaribus shirt) and Marcelo Calbucci (@calbucci.com) In Geekwire: The under-the-radar tech revolution that could change how the internet works.\nAnother theme was issue discovery. At a regularly occurring tech conference people get together in a high bandwidth mode to solve some specific problems together. Since this was the first time we were meeting there was a lot of discovery happening: this includes both what kinds of problems were people seeing and also trying to get to common terms on the language used in the space. A number of working groups have been stood up post-conference.\nLastly, a large topic was money in the ecosystem. Developers are excited to build new things… but we all need to put food on the table and a roof over our heads. We need to make it rain in the ATmosphere. Peter Wang of Skyseed Fund gave an overly short talk about the changes he is seeing in the internet, and the importance of funding infrastructure.\n There were a couple other investors that I spoke to as well. But it all wasn’t about investment money: in-app payment rails was also a big topic. How can we build a sustainable market economy on atproto? There was a discussion about micropayments, and I had a couple of discussions with people about how tightly (or loosely) to bind existing payment providers in the protocol. Just like enabling commerce on the World Wide Web in 1995, this is going to be a big milestone for atproto that I really hope will come soon.\nAfter parties Our pal Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq.com) from A New Social booked a local pub for a pre-conference social. We filled that place with protocol nerds. They asked us to come back… and then again! I think it tells you something about this crowd.\nOn the final night I spent the evening at a rooftop bar with some fellow “oldheads” who shared stories about the old days of social networking, lore, and how things are different this time. I enjoyed a very fancy hot chocolate and spent some time with Ms Boba (@essentialrandom.bsky.social) learning about how to teach git by personifying HTML as a hot guy and dressing him up as a made. Amazing! See the photos 📸\nThe next morning we went for an amazing Creole breakfast before parting ways and heading back to NY, SF, and Canada.\nThe role of community At present Bluesky the company is the proverbial 800 lb gorilla in the ATproto ecosystem: they built the protocol and the “reference” microblogging app Bluesky. However, since the beginning, Bluesky has been encouraging others to build with them. I know much of the team personally and they are all good people, so I am take them at their intentions. But it will take some time before we have some other companies built on atproto that can balance out Bluesky the Company and turn the ecosystem from unipolar to multi-stakeholder.\nSo, in the meantime, how can we balance the ecosystem? One way is to pool the people-power of the community. Bluesky the Company really needs a forum not only for needs assessment, but also for co-creating solutions. A decentralized, pluralistic system is something that we all want to work towards.\nBluesky the Company certainly wants this, as demonstrated by how they engage with the community. Yes, for ATmoCon they threw in some sponsor dollars, but they did not have a hand in organizing. As Sarah Perez said in her TechCrunch article: “Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.” The BSky team did give some talks and participated in discussions, but this participation was as a community member. I will give you one small example: after Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee gave his talk, during the next talk he lined up with everyone to ask a question… like a normal community member. The Bluesky team are long-time open source people, so they know how this works, but it was really great to see them model good behaviour.\nI think the community can act as a gorilla-counterweight (800 1 lb geese) not only for Bluesky now, but for the other corporate gorillas which are sure to grow up in the ATmosphere.\nWhat’s next? “Where is the next one going to be?” … “I can’t wait until the next one?” …“I am suffering FOMO, I will definitely go to the next one!”\nWe had an overwhelming positive reaction to the conference. I remember a moment when I was walking between the discussion rooms and the main stage and thought to myself “I am tired… but this community… I can’t wait to do this again next year!” Will there be a next year? I sure hope so.\nIn the meantime, there is the upcoming AHoy conference in Hamburg Germany on April 24th. I am very interested in hearing the European perspective on all this. And of course there are calls for a conference in Japan, which I would love to help organize.\nWorking groups are forming on the AT Protocol Community Wiki. The Community Discord is seeing local meetups form. Boris will be in Toronto in a couple weeks and is hosting ATproTO at 1RG. Soon there will be more talks hosted by Boris on ATProtocol.dev. There are lots of ways to engage, and we also need help onboarding new people into the community.\nThere are more articles coming out about the ecosystem as people become more aware of the protocol vs the microblogging app, for example from TechCrunch:\n What’s next for ATProto, the protocol powering Bluesky and other apps Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol Already I have seen a number community blogs being posted like this great piece by speaker Dan Hon. You can find more on the #ATmosphereConf hashtag, many reposted by the AT Protocol Community account @atprotocol.dev.\nIf you want to get a sense of what the conf was like, @case.bsky.social put some photos up on Flickr as did I and you can see lots of pics using Flashes for Bluesky. And once again, there are the vids of all the talks.\nRight now there is a flurry of activity, I am just trying to keep up. In the meantime, see you on the Skyline!\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-30 13:05:33 -0700", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Mar 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/30/goosing-the-system-behind-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F30%2Fgoosing-the-system-behind-the.html" }, { "id": 547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dinner time! 🥘 😋\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-29 18:50:33 -0700", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Mar 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/29/dinner-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F29%2Fdinner-time.html" }, { "id": 548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Zulip finally replaced Slack in my iPhone dock. And considering the ad and IPO rumblings, it may replace Discord someday soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-29 10:04:02 -0700", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Mar 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/29/zulip-finally-replaced-slack-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F29%2Fzulip-finally-replaced-slack-in.html" }, { "id": 549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day of spring break: Daddy/Daughter Day at Vancouver Aquarium\nall pics 📸: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-28 19:35:06 -0700", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Mar 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/28/last-day-of-spring-break.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F28%2Flast-day-of-spring-break.html" }, { "id": 550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just arrived! 🎲🧝‍♀️⚔️🪄 Looking forward to running this\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-26 14:09:42 -0700", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Mar 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/26/just-arrived-looking-forward-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F26%2Fjust-arrived-looking-forward-to.html" }, { "id": 551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally completed a solid year without a missed day. Not a calendar year, but I’ll take it! 🧘\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-25 23:43:38 -0700", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Mar 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/25/finally-completed-a-solid-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F25%2Ffinally-completed-a-solid-year.html" }, { "id": 552, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.\u0026rdquo;\n 🎯🎯🎯\n@sarahp.bsky.social covers #ATmosphereConf in @techcrunch.com showing how this is COMMUNITY work, and how we want to make a difference.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-25 12:53:16 -0700", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Mar 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/25/dont-call-it-a-bluesky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F25%2Fdont-call-it-a-bluesky.html" }, { "id": 553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Post conference rooftop drinks in Seattle 🥃\n(Check out the Space Needle, and that amazing hot chocolate)\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-23 21:13:48 -0700", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Mar 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/23/post-conference-rooftop-drinks-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F23%2Fpost-conference-rooftop-drinks-in.html" }, { "id": 554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, everything is in the new house (still a giant mess) but the internet is working and we have clean sheets, so I guess we can call that a successful day of moving. 12 times in the last 5 years. 😮‍💨 But this time to our very own (and first!) home. (Love my new home office btw! 😻)\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-19 21:53:37 -0700", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Mar 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/19/well-everything-is-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F19%2Fwell-everything-is-in-the.html" }, { "id": 555, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🍕 and ☕\nBreakfast of champions 🏆\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-15 10:38:36 -0700", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Mar 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/15/and-breakfast-of-champions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Fand-breakfast-of-champions.html" }, { "id": 556, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 📚 Needed something light for moving house tasks, and this was recommended by a DnD buddy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-12 23:25:47 -0700", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Mar 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/12/started-listening-to-dungeon-crawler.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F12%2Fstarted-listening-to-dungeon-crawler.html" }, { "id": 557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Safely hauled our last possessions from Kelowna over the snowy Coquihalla pass to Surrey. We had them stored in my brother’s basement since 2022, when we suddenly moved to Kyoto to take care of my father-in-law. Now it’s all safely in the new house. By end of next week we will be fully moved in.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-11 16:36:30 -0700", "date": "4:36 p.m. on Mar 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/11/safely-hauled-our-last-possessions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F11%2Fsafely-hauled-our-last-possessions.html" }, { "id": 558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric 📚\nI first heard Roman on Everyday Anarchism talking about Colin Ward and then again on Upstream. I look forward to listening to it as I pack up and haul our last stuff from Kelowna to the new house in Surrey.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-10 08:54:51 -0700", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Mar 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/10/currently-reading-history-for-tomorrow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F10%2Fcurrently-reading-history-for-tomorrow.html" }, { "id": 559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rainy day… back at the airport. This time to Kelowna for the weekend. Picking up the last of our stuff left there in 2022 and hauling it to the coast to move in to the new house next week.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-08 09:07:00 -0700", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Mar 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/08/rainy-day-back-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F08%2Frainy-day-back-at-the.html" }, { "id": 560, "type": "post", "title": "Suddenly Tokyo", "text": "It had been years since I had been to Shinjuku, at least, around the JR Station. It was a lot dirtier than I remember, but more than 25 years had past. It was a whirlwind trip this time to Japan, all for an important meeting for a client that asked me to come and help out. Except for taking my client to Ginza by taxi for some shopping, I stayed put in Shinjuku. The weather didn\u0026rsquo;t help with it dropping below freezing after a gorgeous 20ºC day. In a cool little coffee shop where the barista was doing multiple pourovers while flipping an old vinyl record playing on a tinny sounding wooden speaker, I chatted with some Australians from up north who were delighted at seeing snow for the first time. All I could think about is how warm and sunny it was back home in Canada.\nThe day after I landed I walked around the area to scout out where we would be having our meeting. I was getting a little worried when I saw a ton of police blocking off the streets. Turns out it was Tokyo Marathon Day! So there were loads of foreigners in fancy shoes and funny costumes jogging around trying to find the correct starting line (there are multiple… the Tokyo Marathon is a big production!). Other than that, I mostly worked, took a few jaunts out to buy loads of furikake and BL anime merch for my kids, and drank some very nice coffees while reading.\nLuckily I was able to meet a few people. One, a developer for a cool outfit that I have been in contact with for a while, took me to a smokey kissaten. We sat for five (5!) hours talking about all the problems of the world. It was amazing, except my clothing reeked of cigarette smoke (which meant soon my room did, and then my luggage). The other meeting I had was with an old Fissioneer who has been living in Japan for the last 9 months, enjoying the country. It was nice to catch up.\nThen, after a long deserved reflexology session, I was back in a taxi bound for the airport. The trip was so fast I didn\u0026rsquo;t even take my camera. I only visited one temple and one shrine! 😢 Thus, only a few photos to share:\n\nSee the full album on Flickr →\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-07 19:38:26 -0700", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Mar 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/07/suddenly-tokyo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F07%2Fsuddenly-tokyo.html" }, { "id": 561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really should have brought my toque to #snokyo\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-04 06:29:38 -0700", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Mar 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/04/really-should-have-brought-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Freally-should-have-brought-my.html" }, { "id": 562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good day of walking around Shinjuku #Tokyo #Japan\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 06:03:15 -0700", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/02/good-day-of-walking-around.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F02%2Fgood-day-of-walking-around.html" }, { "id": 563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Case in point wrt my last post: walk between the Yodobashi Camera buildings in Nishi-Shinjuku and you’ll see scads of people standing still, sitting on hand rails or on the benches provided by the store, all silent tapping on their phones—sometimes 2 phones! This is the Pokémon Go Square. Wild!\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 00:57:54 -0700", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/01/case-in-point-wrt-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Fcase-in-point-wrt-my.html" }, { "id": 564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I first came to Japan, at age 18 with a backpack and a guitar, I came to Tokyo at the end of February in 1997. That is almost 30 years ago! I am sitting in this little park drinking a canned coffee just watching the people like I did back then. And yet so so much has changed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-01 23:45:30 -0700", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Mar 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/01/when-i-first-came-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Fwhen-i-first-came-to.html" }, { "id": 565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely 20° day in Tokyo\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-01 20:54:03 -0700", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Mar 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/01/lovely-day-in-tokyo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Flovely-day-in-tokyo.html" }, { "id": 566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sure picked the wrong day to have a quiet walk around the neighborhood: it’s Tokyo Marathon Day! Already seen some mad costumes and all the streets are being blocked off.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-01 16:41:02 -0700", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Mar 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/01/sure-picked-the-wrong-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Fsure-picked-the-wrong-day.html" }, { "id": 567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made it to my hotel in Tokyo. What up Famichikis! Been a few months! Gonna hit the konbini and then crawl into bed. Wiped… Cannot believe how many people were lined up at immigration.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-01 04:45:12 -0700", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Mar 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/01/made-it-to-my-hotel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Fmade-it-to-my-hotel.html" }, { "id": 568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sent my monthly newsletter early since I am about to get on a plane to Japan. See you next month!\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-28 15:12:19 -0700", "date": "3:12 p.m. on Feb 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/28/sent-my-monthly-newsletter-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F28%2Fsent-my-monthly-newsletter-early.html" }, { "id": 569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚\nA little audiobook for the plane ride\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-28 14:55:14 -0700", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Feb 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/28/started-eyes-of-the-void.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F28%2Fstarted-eyes-of-the-void.html" }, { "id": 570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Birthday hangsang! 🎈🎂\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-26 15:25:25 -0700", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Feb 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/26/birthday-hangsang.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F26%2Fbirthday-hangsang.html" }, { "id": 571, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This aside from Ben Evans recent newsletter:\n (A very successful Silicon Valley VC once told me never to invest in a company called ‘labs’ because “they don’t know what they want to build”.)\n This is me chuckling in has two shutdown labs in my work history. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-25 08:10:38 -0700", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Feb 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/25/this-aside-from-ben-evans.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F25%2Fthis-aside-from-ben-evans.html" }, { "id": 572, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Omg it’s past midnight. I been watching that King Los freestyle reacts for hours! 🔥 🔥 🔥\nHe’s a lyrical zodiac killer. 🐏🐂👯🦀🦁🌬️⚖️🦂🏹🐐🏺🐟\n2025 is gonna be a good year for #hiphop 😊\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-22 01:10:05 -0700", "date": "1:10 p.m. on Feb 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/22/omg-its-past-midnight-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F22%2Fomg-its-past-midnight-i.html" }, { "id": 573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Vancouver Art Gallery 🎨\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-20 16:22:20 -0700", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Feb 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/20/vancouver-art-gallery.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F20%2Fvancouver-art-gallery.html" }, { "id": 574, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to the long Samir Amin essay from 2004 The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World which seems appropriate after finishing the latest Pankaj Mishra book. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-20 16:12:33 -0700", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Feb 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/20/started-listening-to-the-long.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F20%2Fstarted-listening-to-the-long.html" }, { "id": 575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In an area of downtown Vancouver that I don’t frequent very often, and has changed significantly since I used to live in the area 25 years ago\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-20 13:52:40 -0700", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Feb 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/20/in-an-area-of-downtown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F20%2Fin-an-area-of-downtown.html" }, { "id": 576, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been dreaming and looking at old photos from Hawaiʻi and India. I had some memorable hotel experiences there, and would love to to go back.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-20 01:30:45 -0700", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Feb 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/20/been-dreaming-and-looking-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F20%2Fbeen-dreaming-and-looking-at.html" }, { "id": 577, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra 📚\nI\u0026rsquo;ll need time to process this. Pankaj Mishra\u0026rsquo;s righteous teardown of Western tradition (racism, slavery, colonialism) puts Gaza and the Shoah in a wider context as he tries to wrestle it away from politicians with narrow agendas. Astounding work.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-19 22:09:59 -0700", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Feb 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/19/finished-the-world-after-gaza.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F19%2Ffinished-the-world-after-gaza.html" }, { "id": 578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am going to this! In fact, there will be a couple of open social Chads there. Come join us!\nlu.ma/3rjg60rc\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 13:20:09 -0700", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/18/i-am-going-to-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fi-am-going-to-this.html" }, { "id": 579, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "website design inspo (sound on) y-n10.com\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 13:15:26 -0700", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/18/website-design-inspo-sound-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fwebsite-design-inspo-sound-on.html" }, { "id": 580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra 📚\nHad this on pre-order and it just dropped. One of my fav authours so I couldn’t wait to start!\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-17 12:16:33 -0700", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Feb 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/17/started-reading-the-world-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F17%2Fstarted-reading-the-world-after.html" }, { "id": 581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "AI Energy Score: ranking models so developers can choose based on energy consumption\nhuggingface.co/spaces/AI\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-16 11:24:16 -0700", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Feb 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/16/ai-energy-score-ranking-models.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F16%2Fai-energy-score-ranking-models.html" }, { "id": 582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚 #AmReading\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 22:30:31 -0700", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/15/currently-reading-the-summer-tree.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fcurrently-reading-the-summer-tree.html" }, { "id": 583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s bao time at Crystal Mall! 😋\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 19:10:29 -0700", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/15/its-bao-time-at-crystal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fits-bao-time-at-crystal.html" }, { "id": 584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I know it’s just a number, but it’s a pretty BIG number #2k #meditation\n(I should be better at this 😅 Especially considering I haven’t been using this app the whole time)\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-11 18:59:24 -0700", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Feb 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/11/i-know-its-just-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F11%2Fi-know-its-just-a.html" }, { "id": 585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New kit!\nBoox Go 10.3\nGot this for reading papers which is a focus for 2025.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-10 20:38:11 -0700", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Feb 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/10/new-kit-boox-go-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F10%2Fnew-kit-boox-go-got.html" }, { "id": 586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh this is interesting! They built a system to keep track of citizens assemblies:\nwww.mysociety.org/2024/11/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-10 10:10:12 -0700", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Feb 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/10/oh-this-is-interesting-they.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F10%2Foh-this-is-interesting-they.html" }, { "id": 587, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I must post this from @unseenjapan.com since I lived for 4 years in Nagoya and really enjoyed my time there. I’d also recommend the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium and the Antarctic survey ship Fuji. Lots of shopping and good food too!\nunseen-japan.com/nagoya-po\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-09 23:39:06 -0700", "date": "11:39 p.m. on Feb 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/09/i-must-post-this-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F09%2Fi-must-post-this-from.html" }, { "id": 588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely bright moon behind clouds lit by the setting sun 🌖 ☁️ 🌞\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-08 19:46:13 -0700", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Feb 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/08/lovely-bright-moon-behind-clouds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F08%2Flovely-bright-moon-behind-clouds.html" }, { "id": 589, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks for the mench Neverpost! 👋 Traffic Camera Selfies", "text": "Got a shoutout on one of my fav podcasts:\n I hit up producer Hans Buetow on Bsky about this ep of Neverpost (section 2) where he tries to figure out how many cameras are in the world. Wild. And not a bad pronunciation of my last name!\nAs you know, I back Neverpost and rate them highly.\nFor other mentions on podcasts also see: Chad on Chapper\u0026rsquo;s and The time I was outed as the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard’s bus-driving supervisor from the interstellar Gnarian realm\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-07 10:00:00 -0700", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Feb 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/07/thanks-for-the-mench-neverpost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F07%2Fthanks-for-the-mench-neverpost.html" }, { "id": 590, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻\nNew table from Coast Contra!! #HipHop #bars 🔥🔥🔥\n ", "dateiso": "2025-02-06 21:09:22 -0700", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Feb 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/06/new-table-from-coast-contra.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F06%2Fnew-table-from-coast-contra.html" }, { "id": 591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager 📚 #amReading #booksky\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-05 00:09:39 -0700", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Feb 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/04/started-reading-the-alchemy-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fstarted-reading-the-alchemy-of.html" }, { "id": 592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow! Talk about lifelong learning 💪👴🏻👏\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-04 21:42:36 -0700", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Feb 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/04/wow-talk-about-lifelong-learning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fwow-talk-about-lifelong-learning.html" }, { "id": 593, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Setsubun 👹\nIt’s that time of year to eat a big sushi roll 🍣 in the 西南西やや西 direction and watch preschool kids be traumatized! 😊\nyoutu.be/i-nLtf3Ns\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-02 20:22:17 -0700", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Feb 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/02/happy-setsubun-its-that-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Fhappy-setsubun-its-that-time.html" }, { "id": 594, "type": "post", "title": "All the different bilinguals in my home", "text": "There is no one way to raise bilingual kids. Every family is different, and the context where they learn language can change. Previously I wrote about bilingualism expectations (and plurilingualism) in the context of raising our kids.\nIf you think about bilingualism in terms of time, there are generally two categories: sequential bilingualism and simultaneous bilingualism. In the first case, one learns a first language and then later learns a second language. In the second case, one learns (two or more!) languages at the same time.\nJust looking at my household, in a family of four we have THREE different kinds of linguistic backgrounds!\n I am a sequential bilingual, going from English → Japanese when I was about 20 My wife is a sequential bilingual, from Japanese → English in her 20s My first daughter was raised in Japanese until she went to preschool in Canada — a sequential bilingual similar to my wife but much earlier at age 5 By the time my second daughter started speaking, the first daughter was already speaking English and Japanese in the household, so she might be considered the household\u0026rsquo;s only simultaneous bilingual Why is this important? Well, like I said, raising bilingual kids depends a lot on the context of that particular learner. We need to be aware that each of our kids have a different context and thus our expectations should be adjusted accordingly. Like I wrote before expectations around bilingualism and raising kids are often out of whack. The framework of sequential-simultaneous bilingualism adds is another useful frame for aligning your expectations (and therefore effort) to reality.\nFinal note: the multilingual multiverse There are many other frameworks for thinking about multilingualism. In this post looked at time of language acquisition. In my other post I wrote on heritage language learners and plurilingualism. There are also receptive bilinguals, those who can understand a language even if they cannot produce it. And then of course bimodal bilinguals who use language in at least two different modes, for example audio-oral language and visual-spatial sign language. And these are just super-categories! At a personal level there are so many other possible dimensions… fascinating!\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-02 16:10:33 -0700", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Feb 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/02/all-the-different-bilinguals-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Fall-the-different-bilinguals-in.html" }, { "id": 595, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So much #FOSDEM FOMO … just look at all those stickers!!\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-01 02:57:35 -0700", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Feb 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/02/01/so-much-fosdem-fomo-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F02%2F01%2Fso-much-fosdem-fomo-just.html" }, { "id": 596, "type": "post", "title": "Home", "text": "We got the keys! 🔑\nFor the first time, we have a home of our own. 🏡\nA few months ago we found a place and had our offer accepted. Earlier this week we finalized the documents. But now we have the keys to our very own townhouse. After many years of bouncing back and forth between Japan and Canada, and even moving within each country, the family are now settled down and committed to living in Surrey, BC for the foreseeable future.\nYou are all invited to come over for dinner! 😜\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-31 19:10:29 -0700", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Jan 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/31/home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F31%2Fhome.html" }, { "id": 597, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a day… what a week… time for a nice Ethiopian coffee break ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-30 17:25:47 -0700", "date": "5:25 p.m. on Jan 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/30/what-a-day-what-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F30%2Fwhat-a-day-what-a.html" }, { "id": 598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "4 o’clock in the morn… up making tea, hot compresses, and decongesting the kid who can’t sleep. 💤\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-30 05:01:39 -0700", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Jan 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/30/oclock-in-the-morn-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F30%2Foclock-in-the-morn-up.html" }, { "id": 599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Lunar New Year! 🌕 🧧 🐍\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-29 21:19:00 -0700", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Jan 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/29/happy-lunar-new-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F29%2Fhappy-lunar-new-year.html" }, { "id": 600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " stuck deep in the walled gardens of our various web apps, none of which talk to each other. We have to log into things twenty times a day. Everything is a subscription, or selling our data for ads. Nothing \u0026ldquo;just works\u0026rdquo;.\n @ruperts.world from Unternet has an idea of where we go from here.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-28 13:21:29 -0700", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Jan 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/28/stuck-deep-in-the-walled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F28%2Fstuck-deep-in-the-walled.html" }, { "id": 601, "type": "post", "title": "Organizing Community Thriving", "text": "It has been six months since we moved to Surrey from Osaka. In that time we have explored our neighbourhood, the kids have gotten used to school, and I have re-connected with friends and family, and made a ton of new connections.\nWe lived in Kelowna for 8 years, which is plenty of time to build up our community network, including things like Digital Okanagan, Okanagan Developers Group, Kelowna Japanese Language Society, and Okanagan Asian Heritage Month committee, among others. For the past few months I have been looking for my communities here in Metro Vancouver. Although I have found a bunch, I think there is a lot more out there. Being much larger than Kelowna, there isn’t a single place you can go to get connected. Thus I have been conducting a lot of shuttle diplomacy by meeting people all over: Vancouver, UBC, Burnaby, Surrey, and even Fort Langley out in the Fraser Valley!\nComing out of the pandemic there is certainly a thirst for more in-person connection, and to build back better. The pandemic tore up a lot of the social fabric here, which also had the effect of exposing a lot of the rot in our underlying systems. In this way, the pandemic, and the reaction to it, are like a sequel to the economic crisis of 2008-9. The dissatisfaction with “how things are” has triggered a wave of grassroots organizing of people who want to make things better. These are my people. My goal is to find them and join them, to add my shoulder to the wheel, to help raise the barn of community.\nThese people exist across many different domains: tech, arts and culture, economic and social justice, politics, etc. A common theme I hear in speaking to people in these different verticals is a desire for thriving. What that word means can mean different things to different groups, but I have found with the various groups I have met that people have a sense that “something can be done here!”, of potential to make things “better”. There is an energy, and I have learned it is not just in a single group.\nSo I have been going out and trying to meet different groups, to potentially build bridges between them, looking for opportunities for collaboration and coalitions. Metro Van is much larger than the Okanagan where we were able to build some truly amazing community in the 8 years I was there. Here there is lots more going on, but it is also much easier to work in isolation with other groups. The big city affords anonymity, which can be positive but also a negative. However, as someone I met recently said, “Vancouver is too small for us to not know what one another is doing.”\nZ-Space has been great for meeting new people. It is a hub for arts and tech in downtown Vancouver. Not only do I co-work there once a week, we run all sorts of meetups and events there (including the recent #LoFiWKND). Z-Space is an excellent example of how third spaces engender community building. back in Kelowna we had CoLab, our old Rocketlaunch space, and the Accelerate Okanagan government-run accelerator. I recently ran an event in Seattle at the Internet Development Studio offices, which are turning into a cool hub in the Pike Place Market area. V2 House, from the V2 community trying to build economic and cultural thriving for young people in Vancouver, is another example. I want to find more of these \u0026ldquo;club houses\u0026rdquo; and map them all out to make it easier for people to connect, whether they have lived here all their lives and just didn’t realize, or are new arrivals like me. If you know some, let me know!\nThere is much more cooking that I haven’t mentioned, but let me give you a couple more examples:\n At DWebYVR we are working on community-based technology agency (our version of “thriving”) but also discuss a wide range of commons-based topics such as cohousing and food security. there are lots groups on the Vancouver Lu.ma I recently connected with community resilience activists working on disaster preparedness (they are busy lending a hand in LA right now), something that Vancouver needs to be ready for. Mr Rogers said that when disaster strikes, “look for the helpers.” I want to find them before disaster strikes, thank you very much. Comrades in the Library Socialism movement have been gathering resources of folk doing all sorts of good in the community. There are co-ops like Solid State and Vancouver Co-Op Radio traditional political parties like COPE. That is just a handful of what I expect to be heaps of mutual aid and solarpunk and utopian activators out there pushing for agency and opportunity and justice. I want to know more, and am actively on the lookout for people who are looking to make Metro Vancouver thrive. If you know of a group or a person, comment below, contact me on any of my networks, or email me!\nI will close with an inspiring passage from the writer Kristen Ghodsee who was on a podcast talking about her book Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Bold Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life:\n And they\u0026rsquo;re so important to the history of humanity. That was the one thing that just became so clear to me as I was researching this book, how so much human progress, so many of the things that we take for granted in the world today are the result of these radical social dreamers on the very fringes of our societies. I like to call them The Other 1%. So we have a 1% that\u0026rsquo;s the economic 1%, which is a statistical artifact of if you have 100% of the distribution of wealth, there\u0026rsquo;s always going to be a 1% that\u0026rsquo;s at the top. But the Utopian 1% is this group of people who have always been on the margins of our societies. They\u0026rsquo;ve always been out there dreaming up different ways of living and not only dreaming them up, but also trying to make them a reality. And it\u0026rsquo;s in these communities, many of which are just really crazy when you start to read about them, what they were trying to do and how they were organizing themselves and the massive Amounts of resistance that they faced. It\u0026rsquo;s in these communities from these communities that we begin to find our way forward through many historical challenges. And I would argue when I say in the book that they\u0026rsquo;re necessary for our survival, I think that the fundamental flexibility and creativity and adaptability of humanity, and we know that we are as a species incredibly flexible and adaptable and creative, that it comes and it has always come from this small percentage of the population that thinks differently about the way we should be living our lives.\n Let’s connect up the Other 1% and organize community thriving together.\nADDENDUM:\nS/T by Spam Risk ", "dateiso": "2025-01-26 17:39:08 -0700", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Jan 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/26/organizing-community-thriving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F26%2Forganizing-community-thriving.html" }, { "id": 602, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very much enjoyed my time at UBC today. Just caught the sunset on the drive home. The edge of Canada!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-24 19:53:04 -0700", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jan 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/24/very-much-enjoyed-my-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F24%2Fvery-much-enjoyed-my-time.html" }, { "id": 603, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely sunny day at the University of British Columbia where I am touring the new Emerging Media Lab. I graduated from UBC in 2001 and things are quite different. I love the energy on campus! This is part of that ✨✌️#VancouverEnergy ✌️⚡️\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-24 12:33:18 -0700", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Jan 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/24/lovely-sunny-day-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F24%2Flovely-sunny-day-at-the.html" }, { "id": 604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This new stage of \u0026ldquo;post\u0026rdquo;-capitalism does not look emancipatory, but more like techno-capitalist authoritarianism.\n🗣 \u0026ldquo;For the tech elite, politics offers what overtapped markets can no longer guarantee: new returns.\u0026rdquo;\n🗣 \u0026ldquo;Rather than prognosticate, now is the time to prepare our collective response.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-23 13:08:43 -0700", "date": "1:08 p.m. on Jan 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/23/this-new-stage-of-postcapitalism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F23%2Fthis-new-stage-of-postcapitalism.html" }, { "id": 605, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: up past midnight helping daughter study for math final\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-22 01:13:02 -0700", "date": "1:13 p.m. on Jan 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/22/current-status-up-past-midnight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F22%2Fcurrent-status-up-past-midnight.html" }, { "id": 606, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh this looks like some interesting reading from @zelf@sunbeam.city\n(h/t @aynish@merveilles.town)\n#OpenSource #P2P #LocalFirstSoftware\nsunbeam.city/@zelf/113\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 22:30:17 -0700", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/19/oh-this-looks-like-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Foh-this-looks-like-some.html" }, { "id": 607, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not really a milestone, but a good round number 🧘 #meditation\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 14:02:10 -0700", "date": "2:02 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/18/not-really-a-milestone-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Fnot-really-a-milestone-but.html" }, { "id": 608, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I\u0026rsquo;ll never reach it. So what\u0026rsquo;s the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.\n — Eduardo Galeano\n#quotes\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 12:22:22 -0700", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/18/utopia-is-on-the-horizon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Futopia-is-on-the-horizon.html" }, { "id": 609, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My lovely wife 💞 flew to Kelowna today for a Kelowna Japanese Language Society event. She sent some pics of the Rockies mountains 🏔️ and Okanagan Lake 🛶 for you all\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 11:55:27 -0700", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/18/my-lovely-wife-flew-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Fmy-lovely-wife-flew-to.html" }, { "id": 610, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay. Back home. Tucked in. It’s 2:30am. Time to go to sleep finally. 💤\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-13 03:39:23 -0700", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Jan 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/13/okay-back-home-tucked-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F13%2Fokay-back-home-tucked-in.html" }, { "id": 611, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a weekend of hacking on LoFi software where we talked about EMRs and hospital applications, I now find myself in the ER with a sick child, experiencing our existing system. Everything’s under control, so I sit here and observe.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-12 23:14:20 -0700", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Jan 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/12/after-a-weekend-of-hacking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F12%2Fafter-a-weekend-of-hacking.html" }, { "id": 612, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welp, it’s been 5 days nursing a feverish teenager. Now it is time to go to the clinic and find out what is actually wrong.\nAfter waiting around all day (9am to 5pm) we now know. Pneumonia.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-09 19:33:08 -0700", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jan 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/09/welp-its-been-days-nursing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F09%2Fwelp-its-been-days-nursing.html" }, { "id": 613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The People vs Anglocentrism: What\u0026rsquo;s it like to be a non-English speaker in an online world dominated by US tech bros? 🌍\nh/t to Dame.Outlaw\nReminds me of 2018 with Cambodian keyboard problems.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 19:02:10 -0700", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/06/the-people-vs-anglocentrism-whats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Fthe-people-vs-anglocentrism-whats.html" }, { "id": 614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look what arrived! You can download a copy here.\nA lotta friends in this mag 🥰 Looking forward to reading.\n#opensource #governance\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 17:38:44 -0700", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/06/look-what-arrived-you-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Flook-what-arrived-you-can.html" }, { "id": 615, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh this would have been a very fun thing to attend! I recorded a number of Mongol spots when I lived on Iki.\niki-guide.com/archives/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 00:23:39 -0700", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/05/oh-this-would-have-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Foh-this-would-have-been.html" }, { "id": 616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "15yo: What’s the difference between waffles and pancakes? 🥞 🧇\n12yo: Waffles are just pancakes with abs. 🥁\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 11:22:42 -0700", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/05/yo-whats-the-difference-between.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Fyo-whats-the-difference-between.html" }, { "id": 617, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚\nAlready 15% in 🚀\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 00:33:00 -0700", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/04/started-reading-long-way-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fstarted-reading-long-way-to.html" }, { "id": 618, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t stop watching her covers! 🎵🔥\n ", "dateiso": "2025-01-03 22:17:43 -0700", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Jan 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/03/i-cant-stop-watching-her.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F03%2Fi-cant-stop-watching-her.html" }, { "id": 619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ominous 😳\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-02 21:40:12 -0700", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Jan 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/02/ominous.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F02%2Fominous.html" }, { "id": 620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Osechi day 2 🍶🍱🎍🐍\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-02 20:17:17 -0700", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Jan 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/02/osechi-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F02%2Fosechi-day.html" }, { "id": 621, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Over the past couple of months I have had some conversations with a few people about what conferences are worth going to in 2025. I started putting together a list hackmd.io/@chadkoh/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-02 18:59:15 -0700", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Jan 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/02/over-the-past-couple-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F02%2Fover-the-past-couple-of.html" }, { "id": 622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning! It’s drinking time 🍶\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 13:50:27 -0700", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/01/good-morning-its-drinking-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fgood-morning-its-drinking-time.html" }, { "id": 623, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "明けましておめでとう🎍 Happy New Year!\nJust got back from 初詣 We rang the bell and got おみくじ。2025 is the year of action 🐍 and doing good for everyone. Let’s do it together! 💪\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 12:51:25 -0700", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/01/01/happy-new-year-just-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fhappy-new-year-just-got.html" }, { "id": 624, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On this New Year’s Eve we are watching the 紅白 highlights on YouTube and making snide comments, as is the ancient Japanese tradition 🙃 アケオメ everyone!! 🎊\nyoutube.com/playlist\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 22:08:55 -0700", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/31/on-this-new-years-eve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Fon-this-new-years-eve.html" }, { "id": 625, "type": "post", "title": "Best of 2024", "text": "Favourite photo of the year: The Nintendo World train in Osaka through cherry blossoms. Taken during April’s Micro.Blog photo challenge\nWhat a year. 😫 Closed down a company. Pulled all roots out of Japan and moved to a new city in Canada. Began settling down. Kids in a new school. Started a consultancy. Engaged with local community. Reconnected with old friends and family. Deepened my intellectual development. Found new paths to explore. Lots of progress on all fronts I suppose… Phew! I needed this winter holiday 😅\n40 Questions Last year I started using Steph Ango’s 40 Questions framework for annual reflection. Here are a few for public consumption:\nDid you keep your new year’s resolutions?\nNo, but completed more than I thought!\nWhat cities/states/countries did you visit?\n Taiwan Germany Seattle What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?\nNot a musician, but the YouTube Reactor TeeGo Crxzy who introduced me to Pete \u0026amp; Bas and a number of other artists, got me back into listening to UK Drill and Grime. I have discovered tons of new areas of music to explore because of TeeGo. Glitch Gang! 🤘\nWhat did you do on your birthday?\nWent to a bistro close to Osaka Castle with my family and was served a dessert with the message “Happy Wedding” 😅 After that went home to a couple of policeman knocking on our door. But that is a story for another time.\nWhat did you get really, really, really excited about?\nFiscal hosting opportunity in Canada, and it’s possible impact on open source in this country!\nHow would you describe your personal fashion this year?\nNew Air Force 1s, knit pullovers, light grey jeans… Dad-hop? Or… like… Ted Lasso?\nWhat kept you sane?\nMeditation.\nOf my daily practice for the year I only missed 3 days, ending the year on a 282 session streak.\nWho was the best new person you met?\nOh lordy, I met so many people this year I cannot just pick one. This year, especially the last quarter, I have been on a networking tear. There are so many comrades out there trying to good, if you just reach out. Now that I am meeting them I hope 2025 becomes a year for doing good together. 🥂💪\nBest of Reading 📚 Each year I submit some of my best for Fiction and Non Fic. This year for Fiction hands down it goes to The First Law Series. My brother recommended this grimdark fantasy trilogy and I just ate it up. I listened to the audiobooks narrated by Steven Pacey who is on the level of Jim Dale for skills… just absolutely brilliant.\nIn non-fic, the book that made me the most angriest (and recommend the most) is The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality which examines the legal methods used to secure capitalism as our society’s only mode of operation. I grouped this book with a few others in a post about economistic thinking if you are interested in knowing more about the world we live in.\nAn honourable mention goes to Governable Spaces (see my chapter notes). This book has given me a handy framework for thinking about how to make emancipatory online community.\nAs a last comment, this year I spent more time reading papers about Internet governance and policy which I have been sharing with a group of others. You can check those out at: lemmy.ml/c/mae\nBest of Watching 📽 So much reading so I didn’t watch much film or television this year, and of my 23 watched films, half were re-watches. This year I really feel like I don’t know what is going on in popular film. The only two films I saw in the cinema were Dune 2 and Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama for the Vancouver Asian Film Festival.\nFunnily enough, I watched three films starring Leo DiCaprio. Although it is not the highest rating, I still think about Killers of the Flower Moon a lot though.\nFor tv I went through Slow Horses seasons 2 to 4, and also finally caught up on the most recent Doctor Who. This year was more for the reading.\nThe Numbers for 2024 🖋 25 long-form posts on the blog\n✉️ 12 email monthly newsletters sent\n📸 1922 photos and vids on Flickr\n📚 36 books read\n🎞 23 films watched\n🧘 362 days of meditation\nPrevious annual wrap-ups Best of 2023 Best of 2022 2021 in Books Best of 2020 The best of 2019 A quick end of year roundup (2018) Best of 2016 The best of 2015 The best of 2014 The best of 2013 My year in film and books (2012) My year in books (2011) ", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 22:00:00 -0700", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/31/best-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Fbest-of.html" }, { "id": 626, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pre-ordered a number of books for next year, so my reading is pretty much decided for the first few months. I use Bookshop.org and Libro.fm and have both set to attribute sales to Mosaic Books, my old independent bookstore in Kelowna. Don’t live there anymore but still give what support I can 📚❤️\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 10:26:04 -0700", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/31/preordered-a-number-of-books.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Fpreordered-a-number-of-books.html" }, { "id": 627, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last meditation 🧘 of the year. I missed 3 days this year, but got a good long streak in the end.\ninsig.ht/VtryaWguM\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 10:12:16 -0700", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/31/last-meditation-of-the-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Flast-meditation-of-the-year.html" }, { "id": 628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "📚 Loaded up on some 2025 books from here heatmap.news/culture/2\u0026hellip;\n℅ @heatmap.news @HeatmapNews@flipboard.com\n#books #climate #climatecrisis\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 09:49:29 -0700", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/31/loaded-up-on-some-books.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Floaded-up-on-some-books.html" }, { "id": 629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today was mochi 🍡 pounding for the New Year 🎍at Nikkei Center, then popped over to Aberdeen Centre for a shop and a snack🧋 and then to Tsujiri for a matcha parfait 🍵 Pretty full day! 😋\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-29 21:39:09 -0700", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Dec 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/29/today-was-mochi-pounding-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F29%2Ftoday-was-mochi-pounding-for.html" }, { "id": 630, "type": "post", "title": "Taiwan Trip Report pt 4: Inconclusion", "text": "Now that we are at the end of the year, and I have this arbitrary deadline looming, I thought I’d better finish off my series on travelling to Taiwan. Taiwan was extremely stimulating, and I have been promising to write my conclusions after doing a series of posts. At the same time I held off for fear of putting my foot in my mouth (this post might actually accomplish that 😅), so, rather than conclusive statements or “insights”, maybe I will conclude with some questions, lines of inquiry that you or I or whoever is next travelling to Taiwan to take with them.\nQuick recap: for Golden Week in May 2024 we flew from Japan to Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. We visited a few locations including Tainan and Fo Guang Shan. Then we took the bullet train to Taipei and travelled further north to the mining town of Jiufen. Finally we returned to Taipei for the last few days where we visited a variety of local spots.\nIt has been 8-9 months since we left Taiwan and I still think about this trip. May was hot but not too hot. Waking up to the roaring of scooters commuting in the morning, lining up at the cheap and delicious soy cafe for breakfast, having so much access to vegetarian food, visiting some truly spectacular temples and museums, getting my fortune told by a little bird — there were so many daily delights! Not to mention you could get excellent Japanese, Korean, Thai and even great burritos and other international food! I found Taiwan to offer a better array and higher quality of international foods than Japan. Taipei is surely a foodie paradise!\nOther than the amazing food culture, I enjoyed trying to untangle the history. Needless to say Taiwan’s status is very complex (which is blanket statement that could extend to most countries, I admit), but since its modern history has been so compressed, I think it is much more apparent. From influxes of mainland Chinese immigrants, to Japanese occupation, post-war economic growth under military dictatorship, the democratic era, and all within a changing northeast Asia security theatre — there is a lot to take in. New systems are imposed upon old systems and there is no time for a refactor. It’s like plugging a new multi-plug power adapter into an old one, increasing plug capacity… but at what cost? I am not sure.\nQUESTION: Can Taiwan just keep pushing ahead and evolving? 🚅\nOne way Taiwan stays resilient is by being flexible with regards to history: ignoring the bad, leveraging the good. Inconvenient history is … not forgotten… but maybe elided over…? for the sake of moving on. (This comes of as another banal blanket statement, I know. Here in Canada we ran a whole multimillion dollar multi-year campaign to deal with our history, which has been largely stalled. I suppose it should take at least seven generations, and Taiwan‘s history has never had that long to settle before the next crisis comes along).\nQUESTION: What will the legacy of Chiang Kai Shek be? 🎖️\nFlexibility extends throughout Taiwanese culture. I can see why so many of the would-be “lifers” in Japan left to go to Taiwan over the past couple of decades. Taiwan is safe and has a lot of the conveniences that people love about Japan. But the Taiwanese are just a lot more willing to be flexible, which makes it easier for foreigners to navigate (I would love to get more data on this. I mostly talked with Chinese and white people about this, but I am not sure how the racial hierarchy in Taiwan differs from Japan with respects to say Black or Brown people. If you know, please share!)\nOkay, now for one last big question: one thing people enjoy when they come to Japan is learning about the religious syncretism. How can a Japanese family celebrate a birth at a Shinto shrine, eat KFC and strawberry cake at Christmas, and pray to their ancestors at the Buddhist shrine in their home? That is obviously a bit of a caricature, but I think Taiwanese syncretism takes this to a whole other level! Just walk around a temple like Lungshan, each cubby holds a figure that could come from a totally different system (Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist/and more!) and on the way out you can buy an omamori just like a jinja!\nQUESTION: Religion in Taiwan… how the hell does it work!? 📿\nDamn I wish I knew more about this before traveling. So much of it is over my head, and I suspect it would have been useful in Malaysia (travel journal Part 1 and Part 2) and even here in Greater Vancouver.\nOne last bonus topic: although I am really glad we got out of Taipei and saw some different cities, we spent our whole time on the West Coast. I watched some of the Indigenous TV channel, but I would really like the opportunity someday to travel to the central mountains and the East coast which I hear is beautiful, and offers more opportunities to learn about the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. There is so much more to see!\nQUESTION: How does East differ from West? 🧭\nOkay, that is it. I think I have probably put enough of my ignorance on display. Suffice it to say, I think Taiwan is a fascinating place to visit, and has many many points to appreciate. You should go if you get the chance… because even after I visited there and saw how people were not freaking out about China as much as the Western press insists, I am still worried that it could get absorbed into the mainland, not necessarily with kinetics, but in a more bureaucratic hostile takeover sense like Hong Kong. There is just too much integration and dependency on the mainland. 😬😬😬\nOkay, now that this is done, pass me the Su Chili Crisp. I better get started on this foot.\nWhile I am doing that, you can go back and read more details about each location by starting at my Taiwan trip report introductory post. Each post kinda walks you through all the Taiwan photo galleries I posted to Flickr about the trip.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-29 10:29:29 -0700", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Dec 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/29/taiwan-trip-report-pt-inconclusion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F29%2Ftaiwan-trip-report-pt-inconclusion.html" }, { "id": 631, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just had one of those epic brainstorming sessions in the bathtub! 🛁 Filled my dive slate with basically a manifesto. 📜 Going into 2025 with a plan! 💪\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-28 23:18:25 -0700", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Dec 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/28/just-had-one-of-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F28%2Fjust-had-one-of-those.html" }, { "id": 632, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back from a delicious meal at Afghan Kitchen. We’ve been spoiled this Xmas. On the Eve we had homemade bison stew 🦬 🍲 and crab+prawn 🦀 🍤 Mac \u0026amp; Cheese. On the Day we had some top notch Chinese 🥡 This is why we came to Vancouver.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-27 20:39:34 -0700", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Dec 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/27/back-from-a-delicious-meal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F27%2Fback-from-a-delicious-meal.html" }, { "id": 633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Afternoon at the Urban Safari\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-27 17:53:51 -0700", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Dec 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/27/afternoon-at-the-urban-safari.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F27%2Fafternoon-at-the-urban-safari.html" }, { "id": 634, "type": "post", "title": "Notes from Germany", "text": "I didn’t notice it in Frankfurt, but maybe that was because it was such a sunny day and after the 10 hour flight from Vancouver I was a bit jetlagged. Happy people enjoying the warm rays, walk the river under the watchful eyes of the statue of Karl de Grosse (aka Charlemagne), King of the Franks in the 9th century. Whether it was the weather, jetlag, or the cute little historical towncenter of Römerberg, I didn’t notice it. I walked the cobbled streets, enjoyed a kaffee mokka in a 17th century cafe, and climbed the church tower to get a view of the city.\n 📸 See all Frankfurt photos on Flickr →\nIt was the next day, after boarding the Inter-city express (ICE) from Frankfurt station that I started to clue in. The station was in that European style, with the arched metal roof, that I had seen in movies. I finally boarded a train but did not understand the seating situation. People were all over the place, sitting on the floor and stuff. Since it was just a 45 minute trip to Mannheim I stood at the exit doors and watched the landscape roll by through the tinted windows. First it was the smoke stacks of the factories as we left Frankfurt, then farmland, small villages, a low hill, copses of trees. I imagined what it would have been like to cross this land during the war. How would a platoon use those trees as cover? What would it have been like for the people in that old farmhouse to see a tank trundling across the field?\nArriving in Mannheim I had a couple days to myself, walked the streets, around the water tower, ate an Italian salad in a punk cafe and a poutine in the shopping district. Mannheim is an innovative city, a university town, known for the invention of the bicycle and automobile. Popping into a random church I was amazed to discover that it was consecrated to St Francis Xavier, a Jesuit I was well familiar with due to his exploits in Kyushu in the 16th century. Leaving the church I walked along an empty side street, along a low grey building with barred windows. I pulled my thin jacket tighter as the wind-whipped, noticed the clear visibility lines up and down the block, imagining a late night Cold War rendezvous between two trench-coated men with their hats pulled low.\n 📸 See all Mannheim photos on Flickr →\nOnce out on the boulevard it was a different scene: students milling about a large palace complex. Mannheim University was founded inside the Mannheim Palace, a massive 17th century baroque schloss that is second only to Versailles. The center building has recently been restored and turned into a museum. I wandered inside, out of the cold, and then later went over to the university store and bought a “Mannheim U” pullover to keep warm.\n 📸 See inside the Mannheim Schloss photos on Flickr →\nI was so tired. My hotel was east of Mannheim station, the very last building before a green lightly forested area. To the south were the train tracks and on the north side was a sanitarium. My blank, tired eyes stared out of my fifth floor window into the abandoned shell of a building across the street as the grey sky turned dark. Night came, but sleep did not. I felt undead. I tossed and turned for two nights, imagining legions of ghosts wandering the city aimlessly, lost generations of the past. Was this place haunted? Or was it I who was haunted?\n† † †\nEven before we travel to a new country, we carry baggage. People who live outside of Japan have an impression of the country that is about twenty years out of date. When they see it for themselves, and talk to those who live there, they get a sense of actual lived reality and must discard their baggage.\nI went to Germany with the intention of throwing away my baggage.\nThis is my first trip to Mitteleuropa, having only been to the extreme edges of Sintra, Portugal to the far west, and the European side of Istanbul on the far eastern side. My motive for going to Germany was to attend Causal Islands however the country had long been on my bucket list, especially Berlin. Being well known as a haven for hackers and bohemians, I wanted to see if the city still harboured the culture of the black clad punks and the legendary Chaos Computer Club. Or was my impression 20 years out of date and needed to be discarded?\nBut before I even got to Berlin, I realized I had even older baggage. My perception of Germany had been tainted by countless war stories: books, films, documentaries. Every time I turned my eyes to a street, a building, a patch of land, I viewed it through that prism.\nBut in Heidelberg, with its old churches and bridge and castle, I gained respite from my overactive imagination. Heidelberg’s deeper history allowed me to escape to a time before the war.\n 📸 See Heidelberg photos on Flickr →\nThen it was on to Berlin where the post-war is etched into the street and depicted on the walls of the buildings. Although I did visit Checkpoint Charlie and saw the location of the Nazi HQ (under which, in an undisclosed location, is supposed to be Hitler’s bunker and tomb), I did not want to dwell on Nazi history here. I did want to visit the Wall.\nIn 1989, the year the Wall fell, I was about 11 years old. The Canadian nightly news broadcasts showing people swarming the wall, climbing it, smashing it with hammers, tearing it apart, are the earliest memory I have a of a global political event. Thus I had to see it for myself.\nBut mostly, I was in Berlin to see people, to talk to residents and understand the realities of living in Germany — to discard my baggage.\nOutside of the conference I connected with people doing amazing fiscal sponsor work, with orgs helping undocumented immigrants get started in Germany, with “social red-team” critical analysts and artists and musicians and internet activists. I took the trains and trams, checked out the graffiti and architecture, drank hot kaffee on the cold beach at the massive flea market at Mauer Park. I got body-scanned for interplanetary parasites at the legendary hackerspace c-base, home to Chaos Computer Club. In the nice area of town where I stayed the October nights were cold but people were still outside on the patio, bundled up in big parkas drinking tall bottles of cold beer. Smoking, hand tattoos, and bread were everywhere. Down in Kreuzberg I walked the ring and checked out the mosque, making note of the heavy polizei presence patrolling in front of the Bosnian and Turkish restaurants (I didn’t see any cops in my area of town…). I spoke to people who had lived in Berlin for many years, originally attracted by the alternative scene in the city. They were all either permanent residents or citizens. Many related how Germany’s shift to the right, its suppression of Arabic voices especially regarding Palestine (at one point Germany was funding a third of Israel’s weapons, second only to the USA), and austerity politics have changed the city. Berlin is no longer the place of cheap rents and free-flowing arts funding. Gentrification is starting to push out the black-clad anti-establishment types and anarchist intellectuals. People were starting to think about how to get out, but more importantly asking the question: where do we go?\nI left Germany with that profound question about the state of the world on my mind. Loaded up with chocolate and Rhine Valley Gewürztraminer, I returned to Canada, my baggage thoroughly discarded.\n 📸 See Berlin photos on Flickr →\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-27 13:45:01 -0700", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Dec 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/27/notes-from-germany.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F27%2Fnotes-from-germany.html" }, { "id": 635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-26 23:15:20 -0700", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Dec 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/26/started-reading-the-heroes-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F26%2Fstarted-reading-the-heroes-by.html" }, { "id": 636, "type": "post", "title": "My Coffee Advent Calendar Experience", "text": "For the past couple of years, some of my Fission comrades would get an Advent Calendar from Revolver Coffee in downtown Vancouver. Revolver is a pretty famous specialty coffee shop around these parts. Each year they gather together some interesting beans, package them up in little baggies, and ship them out as a mystery box. Now that we are back in Canada, this is year the first time I got to participate with the daily tasting with my friends. Here is what the box looks like:\n\nI never used to drink coffee. I grew up straight edge but when I was 29 and climbing up the sides of ships with a typewriter strapped to my back, I learned to drink the absolute worst coffee as a way to pass the time with crews from India, the Philippines, and Ukraine. It wasn’t until I was a product developer in Kelowna with my pals Brent and Adrian that I actually learned how to appreciate a proper pourover, Aeropress, Chemex, etc. In those days we were roasting our own beans in the parking lot, shivering in the snow but casting the most wondrous smells over the neighbourhood and attracting all sorts of interesting people. Small batch coffee roasting is an amazing networking technique 😉\nAnyways, back to the advent calendar. Although I have been a specialty coffee enthusiast for a long time, I have been pretty much non-discerning. I knew what I liked and didn’t like, but I didn’t know why. My favourite beans are Mocha Kadir from Yemen, but since the war it has been hard to get, so I usually go for Ethiopian beans. In my current neighbourhood is an Ethiopian coffee shop whose owner is from there and has all the farm contacts — a font of knowledge!\nAnyways, back to the advent calendar again. The point is I have no idea what I am tasting. Each day was an adventure. I would brew in my normal pourover method, handwrite my impressions in the little accompanying notebook, share a sip with my wife to get her impression, and then type out my thoughts in a private thread on the old Fission Discord. Only then would I check the Revolver Advent Calendar website to find out what the coffee actually was, and how wrong I got the flavours.\nAnd I do mean I got them wrong… like all the time. But it was fun to explore blindly with no real coaching. I would examine the size of the beans and consistency of the roast. Smell them before and after grinding, and during the pour. I noted the hardness of the beans during the grinding process, and how much chaff was in the grind. Over time I noted that smallish beans tended to be from Africa, and the big plump ones from Central and South America. Also, when there was lots of chaff in the grind, indicating dryness, this also tended to be for African beans. I would smell again after the pour, then sip a few times, swishing it around to determine the flavours. Some edited examples:\n The pour was nice and chocolately. It kinda smelled nutty to me? When I drank it I got some tartness, acidity. Fruity flavours… Later when looking at the tasting notes they said Banana Pudding and Peach!\n OMG Honeysuckle! Makes so much sense. I was casting around trying to figure out what that taste was: sweet? bitter? Spicy? But that sort of honeysuckle note put it together for me.\n Wife was like \u0026ldquo;This tastes kinda like burnt soy sauce\u0026hellip; me like!\u0026rdquo;\n Wow that was an interesting smell and taste. Is that molasses? It is kinda sweet, but not fruity\u0026hellip; but it did have some tang? What the hell is going on in my mouth? Why did I grow up in a small hillbilly mountain town on only THREE flavours: salt, Captain Crunch, and secondhand smoke.\n There is something strange here\u0026hellip; juicy\u0026hellip; is it the honeysuckle again? Muscat? … tasting again\u0026hellip; watermelon? Kinda cantaloupe or honeydew\u0026hellip; there is definitely melons in here. Very smooth. I like. Maybe not for everyday, but for special occasions. [After the reveal:] OMFG I was right for once! It only took 23 tries!\n This better not be candy cane dust 😦\n This tastes like a marine’s a haircut: high \u0026amp; tight\n One of my friends related some advice he once got from a pro: “A superior cup of coffee tastes good when it is hot, medium heat, and cold.” Interesting! Taking that advice I would not drink the freshly poured cup all at once, letting it cool and checking for consistency of taste.\nThe Revolver Advent Calendar was a great experience. Out of 24 cups I brewed 11 scored 4+ on the 5 point scale. And it was fun to learn how bad of a palate I have. 😅 I am really interested in doing a tasting course to try and refine my tongue. And now I have a lot of notes on the types of flavours and regions I tend to like.\nAnyways, back to the advent calendar for the last time — no more digressions! Here are my top ranked coffees from the calendar (in order of day):\nDay 12 DAK Milky Cake\nDay 19: Duck-Rabbit Sumatra Kerinici\nDay 21: Loquat Panama Pergamino\nDay 23: Monogram Colombia Finca Milan\nLet’s enjoy more good coffee in 2025!\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-26 19:00:35 -0700", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Dec 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/26/my-coffee-advent-calendar-experience.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F26%2Fmy-coffee-advent-calendar-experience.html" }, { "id": 637, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched Sicario for Xmas day today. Not sure why but a re-watch had been building for a while. I guess I was visited by a lonely ghost of Medellín 🎥\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-25 21:57:00 -0700", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Dec 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/25/watched-sicaro-for-xmas-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F25%2Fwatched-sicaro-for-xmas-day.html" }, { "id": 638, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a very busy year, so just binged the latest #DoctorWho in prep for Xmas special. Finally completely fell in love with Ncuti Gatwa in Rogue 💗 Happy to interleave with Flashcasts from my friends at the @incomparable@zeppelin.flights 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 18:27:25 -0700", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/23/had-a-very-busy-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fhad-a-very-busy-year.html" }, { "id": 639, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Xmas lights along the shore at White Rock, BC 📸\nwww.flickr.com/gp/sandba\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-21 22:27:02 -0700", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Dec 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/21/xmas-lights-along.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F21%2Fxmas-lights-along.html" }, { "id": 640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day of school before the winter break! 🎉\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-20 09:12:34 -0700", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Dec 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/20/last-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F20%2Flast-day-of.html" }, { "id": 641, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Amazing review from @brainvsbook.bsky.social\n This series is like if Silent Spring and Das Kapital had a baby and raised it in a pulp SF novel from the sixties, but then sent it to shojo manga finishing school.\n Want!\nbrainvsbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-19 15:28:14 -0700", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Dec 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/19/amazing-review-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F19%2Famazing-review-from.html" }, { "id": 642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listen to @uncannyjapan.bsky.social talk about how to make salt and the Salt God in Japan. Take a look at this shiogama 塩釜 at Jūrin-ji temple, built southwest of Kyoto in 850 and home to the famous poet Ariwarano Narihira.\nSee the full album here: flic.kr/s/aHsmMUh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-16 20:42:16 -0700", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Dec 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/16/listen-to-uncannyjapanbskysocial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F16%2Flisten-to-uncannyjapanbskysocial.html" }, { "id": 643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Shannon Falls, just south of Squamish on the way to Whistler. 3rd highest waterfall in BC\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 14:44:19 -0700", "date": "2:44 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/15/shannon-falls-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Fshannon-falls-just.html" }, { "id": 644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just got burned 🔥 🔥 🔥 by my 12 year old: “You ain’t got no rizz! The only thing you pull is push doors!” 🚑 🚑🚑\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-14 14:53:59 -0700", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Dec 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/14/i-just-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F14%2Fi-just-got.html" }, { "id": 645, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just found out one of my favourite authors Pankaj Mishra has a new book coming out in Feb: The World After Gaza. Instant pre-order. 💸\nHis essay on Gaza in the LRB from earlier this year is magisterial. 🎓\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-13 02:20:39 -0700", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Dec 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/13/just-found-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F13%2Fjust-found-out.html" }, { "id": 646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Up to Day 8 on my #RevolverCoffee Advent Calendar. Been some fun ones in here so far. ☕\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-08 11:16:30 -0700", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Dec 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/08/up-to-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F08%2Fup-to-day.html" }, { "id": 647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reminded of Ibn Khaldun’s writing on solidarity and mutualism. That was in the 14th C. Asabiyyah is an important word to add to our political lexicon in this century too.\nen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asab\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 12:26:36 -0700", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/07/reminded-of-ibn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Freminded-of-ibn.html" }, { "id": 648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I read Limitarianism earlier this year, which I recommend. This visualization adds to her argument: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-w\u0026hellip;\nH/t to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 11:08:17 -0700", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/07/i-read-limitarianism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Fi-read-limitarianism.html" }, { "id": 649, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished The Talented Mr. Ripley 📚\nThe interiority is remarkable. I wonder how people in 1955 took this book!? It must have blown minds and caused a controversy of some sort: witch hunt/book-banning/congressional hearings? The travel was super real too, she must’ve lived in Italy. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 09:43:50 -0700", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/07/finished-the-talented.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Ffinished-the-talented.html" }, { "id": 650, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Was just doing the math: in a few weeks is the anniversary when I left home and secretly went to Japan as an 18 year old. (There is a whole story there!) Anyways, I am now a year older than my father at that time. Wow! THIS is how young he was! 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 09:20:20 -0700", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/07/was-just-doing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Fwas-just-doing.html" }, { "id": 651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social\n both the neoliberal consensus and the Palo Alto consensus have collapsed, leading the political economies of Washington DC and Silicon Valley to move in very different directions.\n See the discussion on BSky.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-04 16:47:21 -0700", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Dec 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/04/from-henry-farrell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F04%2Ffrom-henry-farrell.html" }, { "id": 652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 2 of #RevolverCoffeeAdvent and I really like this one! No spoilers, but it is from one of my favourite regions. ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-02 09:46:02 -0700", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Dec 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/02/day-of-revolvercoffeeadvent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F02%2Fday-of-revolvercoffeeadvent.html" }, { "id": 653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Smooth flight over the Rocky Mountains 🏔️\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-01 13:59:27 -0700", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Dec 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/01/smooth-flight-over.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F01%2Fsmooth-flight-over.html" }, { "id": 654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: Airport, about to fly back to Vancouver. ✈️\nA little bit of snow in Kelowna. Just here catching up with fam and friends before the hols. ⛄️\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-01 12:12:24 -0700", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Dec 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/12/01/current-status-airport.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F12%2F01%2Fcurrent-status-airport.html" }, { "id": 655, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "November Newsletter is out, on the theme of making connections #newsletter\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-30 17:49:15 -0700", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Nov 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/30/november-newsletter-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F30%2Fnovember-newsletter-is.html" }, { "id": 656, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OMG this is epic\u0026hellip; from the @uncannyjapan.com Discord\n ", "dateiso": "2024-11-30 16:58:54 -0700", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Nov 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/30/omg-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F30%2Fomg-this-is.html" }, { "id": 657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Completed my challenge of 35 books! 📚\nwww.goodreads.com/user_chal\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-26 23:26:11 -0700", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Nov 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/26/completed-my-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F26%2Fcompleted-my-challenge.html" }, { "id": 658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Picked up my advent calendar from revolvercoffee.ca in Gastown today ☕\nComes with a little booklet for tasting notes! 📝\n\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-26 21:27:19 -0700", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Nov 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/26/picked-up-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F26%2Fpicked-up-my.html" }, { "id": 659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“He has no fear of cowardice”\nSome 🔥 lines in this section of The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-25 23:13:37 -0700", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Nov 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/25/he-has-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F25%2Fhe-has-no.html" }, { "id": 660, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨 THIS WEEK 📢 for the Metagov seminar we are hosting Kaliya Young and Day Waterbury to discuss their new paper \u0026ldquo;Exploring the Remarkable Regenerative Patterns and Practices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).\u0026rdquo;\n#Metagov #SummerOfProtocols\nresearchseminars.org/talk/Meta\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-25 09:53:56 -0700", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Nov 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/25/this-week-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F25%2Fthis-week-for.html" }, { "id": 661, "type": "post", "title": "Shining a light on the Dark Forest theory of the internet", "text": "In Against the Dark Forest internet writer and thinker Erin Kissane (who has just been killing it recently) re-assesses then challenges the notions of the Dark Forest (and by association the Cozy Web). People in my corner of the internet will already be familiar with the writing of Yancy Strickler, Maggie Appleton and Venkatesh Rao, all cited in the piece.\n Figure: Maggie Appleton’s now famous illustration of the layers of the web.\nKissane’s piece is long but worth it. A couple of choice quotes:\n On the other hand, the predators are clearly us: Individual people doing galaxy-brain bad-faith readings of other people’s banal posts for the juice\n She points out “we all can’t be Buddhas.”\n But all these platforms and attendant dipshits will be replaced, eventually, and what happens next isn\u0026rsquo;t guaranteed. The British East India company was a commercial atrocity factory at near-global scale; what came after it was direct colonial rule. The assumption that \u0026ldquo;Twitter but decentralized\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Facebook but open-source and federated\u0026rdquo; will necessarily be good—rather than differently bad—is a weak one.\n Nice provocation.\n our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve.\n PREACH! As David Graeber said: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”\n it seems questionable for technologists to cede the territory of the public internet to their fellow-but-worse technologists and the predatory forces they assemble and arm\n Yes, we do need to build local communities of mutual aid and respect, take care of our neighbours, etc, but we should not disconnect completely from the larger context.\n no longer think that it\u0026rsquo;s possible to mount an effective defense of the physical world—and of each other, in our fleshy vulnerability—without unfucking our networks.\n This. People have heard struggling with how I can fight the climate crisis: I am not the engineer that can invent the revolutionary carbon capture or universal solar battery. My skills and experience are on the internet. However, the climate crisis is the biggest coordination problem known to humankind, and the internet is the best global coordination mechanism we have. So I have doubled down by dedicating myself to make the Internet global, free and open — that is how I personally can fight the climate crisis.\nAnyways, this is the kind of writing that energies me and so many people around me to just DO something. Go read the piece, then let’s do something!\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-24 16:31:34 -0700", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Nov 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/24/shining-a-light.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F24%2Fshining-a-light.html" }, { "id": 662, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the second bookstore of the afternoon with my kids. They just love going to the bookstore, running around to see what’s available, talking excitedly about which they read and which they want to buy… and then leaving to go to the next one! I think we did well with these girls 🥹📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-23 18:14:45 -0700", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Nov 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/23/in-the-second.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F23%2Fin-the-second.html" }, { "id": 663, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "4-nil!!! #COYS\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-23 12:35:37 -0700", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Nov 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/23/nil-coys.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F23%2Fnil-coys.html" }, { "id": 664, "type": "post", "title": "My DWeb Seattle Social Trip Report", "text": "Here are some photos and a bit of an overview of our recent, cross-border #DWeb event\nwhtwnd.com/chadkoh.c\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-21 12:56:06 -0700", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Nov 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/21/my-dweb-seattle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F21%2Fmy-dweb-seattle.html" }, { "id": 665, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-16 21:24:42 -0700", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Nov 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/16/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F16%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 666, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning all! 🙏 🙇‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-15 09:01:42 -0700", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Nov 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/15/good-morning-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F15%2Fgood-morning-all.html" }, { "id": 667, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just watched Wim Wenders 1977 film The American Friend. Beautifully shot and I admire the young Bruno Ganz’s moustache… but this film is MESSED UP 😳 I need to watch it again and make note of all the connections between the scenes.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-14 00:17:22 -0700", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Nov 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/13/just-watched-wim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F13%2Fjust-watched-wim.html" }, { "id": 668, "type": "post", "title": "Neverpost, a show about the internet", "text": "Why do young content creators scream into their mics and blowout all the sound? When you need to reply to an important email, do you do it on your phone or wait until you get to a computer? What is the internet “megadungeon”? What about Poster’s Disease? Why does nobody use hashtags anymore, and who ruined the Laser Eyes Meme? Is it right to create an AI or generate photos of your departed parent?\nThese questions and much, much more are covered by Neverpo.st, a podcast, nay, an “audio magazine”, that covers the “internet.”\nOkay, that’s a lot of scare quotes, let me explain.\nThe show is produced by experienced sound people including one of my fav YouTubers of yore Mike Rugnetta of Ideas Channel. Each episode opens with a short news-reading then moves on to two segments separated by short interstitials which tickle that ASMR section of your brain. It can be things like binaural recordings of the state fair, meditative ambient music, or a person walking on gravel. I used to listen to the show on long walks around Osaka Castle, and every time an interstitial comes on I get transported back to that place. It has a real power to create a “space” in your mind when you are listening to it. Finally, the show often ends with some amazing poetry. The topics are broad and every ep is different, but they all sound great. This is why “audio magazine.”\n“Internet” is… well, it is impossible to cover the entire internet. Neverpost tends to be on the cultural side rather than the technical. Internet aesthetics, nostalgia, meme culture… these types of topics. But they are still very much grounded in the issues of the day. Take this short clip from their most recent episode:\nchadkoh · Neverpost Clip from DON'T PANIC I find Neverpost a relaxing \u0026ldquo;read” at the end of the week. It is very discursive, hyper-reflective, nerdy, neurotic, and possibly obsessive… so right up my alley 😄 The hosts are all younger than me and American, so theirs is a different Internet than the one I experience, but also one that I can recognize. It makes me think about generational experiences of media… the kind of question that could be a segment on the show! Anyways, I enjoy the show and wanted to recommend it. Everyone involved is very cool AND it is worker-owned independent media! (listen to Episode 0)\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-12 08:38:44 -0700", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Nov 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/09/neverpost-a-show.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F09%2Fneverpost-a-show.html" }, { "id": 669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This story is lovely. And from it I found out about silentbook.club so tempted to start a chapter! 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-10 23:14:31 -0700", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Nov 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/10/this-story-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F10%2Fthis-story-is.html" }, { "id": 670, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Saturday night, so eating homemade tanghulu and watching BlueLock with my daughter\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-09 23:38:06 -0700", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Nov 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/09/saturday-night-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F09%2Fsaturday-night-so.html" }, { "id": 671, "type": "post", "title": "Renunciation and technology", "text": "“But why wouldn’t you use it? It’s so convenient!”\nI was surprised that he was surprised. I was talking to a very intelligent technologist, someone who thought deeply about his craft. It got me thinking about the respect shown to renunciation in this culture, compared to other places I have been.\nNine years ago I renounced the eating of meat. At the beginning most people questioned it, but our culture has really come around to plant-based diets. When I was 18 my first alcohol experience was embarrassing and I swore it off. For the next decade it was “Oh, just a little won’t hurt, right?” Nowadays people don’t question it. During my year as an Upāsaka I took the 5 Precepts among other commitments. After years of living as a minimalist it was not that difficult, and very rewarding. I think I got the least pushback over that… maybe because it is religious?\nOf all the renunciation choices in my life the most pushback I get from people are technology choices, like the person at the very beginning of this post. It’s okay when I tell people I quit Facebook in 2010 (Facebook is no longer fashionable anyways) but if it is a particularly popular or widespread app, I get disbelief (or dismissed as an unwashed hippie 😅).\nFree and Open Source crusaders have been fighting the fight for ethical software for decades. We finally started to see some regulatory movement against tech monopolies, and I have seen more general discussion of Luddism in the zeitgeist. I was hoping for a change in the culture but now that Big Tech has captured the White House, I think we need to look elsewhere for that change. This is certainly a new opportunity to be talking more about mindful decision-making in tech adoption.\nWhere to start, and some provocations Traditionally, renunciation is a practice about removing attachments to gain freedom, it is a path to personal liberation. It is about pursuing a purposeful “good life”. Renunciation of conveniences or consumer products can free up time/money/attention/etc to be spent on more deeply engaging with meaningful pursuits.\nBut what should we renounce? In 2018 I taught digital ethics to a Computer Science 101 class using Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, an excellent resource for thinking about the practice of moral self-cultivation in a technological world. She notes:\n Aristotle explains that, just as a geometrically wise person will ‘see’ that what is mathematically significant about three intersecting lines is that they form a triangle, a practically wise person (a phronimos) will reliably ‘see’ and attend to the morally significant facts of concrete situations.\n There is more consciousness-raising about tech ethics that needs to be done. Renunciation is a practice of moral cultivation, but one must have a certain level of cultivation before they can properly pursue renunciation.\nI ended that first CompSci class with the following Questions to think about which I will leave for you to consider and maybe to comment on:\n What do you consider when you use or adopt a new technology? Can you think of examples of when new technology is a wholly positive thing? How about a negative thing? Are there any examples of technology that you have adopted that harms others? Here are some more provocations:\n Think of your fav tech product, or the one you use the most. Are you aware of a friend or coworker that chooses not to use it? If you can’t think of anyone, why not? Do you do digital detoxes, or even more general practices like camping, Lent, Ramadan, or Uposatha? How do these practices inform your tech choices? Check out my Uses page where you will find a list of things I DO NOT use. I am by no means a perfect paragon of technology ethics (\u0026quot;we all can\u0026rsquo;t be Buddhas\u0026quot;), but this supposed to be a practice, which means it is ongoing. If you make a DO NOT USE list, please share. All of our lists do not need to look exactly the same, everyone has their own life contingencies, but I relish the free and open discussion.\nSlide from my Computer Science 101 course introducing the technomoral virtues from Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-09 15:17:50 -0700", "date": "3:17 p.m. on Nov 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/09/renunciation-and-technology.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F09%2Frenunciation-and-technology.html" }, { "id": 672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rainy Friday night dinner date with my wife in Gastown (I forgot to take photos of the food! Sorry!)\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-08 21:57:32 -0700", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Nov 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/08/rainy-friday-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F08%2Frainy-friday-night.html" }, { "id": 673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cindy Mochizuki, director of BETWEEN PICTURES: THE LENS OF TAMIO WAKAYAMA takes questions at the Vancouver Asian Film Fest. Tamio travelled to the US south in 1963 to join and photograph SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement. Later, back in Canada, he photographed the Powell Street Festival.\n#vaff\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-08 18:51:33 -0700", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Nov 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/08/cindy-mochizuki-director.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F08%2Fcindy-mochizuki-director.html" }, { "id": 674, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went to Amazon.ca to check on something and this was on my For You page\n😬😬😬\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-06 15:18:40 -0700", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Nov 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/06/went-to-amazonca.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F06%2Fwent-to-amazonca.html" }, { "id": 675, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "😞\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-06 09:28:57 -0700", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Nov 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/06/082857.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F06%2F082857.html" }, { "id": 676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After months of waiting, my wife\u0026rsquo;s new Permanent Resident Card arrived! 🎉\nNow we can leave the country 😜\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-04 17:15:46 -0700", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Nov 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/04/after-months-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F04%2Fafter-months-of.html" }, { "id": 677, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just found out about the passing of Kei Kamanishi, the last surviving member of the legendary Asahi baseball team made up of Japanese-Canadians disbanded during the WW2 internment. He was 102 years old. I never met him in person, just on a virtual call. 南無阿弥陀🙏📿\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-02 21:35:44 -0700", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Nov 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/02/just-found-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F02%2Fjust-found-out.html" }, { "id": 678, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can hear the fireworks 🎆 Happy Diwali everyone! 🪔\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-01 21:26:57 -0700", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Nov 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/11/01/i-can-hear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F11%2F01%2Fi-can-hear.html" }, { "id": 679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our IETF Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (DIN RG) will be in Los Angeles in Dec 9th at ACM featuring speakers like Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr and @martin.kleppmann.com\nCheck out the schedule\n#dweb\nconferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-31 14:09:06 -0700", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Oct 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/31/our-ietf-decentralization.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F31%2Four-ietf-decentralization.html" }, { "id": 680, "type": "post", "title": "CITED is back and taking on \"economics\"", "text": "The CITED podcast is back! It has been a few years. I’ve previously enjoyed their work on the reproducibility crisis in scientific publishing and many of their critical episodes on their original run in the 2015-2018 era. Gordon Katic and the CITED team have an engaging narrative technique for introducing listeners to complex topics, so I know this new series is going to be good.\nThis time they are taking on the issue of expertise in economics and how it is abused.\nA quick, illustrative personal story: back in the early 2000s I met a professor at a tiny coffee shop tucked away behind an ivy wall north of my university in Kyoto. The flower print ceramics and doilies made me feel like I was taking tea at an English nan’s house. In this setting I asked for advice: “how can I prepare to study regional conflict in grad school?” He was quick with an answer: “Study economics.”\nI did go on to study regional conflict and counter-terrorism in grad school, and encountered much economic thinking, including a prof who worked for NORAD using complex mathematical models to fight the Soviets during the arms race in the 1980s.\nEconomics is the science with an answer for everything. That does not mean those answers are right. In the past few years there have been a new raft of books challenging mainstream economics, and the power of economists and economic thinking in our political life. This is in some part due to society slowly coming out of four decades of neoliberalism. (I first came upon that word a decade ago reading things like Piketty’s Capitalism in the 21st Century and Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years — another pair of books that make you question economics as a field — but finally that word has entered the mainstream, even being denounced by global leaders like former Japan PM Kishida and US President Joe Biden. This just goes to show how things had evolved over the past few years).\nOne of my favourite recent books is The Economist\u0026rsquo;s Hour: The Rise of a Discipline, the Failures of Globalization, and the Road to Nationalism. That was my fav book of 2021. While that book exams how economistic thinking weaseled it’s way into our political system, I recently finished The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality which examines the legal methods used to prepare the soil for those seeds of thought.\nIn terms of what society reaps when you sow such seeds, I really recommend Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (my GR Review and chapter notes) which very much brings this debate into today’s political reality. There are still reactionary elements out there, many active in my are of the internet and startup-land, so read Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (my GR Review and chapter notes) to understand where they are coming from. And if you want to imagine an alternative to global capitalism as driven by the thinking of mainstream economic thinkers, take a walk into the forest and read The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.\nOkay, so this turned out to be a giant book recommendation post, but it is also a podcast recommendation. Check out CITED. I will be listening along. So far the first ep on Simon Kuznets and the history of the econometric measure of GDP already has me angry. Let me know what you think, and what we can do to have better ways to think about social political issues today and tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-27 15:31:44 -0700", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Oct 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/27/cited-is-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F27%2Fcited-is-back.html" }, { "id": 681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Gulabjamun cheesecake is 😋\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-21 17:59:13 -0700", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Oct 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/21/this-gulabjamun-cheesecake.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F21%2Fthis-gulabjamun-cheesecake.html" }, { "id": 682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just been sitting ant home tonight watching the #bcelxn results come in. Still too close to call! 😬 #cdnpoli\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-19 21:17:08 -0700", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Oct 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/19/just-been-sitting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F19%2Fjust-been-sitting.html" }, { "id": 683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gawd I really need to get out and do a photo walk soon… I really like our new neighbourhood, but I sure miss living in downtown Kyoto/Osaka\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-19 08:57:58 -0700", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Oct 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/19/gawd-i-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F19%2Fgawd-i-really.html" }, { "id": 684, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Setting the table for a special dinner tonight #IYKYK\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-18 16:44:01 -0700", "date": "4:44 p.m. on Oct 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/18/setting-the-table.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F18%2Fsetting-the-table.html" }, { "id": 685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely walk and talk in the forest with a friend this afternoon. We talked travel, politics, games, and the joys of back-end infrastructure\u0026hellip; all while surrounded by GREEN\n#mosstodon #lichensubscribe\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-17 16:34:40 -0700", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Oct 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/17/lovely-walk-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F17%2Flovely-walk-and.html" }, { "id": 686, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026hellip; AM\u0026hellip; CANADIAN! 🇨🇦 🦫 🍁\npudding.cool/2024/10/c\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-17 16:11:12 -0700", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Oct 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/17/i-am-canadian.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F17%2Fi-am-canadian.html" }, { "id": 687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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:\n ", "dateiso": "2024-10-16 10:40:33 -0700", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Oct 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/16/i-blazed-through.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F16%2Fi-blazed-through.html" }, { "id": 688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It me\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-15 20:48:48 -0700", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Oct 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/15/it-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Fit-me.html" }, { "id": 689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coffee time ☕️\n\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-15 15:50:02 -0700", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Oct 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/15/coffee-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Fcoffee-time.html" }, { "id": 690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last night I started The Armageddon Protocol by @danmoren.com 📚\nThis is the final book of his Galactic Cold War series. Congrats to Dan who I have listened to for years on The Incomparable. 👏👏👏\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-15 05:53:04 -0700", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Oct 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/15/last-night-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Flast-night-i.html" }, { "id": 691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Only a few more letters needed for the Internet Society\u0026rsquo;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:\nactionnetwork.org/letters/e\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-14 21:13:34 -0700", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Oct 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/14/only-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F14%2Fonly-a-few.html" }, { "id": 692, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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”. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-14 12:42:26 -0700", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Oct 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/14/started-the-message.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F14%2Fstarted-the-message.html" }, { "id": 693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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?\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-13 06:53:50 -0700", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Oct 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/13/ghetts-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F13%2Fghetts-is-a.html" }, { "id": 694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did the thing! #cdnpoli #bcelxn\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-12 13:48:12 -0700", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Oct 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/12/i-did-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F12%2Fi-did-the.html" }, { "id": 695, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-11 06:07:06 -0700", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Oct 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/11/woke-up-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F11%2Fwoke-up-from.html" }, { "id": 696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look who’s back 🇨🇦\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-10 15:32:06 -0700", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Oct 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/11/look-whos-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F11%2Flook-whos-back.html" }, { "id": 697, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚈🚄✈️✈️🚝🚝🚌\nBER → FRA → YVR\nGoodbye Germany! It was fun!\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-10 00:32:22 -0700", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Oct 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/10/ber-fra-yvr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F10%2Fber-fra-yvr.html" }, { "id": 698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Check out the list of participants in the #OpenSourcePledge #opensource\nopensourcepledge.com/members/\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-09 07:08:07 -0700", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Oct 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/09/check-out-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F09%2Fcheck-out-the.html" }, { "id": 699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“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.” 👨‍🎤\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-08 12:17:18 -0700", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Oct 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/08/hoi-chummer-slot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F08%2Fhoi-chummer-slot.html" }, { "id": 700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some shots of the Festival of Light in #Berlin tonight down at Alexanderplatz\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-06 13:52:14 -0700", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Oct 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/06/some-shots-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F06%2Fsome-shots-of.html" }, { "id": 701, "type": "post", "title": "Causal Islands Berlin", "text": " “What if people could just… do things?”\n 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.\nI 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. The Hallway Track is legendary, and I can tell you I made so many great connections here in Berlin!\nThe talks covered the technical and the artistic, and there was an underlying message of keeping the bar to participate low so that more people can engage with technology on their terms: less power to giant centralized corporations, less siloing of our information, less intrusive surveillance, less disparity. But this is about more than merely the individual, it is about computing with our communities. To paraphrase one of the presenters (an actual poet who said this much better than I can reproduce here):\n I want to co-train and co-own an LLM model with my friends. I would love to see me in their work and them in my work, since this is already happening.\n 💞\nMore local control, more agency, more flexibility, more room to remix and reform and customize software, more collaborating with friends, more parody and jokes, and many more experiments. More of what we saw on the Causal Islands stage.\nThe videos of the talks will be released in the next few weeks. I can’t wait to share them!\nThank you to all the attendees and supporters of Causal Islands. I look forward to continued discussion on the Causal Islands Discord, and I look forward to the next event!\n(You can see some more snaps on Bluesky)\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-06 09:24:29 -0700", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Oct 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/06/causal-islands-berlin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F06%2Fcausal-islands-berlin.html" }, { "id": 702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "DJ party at the cafe in Berlin\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-05 10:35:00 -0700", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Oct 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/05/dj-party-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F05%2Fdj-party-at.html" }, { "id": 703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What’s gud, peasants?\nCURRENT STATUS: Baroque\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-01 04:52:41 -0700", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Oct 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/10/01/whats-gud-peasants.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F10%2F01%2Fwhats-gud-peasants.html" }, { "id": 704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feeling terribly jet lagged? Some Classic Quebec Poutine will help right? Right?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-30 06:34:39 -0700", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Sep 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/30/feeling-terribly-jet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F30%2Ffeeling-terribly-jet.html" }, { "id": 705, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I missed sending out my personal newsletter last month so this is a double, but I kept it short.\nbuttondown.com/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-29 17:28:22 -0700", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Sep 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/30/i-missed-sending.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F30%2Fi-missed-sending.html" }, { "id": 706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a nice time walking around Mannheim taking selfies in front of old/impressive things\n\nMannheim Gallery on Flickr\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-29 10:52:35 -0700", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Sep 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/29/had-a-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F29%2Fhad-a-nice.html" }, { "id": 707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now that I’ve been in Germany for more than 24 hours, some impressions:\n🚗 fast driving 🎨 graffiti ✝️ churches ⛪️ more churches ◼️squat square buildings 🗼lotta round towers…? 🍞 bread 🥖\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-29 08:33:00 -0700", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Sep 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/29/now-that-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F29%2Fnow-that-ive.html" }, { "id": 708, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-29 05:31:24 -0700", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Sep 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/29/took-the-train.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F29%2Ftook-the-train.html" }, { "id": 709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wandering around some European plazas recently myself, I am so glad for this! Amazing that they turned these lovely spaces into car parks!\nwww.politico.eu/article/e\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-29 02:11:28 -0700", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Sep 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/29/wandering-around-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F29%2Fwandering-around-some.html" }, { "id": 710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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! 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-28 13:21:26 -0700", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Sep 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/28/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F28%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made it to Frankfurt 🇩🇪\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-28 05:55:31 -0700", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Sep 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/28/made-it-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F28%2Fmade-it-to.html" }, { "id": 712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "(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)\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-27 17:49:17 -0700", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Sep 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/27/squeezed-out-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F27%2Fsqueezed-out-that.html" }, { "id": 713, "type": "post", "title": "Taiwan Trip Report pt 3: Taipei", "text": "This post is part of a series. See the introduction here →\nDespite 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. When we took the sky train to the eastern part of the city at Nangang, zooming along the edge of the pretty lake at Dahu Park, I was thankful I brought my sandals.\nHalf our time in Taiwan was spent in Taipei, a city that houses nearly 40% of the country’s population. It was nice to see some other cities and towns (as with most countries the capital city/economic center is not representative) but Taipei is a very enjoyable place. We travelled on trains and buses quite a bit and walked a few of the neighbourhoods. Taipei is a bustling city with way better international food than Japan (outside of Tokyo I suppose). Between trips to nightmarkets like at Raohe Street where we saw some great “bird fortune-telling”, we had tacos and steak and tacos again! The second floor of Taipei Station has all sorts of Thai and Korean and Japanese food. One late night when I was on my own, I finally partook in a Taiwanese Mos Burger, which actually was different than in Japan.\nHighlights of Taipei On the first hot day we took breakfast at a Soy Milk shop, a cramped little restaurant with a giant line of hungry tourists and locals out the front. We over-ordered many different breakfast delicacies and sampled all the little spicy and sweet sauces, crowded around a wooden table, our heads nearly touching. At the table in the corner I watched and old man rolling the dough for bao. He was in his own world, completely unbothered by the crowd, and quickly producing units of the perfect thickness with his practiced hands.\nHot stepping through the morning shadows to avoid the sun we made it to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial, a massive white building at the end of a long strip of lawn that we avoided due to fear of being cooked. The grounds are bordered with a covered walk, so we took the coward’s way and I had to satisfy myself with some photos of the building from its corner. Inside was shaded but still sweltering. Up the long stairs is an open-faced alcove. The ceiling is decorated by an intricate pattern around the sun emblem found on the Taiwanese flag. Seated at the back of the hall is a giant statue of Chiang Kai Shek, the man who brought the Republic of China to the island of Taiwan after his defeat in the Chinese Civil War against Mao’s Communist forces. A few industrial fans moved the hot air around the room, but I couldn’t let myself feel sorry for myself. At least I was not in full dress uniform like the military guard! We timed our arrival perfectly to get a good view of the changing of the guard, an elaborate and excruciatingly slow and exacting performance. I almost fell over with heat stroke just holding my camera to capture it all! After 15 minutes of slow motion goose-stepping, then rifle spinning, then standing perfectly still (for the next hour I suppose) the process was over, we took some quick selfies and then retreated inside the air-conditioned building below.\nThe Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Building houses all sorts of displays and shops, but the main two areas really sum up Taiwan’s split personality with regards to its modern founding. When you walk into the main museum hall you turn left into a wing that lionizes Chiang Kai Shek, the military dictator of the country for 25 years, with displays of his letters, cars, and slippers. If you turn into the rightward wing of the museum you walk through a maze of photos and videos featuring the journalists and political prisoners that Chiang Kai Shek’s regime imprisoned.\nCKS is certainly a complex person, and the pastiche I have just painted is particularly simplistic. But standing at the entrance, looking left and right, I was struck by how Taiwan is still dealing with its history. (Something I also felt at the National History Museum in Tainan)\n\n(see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here)\nDragons Later in the trip I had the opportunity to walk these streets at night. This area of the city has wide boulevards lined with many official buildings, all terminating at a giant roundabout where you get a great view of the President’s offices. I wasn’t able to get a good photo of it since I was rudely interrupted by a scooter accident that happened right in front of me. It happened like right in front of the National Taiwan University Hospital and a block from the Taipei City Police Department so the authorities were on the scene in a flash. Everyone seemed okay thankfully, but no cool night photos for Chad.\nLuckily, I was able to go to Lungshan temple in the evening. Once again I was alone, so I could take my time photographing the elaborate rooves adorned with dragons. After feeling some cool spray from the purple-lit waterfall at the entrance, I crossed into the busy temple, where many people were throwing Moon Blocks over and over again. Waling the circuit of the temple complex, I peeked into each cubby trying to identify gods and goddesses. The place was overflowing with energy. I even picked up an omamori protective charm as a souvenir.\nA lack of cabbage Tucked into the lush hills on the north side of the city is the National Museum. As mentioned above, Chiang Kai Shek escaped the mainland during the Chinese Civil War. When he did he brought many treasures from China. 18 years later China went through the Cultural Revolution when the Red Guards destroyed much of China\u0026rsquo;s cultural artifacts. So many treasures lost! As a result, the national Museum in Beijing is pretty skint. But the National Museum in Taipei! Wondrous! There are so many pieces that you could return many times over to properly enjoy them. The tiny cabbage carved from jade is the most famous. Unfortunately it was not being displayed while we were there. I did get some good closeups of the jade meat though.\nOne highlight was seeing artifacts carved with kanji (Chinese Characters) dating back to the 13th-11th Century BCE! My kids said if they ever got access to a time machine they would go back and destroy these so they would not have to study kanji at Japanese school anymore.\nThere are amazing treasures here. One of my favourites is an ivory balls carved from an elephant’s tusk. The ball is carved with another ball inside, which moves! And inside that ball is another ball! The ball took over a hundred years, was started by the grandfather and finished by the grandson. Can you guess how many balls-inside-balls there are? (Hint, a lot more than Inception). Check the gallery below to see photos and the answer.\n\n(see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here)\nActual Animals and Secret Slides In Kaohsiung we saw a Grand Hotel but in Taipei we got to see the Grand Hotel. About twice the size of the one in the south, this hotel has hosted many famous dignitaries from around the world. Intricately designed there are many many details. The lobby alone features 144 pillars, 71 lanterns, and 220,000 dragons! We took a tour which included the secret slide installed to evacuate VIPs in case of emergency!\nAt the back of the hotel is the Centennial Dragon, which was a gift from Japan to the Taipei Jinja, the Japanese Shinto shrine that used to be on this spot. The story of the statue includes how it survived a plane crash. They know it is “obviously” a Japanese dragon because it only has 3 claws, which is how they did it back in the Tang dynasty. Since then Chinese dragons have evolved to 5 claws, but since Japan never changes…\n\n(see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here)\nFor our final day we visited the Taipei Zoo, originally constructed about a hundred years ago by the Japanese (who really love their zoos!) We were able to get up close to many animals! The first section is Formosa animals: tiny deer, goat-like things, boars, the leopard cat, and then a huge sun bear. The zoo was too large for the half-day we had dedicated to it though, so we missed a bunch and went straight to the bird area which had the most amazing Nicobar pigeons.\n\n(see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here)\nAt the end of the day the family took a gondola to the top of the mountain behind the zoo to get some nice night views of the city. Meanwhile I went back into the city on my own to meet with a local Microblogger at a lovely vegetarian restaurant. We had an amazing conversation, and made a great connection. I love meeting random internet people!\nNext post I will try to consolidate some thoughts and impressions about Taiwan. (UPDATE: Many many months later, I present my inconclusions →)\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-27 17:41:59 -0700", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Sep 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/27/taiwan-trip-report.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F27%2Ftaiwan-trip-report.html" }, { "id": 714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚌🚃🚋🛫 Heading to YVR and then to Frankfurt! See you all in Germany 🇩🇪\nCausal Islands next week!!🎉🎊🪩\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-27 14:28:55 -0700", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Sep 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/27/heading-to-yvr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F27%2Fheading-to-yvr.html" }, { "id": 715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice lively discussion about different communities of women and power throughout Japanese history booksonasia.net/podcast/b\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-25 21:56:00 -0700", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Sep 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/25/nice-lovely-discussion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F25%2Fnice-lovely-discussion.html" }, { "id": 716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow 😳 Canada\u0026rsquo;s first ever tsunami tower is being built in BC\ncanada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 21:15:32 -0700", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/21/wow-canadas-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fwow-canadas-first.html" }, { "id": 717, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hanging out with the monthly tech coffee crew this morning at Trees Cafe. Made a bunch more connections!\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 20:13:19 -0700", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/21/hanging-out-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fhanging-out-with.html" }, { "id": 718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went to Katsuya for… Korean Pizza 🍕\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-20 22:29:38 -0700", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Sep 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/20/went-to-katsuya.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F20%2Fwent-to-katsuya.html" }, { "id": 719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got #DnD 🎲🐉⚔️🧛🏻‍♂️ tonight so did my #craigsgymclass early.\n2 min planks are killing me bruv! 😩 How am I gonna get to 5🖐️⁉️\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-17 17:09:15 -0700", "date": "5:09 p.m. on Sep 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/17/got-dnd-tonight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F17%2Fgot-dnd-tonight.html" }, { "id": 720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay, more Germany trip recommendation requests: what’s good in Mannheim? Also, thinking aboutut popping over to Strasbourg for a day. Any reccos for there?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-17 09:48:26 -0700", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Sep 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/17/okay-more-germany.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F17%2Fokay-more-germany.html" }, { "id": 721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some very interesting speakers lined up for #CIGF2024 on November 27th:\ncanadianigf.ca/event-det\u0026hellip;\n#InternetGovernance​ #Canada #IGF\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-17 08:16:12 -0700", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Sep 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/17/some-very-interesting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F17%2Fsome-very-interesting.html" }, { "id": 722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dusky downtown #Vancouver. Clear blue sky with a little chill signifying Fall. 🍂\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-16 19:46:50 -0700", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Sep 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/16/dusky-downtown-vancouver.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F16%2Fdusky-downtown-vancouver.html" }, { "id": 723, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A nice #Bluesky from downtown #Vancouver. Congrats on 10 million users! 🥳\nGorgeous day here. Fall is just around the corner!\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-16 17:13:24 -0700", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Sep 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/16/a-nice-bluesky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F16%2Fa-nice-bluesky.html" }, { "id": 724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight I did days 13+14+15 of #craigsgymclass. Now I am all caught up:\n0+1m40s+1m50s plank 🪵 55+55+60 squats 🏋️‍♀️ 4x7+5x5+3x4 pushups 🙇\nFinished it off with a run too! 🏃‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-15 21:36:33 -0700", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Sep 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/15/tonight-i-did.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F15%2Ftonight-i-did.html" }, { "id": 725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Amazing 👏 👏 👏 (via @molly.wiki)\nmodem.io/blog/blog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-15 09:27:12 -0700", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Sep 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/15/amazing-via-mollywiki.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F15%2Famazing-via-mollywiki.html" }, { "id": 726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Planning my trip to Germany at the end of the month. Who do I know that is there? Any recommendations for things I should see? I will be in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, and then Berlin for #CausalIslands\nberlin.causalislands.com\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-13 07:47:40 -0700", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Sep 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/13/planning-my-trip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F13%2Fplanning-my-trip.html" }, { "id": 727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am riding out the side effects of this Covid booster 💉 💉💉 💉 💉 💉 by watching tons of UK drill videos 🩸🔪🥷🤫🎵\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-09 23:25:23 -0700", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Sep 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/09/i-am-riding.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F09%2Fi-am-riding.html" }, { "id": 728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 16:13:16 -0700", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/08/started-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fstarted-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 729, "type": "post", "title": "Comparing ambiguous apples and polysemous pigs", "text": "From pages 24-25 of Babel by R.F. Kuang, where the Latin teacher scolds the student Robin for not remembering his macrons:\n \u0026lsquo;Even the length of a single vowel matters, Robin Swift. Consider the Bible. The original Hebrew text never specifies what sort of forbidden fruit the serpent persuades Eve to eat. But in Latin, malum means \u0026ldquo;bad\u0026rdquo; and mālum,\u0026rsquo; he wrote the words out for Robin, emphasizing the macron with force, \u0026lsquo;means \u0026ldquo;apple\u0026rdquo;. It was a short leap from there to blaming the apple for the original sin. But for all we know, the real culprit could be a persimmon.\u0026rsquo;\n This parable for accuracy in documentation reminded me of the death of the historical Buddha, Siddartha Gautama. When the blacksmith Cunda delivered the Buddha\u0026rsquo;s last meal sūkaramaddava \u0026ldquo;pig\u0026rsquo;s delight\u0026rdquo;, was it actually pork or some kind of truffle that gave the Buddha dysentery? The truth has been lost to transliteration.\nThe prevalence of lexical ambiguity and world-turning food items in religious texts is shocking, is it not?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 15:45:01 -0700", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/08/comparing-ambiguous-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fcomparing-ambiguous-apples.html" }, { "id": 730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading Babel by RF Kuang 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 11:50:30 -0700", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/08/started-reading-babel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fstarted-reading-babel.html" }, { "id": 731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did my undergrad in Linguistics, but only speak 2 languages. People always ask: “What is the easiest/hardest language to learn?” The answer can be captured in a concept from Xerox PARC: Tesler’s Law. All languages are complex in their own way, it’s just about where they hide their complexity.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 10:41:59 -0700", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/08/i-did-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fi-did-my.html" }, { "id": 732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two new physical 🙀 book purchases today! 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 22:20:49 -0700", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/07/two-new-physical.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Ftwo-new-physical.html" }, { "id": 733, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely Saturday. 😎 We went to a neighborhood festival, I almost got on the nightly news (as an interviewee not for doing anything shocking! 🙈), then Japanese school with the kids, took a spin around Metrotown, and finally classic Crystal Mall dinner 🥟 🍜 🧋 🥡🥢\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 20:01:28 -0700", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/07/lovely-saturday-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Flovely-saturday-we.html" }, { "id": 734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excellent font. Great site. Stay to the end for the little game.\ndeparturemono.com\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-05 07:15:39 -0700", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Sep 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/05/excellent-font-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F05%2Fexcellent-font-great.html" }, { "id": 735, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;instead of a personal computer, this is a communal computer\u0026rdquo;\n Lovely to see Dynamicland in action\n ", "dateiso": "2024-09-04 11:47:57 -0700", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Sep 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/04/instead-of-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F04%2Finstead-of-a.html" }, { "id": 736, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nThis is the final book in the First Law trilogy, which I can’t stop recommending to people. The way it all wraps up, coiled tightly like a spring in a watch, powering the most intricate hands round-and-round as it tells the story. Brilliant!\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-03 22:24:59 -0700", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Sep 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/03/finished-last-argument.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F03%2Ffinished-last-argument.html" }, { "id": 737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 2 of #craigsgymclass September challenge is done 💪\n20s plank 🪵 25 squats 🏋️‍♀️ 2x6 pushups 🙇\nI also went for a short jog and a walk.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-02 21:54:00 -0700", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Sep 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/02/day-of-craigsgymclass.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F02%2Fday-of-craigsgymclass.html" }, { "id": 738, "type": "post", "title": "#craigsgymclass begins! plank 🪵 squats 🏋️‍♀️ pushups 🙇", "text": "Now that I am back from summer holidays and things are settling here in my new home in Canada it is time to start taking care of my health for the first time in years. I have been walking lots, building back up to jogging, but I decided to kick off September with something I did a couple years ago: #craigsgymclass\nCraig Atkinson, an active member of the Anglo-Japan-Twittersphere, inspired a bunch of us with a simple way to kickstartour way to healthier living. The rules are below. I am going to take this challenge again, and will post my progress at #craigsgymclass. Join me! Let’s get work up some support from the community! 💪 👏 🫂 😭 😊\n ", "dateiso": "2024-09-01 23:39:28 -0700", "date": "11:39 p.m. on Sep 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/09/01/craigsgymclass-begins-plank.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F09%2F01%2Fcraigsgymclass-begins-plank.html" }, { "id": 739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "C - Deception Island, Antarctica\nH - São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil\nA - Lake Guakhmaz, Azerbaijan\nD - Akimiski Island, Canada\nK - Golmund, China\nO - Crater Lake, Oregon\nH - Southwestern Kyrgyzstan\nCheck out the NASA site that spells out your name in Landsat images 🛰🗺 via @davidho@mastodon.world\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-30 20:58:46 -0700", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Aug 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/30/c-deception-island.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F30%2Fc-deception-island.html" }, { "id": 740, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "10 days catching up with family \u0026amp; friends in the Okanagan. Luckily no fires! Weather was amazing! Saw a ton of people we haven’t seen since we left for Kyoto. But there are still more! We’ll be back soon. Just now got back to the coast, getting ready for school next week. Have a good weekend! 🥂\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-30 18:55:58 -0700", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Aug 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/30/days-catching-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F30%2Fdays-catching-up.html" }, { "id": 741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First day of the Armstrong Fair, the local annual carnival + agricultural sales event + cowboy cosplay convention\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-28 20:30:38 -0700", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Aug 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/28/first-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F28%2Ffirst-day-of.html" }, { "id": 742, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying some nice Okanagan wine wine 🥂 while watching the sunset over Okanagan Lake 🌅\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-25 22:39:42 -0700", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Aug 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/25/enjoying-some-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F25%2Fenjoying-some-nice.html" }, { "id": 743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Me tryna figure out how to type, mouse, and scroll on my friend’s Svalboard ergonomic keyboard. It is mind-blowing! 🤯 (I can’t even type my own damn name 😅 but it’s amazing how little movement you need to control this once you got used to it)\nSee more: svalboard.com\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-25 09:10:21 -0700", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Aug 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/25/me-tryna-figure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F25%2Fme-tryna-figure.html" }, { "id": 744, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doing a little holiday reading and writing here in the bright and dry Okanagan\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-21 12:40:32 -0700", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Aug 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/21/doing-a-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F21%2Fdoing-a-little.html" }, { "id": 745, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Catching a water taxi over to Granville Island to meet a mate from the Osaka tech community visiting Vancouver! 🛥️\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-15 14:39:56 -0700", "date": "2:39 p.m. on Aug 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/15/catching-a-water.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F15%2Fcatching-a-water.html" }, { "id": 746, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\npca.st/episode/9\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-15 13:53:54 -0700", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Aug 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/15/sitting-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F15%2Fsitting-on-the.html" }, { "id": 747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wearing my shark shirt to the Vancouver Aquarium today. During the show a diver swims with the black-tipped reef sharks 🦈\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-14 13:03:01 -0700", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Aug 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/14/wearing-my-shark.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F14%2Fwearing-my-shark.html" }, { "id": 748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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? 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-12 08:20:09 -0700", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Aug 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/12/i-have-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F12%2Fi-have-a.html" }, { "id": 749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “[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.”\n My city of just a half-million people has a network of 596 cameras. 🤯 Next hackathon I am building this.\njalopnik.com/art-proje\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-12 08:09:32 -0700", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Aug 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/12/users-can-access.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F12%2Fusers-can-access.html" }, { "id": 750, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A bit early, but here is Sunset Beach looking into English bay, downtown Vancouver 🌅\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-08 17:43:29 -0700", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Aug 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/08/a-bit-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F08%2Fa-bit-early.html" }, { "id": 751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My first Espresso Soda ☕️ 🥤\nDifferent, but good! 😋\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-08 17:03:55 -0700", "date": "5:03 p.m. on Aug 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/08/my-first-espresso.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F08%2Fmy-first-espresso.html" }, { "id": 752, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Via @manton\n Nice icon set on We Distribute with icons for many platforms and fediverse apps.\n I hope @buttondown and other services adopt these soon!\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-07 16:51:55 -0700", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Aug 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/07/via-manton-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F07%2Fvia-manton-nice.html" }, { "id": 753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous day but only 24°C so I had to get a warm drink. (🙇‍♂️ Sorry FamiChiki crew back in Japan 🥵)\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 16:16:45 -0700", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/06/gorgeous-day-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fgorgeous-day-but.html" }, { "id": 754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When you get up in the middle of the night, never check your email. Why won’t I learn!? 🥱 🥱 🥱\n(Today’s gonna be a long one)\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 06:37:52 -0700", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/06/when-you-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fwhen-you-get.html" }, { "id": 755, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Liquid Layers and TLDraw\u0026hellip; what a demo! 🤩\ngrantkot.com/draw/\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-05 09:47:07 -0700", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Aug 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/05/liquid-layers-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F05%2Fliquid-layers-and.html" }, { "id": 756, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a couple months off, I am back to the First Law series with Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. Exciting! 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-03 22:34:55 -0700", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Aug 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/03/after-a-couple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fafter-a-couple.html" }, { "id": 757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely day for a festival in #Vancouver\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-03 18:37:39 -0700", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Aug 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/03/lovely-day-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Flovely-day-for.html" }, { "id": 758, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We representing Iki at the Powell Street Festival, the biggest Japanese Canadian festival in the country. #Japan #Canada #ikijima\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-03 17:31:39 -0700", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Aug 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/03/we-representing-iki.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fwe-representing-iki.html" }, { "id": 759, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hundred Rabbits is on the Orange site and I am happy for them to get more recognition! 💯🐇\nnews.ycombinator.com/item\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-01 17:02:27 -0700", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Aug 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/08/01/hundred-rabbits-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F08%2F01%2Fhundred-rabbits-is.html" }, { "id": 760, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🇨🇦\n(It’s July 31st!?)\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-31 18:36:36 -0700", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jul 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/31/its-july-st.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F31%2Fits-july-st.html" }, { "id": 761, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was a tough listen\u0026hellip; Sometimes with @neverpo.st shows I\u0026rsquo;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\nwww.neverpo.st/to-brb-or\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-31 14:45:42 -0700", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Jul 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/31/this-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F31%2Fthis-was-a.html" }, { "id": 762, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day off today so I started reading the kind fantasy novel Bookshops \u0026amp; Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚\nIt’s about books! I love books! ❤️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 23:20:42 -0700", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/29/day-off-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fday-off-today.html" }, { "id": 763, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026hellip; tomorrow is off. Later this week I will be doing follow up. Thanks again!\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-28 17:59:20 -0700", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jul 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/28/thank-you-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F28%2Fthank-you-to.html" }, { "id": 764, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-26 19:28:58 -0700", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Jul 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/26/and-with-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F26%2Fand-with-that.html" }, { "id": 765, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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)\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-23 21:35:33 -0700", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Jul 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/23/what-a-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F23%2Fwhat-a-day.html" }, { "id": 766, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-22 09:21:14 -0700", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jul 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/22/good-morning-ietf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F22%2Fgood-morning-ietf.html" }, { "id": 767, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Downtown Vancouver is hoppin’! We got #IETF120 hackathon, the fireworks, and a Caps match at BC Place ⚽️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-20 18:20:12 -0700", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Jul 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/20/downtown-vancouver-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F20%2Fdowntown-vancouver-is.html" }, { "id": 768, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the #IETF120 #hackathon\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-20 10:39:32 -0700", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Jul 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/20/at-the-ietf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F20%2Fat-the-ietf.html" }, { "id": 769, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 💤\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-17 18:07:41 -0700", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Jul 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/18/utterly-wiped-walked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F18%2Futterly-wiped-walked.html" }, { "id": 770, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 \u0026amp; chips 🐟🍟 got more expensive, but the sunset’s still free 🌅\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-16 22:15:50 -0700", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Jul 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/17/when-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F17%2Fwhen-i-was.html" }, { "id": 771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "[Me about to propose a new office/livingroom/dining room layout for the new condo]\n💁‍♂️: Dear Wife, come into my Mind Palace\n👸🏻: [walks away]\n💁‍♂️: Where are you going!?\n👸🏻: To the bathroom… aka your Mind Palace 🔥\n💁‍♂️: 💀💀💀\n#truelove\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 10:57:14 -0700", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/14/me-about-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fme-about-to.html" }, { "id": 772, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 10:08:48 -0700", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/14/okay-so-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fokay-so-we.html" }, { "id": 773, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have traded sunsets of buildings with sunsets of forests and mountains\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-11 21:38:27 -0700", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Jul 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/12/i-have-traded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F12%2Fi-have-traded.html" }, { "id": 774, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Taking a short selfie break while hauling all our stuff over the second mountain pass of the day.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-11 10:57:21 -0700", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Jul 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/12/taking-a-short.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F12%2Ftaking-a-short.html" }, { "id": 775, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Executing a highly coordinated multi-city international move during a heat dome while heavily jet lagged… do not recommend 🙅‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-10 08:29:07 -0700", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jul 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/11/executing-a-highly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F11%2Fexecuting-a-highly.html" }, { "id": 776, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nothing says “Back in Canada” like a late night root beer and poutine\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-08 22:27:41 -0700", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Jul 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/09/nothing-says-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F09%2Fnothing-says-back.html" }, { "id": 777, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back 🇨🇦\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-08 20:37:06 -0700", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Jul 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/09/back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F09%2Fback.html" }, { "id": 778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status:\n🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✅\nGonna hang here in Taiwan for a bit, then:\n🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-08 05:41:00 -0700", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Jul 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/08/214100.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F08%2F214100.html" }, { "id": 779, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: 🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-08 05:39:22 -0700", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Jul 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/08/current-status-osaka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F08%2Fcurrent-status-osaka.html" }, { "id": 780, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Loaded up\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-07 23:03:42 -0700", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Jul 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/08/loaded-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F08%2Floaded-up.html" }, { "id": 781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For our last night in #Japan we went down to Nanba. Ate dinner at Kani Dōraku HQ and watched the crowds on Ebisu bridge taking photos of Glico Man. Then down Dotombori to a shrine where you pour water on completely mossed up Buddhist statues #Osaka #mosstodon #lichensubscribe\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-07 07:14:27 -0700", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Jul 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/07/for-our-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F07%2Ffor-our-last.html" }, { "id": 782, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "SÖT Roastery has been on my “to go” coffee list for a while ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-06 19:36:41 -0700", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Jul 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/07/st-roastery-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F07%2Fst-roastery-has.html" }, { "id": 783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a long hard move, time for some rest and relaxation at the onsen ♨️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-06 03:57:00 -0700", "date": "3:57 p.m. on Jul 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/06/after-a-long.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F06%2Fafter-a-long.html" }, { "id": 784, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last night in Sakuranomiya. The shippers took our luggage to the airport. Tomorrow the junkers come to take away the rest of our stuff. We go to the hotel tomorrow. This was a great neighbourhood, and this apartment gave us a ton of epic sunsets. 😍 #Osaka #sunset\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-05 04:24:50 -0700", "date": "4:24 p.m. on Jul 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/05/last-night-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F05%2Flast-night-in.html" }, { "id": 785, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay here is a full album of pics from all over southern Osaka. Includes occultists, wishing shrines, pagodas, ripped devas, and cute 3 legged crows!\n\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-04 00:32:59 -0700", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Jul 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/04/okay-here-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F04%2Fokay-here-is.html" }, { "id": 786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Couple more holy spots here in the Nanba area: Mitsudera has a hotel built OVERTOP of it. This wooden temple survived the WW2 bombings so they are protecting it. Then of course you have his worship the Glico Man and some excellent takoyaki signage 😉 #Japan #Osaka\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-03 22:14:38 -0700", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Jul 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/04/couple-more-holy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F04%2Fcouple-more-holy.html" }, { "id": 787, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting in a last temple visit: Horikoshi Jinja ⛩️ (where your 1 wish will be granted) and Shitenno-ji ☸️ which is Japan’s first temple originally constructed in 593 by Emperor Shotoku Taishi #Japan #Osaka #Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-03 20:52:47 -0700", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Jul 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/04/getting-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F04%2Fgetting-in-a.html" }, { "id": 788, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Buddhism by Dalai Lama 📚\nNeeded some easy, non-fiction reading that I can put on while packing and riding planes and the like over the next week.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-03 03:06:06 -0700", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Jul 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/03/currently-reading-buddhism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F03%2Fcurrently-reading-buddhism.html" }, { "id": 789, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quizzing my daughter about football. The only thing she knows she learned from the Blue Lock anime, and she showing big attitude:\nMe: “Explain the Offside Trap”\nHer: “That’s the little cage at the side of the field, right?”\nMe: 💀 💀 💀\n#football #footie\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 20:28:53 -0700", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/03/quizzing-my-daughter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F03%2Fquizzing-my-daughter.html" }, { "id": 790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;The world needs a community powered browser engine free of corporate interests and focussed on putting people first\u0026rdquo;\nAnnouncement for the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a 501c3 building a new browser engine from scratch\n ", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 04:32:14 -0700", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/02/the-world-needs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fthe-world-needs.html" }, { "id": 791, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice! All the vids are up for the #localfirst conf in #berlin in May!\nCheck the trailer:\n Full playlist here →\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 04:11:33 -0700", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/02/nice-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fnice-all-the.html" }, { "id": 792, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "open-internet-governance.org/letter\n some proposals for the Global Digital Compact (GDC) can be read to mandate more centralized governance. … we believe it will be detrimental to not only the Internet and the Web, but also to the world’s economies and societies\n RT ✊ #InternetGovernance\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-01 02:18:37 -0700", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Jul 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/07/01/181837.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F07%2F01%2F181837.html" }, { "id": 793, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My final monthly personal note from Japan just went out.\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-30 05:35:55 -0700", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Jun 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/30/my-final-monthly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Fmy-final-monthly.html" }, { "id": 794, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#quote\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 07:46:51 -0700", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/29/quote.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Fquote.html" }, { "id": 795, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely final day in #Kyoto. Went to temple ☸️ visited the family grave 📿 got some new chopsticks in Gion 🥢 walked Shinkyogoku 🛍 and met with family for a last supper 🐎🍣\nWe moved away from Kyoto to Osaka last year, but it still feels sad to say goodbye … this time for real 👋 🥹\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 07:18:49 -0700", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/29/lovely-final-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Flovely-final-day.html" }, { "id": 796, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is Jiji’s 命日 so we came up for a ceremony and one last visit to the cemetery in Kyoto before going to Canada in a week 🙏 📿\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-28 23:48:05 -0700", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Jun 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/29/today-is-jijis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Ftoday-is-jijis.html" }, { "id": 797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to “Throne of Jade”by Naomi Novik 📚\nHeard a podcast about Master \u0026amp; Commander which put me in the mood for Napoleonic wars… with dragons! 🐉\nmicro.blog/books/978\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-28 06:40:12 -0700", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Jun 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/28/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F28%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 798, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been a while since I posted a #truelove quote 💁‍♂️\nHer: “Ever since you cut your hair short you look like a pineapple face.”\nMe: “Je ne suis pas un ananas”\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-27 07:25:20 -0700", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Jun 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/27/been-a-while.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F27%2Fbeen-a-while.html" }, { "id": 799, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chinowa #Japan #Shrine ⛩️\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-27 05:24:07 -0700", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Jun 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/27/chinowa-japan-shrine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F27%2Fchinowa-japan-shrine.html" }, { "id": 800, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Panelists from the Atlantic Council give a primer on #internetgovernance history, how things changed with the Snowden revelations, the recent push for multilateralism, and how China sees the Global Digital Compact as a way to gain more leverage.\nlemmy.ml/post/1723\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 20:32:22 -0700", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/24/panelists-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F24%2Fpanelists-from-the.html" }, { "id": 801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Whoa! Slay 💅 #bloomScrolling\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-22 04:31:33 -0700", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Jun 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/22/whoa-slay-bloomscrolling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F22%2Fwhoa-slay-bloomscrolling.html" }, { "id": 802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Other than last day of school, it\u0026rsquo;s last day of Spring \u0026amp; National Indigenous Peoples Day, but also the 3rd anniversary of my father\u0026rsquo;s death. So I\u0026rsquo;m looking back on my writing and reflecting:\nchadkohalyk.com/2021/06/2\u0026hellip;\nreviewcanada.ca/magazine/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-20 22:40:14 -0700", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Jun 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/21/other-than-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F21%2Fother-than-last.html" }, { "id": 803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day of school. 👩‍🎓\n(No more lunch-making! 🙌 Daily fights about internet usage 😒)\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-20 15:43:06 -0700", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Jun 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/21/last-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F21%2Flast-day-of.html" }, { "id": 804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Night run photo. 🏃‍♂️\nGetting close to that full Moon and the end of spring 🌱💐\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-19 05:34:57 -0700", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Jun 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/19/night-run-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F19%2Fnight-run-photo.html" }, { "id": 805, "type": "post", "title": "Recognize the ills, let's do better — Short summary of ", "text": "Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short) by Ruha Benjamin 📚\nIn order to flourish as individuals and a society we must free ourselves from the strictures of standardized testing, industrialized education, “accelerated learning”, technocratic utopianism, solutionism, longtermism, white supremacy and eugenic thinking, the carceral state, credit scoring and the “ordinal society” (See Fourcade and Healy), and more! It is hard to be imaginative when we are oppressed… but we have to be imaginative to overthrow the oppressors. In an ultimately hopeful argument, Benjamin provides example after example of real projects where humans work together to protect one another and lift one another up. She argues for “radical interdependence” and building a safe, equitable society to further our collective “radical imagination.”\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-19 04:02:27 -0700", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Jun 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/19/recognize-the-ills.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F19%2Frecognize-the-ills.html" }, { "id": 806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Warming up to listen to the whole new Evgeny Morozov podcast series with an excellent interview by @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social and @jathan.bsky.social from This Machine Kills\npca.st/episode/e\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-19 03:33:37 -0700", "date": "3:33 p.m. on Jun 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/19/warming-up-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F19%2Fwarming-up-to.html" }, { "id": 807, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am in the middle of two book series right now: Joe Abercrombie’s (@joeabercrombie.bsky.social) “The First Law” and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s (@aptshadow.bsky.social) “The Final Architecture”. In the middle I tells ya!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-17 07:55:03 -0700", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Jun 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/17/i-am-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F17%2Fi-am-in.html" }, { "id": 808, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A handmade #FathersDay card from my smart A 12 year old daughter. Pretty great despite the commentary track. 🧝‍♀️💍⚔️(Both my kids spitefully refuse to watch the films or read the books because I have been trying to get them to since they were little)\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-16 16:00:32 -0700", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Jun 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/17/a-handmade-fathersday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F17%2Fa-handmade-fathersday.html" }, { "id": 809, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh I am so happy this out! Just dropped and can’t wait to listen. Thank you @tatsushu@historians.social\n#ikijima #壱岐島\npca.st/episode/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-15 21:16:34 -0700", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Jun 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/16/oh-i-am.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F16%2Foh-i-am.html" }, { "id": 810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Packing, packing, packing… 📦 📦 📦\n11th move in 4 years, 3 of which were international moves under pandemic conditions. We are getting good at this, but tbh I don’t want to do it anymore 😭\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-15 21:13:32 -0700", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jun 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/16/packing-packing-packing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F16%2Fpacking-packing-packing.html" }, { "id": 811, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Whoa! New Evgeny Morozov podcast just dropped! (With music by Brian Eno!)\nwww.sense-of-rebellion.com\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-15 07:02:23 -0700", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jun 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/15/whoa-new-evgeny.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F15%2Fwhoa-new-evgeny.html" }, { "id": 812, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Various hydrangea #bloomscrolling #japan\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-14 01:09:36 -0700", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Jun 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/14/various-hydrangea-bloomscrolling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F14%2Fvarious-hydrangea-bloomscrolling.html" }, { "id": 813, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rokuharamitsuji. See how colourful Japanese temples used to be before all the wabi-sabi? Finally got to see the Kūya statue. He\u0026rsquo;s said to have introduced the nenbutsu to Japan. The figures coming out his mouth represent the syllables NA-MO-A-MI-DA-BUTSU #kyoto #Japan #Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-13 00:04:07 -0700", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Jun 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/13/rokuharamitsuji-see-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F13%2Frokuharamitsuji-see-how.html" }, { "id": 814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At Sanjusangendo, the EXTRA WIDE temple built to accomodate 1000 life-sized 1000-armed Kannon. Inside is ASTOUNDING (no pics 😞). My 1st time after 25 yrs in Kyoto! This is the backside where they have an annual archery competition where young women wear their best kimono and shoot for New Years\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-12 19:54:32 -0700", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Jun 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/13/at-sanjusangendo-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F13%2Fat-sanjusangendo-the.html" }, { "id": 815, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently my Gr9 daughter\u0026rsquo;s friend group says that I am \u0026ldquo;basically three teenage girls in a trenchcoat\u0026rdquo; 🤷‍♂️💅\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-12 05:47:34 -0700", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Jun 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/12/apparently-my-gr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F12%2Fapparently-my-gr.html" }, { "id": 816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "During my run tonight I was encouraged by this banger: “Run towards your future!”\nspamrisk.bandcamp.com/track/goo\u0026hellip;\n#anarchism #punk #bookchin #MutualAid #utopia\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-11 05:17:20 -0700", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Jun 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/11/during-my-run.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F11%2Fduring-my-run.html" }, { "id": 817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Post-run cooldown under the train bridge 🏃‍♂️🚈\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-11 05:05:39 -0700", "date": "5:05 p.m. on Jun 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/11/postrun-cooldown-under.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F11%2Fpostrun-cooldown-under.html" }, { "id": 818, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After sharing this on MAE, our tech policy community, I continue to share this link to others. The report shows how Big Tech controls AI through corporate VC, share structure, cloud credits, control of infra, dual affiliation research positions, open source, and more: lemmy.ml/post/1630\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-11 01:48:25 -0700", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Jun 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/11/after-sharing-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F11%2Fafter-sharing-this.html" }, { "id": 819, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished Ursula Le Guin\u0026rsquo;s book \u0026ldquo;The Lathe of Heaven\u0026rdquo; yesterday and one of the quotes I still have in my mind (especially as I listen to this old interview of David Graeber this morning) is \u0026ldquo;All we have is means.\u0026rdquo; #utilitarianism #anarchism\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 18:44:44 -0700", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/11/i-finished-ursula.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F11%2Fi-finished-ursula.html" }, { "id": 820, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 📚\nShe was the master. I need to read more of her books. What a great tackling of Utilitarianism\u0026hellip; and in 1971!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 07:01:34 -0700", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/10/finished-the-lathe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Ffinished-the-lathe.html" }, { "id": 821, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "CURRENT STATUS: Night run along the river 🏃‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 05:14:10 -0700", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/10/current-status-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fcurrent-status-night.html" }, { "id": 822, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Monday #bloomScrolling\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 18:31:47 -0700", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/10/happy-monday-bloomscrolling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fhappy-monday-bloomscrolling.html" }, { "id": 823, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Squeezing onto the crowded train. Hair coiffed. Long dark slacks. Shirt tucked in. Hip hop in the earbuds. Monday morning rush hour. Been a long time for this remote worker!\n(It’s just for a meeting at the kids’ school. I am just having fun salaryman cosplaying 😇)\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 16:23:22 -0700", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/10/squeezing-onto-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fsqueezing-onto-the.html" }, { "id": 824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🤔 Thought provoking: 🖌️ Creative \u0026gt; Productive ⚙️\nFrom a Sari Azout presentation about how she uses Sublime.app\nsublime.app/card/copy\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 05:56:20 -0700", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/09/thought-provoking-creative.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F09%2Fthought-provoking-creative.html" }, { "id": 825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started the audiobook of The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 02:05:06 -0700", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/09/started-the-audiobook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F09%2Fstarted-the-audiobook.html" }, { "id": 826, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚\n(Abandoned at 25%. Just not enjoying it enough to continue\u0026hellip; so many other books out there that need reading!)\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-07 07:28:24 -0700", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Jun 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/07/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F07%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very interesting map. Iraq and Syria have started shutting down again during May, and apparently have been doing so to prevent cheating on exams for the last several years 🤨\npulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns\n\u0026lt;img src=\u0026ldquo;https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/107532/2024/global-internet-shutdowns-map.png\u0026quot; width=\u0026ldquo;600\u0026rdquo; height=\u0026ldquo;334\u0026rdquo; alt=\u0026ldquo;Map titled \u0026ldquo;Global Internet Shutdowns\u0026rdquo; highlighting regions where internet disruptions have occurred. \u0026ldquo;\u0026gt;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-06 05:56:47 -0700", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Jun 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/06/very-interesting-map.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F06%2Fvery-interesting-map.html" }, { "id": 828, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current Status: Night run 🏃\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-06 05:17:59 -0700", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Jun 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/06/current-status-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F06%2Fcurrent-status-night.html" }, { "id": 829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched The Beautiful Game which wasn’t the greatest movie but I had to because 1) it was football, and 2) I love seeing things like the Homeless World Cup and CONIFA World Cup in popular media (look ‘em up!) ⚽️ #football #footie\nboxd.it/wotY\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-05 07:40:50 -0700", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jun 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/05/watched-the-beautiful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F05%2Fwatched-the-beautiful.html" }, { "id": 830, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous day. Went with my wife up to Minoh Falls. Took photos of falls, the river, leaves, the city view, and all the insect illustrations on the public toilets 🐝🪲🚽🤔\n\n(Click to see full album on Flickr)\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-05 04:23:50 -0700", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Jun 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/05/gorgeous-day-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F05%2Fgorgeous-day-went.html" }, { "id": 831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: Minooo Falls\n#Osaka #Japan\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-04 21:01:51 -0700", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jun 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/05/current-status-minooo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F05%2Fcurrent-status-minooo.html" }, { "id": 832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Read in 2024: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 📚\n… this wore me out. Emotionally… wrung out. Each chapter he just squeezes, squeezes, squeezes. The characters are so real. Lynch\u0026rsquo;s writing is very poetic. He uses denominalization heavily. The writing makes everything feel alive, even the dead.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 22:39:54 -0700", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/04/read-in-prophet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F04%2Fread-in-prophet.html" }, { "id": 833, "type": "post", "title": "Jiufen", "text": "This post is part of a series. See the introduction here →\n (see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here)\nThe gold rush at the turn of the 1900s caused a boom in the small mountain town of Jiufen, with its sweeping views of the sea towards both the northwest and northeast. The narrow road switches back upon itself numerous times as you climb up the rugged mountainside. Across the valley, deep in the forest (with no visible road to get there) is a monastery poking through the trees. Once you make it to the town the road narrows even more, hairpinning around houses almost stacked upon one another. Take care to drive slow as knots of tourists suddenly run across the road to take photos of the rolling green valley below, or spill out of souvenir shops and the covered “Old Street” full of shops selling everything from ocarina to stinky tofu.\nOur driver took us to the top of the mountain, the far side of the town where we had a view of the valley below. Down the hill we saw the telltale shapes of the family grave sites, which sorta look like the ones you see in Okinawa (cultural connections!). In fact, when you look on a map, you realize that half the town is graves!\n Satellite imagery of Jiufen. Note the small structures dominating the hill. All graves. It was raining when we arrived. In fact, it rained almost the whole time we were in Jiufen. Our driver could not navigate through the narrow streets and called our B\u0026amp;B owner who retrieved us on a scooter. We followed him on foot wheeling our luggage down the steep road lined with graves.\nA few switchbacks later we made it to the B\u0026amp;B and dropped our luggage. “How do we get to Old Street?” He just pointed “That way!” and we were off, picking our way between houses, down random-seeming stairways, passing stray cats. There were no people, but these were no roads. We were silent as ghosts, scared to wake anyone. As long as we were heading down we knew it was the right way. Soon we came upon a narrow stairwell between two buildings leading down to a river of tourists flowing left and right in the covered shopping street.\nJiufen Old Street greeted us with the loud sounds and colours and smells of a crowded shopping area. Following the flow we branched off, stopping in a restaurant eddy where I had my first Vegetarian Red Vinasse Taiwanese Meatball. Continuing on were shoe stores and tea shops and every kind of knick-knack you can imagine, all hauled up to the top of this mountain to be sold to visitors who hauled themselves up here to buy.\nBut why? One reason, at least for the Japanese, is the A-Mei Teahouse, a distinctive building that has been said to be one of the inspirations for the bathhouse in Spirited Away (though Miyazaki denies this, and there are a number of onsen in Japan itself which claim this title). The souvenir shops cashed in with all sorts of Totoro and Ponyo and other Ghibli goods. The guy in the ocarina shop playing Joe Hisaishi tunes was actually pretty talented!\nWe took photos in front of the A-Mei Teahouse, and with a statue commemorating the gold miners in front of the building, but we took refuge in another teahouse further down the street, one with a fantastic view of the valley. This was my first Chinese tea experience. Not quite the same as cha-no-yū, but still with a recognizable level of ritual. The gentle spa music lent to the relaxing atmosphere as we drank cup after tiny cup of the smooth tea, watching the wind blow clouds up and over the mountain ridge above us. I recalled one of the one-stroke calligraphy pieces by Master Hsing Yun, the founder of Fo Guang Shan: Your mind a mountain, letting the clouds pass by.\n Can you count the streets? It started to rain again so we huffed up, up, up! Stairwell after stairwell we got progressively more soaked as we poorly navigated the maze back to our lodgings. Once back it was straight into a hot shower to ward off any sickness. Later, my wife and I walked back down and had a browse, picking up some dinner to eat back in the room. After dark we climbed up yet more narrow stairs to the roof of our B\u0026amp;B to take in some night views.\nWaking early the next morning it was back down to Old Street before breakfast. The whole scene was very different: shutters closed, the street empty of tourists. Where yesterday there were throngs of people, now vans and trucks drove with their headlights on and barely enough clearance on either side. The narrow one-way street meant we had the pleasure of experiencing Jiufen’s daily morning traffic jam: each vehicle forced to park for long minutes as the vehicle in front finished its job of loading garbage or dirty hotel sheets, or dropping off a batch of tofu ready to be steeped in the stinky broth for the day’s sales. It was kinda like the feeling when you leave your hotel in the morning and the cleaning staff is getting to work, the mystery of the night before gone.\nWe stopped in the Family Mart for a little coffee and morning snack. At the back of the convenience store was a seating area with large windows, overhanging the cliff. Probably the best view from a convenience store I have ever seen. After breakfast we hiked back up to the top of the mountain and took in some more views. As I was photographing the valley we could hear the distant sound of drums, the popping of firecrackers, and see the occasional firework launched high into the air below us. May 1st.\n Before noon we caught a taxi for the 45 minute drive back to modern Taipei, which is where we will pick up the story next time! 🚕\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 14:39:00 -0700", "date": "2:39 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/03/jiufen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2Fjiufen.html" }, { "id": 834, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 05:47:11 -0700", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/03/214711.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2F214711.html" }, { "id": 835, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Popped down to Kobe Chinatown for some snacks 🥮🥟 before heading over to Merikan Park to see the Port Tower 🗼 and discovered an Aloha dance festival! And me in my Hawaiian shirt! 🌺👕 #otp 💅🫰\nflic.kr/s/aHBqjBt\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 06:11:51 -0700", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/02/popped-down-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fpopped-down-to.html" }, { "id": 836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Visited ⛰️ Mount Maya today 🚠 and took a few photos: cable car timelapses, cityscapes, mountain-top temples, and snakes 🐍\nflic.kr/s/aHBqjBt\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 06:08:56 -0700", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/02/visited-mount-maya.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fvisited-mount-maya.html" }, { "id": 837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Justice by Means of Democracy by Danielle Allen 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 05:22:49 -0700", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/02/started-justice-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fstarted-justice-by.html" }, { "id": 838, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "AMAZE 😍💅🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️👑💍 #lotr\nwww.youtube.com/shorts/D1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-01 05:04:22 -0700", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Jun 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/06/01/amaze-lotr-httpswwwyoutubecomshortsdinlilouw.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F06%2F01%2Famaze-lotr-httpswwwyoutubecomshortsdinlilouw.html" }, { "id": 839, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since I was travelling last time, this edition of my personal newsletter is a little full. Covers all the hits from the last two months: chopping up tuna in a back alley, baby sushi, and existential ennui. 🍷\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-31 05:31:17 -0700", "date": "5:31 p.m. on May 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/31/since-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F31%2Fsince-i-was.html" }, { "id": 840, "type": "post", "title": "Taiwan trip report - Introduction", "text": "Taiwan has been on the bucketlist for a while. In the year 2000 I was an exchange student in Kyoto learning Taiwanese from a fellow exchange student who was so excited for elections that he flew back to Taiwan to vote. That was only the second presidential election since the military dictatorship (which ruled from 1949) had transitioned to democratic elections in the nineties. In 2000 things were very exciting since it was the first time an opposition party won the presidency.\nMy wife too had a Taiwan connection in 2000. She was friends with a different exchange student, a Korean Buddhist nun, who went on to live and study in Taiwan for many years. That was when I first learned how much of a Buddhist religious center Taiwan is, hosting monastics and scholars from all over the world. Taiwan\u0026rsquo;s religiosity also contributes to its high percentage of vegetarians, which is second only to India.\nIn the intervening years I have had many friends travel and live in Taiwan. When I said I was finally going, everyone was excited and encouraging: “You are going to love it!” And you know what? I did love it. And I would love to go back someday. Mostly because so many of my questions about the place were not answered… but more on that later.\nI am no expert on Taiwan. Our trip was only 8 days and we mostly engaged in sight-seeing. Thus, I cannot bring you any deep insights into the politics and culture of the country. Furthermore, travelling with kids meant my opportunities to spend hours in museums or engaging in discussions at teashops was severely restricted. All I can offer are impressions, to paint with a very broad brush. If my impressions are off, you are wholly invited to correct me in the comments. I encourage it, and want to learn more!\nWe flew into Kaohsiung in the south, drove to nearby Tainan for a day, then took the high speed rail up the west coast to Taipei. From there we drove out to Jiufen for a night, and then spent the rest of the time back in Taipei.\n Pre-processed photo counts I took a lot of photos. I have whittled them down and posted to Flickr, but here I will accompany each album with a bit of explanation to give you some context.\nI am going to break this up into a few posts which I will link to here:\n Introduction (this post) Kaohsiung and Tainan, featuring Fo Guang Shan Spirited away to Jiufen, featuring tea houses, graves, and (lots of) rain Taipei, the famous jade pork, and the hotel emergency escape slide Conclusions (where I may put my foot in my mouth, we shall see) So, if you are ready, let’s fly to southern Taiwan! 🛫\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-30 03:47:19 -0700", "date": "3:47 p.m. on May 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/30/taiwan-trip-report.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Ftaiwan-trip-report.html" }, { "id": 841, "type": "post", "title": "Kaohsiung and Tainan, featuring Fo Guang Shan", "text": "This post is part of a series. See the introduction here →\n\n(see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here)\nKaohsiung is a port city in southern Taiwan, developed by the Japanese as an important industrial hub. We hired a tour guide who carted us around to different locations including the port area, the old British consulate, the art walk, and to one of the most intensely nerdy coffee shops I have ever seen (run by what I am pretty sure are devotees of the Falun Gong new religious movement , check out the art to see what I mean).\nDriving the streets of a non-capital city gives you another perspective into the lives of regular folk. I like just cruising and taking it in: a crowded row of store signs in bright Chinese characters pass by; students leaving university crossing the street as scooters wend past our vehicle to crowd the crosswalk; commuters in various Japanese and European cars; trucks hauling goods; glimpses down side streets as people take out their laundry or play basketball at the courts. Snapshots of lives. After the expertly brewed coffee came a sumptuous condensed-milk infused shaved ice topped with mangos and strawberries to cool off and consider all that was seen.\nFo Guang Shan One highlight was visiting Fo Guang Shan (album) one of the four major temples of Taiwan, and home to a Buddha Tooth Relic, of which there remain only three in the world. This temple complex, built in the 1990s, is absolutely massive. Once you pass through the main entrance building which features an information center, a couple of restaurants, a bunch of souvenir stores, and a Starbucks, you are on a wide path lined by eight pagodas that leads to a main hall. Behind that hall is another building with a giant Buddha statue, overlooking the entire complex.\nEach pagoda in itself is a museum of sorts. We went into just two: an information center with the history of the temple and teachings on the Noble Eightfold Path. The other pagoda we visited featured the One Stroke Calligraphy of Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founder of Fo Guang Shan, who took up calligraphy after losing his sight — thereby restricting him to using just one stroke since he could not see where the characters were on the page.\nWe did not have time to peek into all of the pagodas, and since it was raining we followed the covered path that runs on the outer edges of the main route. Here we brushed our fingers along the dark stone walls, engraved with the names of every single person that donated money to the construction of this holy complex (photo). (We spotted a number of Japanese and English names too!)\nUnfortunately photos were restricted in the main building. In the lobby I was able to take a shot of a carving of the 500 Arhats sculpted from roots of a 1000 year old camphor tree. Beyond that were a number of sub-shrines in this building. We navigated through groups of pilgrims and into the main temple dedicated to Guanyin (Kannon in Japanese). This was a very modern facility, circular with glass walls emblazoned with important religious figures, backlit by neon lights. The main altar featured a statue of 1000-hand Guanyin and some animatronics, and a line of small plastic bottles with red caps. At the direction of a helpful attendant, we paid our respects to Guanyin, and he filled one of the little bottles full of holy water from a dispenser in the altar. Later that night I poured some of the holy water over my head in the shower, and I think it worked! I never got sick the whole time in Taiwan, and I famously get sick on the fourth or fifth day whenever I travel abroad. We kept a few bottles to take home and put on our home altar as offerings to our ancestors.\nAnyways, behind the circular shrine is a very square shrine with a heavy-looking gold statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha gifted from Thailand. This was another opulent room, which can be a little disorienting if you are used to understated Japanese temples. Next was the main show: the tooth relic. This large shrine room has a very high ceiling with wood panels carved in the images of famous Buddhist temples from around the world. I recognized Bodh Gaya right away. At the front of the room is a large Buddha, lying on one side, carved from white jade from Myanmar. Above is a little nook with the reliquary which contains the tooth. At the prompting of a nun, we each took a little battery powered candle and reverently walked up to the altar, placing it there as an offering. I just sat and stared for a while enjoying the ambiance until a large tour group came in — which is always my cue to leave.\nThe final area of the complex to see was the giant Buddha statue. We took a bunch of photos here, and circumambulated the Four Noble Truths Stupas on the four corners of the Main Hall, each shaped like the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya. Symbolism is everywhere at Fo Guang Shan.\nAfter this we took a very lovely vegetarian meal and browsed the shops. In all we spent just a few hours at Fo Guang Shan, but you could very well spend a couple of days here.\nA few more spots around the south Back from Fo Guang Shan we stayed at the Kaohsiung Grand Hotel (album), a much smaller (and ahem… cheaper) version of the Grand Hotel in Taipei.\nHere we relaxed in the pool, I caught up on some writing, and we watched some local television. A Fo Guang Shan channel had a bunch of religious information. An “ethnic” channel featured indigenous programming in languages that sounded very different from the Mandarin and Hokkien we heard on the streets.\nFor our last day in the south we drove up to Tainan, about 45 minutes north with our guide where visited the large and newly made National Museum of Taiwan History. We spent as long as we possibly could until the kids were tired out learning about the full history of Taiwan from prehistoric times, the settlement of mainland Han Chinese, indigenous communities, repelling the Dutch, the Japanese era, the postwar economic miracle, and a bit about the issues facing Taiwanese today and in the near future. I took many notes, but to be honest the facility raised a lot more questions.\nAfter the museum we rounded off our stay in the south by visiting the old Dutch fort (Chikhan Tower) and doing some shopping at the narrow Shennong Street before catching the High Speed Rail north to Taipei. Being the evening train on a holiday weekend, it was packed, so we had to stand for the one and half hour journey.\nNext time, northern Taiwan! 🚅\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-30 02:48:00 -0700", "date": "2:48 p.m. on May 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/30/kaohsiung-and-tainan-featuring-fo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Fkaohsiung-and-tainan-featuring-fo.html" }, { "id": 842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🐦‍⬛♬ Mirlo is a collectively owned music service experimenting with novel governance concepts like “exit to community” to make sure power resides with the musicians and listeners. Only a couple days left and they are SO CLOSE to their goal! SUPPORT!\nwww.kickstarter.com/projects/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-29 01:28:09 -0700", "date": "1:28 p.m. on May 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/29/mirlo-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F29%2Fmirlo-is-a.html" }, { "id": 843, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 📚\nwww.goodreads.com/book/show\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-28 06:53:30 -0700", "date": "6:53 p.m. on May 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/28/started-prophet-song.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F28%2Fstarted-prophet-song.html" }, { "id": 844, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: Prom dress shopping with my daughter. 👗🛍️\n👧🏻: We HAVE to go together. You are supposed to whine and complain about the time and prices and generally be awkward and embarrassed and old. It’s traditional! 😇\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 22:57:37 -0700", "date": "10:57 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/27/current-status-prom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F27%2Fcurrent-status-prom.html" }, { "id": 845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚 in just over 24 hours. Could not put it down.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 09:02:02 -0700", "date": "9:02 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/27/finished-the-storied.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F27%2Ffinished-the-storied.html" }, { "id": 846, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nostalgia riddim! Bluku bluku!\n ", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 06:43:18 -0700", "date": "6:43 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/26/nostalgia-riddim-bluku.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F26%2Fnostalgia-riddim-bluku.html" }, { "id": 847, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚\nLoved, loved, loved, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 07:27:21 -0700", "date": "7:27 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/25/started-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fstarted-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 848, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Walking down a side alley today we saw these chefs outside a sushi joint with this 100 kilo tuna. They were selling ¥150 beers and doing a \u0026ldquo;breakdown\u0026rdquo; demonstration. So we stuck around and watched. Here are the highlights!\n ", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 05:41:00 -0700", "date": "5:41 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/25/walking-down-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fwalking-down-a.html" }, { "id": 849, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: in a back alley in Osaka where they are about to clean a 100kilo tuna in front of a small crowd\n#Osaka #Japan\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-24 21:43:56 -0700", "date": "9:43 p.m. on May 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/25/current-status-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fcurrent-status-in.html" }, { "id": 850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "(love being able to correct my spelling errors in Micro.blog and Mastodon after posting\u0026hellip; hate having to give up or repost on Bluesky 😭)\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-23 19:22:37 -0700", "date": "7:22 p.m. on May 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/24/love-being-able.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F24%2Flove-being-able.html" }, { "id": 851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Philosophers ranked by their punk credentials: I would put the Buddha a bit higher on the scale since his critique of the caste system, and the workaround he created for people to escape it, was revolutionary 🪷✊🧘👨‍🎤\n#punk #philosophy #buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-23 19:11:36 -0700", "date": "7:11 p.m. on May 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/24/philosophers-ranked-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F24%2Fphilosophers-ranked-by.html" }, { "id": 852, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Annual medical checkup day. Just ran the gauntlet at the local health office 🏥🩺. Really wish we did this in Canada, it is a great marker. (Also, amazed at how much I have shrunk in the past couple of years! 🙀)\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-22 19:21:00 -0700", "date": "7:21 p.m. on May 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/23/annual-medical-checkup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F23%2Fannual-medical-checkup.html" }, { "id": 853, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nCan\u0026rsquo;t stop this series! But don\u0026rsquo;t want it to end, so going to take a break before I read the final volume.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-22 04:46:49 -0700", "date": "4:46 p.m. on May 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/22/finished-before-they.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F22%2Ffinished-before-they.html" }, { "id": 854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was absolutely delightful ncase.me/crowds/\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-20 17:52:36 -0700", "date": "5:52 p.m. on May 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/21/this-was-absolutely.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F21%2Fthis-was-absolutely.html" }, { "id": 855, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ikijima\u0026rsquo;s population has dropped by 140 and is just below 24K now. There are only 2727 children on the island.\n#ikijima #壱岐島\niki-guide.com/archives/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 18:58:41 -0700", "date": "6:58 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/20/ikijimas-population-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F20%2Fikijimas-population-has.html" }, { "id": 856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s my birthday. So I watched End of Evangelion and started reading Non-things by Byung-Chul Han 📚\nYeah, middle age is a breeze 😬\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 05:47:00 -0700", "date": "5:47 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/19/its-my-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fits-my-birthday.html" }, { "id": 857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Elaborate handmade birthday card presented to me at dinner 🎂\nDaughter 1: I wrote it all in Old English. 😇\nDaughter 2: Why? So he could understand it? 😈\n🔥 🔥 🔥 💀\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 03:51:29 -0700", "date": "3:51 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/19/elaborate-handmade-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Felaborate-handmade-birthday.html" }, { "id": 858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My last day as a 45 year old had a spectacular sunset. My 12 year old took this photo 📸 🌆 👌\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-18 08:34:29 -0700", "date": "8:34 p.m. on May 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/19/my-last-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fmy-last-day.html" }, { "id": 859, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "View from the Cybozu Osaka office. We are here and ready for our workshop tonight\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-18 02:38:23 -0700", "date": "2:38 p.m. on May 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/18/view-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F18%2Fview-from-the.html" }, { "id": 860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sitting in a crowded Umeda café reviewing my slides for tonight\u0026rsquo;s workshop on The Culture Map. If you are free this evening, why not come down to the awesome Cybozu office and hang out with us:\nwww.meetup.com/osaka-web\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-17 23:19:45 -0700", "date": "11:19 p.m. on May 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/18/sitting-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F18%2Fsitting-in-a.html" }, { "id": 861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Myaku Myaku train in the early evening 📸 🚋 🦠\n#Osaka #大阪\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-16 02:29:52 -0700", "date": "2:29 p.m. on May 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/16/myaku-myaku-train.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F16%2Fmyaku-myaku-train.html" }, { "id": 862, "type": "post", "title": "It could be better for everybody — a review of Limitarianism in just 335 words", "text": "📚 Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns is an ethical framework advocating for limiting excess wealth and redistributing to the benefit of wider society. The book builds its case by historically analyzing the rise of inequality over the past 50 years through global neoliberal policy; the social problems that inequality cause or exacerbate; how taking a Limitarian stance could improve things for everyone including the wealthy; and what needs to be done to get there. She starts off the book with her proposal that there be a “political” wealth cap of 10mm $/€/£ per person, and an ethical limit of 1mm $/€/£ per person. Basically, she comes out of the book fighting. Then, throughout the author provides many shocking statistics and refers to many different academic studies. Furthermore, she runs though many of the counter arguments that have been posed to her by the public and the media, naming and taking apart each objection as a trained philosopher should. She brings a lot to the fight, and in the end settles basically on a strong welfare state (I would like to a see an anarchist argument). Altogether is a strong package. It is not the kind of thing you pass to the proverbial conservative uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table. He will scoff, reject it outright, and recommend Thomas Sowell or some other ghoul. But for people who do not pray to Ludwig von Mises or one of the Mont Pelerin set, but do not necissarly have a strong critical bent or are not as politically aware, it might serve as a good catch-me-up and help them understand why they think we might be in the Bad Timeline. I really appreciate Robeyns’s call at the end for more political engagement by regular people. Our democratic muscles have atrophied in the decades of consumerist atomization. As the classic Graeber quote goes, “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”\nSee my short chapter notes on Goodreads or Bookwyrm to get a peek into the details of the book.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-15 01:33:47 -0700", "date": "1:33 p.m. on May 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/15/it-could-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F15%2Fit-could-be.html" }, { "id": 863, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice review of a beautiful looking book: The Uyghurs: Kashgar before the Catastrophe\nPhotos are from 1998. Compare with the NYT photo essay from 2019 I linked in a post with some of my photos from 2004. What a place. 😔\nchadkohalyk.com/2019/04/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-14 20:46:06 -0700", "date": "8:46 p.m. on May 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/15/nice-review-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F15%2Fnice-review-of.html" }, { "id": 864, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally finished processing and uploading my Taiwan photos to Flickr. I ended up picking 307 out of 1800 and organizing them into a number of albums. Link below, but I will to write a trip report soon with context.\nwww.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-13 02:20:54 -0700", "date": "2:20 p.m. on May 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/13/finally-finished-processing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Ffinally-finished-processing.html" }, { "id": 865, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun NBN interview with Richard Jaffe about his book Seeking Sakyamuni, a book I adore. 📚🎙\nInterview: newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-s\u0026hellip; My chapter notes: www.goodreads.com/review/sh\u0026hellip;\nAlso good to hear @ssiddiqui83\u0026rsquo;s voice again!\n#Buddhism #Japan #history #books #podcast\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-12 19:08:24 -0700", "date": "7:08 p.m. on May 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/13/fun-nbn-interview.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Ffun-nbn-interview.html" }, { "id": 866, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started the second volume of The First Law series Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-12 06:37:53 -0700", "date": "6:37 p.m. on May 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/12/started-the-second.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F12%2Fstarted-the-second.html" }, { "id": 867, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I arrived at Osaka Castle Park Station I was wondering why there were so many people walking around? 🤔 Was it a concert at Osaka Dome? 👩‍🎤 NOPE! It was the 2024 Craft Gyoza Fest! 🥟🥟🥟 #Osaka #Japan #餃子\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-11 06:32:11 -0700", "date": "6:32 p.m. on May 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/11/when-i-arrived.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Fwhen-i-arrived.html" }, { "id": 868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perfect blue sky at Osaka Castle 📸🏯\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-10 23:47:29 -0700", "date": "11:47 p.m. on May 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/11/perfect-blue-sky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Fperfect-blue-sky.html" }, { "id": 869, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listened to the latest ep of CBC Spark on the negative impacts of a culture of productivity, which is a good ep and all, but ends with the shocking announcement that CBC is cancelling Spark after 17 years! 😱\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-10 20:34:35 -0700", "date": "8:34 p.m. on May 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/11/listened-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Flistened-to-the.html" }, { "id": 870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Old school beats from Meth 👐 and look at who tops the list as enemies of music being defeated in this new Droog claymation video: The Algorithm ⚙️ 🎶\nyoutu.be/RKOpb-fZd\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-10 16:43:41 -0700", "date": "4:43 p.m. on May 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/11/old-school-beats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Fold-school-beats.html" }, { "id": 871, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Stopped at School Bus before the kids get home for a little writing on the patio in the sun ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-09 22:26:00 -0700", "date": "10:26 p.m. on May 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/10/stopped-at-school.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F10%2Fstopped-at-school.html" }, { "id": 872, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Under the tracks 📸\n#Osaka #Japan #streetPhotography\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-09 04:57:14 -0700", "date": "4:57 p.m. on May 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/09/under-the-tracks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F09%2Funder-the-tracks.html" }, { "id": 873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you are in Kansai come out to OWDDM on May 18 when we will be introducing Erin Meyer\u0026rsquo;s excellent book The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. This in an interactive session.\nwww.meetup.com/osaka-web\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 19:52:57 -0700", "date": "7:52 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/08/if-you-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Fif-you-are.html" }, { "id": 874, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🤦‍♂️ OMG why do I do this to myself\u0026hellip; it was just a week #travel #photography\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 02:57:33 -0700", "date": "2:57 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/07/omg-why-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fomg-why-do.html" }, { "id": 875, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie 📚\n4.5 rounded up. Some plotholes and cliches but excellent narrator sells it. Before even finishing I got the rest of the series. Been a while since I read a rollicking fantasy like this. Definitely reminiscent of Locke Lamora.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 02:11:14 -0700", "date": "2:11 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/07/finished-the-blade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Ffinished-the-blade.html" }, { "id": 876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wall art in the alley behind Kyobashi Shotengai #Osaka #StreetArt\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 00:39:20 -0700", "date": "12:39 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/07/wall-art-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fwall-art-in.html" }, { "id": 877, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Metagov has a $200k grant program for improving interoperability amongst decision making tools. Applications open until May 31st.\nLearn more: metagov.github.io/interop/\nEmail interop@metagov.org with your questions\n#governance #interop #grants #research\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-06 15:38:45 -0700", "date": "3:38 p.m. on May 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/07/metagov-has-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fmetagov-has-a.html" }, { "id": 878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ISOC has a new hefty research program covering:\n Greening the Internet The Internet Economy A Trustworthy Internet Decolonizing the Internet www.isocfoundation.org/grant-pro\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-05 22:36:42 -0700", "date": "10:36 p.m. on May 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/06/isoc-has-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F06%2Fisoc-has-a.html" }, { "id": 879, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Landed at Kansai International Airport. A guy in the lobby asks me for directions. I help him out. He identifies himself as Canadian 🇨🇦 “Hey! I’m Canadian!” 🍁 Canadians helping Canadians, all over the world 🤝\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-04 01:54:45 -0700", "date": "1:54 p.m. on May 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/04/landed-at-kansai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F04%2Flanded-at-kansai.html" }, { "id": 880, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently at the airport getting ready to leave Taiwan for Japan. It has been a great trip. I have learned a bunch, and had my curiosity piqued even more. If anyone has any recent book recommendations on Taiwanese identity formation in the past decade, please let me know!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-03 20:29:38 -0700", "date": "8:29 p.m. on May 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/04/currently-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F04%2Fcurrently-at-the.html" }, { "id": 881, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Taipei Zoo!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-03 01:48:53 -0700", "date": "1:48 p.m. on May 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/03/taipei-zoo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F03%2Ftaipei-zoo.html" }, { "id": 882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Grand Hotel Taipei, much bigger than the one in Kaohsiung at 16 floors and 500 rooms. We saw the Centennial Dragon 🐉 which came from when this spot was a jinja ⛩️ during Japanese colonial times. We also went down the secret escape tunnel for visiting heads of state, equipped with a slide! 🛝\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-02 06:50:20 -0700", "date": "6:50 p.m. on May 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/02/the-grand-hotel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F02%2Fthe-grand-hotel.html" }, { "id": 883, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "こんな絶景のあるファミマって見たことある！？\n#台湾　#九份　#コンビニ　#絶景\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-01 06:32:28 -0700", "date": "6:32 p.m. on May 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/01/213228.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F01%2F213228.html" }, { "id": 884, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today was the National Palace Museum in Taipei which is FULL of treasures dating back to the 16th C BCE‼️ We saw many jade pieces, the pork-meat jasper, and this ball made from a single piece of ivory, has 21 independently moving spheres in it, and took 3 generations to carve‼️🤯🤯🤯 #Taiwan #art\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-01 06:17:02 -0700", "date": "6:17 p.m. on May 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/01/today-was-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F01%2Ftoday-was-the.html" }, { "id": 885, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "View! Wish I coulda seen this in clear weather\nyoutu.be/sMy44Kv-M\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-01 05:34:58 -0700", "date": "5:34 p.m. on May 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/05/01/view-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F05%2F01%2Fview-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bit of a different newsletter this month since I’ve been on the road. It picks up from my last one talking about “making” and building skills. Here’s a missive from an old gold-mining town in northern Taiwan: buttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 06:53:10 -0700", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/30/bit-of-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fbit-of-a.html" }, { "id": 887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pano of Jiufen for you\nyoutu.be/qNs1X7AdP\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 05:32:00 -0700", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/30/pano-of-jiufen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fpano-of-jiufen.html" }, { "id": 888, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 30: 📷 hometown (@mattypenny) #mbApr\nI am literally 9,788 kilometers from my hometown, but this community clinging to the side of the mountain at the northern tip of Taiwan is home to many, and a sight to behold! 😍\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 05:30:33 -0700", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/30/day-hometown-mattypenny.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fday-hometown-mattypenny.html" }, { "id": 889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Absolutely poured on us after our arrival to the old gold mining village of Jiufen. We walked the covered old street, had tea, watch clouds go UP over the mountain ridge. Then for a few glorious moments took in the view before being soaked and running home. See the Spirited Away tea house? #Taiwan\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 05:19:55 -0700", "date": "5:19 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/30/absolutely-poured-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fabsolutely-poured-on.html" }, { "id": 890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely day in Taipei at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial and amazing Lungshan Temple. It was a hot one! We ate bao at this great soy milk place for breakfast, got to see the changing of the guard at the memorial, and later got a family foot massage. Informative and relaxing day. #Taiwan\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-29 07:04:28 -0700", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Apr 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/29/lovely-day-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F29%2Flovely-day-in.html" }, { "id": 891, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 29: 📷 drift (@SimonWoods) #mbApr\nAfter days of rain and cloud on this #Taiwan trip, we got a perfectly clear 34ºC day with just this little wisp of cloud drifting above the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-29 02:36:43 -0700", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Apr 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/29/day-drift-simonwoods.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F29%2Fday-drift-simonwoods.html" }, { "id": 892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Scrambled onto a packed high-speed train 🚄 from Tainan to Taipei. Had to stand the whole 1.5hr journey, but we made it 😮‍💨 Immediately went for fish tacos 🌮 and tea 🍵 (a very Taiwan combination) 😋\nThey served craft beer, cocktails, and tea out of a long bank of draft taps!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 06:32:31 -0700", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/28/scrambled-onto-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fscrambled-onto-a.html" }, { "id": 893, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 28: 📷 community (@stupendousman) #mbApr\nDepiction of community festival at the Taiwan National History Museum. #Taiwan\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 23:49:22 -0700", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/28/day-community-stupendousman.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fday-community-stupendousman.html" }, { "id": 894, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Catching up on some journaling on the balcony with a nice view before we leave.\n#Taiwan\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 20:05:29 -0700", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/28/catching-up-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fcatching-up-on.html" }, { "id": 895, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely day at the Grand Kaohsiung Hotel. Next we drive up to Tainan to visit the National History Museum. In the evening we will catch the High Speed Rail to Taipei.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 19:44:53 -0700", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/28/lovely-day-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Flovely-day-at.html" }, { "id": 896, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight we are staying in the Grand Kaohsiung Hotel, a grand place indeed which has hosted many dignitaries over the years including Chiang Kai Shek, Chadian president Idriss Déby, and Reza Pahlavi Shah. They have a giant duck and a nice pool! #Taiwan\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 06:59:28 -0700", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/27/tonight-we-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F27%2Ftonight-we-are.html" }, { "id": 897, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 27: 📷 surprise (@Sdevore) #mbApr\nOne of the suprising things visiting the holy site of the Buddha tooth relic (see previous post) was finding… a DINOSAUR display!? Unexpected… but at least its a herbivore! 🌱🦕\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 06:51:49 -0700", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/27/day-surprise-sdevore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F27%2Fday-surprise-sdevore.html" }, { "id": 898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum houses one of the 3 tooth 🦷 relics of the Buddha ☸️ It is a massive facility. No photos inside unfortunately. We saw the reliquary, got small bottles of holy water, and ate a fantastic vegetarian meal. But, there was a surprise (see my next post) #Taiwan #Buddhism\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 06:48:23 -0700", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/27/fo-guang-shan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F27%2Ffo-guang-shan.html" }, { "id": 899, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We showed up just as they were getting the night market set up. It was absolutely pouring when the plane landed. But not too bad the rest of the day. We had “Buddha Head” fruit for the first time. Ate some great noodles at a vegetarian 卍 stand. So full of street food right now! 😋\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-26 04:53:41 -0700", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Apr 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/26/we-showed-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Fwe-showed-up.html" }, { "id": 900, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 26: 📷 critter (@7robots) #mbApr\nSome delicious critters at the night market from our first day in Taiwan.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-26 04:46:58 -0700", "date": "4:46 p.m. on Apr 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/26/day-critter-robots.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Fday-critter-robots.html" }, { "id": 901, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the train to get on the plane to fly to Taiwan!🇹🇼 Getting a jumpstart on Golden Week. All my photos for the rest of the Micro.Blog April photo challenge #mBApr will now switch from Sakura 🌸 to Taiwan themed. 🧋🥭🍍\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-25 15:36:58 -0700", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Apr 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/26/on-the-train.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Fon-the-train.html" }, { "id": 902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hard wind out there today 🌬🪨\n\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-25 05:28:45 -0700", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Apr 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/25/hard-wind-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F25%2Fhard-wind-out.html" }, { "id": 903, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 25: 📷 spine (@thedimpause) #mbApr\nTo the east of Osaka, floating above the tops of the buildings in the distance, is the Ikoma mountain range, the spine that runs up the middle of Kansai separating the Osaka Plain from the Nara Basin. This is my morning coffee view from the balcony. ☀️☕⛰️⛰️⛰️\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-25 04:37:15 -0700", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Apr 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/25/day-spine-thedimpause.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F25%2Fday-spine-thedimpause.html" }, { "id": 904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 24: 📷 light (@eumrz) #mbApr\nThe cherry blossoms are long gone, so I have not held myself to that rule for the last couple of weeks, but I am glad to get you some cherry blossoms for tonight\u0026rsquo;s photo 💡🌸\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-24 04:33:42 -0700", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Apr 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/24/day-light-eumrz.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Fday-light-eumrz.html" }, { "id": 905, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Imagine interacting with your connected notes with a more engaging canvas view… that is programmable! \u0026ldquo;Visual-Semantic Morphism\u0026rdquo; is just one thing that came up in this cool presentation from @orion@hci.social\nwww.youtube.com/watch\n#Obsidian #OpenCanvas #ToolsForThought #UX #HCI\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-24 00:30:02 -0700", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Apr 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/24/imagine-interacting-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Fimagine-interacting-with.html" }, { "id": 906, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie 📚\nRecommended by my brother. Been a while since I read a straight forward fantasy in this style. Wanted something I could listen to on the airplane this week.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-23 23:44:53 -0700", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Apr 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/24/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 907, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, hello there. 👋 If you don’t mind terribly, I should like to recommend this lovely video essay about Wes Anderson films and living with pain 🥹\nBe well! I wish you the very best.\nyoutu.be/5G_sn4OIN\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-23 21:29:23 -0700", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Apr 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/24/well-hello-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Fwell-hello-there.html" }, { "id": 908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 📚\nChapter notes on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6450313181) and Bookwyrm (https://bookwyrm.social/book/1617013/comment#reviews) if you want to follow along.\n#EconomicJustice #limitarianism\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-23 05:31:16 -0700", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Apr 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/23/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F23%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wife left the city for the mountains 🏔️ today. Came home with a giant mushroom 🍄‍🟫. Broiled it and cracked it open and a long centipede came out!! 🐛😱 Children are mortified and have sworn off food “for at least a week”! 😂\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-23 04:25:43 -0700", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Apr 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/23/wife-left-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F23%2Fwife-left-the.html" }, { "id": 910, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 23: 📷 dreamy (@maique) #mbApr\nLove this local flower shop overflowing with leaves and twigs of all shapes and sizes. It makes me think of James C Scott. It also makes me think of my wife, since I buy stuff 💐 for her here.\nStore name translates as:\n夢 - dream 挿 - to put into a vase 花 - flowers\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-23 03:28:54 -0700", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Apr 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/23/day-dreamy-maique.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F23%2Fday-dreamy-maique.html" }, { "id": 911, "type": "post", "title": "Just enough capitalism – A quick review of Slow Productivity", "text": "Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚\nCal Newport’s latest advice book tackles the question of productivity in knowledge work. Factory work can much more easily be measured and systematized. Newport points out that office workers, writers, artists, and scholars are often assigned tasks and must come up with their own individual system to be productive. These systems are opaque to managers, who end up relying on “visible activity” (which many busy office workers are familiar with) as the proxy for productivity. Add in always-on email and instant messaging apps, plus a global pandemic and people trying to work from busy homes, and you end up with a lot of burnout.\nThe initial chapters of the book will have many knowledge workers nodding along empathetically, sharing in the sense of exhaustion and overload. Taking inspiration from the “slow food” movement Newport quickly moves into his three solutionary principles:\n Do fewer things Work at a natural pace Obsess over quality Each principle gets its own chapter full of tips in how you can step out of the hamster wheel of “psuedo-productivity”, take back your time from your employer, and focus on truly great work. Newport takes a lot of inspiration from classic figures like Isaac Newton, Copernicus, and Madame Curie. (Pretty intimidating for your average cubicle warrior…)\nUltimately, the book is not interested in deeper, critical questions of why we are burning out. Despite calling for a “revolution” in the conclusion, Newton drops some snide comments about Marx and leftists in the text. Challenging the system is not his job. Perhaps expected of a “productivity” blogger, he remains very much imprisoned in the self-exploitative work camp of the “late-modern achievement-subject” (see The Burnout Society by philosopher Byung Chul Han, an overview and link to my review here).\nMaybe I am being too “obsessed over quality.” A cynic might say this is a short book that capitalizes on people’s dissatisfaction with their work life and then doles “life-changing” advice between mentions of all his other books (on sale at all fine bookstores! And I admit I would like to get at least one more!). The advice basically boils down to: get really good at something, raise your rates, and lower the amount of time you spend engaging in capitalism. It is burnout mitigation on the level of a corporate mindfulness retreat. But that’s okay. It is better than nothing, and sometimes a reader needs a bit of prodding to be self-reflective, and the book did spur me to think about my own working habits. And though I have my issues, it is much better than other “make your bed”-style self-help books. I enjoyed the first bit and there are a few good nuggets in there. I think it would be a good jumping off point for discussion in a book club or office setting. So if you need something to spark a little rethinking about how you are doing things, this could be a good quick and moderately stimulating read. 3 stars!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 04:11:55 -0700", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/22/just-enough-capitalism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fjust-enough-capitalism.html" }, { "id": 912, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 22: 📷 blue (@lzbth) #mbApr\nA reclining Myaku-Myaku, official character of the Osaka Expo 2025.\n(and yes, I know you are wondering but I can confirm he has an eye on his backside)\nwww.expo2025.or.jp/en/overvi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 00:03:12 -0700", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/22/day-blue-lzbth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fday-blue-lzbth.html" }, { "id": 913, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 📚🥰☕️🫖🤖\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 07:37:23 -0700", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/21/just-finished-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fjust-finished-a.html" }, { "id": 914, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 21: 📷 mountain (@dejus) #mbApr\nPouring rain 🌧️ so couldn\u0026rsquo;t get you a pic of Ikoma mountains which look amazing from my apt\u0026hellip; so I went to the Ancient Mexico exhibit and got this ziggurat. See more pics: www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 03:53:54 -0700", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/21/day-mountain-dejus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fday-mountain-dejus.html" }, { "id": 915, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Be kind! Forgive yourself! Don’t let things go to your giant Dry Clay Head (Mark Manders, 2015-2016)!\n(Currently on display at the National Museum of Art, Osaka)\n#Osaka #art\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 01:05:46 -0700", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/21/be-kind-forgive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fbe-kind-forgive.html" }, { "id": 916, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, besides showing googly-eyes 👀 at the X100vi I have also been watching vids about the new Supernote (since I want an eInk tablet for reading papers) and been looking On1 vs Capture 1 as a Lightroom replacement. Feels like a whole new generation shift for personal kit 📷 📝 👨‍🎨\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 07:50:30 -0700", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/20/so-besides-showing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Fso-besides-showing.html" }, { "id": 917, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was a nice blue sky this morning around Umekita before the 黄砂 yellow dust came in from the Gobi desert and clouded things up.\n#Osaka\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 03:55:53 -0700", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/20/it-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Fit-was-a.html" }, { "id": 918, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 20: 📷 ice (@the) #mbApr\n25º in Osaka today. Tea, Waffles, and アイス\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 03:52:31 -0700", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/20/day-ice-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Fday-ice-the.html" }, { "id": 919, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been watching too many Ricoh GRIIIx vs Fujifilm X100vi YouTube videos 😬 😬 😬\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-19 07:41:46 -0700", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Apr 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/19/ive-been-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Five-been-watching.html" }, { "id": 920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was a gorgeous day in Kyoto today. Here are some random snaps from #EverydayKyoto\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-19 01:42:24 -0700", "date": "1:42 p.m. on Apr 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/19/it-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Fit-was-a.html" }, { "id": 921, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today we had lunch at おてらハウス in my old neighbourhood which serves only 精進料理 vegetarian Buddhist cuisine. As it is spring, there are lots of bamboo shoots in the meal.\n#EverydaydayKyoto #food\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-19 01:36:33 -0700", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Apr 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/19/today-we-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Ftoday-we-had.html" }, { "id": 922, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 19: 📷 birthday (@crossingthethreshold) #mbApr\nIn Japan orchids like this are usually presented as gifts to celebrate a new shop opening. Happy birthday! 🎈🥳\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-19 01:26:24 -0700", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Apr 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/19/day-birthday-crossingthethreshold.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Fday-birthday-crossingthethreshold.html" }, { "id": 923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Visited my friend @hermosawavephotography.com at his Kyotographie exhibition featuring his book “Empty Kyoto”\nThe exhibit runs until Sunday so get down there to see prints and hear some stories about the photos. hermosawavephotography.com/emptykyot\u0026hellip;\n#photography #kyoto\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-19 01:19:37 -0700", "date": "1:19 p.m. on Apr 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/19/visited-my-friend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Fvisited-my-friend.html" }, { "id": 924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚 on recommendation of @pratik\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-18 17:21:54 -0700", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Apr 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/19/started-slow-productivity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Fstarted-slow-productivity.html" }, { "id": 925, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 18: 📷 mood (@agilelisa) #mbApr\nEvery time I ride my bike past this\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-18 04:47:09 -0700", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Apr 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/18/day-mood-agilelisa.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F18%2Fday-mood-agilelisa.html" }, { "id": 926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Whoa I felt that quake in Oita all the way here in Osaka! Long! #earthquake #Japan #地震\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 07:18:55 -0700", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/17/whoa-i-felt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Fwhoa-i-felt.html" }, { "id": 927, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 17: 📷 transcendence (@drewbelf) #mbApr\nYou are connected to those in the past, in the present, and the future. You are transcendent.\n(📸 This is my family altar 仏壇 🙏📿)\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 03:46:20 -0700", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/17/day-transcendence-drewbelf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Fday-transcendence-drewbelf.html" }, { "id": 928, "type": "post", "title": "Rewilding the internet", "text": "The \u0026ldquo;internet is not an ecosystem. It’s a zoo.\u0026rdquo;\nRobin Berjon and Maria Farrell not only show how we have arrived at this online monoculture (and the dangers therein), but how we can take steps to seeding more diversity (and therefore resilience) for the good of the whole forest.\nThis article really sums up the work I have been doing over the past couple of years as a sort of armchair internet ecologist. Very happy to share it wide, hoping the seeds sprout into action by the internet-using public… which is all of us!\nwww.noemamag.com/we-need-t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 00:49:08 -0700", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/17/rewilding-the-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Frewilding-the-internet.html" }, { "id": 929, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 16: 📷 flâneur (@chrisaldrich) #mbApr\nDaughter got some new kicks and immediately decorated them in her style. She travels at her own pace. 🌈✌️\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-16 03:27:38 -0700", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Apr 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/16/day-flneur-chrisaldrich.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F16%2Fday-flneur-chrisaldrich.html" }, { "id": 930, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 15: 📷 small (@jmanes) #mbApr\nSince I started this April photo challenge my 12 year old daughter has been inspired and has been participating with her iPhone. Today she took a better \u0026ldquo;small\u0026rdquo; photo than I did so I am posting hers in lieu of mine (with due credit!) 👏\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-15 04:27:29 -0700", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Apr 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/15/day-small-jmanes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F15%2Fday-small-jmanes.html" }, { "id": 931, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The next stop of my (unplanned) specialty coffee tour of Kitahama #Osaka is Brooklyn Roasters, right on the river with a fantastic patio. The shop is a combination coffee ☕️ and flower 💐 shop! Oh the smells! 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-15 00:54:05 -0700", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Apr 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/15/t-next-stop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F15%2Ft-next-stop.html" }, { "id": 932, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying a pour over and cookie at the School Bus Coffee Stop in Kitahama #Osaka ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-14 22:58:05 -0700", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Apr 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/15/enjoying-a-pour.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F15%2Fenjoying-a-pour.html" }, { "id": 933, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning when I woke up to gentle sunlight and blue sky coming through my window, while everyone else was still sleeping in, I started A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-14 07:42:44 -0700", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Apr 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/14/thos-morning-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F14%2Fthos-morning-when.html" }, { "id": 934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 14: 📷 cactus (@christopherchelpka) #mbApr\nLast Xmas my daughter gave me this little felt cactus to put on my desk so I would have some green around me that wouldn’t die 🌵\n(In the background is a photo of my daughters in their kimono 👘🥹)\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-14 07:16:12 -0700", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Apr 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/14/day-cactus-christopherchelpka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F14%2Fday-cactus-christopherchelpka.html" }, { "id": 935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 13: 📷 page (@robj) #mbApr\nAfter finishing off a 250 page notebook, I recently bought a new Leuchtturm1917 in Stone Blue. Also got a new Uni Jetstream Edge in a matching colour. More on journaling: chadkohalyk.com/2021/02/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 06:14:25 -0700", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/13/day-page-robj.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Fday-page-robj.html" }, { "id": 936, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a day! 🌞 Sports Day ⚽️🏅🏃‍♀️ for the school so I was out in the sun all day photographing the kids. OD’ing on Vitamin D right now. Need a shower and a lie down.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 00:49:25 -0700", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/13/what-a-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Fwhat-a-day.html" }, { "id": 937, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 12: 📷 magic (@DaveyCraney) #mbApr\nThe cherry blossoms are almost done 🌸! Here are fortune slips that must not have told of the best future, so were left behind.\nCheck the Replies to see a gallery of other charms and magical items I captured on today\u0026rsquo;s ride.\n#桜　#Japan\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-12 01:03:43 -0700", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Apr 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/12/day-magic-daveycraney.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F12%2Fday-magic-daveycraney.html" }, { "id": 938, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 11: 📷 sky (@jedda) #mbApr\nToday was cloudy, so I decided to go shoot the Umeda Sky Building in the dark for you. Of course, I had to get some sakura 🌸 in there. Check the replies for some closeups of the hole that goes to the 40th F roof and daytime shots\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-11 06:15:40 -0700", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Apr 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/11/day-sky-jedda.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F11%2Fday-sky-jedda.html" }, { "id": 939, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "During my walk today… a school that pretty much every child wants to go to #osaka #anime #esports\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-10 00:39:36 -0700", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Apr 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/10/during-my-walk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F10%2Fduring-my-walk.html" }, { "id": 940, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 10: 📷 train (@starrwulfe) #mbApr\nThe Nintendo Train through the cherry blossoms 🍄👸🚋🌸\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-09 23:22:00 -0700", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Apr 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/10/day-train-starrwulfe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F10%2Fday-train-starrwulfe.html" }, { "id": 941, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It has been mostly cloudy, but I have gotten a few 🌸 cherry blossom shots and put them up on Flickr if you wanna have a quick scroll www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-09 03:58:20 -0700", "date": "3:58 p.m. on Apr 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/09/it-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F09%2Fit-has-been.html" }, { "id": 942, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 9: 📷 crispy (@rom) #mbApr\nKaraage (fried chicken) with some sakurai mochi and hanami dango 🌸🍡\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-09 03:18:21 -0700", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Apr 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/09/day-crispy-rom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F09%2Fday-crispy-rom.html" }, { "id": 943, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is SOOOO windy out! 🌬 There are cherry blossom 🌸 petals on my balcony I am on the 12th floor!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-09 00:28:36 -0700", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Apr 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/09/it-is-soooo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F09%2Fit-is-soooo.html" }, { "id": 944, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 8: 📷 prevention (@anniegreens) #mbApr\n\u0026ldquo;Memory Park\u0026rdquo; is full of cherry blossom trees and a hanami spot for families in my neighbourhood. 🌸 Lovely, no? But notice the low building just beyond the trees? On the other side of the cranes? That is the Osaka Detention Center. Prevention.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-08 02:27:44 -0700", "date": "2:27 p.m. on Apr 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/08/day-prevention-anniegreens.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F08%2Fday-prevention-anniegreens.html" }, { "id": 945, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Deb Chachra (@debcha@mastodon.social / @debcha.bsky.social) on CBC Spark. She hits a bunch of the main points of her great book \u0026ldquo;How Infrastructure Works\u0026rdquo;. Worth a listen!\nwww.cbc.ca/listen/li\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-07 16:39:53 -0700", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Apr 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/08/deb-chachra-debchamastodonsocial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F08%2Fdeb-chachra-debchamastodonsocial.html" }, { "id": 946, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 7: 📷 wellbeing (@ridwan)\nIt\u0026rsquo;s been ☁️ overcast ☁️ every day during this cherry blossom season 😞 but finally we got some blue sky. An old friend from Kelowna who lives in Fukuoka came up to 🚅 Osaka to visit us for the day.\nBeing together 👫\nUnder the sakura trees 🌸\nWe share well-being 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-07 04:40:35 -0700", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Apr 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/07/day-wellbeing-ridwan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F07%2Fday-wellbeing-ridwan.html" }, { "id": 947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-06 07:50:38 -0700", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Apr 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/06/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F06%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 948, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 6: 📷 windy (@Miraz)\nI went out to try and capture something for today\u0026rsquo;s @challenges theme, but it is just not that windy 😫 Staying within my self-imposed cherry blossom rule, I got a shot of a single petal in a pond rippled with a gentle wind. 🌬🌊🌸\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-06 02:33:40 -0700", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Apr 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/06/day-windy-miraz.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F06%2Fday-windy-miraz.html" }, { "id": 949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 5: 📷 serene (@chiawase)\n🌸🌸🌸\n🌸🏯🌸\n🌸🌸🌸\nJust sat and watched this scene for a while this afternoon. Many feels from real life … IYKYK\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-05 03:50:09 -0700", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Apr 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/05/day-serene-chiawase.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F05%2Fday-serene-chiawase.html" }, { "id": 950, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 4: 📷 foliage (@pratik)\nAlthough we are only at something like 60% bloom for the whole region, some varietals bloomed last week. Now the leaves 🍃 are poking through the blossoms 🌸\nThere is still time for 花見 hanami flower-viewing. Then comes 葉っぱ見 happami leaf-viewing 🍻\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-03 23:36:03 -0700", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Apr 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/03/day-foliage-pratik.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F03%2Fday-foliage-pratik.html" }, { "id": 951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane 📚\nA very readable, yet comprehensive, history of Northern Island over the past 100 years. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-03 04:50:50 -0700", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Apr 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/03/finished-northern-ireland.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F03%2Ffinished-northern-ireland.html" }, { "id": 952, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 3: card 📷 (@val)\nSome sakura 🌸 themed greeting cards at a backstreet stationery shop. Unfortunately they didn’t stock any of those fancy 3D constructable ones where you get a whole tree, or the music light show ones. Still, the Japan levels are turned up to 11 on these 🎚️🇯🇵\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-02 23:22:25 -0700", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Apr 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/03/day-card-val.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F03%2Fday-card-val.html" }, { "id": 953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People not looking up so much today ☔️\n(See yesterday’s pic micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/0\u0026hellip;)\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-02 22:18:14 -0700", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Apr 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/03/people-not-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F03%2Fpeople-not-looking.html" }, { "id": 954, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A little night walk down by the riverside in my neighbourhood which is called \u0026ldquo;Palace of Cherry Blossoms\u0026rdquo; 🌸🏯 Finally the blooming has started.\nSee all my sakura shots for the day here: www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-02 06:04:37 -0700", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Apr 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/02/a-little-walk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F02%2Fa-little-walk.html" }, { "id": 955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 2: Flowers 📷 (@davegullett)\nA photographer enjoys the blooming cherry blossoms\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-02 00:32:17 -0700", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Apr 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/02/day-flowers-davegullett.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F02%2Fday-flowers-davegullett.html" }, { "id": 956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "📷 Day01 : toy (@pcora)\nCherry blossoms will be blooming over the next couple of weeks, so I am going to see if I can somehow maintain a parallel theme as this photo challenge progresses. Today I popped down to the Lego store to capture some toy cherry blossoms 🌸🧱\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-01 01:16:14 -0700", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Apr 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/01/day-toy-pcora.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F01%2Fday-toy-pcora.html" }, { "id": 957, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous day at Osaka Station 🌞 😎 🧸⛲️\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-31 22:43:24 -0700", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Mar 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/01/gorgeous-day-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F04%2F01%2Fgorgeous-day-at.html" }, { "id": 958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What are you into? What would you like to GET into? My newsletter this month is on “making” and hobbies. Consider the possibility: maybe you aren’t looking for something to DO, but looking for a community to do something with? Read it here 👇\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-31 05:39:56 -0700", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Mar 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/31/what-are-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F31%2Fwhat-are-you.html" }, { "id": 959, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kyoto is CRAZY with tourists right now. We went to visit the family grave since we missed out last weekend. Cloudy, but got a couple of nice photos of cherry blossoms 🌸 📸\n#EverydayKyoto #Kyoto #Japan #sakura\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-31 01:57:04 -0700", "date": "1:57 p.m. on Mar 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/31/kyoto-is-crazy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F31%2Fkyoto-is-crazy.html" }, { "id": 960, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent all day in the Wakayama mountains at a very eclectic Buddhist temple that will open soon. More photos but here are a few random shots. The main statue of 1000 Hands Kannon-sama is being shipped from China, and there is an opening ceremony by a Malaysian Zen master in the coming weeks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-30 07:08:54 -0700", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/30/spent-all-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F30%2Fspent-all-day.html" }, { "id": 961, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was another great ep following the one with Simon Willison about finding the boundaries of LLMs oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/\u0026hellip;\n#podcast #machineLearning #LLM #adversarialML\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-29 00:20:02 -0700", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Mar 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/29/this-was-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F29%2Fthis-was-another.html" }, { "id": 962, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bluesky, blue building 📸\nNo edits. Taken from the north side of Osaka Castle park.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-28 22:42:51 -0700", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Mar 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/29/bluesky-blue-building.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F29%2Fbluesky-blue-building.html" }, { "id": 963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous spring day. Hung around Umeda enjoying the warm. There are still no cherry blossoms outside yet due to the cold, but the Hilton has a bunch of trees growing on display in the lobby that are fully bloomed! 📸🌸\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-27 02:01:25 -0700", "date": "2:01 p.m. on Mar 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/27/gorgeous-spring-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F27%2Fgorgeous-spring-day.html" }, { "id": 964, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I found out about Rev. Joanne Yuasa who this year started working as a chaplain at Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Base Kingston, where I went to graduate school. She is the first Buddhist chaplain in the Canadian Forces! Wow!\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-25 22:26:54 -0700", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Mar 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/26/today-i-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F26%2Ftoday-i-found.html" }, { "id": 965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop) 📚 A positive read with a bunch of interesting branches to explore next. You can see some short chapter overviews: www.goodreads.com/review/sh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-25 03:28:06 -0700", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Mar 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/25/finished-governable-spaces.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F25%2Ffinished-governable-spaces.html" }, { "id": 966, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Appreciated this discussion about operations research and the \u0026ldquo;universal science\u0026rdquo; of advertising. Surviving adtech like I have, I was really nodding my head along with the discussion about how ad agencies play both sides of the transaction\nwww.patreon.com/posts/328\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 23:37:46 -0700", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/25/appreciated-this-discussion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F25%2Fappreciated-this-discussion.html" }, { "id": 967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really itching to go out on a photowalk. I’ve been on the backstreets at night but need to capture more. This rando snap I took since I liked the mix of stopping and going in one moment. 📸\nAnywho, next week the sakura 🌸 will bloom so I will definitely be taking lotsa shots\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-23 08:28:59 -0700", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Mar 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/24/really-itching-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Freally-itching-to.html" }, { "id": 968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is fun to play with\njnolan.shinyapps.io/Populatio\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-22 01:28:27 -0700", "date": "1:28 p.m. on Mar 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/22/this-is-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F22%2Fthis-is-fun.html" }, { "id": 969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "RIP Vernor Vinge\nfile770.com/vernor-vi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 02:11:53 -0700", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/21/rip-vernor-vinge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Frip-vernor-vinge.html" }, { "id": 970, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Haunting #longread on Irish remembrance \u0026amp; forgetting against the background of extremely low corp tax rates, 80+ datacenters (with 40 more approved!) using a fifth of electric output causing\nwww.theguardian.com/world/202\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-18 22:18:20 -0700", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Mar 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/19/haunting-longread-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fhaunting-longread-on.html" }, { "id": 971, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Appreciated this accessible piece on the antitrust case against Amazon. (TLDR; jacking Marketplace fees to subsidize other parts of the business)\nwww.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-18 21:48:03 -0700", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Mar 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/19/appreciated-this-accessible.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fappreciated-this-accessible.html" }, { "id": 972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really enjoyed this interview of renowned scholar of Japanese history Thomas Conlan by the always excellent @becedo.bsky.social on his fascinating account of the Ouchi family. I am definitely picking up this book\nnewbooksnetwork.com/kings-in-\u0026hellip;\n#japan #history #podcast\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-18 06:53:22 -0700", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Mar 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/18/really-enjoyed-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F18%2Freally-enjoyed-this.html" }, { "id": 973, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Handy comparison of Free and OpenSource Photo Libraries\nhttps://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/\n#photography #FOSS\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-17 21:04:49 -0700", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Mar 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/18/handy-comparison-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F18%2Fhandy-comparison-of.html" }, { "id": 974, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting a boba at this neighborhood Taiwanese and Vietnamese cafe🧋\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-14 21:57:20 -0700", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Mar 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/15/getting-a-boba.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fgetting-a-boba.html" }, { "id": 975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely day to explore the backstreets of Nakazaki, home to many tiny coffee shops and art galleries #osaka #coffee ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-13 23:47:25 -0700", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Mar 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/14/lovely-day-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F14%2Flovely-day-to.html" }, { "id": 976, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-12 05:42:49 -0700", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Mar 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/12/currently-reading-governable.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F12%2Fcurrently-reading-governable.html" }, { "id": 977, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would really like browsers to track the “Referrer” for new tabs. For example, if you click on a link in an email, from a social media post, or Discord/Slack/Signal/Messages/etc please store a link back. Especially useful in the age of the cozy web, where I have a number of small social networks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-10 20:15:36 -0700", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Mar 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/11/i-would-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F11%2Fi-would-really.html" }, { "id": 978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-10 03:32:53 -0700", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Mar 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/10/started-northern-ireland.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F10%2Fstarted-northern-ireland.html" }, { "id": 979, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Takoyaki right from the traditional source 📸\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-07 22:02:54 -0700", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Mar 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/08/takoyaki-right-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Ftakoyaki-right-from.html" }, { "id": 980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China Miéville 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-06 02:33:21 -0700", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Mar 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/06/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F06%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 981, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Want to learn how to make digital music with visual programming? Or do you just want your mind blown for 10 straight minutes? Either way, we got you 🤯🎶🐸💘🦜 https://youtu.be/DNBKdU6XrLY?si=B0AQToJ2PLAQpCZZ\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 06:24:52 -0700", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/04/want-to-learn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fwant-to-learn.html" }, { "id": 982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "internet.exchangepoint.tech/internet-\u0026hellip;\nMallory Knodel (@mallory@techpolicy.social) points out that 2024 is a big year for Internet governance. One of the challenges that I witnessed at IGF in Kyoto last year was the multilateralism v. multistakeholderism fight. Mallory writes:\n States are currently empowered– see: regulation, “digital public infrastructure”, and AI for sustainable development; while the technical community has no clearly articulated affirmative and practical vision for the future of the open and interoperable internet.\n Technology is politics.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 03:00:05 -0700", "date": "3:00 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/04/190005.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2F190005.html" }, { "id": 983, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We have been considering moving away from DnD as we wrap up our current campaign. Started reading this as one of the candidates The Wildsea: RPG by Felix Isaacs 📚#ttrpg\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 05:50:29 -0700", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/03/03/we-have-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Fwe-have-been.html" }, { "id": 984, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Monthly newsletter is out. This month\u0026rsquo;s message is short since there are so many links to photos of plum blossoms and castles and Tokyo!\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-29 04:56:10 -0700", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Feb 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/29/monthly-newsletter-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F29%2Fmonthly-newsletter-is.html" }, { "id": 985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had this Korean roast today. Nice and light. Very smooth to drink! Had it at a small weekly pop-up. The owner travels lots and brings back all sorts of beans which he serves. Just spent 3 months in Sri Lanka, India \u0026amp; Nepal and has some assorted beans from there too. ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-29 00:20:10 -0700", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Feb 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/29/had-this-korean.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F29%2Fhad-this-korean.html" }, { "id": 986, "type": "post", "title": "Networking our networks", "text": "The HN Tokyo Meetup. As one Kansai person told me: “I can tell it\u0026rsquo;s a meetup for people who are into frameworks.”\nLast week I went up to Tokyo on my annual pilgrimage to meet with old friends and make new connections. I timed my trip to coincide with the monthly Hacker News Tokyo Meetup. These social events regularly see a hundred or so hackers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts of all kinds come out to drink and be merry. This month we were on the rooftop of the PARCO building in Shibuya. It was a bit windy but that rooftop is really gorgeous, offering excellent views of the city. Over the five hours I was there (including an after-party at a craft brewery around the corner) I met a ton of interesting people.\nA small sample:\n an Elixir programmer considering a side gig as a an artisinal cheesemaker a death metal singer that flew from the US to make connections and try to get a job a data analyst who made a “moneyball” database for Columbia Records for discovering hidden talent (I was finally able to learn from him exactly what an “A\u0026amp;R” is!) It was a blast.\nCommunity members gather to listen to announcements.\nEngaging with a community of your peers is fun and rewarding. You never know who you will meet or what you will learn. And who knows what opportunities it might bring in the future?\nI was a member of the HN Tokyo Slack community for 4 years before I even went to an event. In fact, I was introduced to it by a guy in the Fukuoka startup community. I am still in touch with those Fukuoka comrades… last year I was able to meet up with some at the Maker Faire in Kyoto. Nowadays I have been engaged with the the local Kansai HN and programmer community.\nDuring the HN Tokyo event I introduced myself as a “diplomat from HN Kansai”. Many people came up to me afterwards, interested in hearing more about Kansai. I invited everyone to stop by our community meetups if they were ever in Osaka or Kyoto. I was even able to recommend places to visit in Fukuoka!\nI enjoy going around to different communities and meeting people. As someone who has been between cultures (and locations!) for a long time, I suppose I also enjoy bridging different communities.\nBack when I lived in the Okanagan every community had their “Geek Beers”-style of tech meetup. Working with friends in the neighbouring towns such as Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, and Kamloops, we started an event where everyone in the region would congregate in one community. It was an annual summer event with a rotating host. We called it #megageekbeers. One year we even got corporate sponsorship to cover a bus to drive people to the next community over so they could arrive and get home safely!\nI am still connected to the Kelowna and Vernon startup communities. We share job prospects, industry information, and memes 😜 through these networks across communities and now across borders.\nNetworking opportunities are super valuable at a personal level, whether for professional or fun reasons. We are all taught this early. But cross-community networking is how we can build movements. “Federation” has become a keyword in online social media the past couple of years. I think there is a huge opportunity to realize this concept IRL: let’s network our networks!\nCommunity members step up to the mic to deliver announcements.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-28 05:08:18 -0700", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Feb 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/28/networking-our-networks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fnetworking-our-networks.html" }, { "id": 987, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blue sky at the train station. Today in Osaka was warm with a perfect sky. Spring is coming! 🌱🌼🌸\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-28 03:53:40 -0700", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Feb 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/28/blue-sky-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fblue-sky-at.html" }, { "id": 988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Osaka Castle from Genpachi Bridge. In a couple of weeks all those trees will be pink with cherry blossoms 🌸🌸🌸\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-28 03:51:45 -0700", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Feb 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/28/osaka-castle-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fosaka-castle-from.html" }, { "id": 989, "type": "post", "title": "\"we all can't be Buddhas\"", "text": "I am posting this publicly so that I can reference it in links going forward. There might be a more common way to express this sentiment, this is just the way that I often do in conversation. It is something I came up with in discussing intentional communities with my wife a while back.\nOftentimes, communities will tear themselves apart simply over battles over who is “pure” enough to belong. We see this political infighting in all sorts of communities at all sorts of scales. The \u0026ldquo;narcissism of small differences\u0026rdquo;, right? Holding an unreasonably high bar of acceptance is completely counterproductive to building the kinds of broad-based movements that we need today in order to tackle the problems all of our societies face, whether at the international or local levels.\nOne of the great lessons of anarchism that I learned from David Graeber over the years is how to actually go about developing the vitally effective community characteristic of diversity: learning how to listen to and respect individuals, their choices, experiences, and opinions. We cannot let “intellectual purism” prevent us from building (or burning!) necessary bridges. That is not to say there isn’t a limit. The Paradox of Tolerance is also something we need to contend with. But in general, we should approach community building with a “Big Tent” attitude.\nThe Buddha was a perfectly enlightened being, a singular achievement. Yet the sangha, the Buddhist community, has survived for more than 2500 years.\nWe all can’t be Buddhas… but with the right attitude, there are plenty of other ways that we can participate, and be together as part of the community.\n Footnote At the end of my 1 year Upāsaka program, I was given the Pali name of Sanghapāla — “protector of the sangha” — so one could say I have a spiritual devotion to community-building! 😊\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-27 20:01:52 -0700", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Feb 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/28/we-all-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fwe-all-cant.html" }, { "id": 990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just watched DUNE for the first time since the theatre. I think I like it a lot more on the second watch. It is actually really well put together, quick pace… Just all the slomo and prophesying slow it down. Looking forward to seeing the second part in the next couple of weeks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-23 23:57:39 -0700", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Feb 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/24/just-watched-dune.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F24%2Fjust-watched-dune.html" }, { "id": 991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I haven’t been sick for quite a while. So I suppose I should not feel so betrayed, so wronged for being sick on this long weekend 😷 But it still sucks 😞\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-22 23:15:33 -0700", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Feb 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/23/i-havent-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F23%2Fi-havent-been.html" }, { "id": 992, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back in the big 大\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-21 00:55:35 -0700", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Feb 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/21/back-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Fback-in-the.html" }, { "id": 993, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The HN Tokyo hntokyo.io meetup last night. About a 100 people on the PARCO rooftop in Shibuya. Gorgeous view. Tons of new friends made. The startup scene in Japan is so different compared to when I struggled in 2009-2010. Lots of interesting projects and successes!\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-20 18:51:20 -0700", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Feb 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/21/the-hn-tokyo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Fthe-hn-tokyo.html" }, { "id": 994, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I met @jamesvandyne in person! He showed me around his lovely office and then we went for a taco lunch 😏\nWe had a fun conversation about working in green tech, his CMS project Tanzawa, and all the cool innovation happening now on open social. The web is getting weird again! 🤘🥳\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-19 00:33:44 -0700", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Feb 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/19/today-i-met.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F19%2Ftoday-i-met.html" }, { "id": 995, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the Shinkansen 🚅 bound for Tokyo. Meeting some old friends and new over the next few days as I do my annual working holiday in the big city. I am taking this time to do some strategy work, and also to attend the Hacker News Tokyo meetup for the first time. HMU if you see me there!\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-17 19:16:47 -0700", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Feb 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/18/on-the-shinkansen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F18%2Fon-the-shinkansen.html" }, { "id": 996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good time connecting with the wider community of devs in Osaka. We talked about all sorts of topics including using CoPilot in multilingual environments. Then had a good hour of networking before heading back to the station and off for drinks and more conversation meetu.ps/e/MRJGJ/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-17 03:41:21 -0700", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Feb 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/17/good-time-connecting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F17%2Fgood-time-connecting.html" }, { "id": 997, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying @emilydingwrites@mastodon.world latest newsletter #MovableWorlds The writing is evocative and the accompanying little clips \u0026amp; photos really set the mood. It just makes me want to sit down and write! I wish my newsletter could be so well crafted… movableworlds.co/p/finding\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-16 05:01:38 -0700", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Feb 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/16/enjoying-emilydingwritesmastodonworld-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F16%2Fenjoying-emilydingwritesmastodonworld-latest.html" }, { "id": 998, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Heritage Foundations playbook for a Republican 2025 presidency will throw gas on the #ClimateCrisis turning everything including dishwasher cycles into a Culture War. Just scan the headers on this review of the 900 page document 🤯\nheatmap.news/politics/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-16 04:39:10 -0700", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Feb 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/16/the-heritage-foundations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F16%2Fthe-heritage-foundations.html" }, { "id": 999, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listening to this podcast talking about using profilers to not only carbon-optimize your site, but also Linux, and your house 🏡 pca.st/episode/6\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-12 20:19:39 -0700", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Feb 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/13/listening-to-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Flistening-to-this.html" }, { "id": 1000, "type": "post", "title": "GitHub's Innovation Graph", "text": "Rest of World has a piece on the fastest-growing countries for software development featuring GitHub\u0026rsquo;s Innovation graph. I got a peek at this last year at the GitHub booth at the IGF2023 in Kyoto. One of my favs is Economy collaborators which represents international collaboration on projects. It is the sum of git pushes sent from one country to another. This is some real CIA Factbook or Atlas of Economic Complexity-like stuff but for software development.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-12 18:55:13 -0700", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Feb 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/13/githubs-innovation-graph.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Fgithubs-innovation-graph.html" }, { "id": 1001, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a call with a friend I knew from Kyoto. We went to China together in 2004. I saw him once in Oakland in 2013. We occasionally have catchup calls, but have not met in person in a long time. I have a few friends like this. They are all great and I am lucky to have them. 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-11 22:31:04 -0700", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Feb 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/12/had-a-call.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F12%2Fhad-a-call.html" }, { "id": 1002, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blue sky in Osaka\n(We are here to see the plum blossoms, but they are not quite ready yet)\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-11 00:34:40 -0700", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Feb 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/11/blue-sky-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F11%2Fblue-sky-in.html" }, { "id": 1003, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Leopard print 🐆 on the subway doors is 💯 🎯 Osaka\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-10 19:55:38 -0700", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Feb 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/11/leopard-print-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F11%2Fleopard-print-on.html" }, { "id": 1004, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Big day today: the keys 🔑 have been handed over! We moved to Osaka in October and put our Kyoto apartment up for sale. Sold in December, and the new people took possession today. An 18 year long chapter is now over.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-08 20:21:04 -0700", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Feb 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/09/big-day-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fbig-day-today.html" }, { "id": 1005, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Speaking of Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons, We have a long-time group doing the Strahd campaign\u0026hellip; the DM commissioned cute voodoo dolls of our characters!! 😍😍😍 Amazing! #DnD\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-08 16:39:35 -0700", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Feb 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/09/speaking-of-dungeons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fspeaking-of-dungeons.html" }, { "id": 1006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I know people are hatin' on AI/LLMs but they\u0026rsquo;ve improved my ritual spellcasting efficiency significantly! 🧙‍♂️😜\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-08 16:31:14 -0700", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Feb 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/09/i-know-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fi-know-people.html" }, { "id": 1007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A wide-ranging and thought-provoking ep about crypto, AI, VCs, ZKs, quadratic funding, democracy, anarchism… Audrey drops the inspiring line \u0026ldquo;bridging polarity to plurality\u0026rdquo; 🎯\npodcasts.apple.com/au/podcas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 04:58:48 -0700", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/07/a-wideranging-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fa-wideranging-and.html" }, { "id": 1008, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🙏 🥰\ndaverupert.com/2024/02/a\u0026hellip;\n(Attached is a fuzzy photo of a server rack in a church alcove that I took at the Internet Archive more than a decade ago)\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 18:49:15 -0700", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/06/httpsdaverupertcomaholycommunion-attached-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F06%2Fhttpsdaverupertcomaholycommunion-attached-is.html" }, { "id": 1009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: Global Digital Data Governance: Polycentric Perspectives by Carolina Aguerre, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Jan Aart Scholte 📚 #InternetGovernance\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 05:22:36 -0700", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/05/started-reading-global.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fstarted-reading-global.html" }, { "id": 1010, "type": "post", "title": "More on Decentralization", "text": "Of course a couple days after writing my post consolidating thoughts of decentralization I found a piece by Nathan Schneider in my Omnivore called: What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work\nThis further makes the point that the centralization-decentralization debate is nuanced, and Schneider quotes another scholar saying we must go “beyond the centralization-centralization dichotomy.”\nSchneider discusses entrepreneurship, co-ops, blockchain, and more, introducing three characteristics of applying the decentralization principle:\n Decentralization is a process, not static. It is not one-way. Centralization is like reverse-entropy. Decentralizing systems should be heterogenous, incorporating multiple forms of decentralization. We must plan for centralization and ensure that it is accountable. This rhymes with Mark Nottingham’s point of the need for checks and balances. Read the whole piece: What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 19:31:23 -0700", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/05/more-on-decentralization.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fmore-on-decentralization.html" }, { "id": 1011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Live in a small apartment rather than a big, drafty house… Fly rarely… Work less… exercise … Tax the rich… basic income… capital toward home care and nursing homes, not arms…neighborhoods dense and walkable…” etc\nwww.newyorker.com/books/und\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-03 17:09:36 -0700", "date": "5:09 p.m. on Feb 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/04/live-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Flive-in-a.html" }, { "id": 1012, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-02 06:10:54 -0700", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Feb 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/02/started-reading-homage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F02%2Fstarted-reading-homage.html" }, { "id": 1013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today at lunch I popped down to Namba Yasaka ⛩️ for a bite 🦷\nMore pix 📸 www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n(The plum blossoms are out!)\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-02 00:22:16 -0700", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Feb 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/02/02/today-at-lunch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F02%2F02%2Ftoday-at-lunch.html" }, { "id": 1014, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just an hour left in the last day of January, so sent out my monthly personal note with a little advice that might make you feel a bit better\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s working for me! buttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-31 06:58:17 -0700", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Jan 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/31/just-an-hour.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F31%2Fjust-an-hour.html" }, { "id": 1015, "type": "post", "title": "On decentralization", "text": "I really appreciated Mark Nottingham’s memo RFC 9518 on Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards. In it he provides a wide-ranging and balanced introduction to the topic in quite a short article. I have been collecting bits of arguments for decentralization (in a centralized location of course 😉) for the past couple of years, with the intention to write something round-up, but have struggled. I am so glad Mark did it, and so much better than I could!\nI wholly recommend reading the piece. Below I will expand on it with some more wide-ranging sources. You don’t have to read his article to understand this post, but I hope by the end you will be even more motivated to go check out his.\nThe RFC 9518 memo covers different types and harms of centralization in an internet context, and indicates what can be done by standards organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Nottingham notes that standards orgs cannot prevent centralization, but can make sure to consider \u0026ldquo;centralization risk\u0026rdquo; when evaluating a standard, and promote those that enable decentralization.\nYet he warns:\n while decentralized technical standards may be necessary to avoid centralization of Internet functions, they are not sufficient\n This is a problem for a certain sector of blockchain and web3 enthusiasts and why some pragmatic proponents came up with the term \u0026ldquo;sufficient decentralization.\u0026rdquo; Nottingham covers blockchain-style consensus in his memo. I also found Alice Yuan Zhang’s challenge of the “myths” of decentralization in web3 is a fun read. A quote from her:\n Decentralization as praxis is rooted in direct action, striving to abolish capitalistic economics and supply chains which encode mass oppression into large-scale systems with many actors and minimal accountability.\n Nottingham agrees, writing that centralization becomes a problem “when it has no checks, balances, or other mechanisms of accountability”. Architectural decentralization can certainly help, but it isn’t enough as explained in Capture Resistance by Robin Berjon.\nFurthermore, we may not want total decentralization. Nottingham gives the example of content moderation as something that benefits from centralization, and makes the point that centralized structures such as “governments, corporations, and nonprofit organizations” can be useful. This level of nuance is what makes Nottingham’s shortish piece extra valuable. Nobody is under the illusion that decentralization is a panacea.\nIn discussing internet fragmentation, “public interest technologist” Mallory Knodel writes:\n Sovereignty needs to be balanced against interdependence. Globalization – and its technologies – arose from the idea that interdependence prevents conflict. Economic interlinkage, or entanglement, disincentivizes attacks because it raises the risk of collateral damage and unintended consequences for the attacker. Perhaps some healthy fragmentation provides greater opportunity for interdependence beyond interconnectivity, and is an example of how to embrace a more complex internet landscape.\n “Healthy fragmentation”… centralization and decentralization in balance. How do we combine them appropriately? Mike Masnick used the canonical example of the US interstate system in his essay Decentralization in All the Things:\n having centralized infrastructure that is open and on which others can build in a decentralized manner can open up tremendous possibilities.\n One main way we can do this with regards to internet protocols is to ensure interoperability and lower switching costs, which is where Nottingham says standards orgs can play a role. In this he is in agreement with Cory Doctorow, whose latest non-fiction book The Internet Con is a podium-pounding preachment on how \u0026ldquo;Network effects are merely how Big Tech gets big. Switching costs are how Big Tech stays big.\u0026rdquo; Interop lowers switching costs, and puts agency back in the hands of the people (see the presentation version of the book by watching Cory’s talk at DefCon last year).\nCryptography and Privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis says:\n Decentralization is important because building systems that distribute power is important. Building systems that resist abuses of power is important.\n She argues that centralization/decentralization should not be conceptualized in terms of simple things like % control over a number of nodes, but “how trust and power are given, distributed and interact.” I think she puts it admirably when she writes, “Decentralized systems are systems that rely on the distribution of power to secure the system.”\nThat last sentence is certainly one to mull over.\nBut it is her point about who has access to power that makes decentralization such a wide-ranging topic. Once we start to go beyond the bounds of internet protocols the topic becomes more complex.\nTwenty-five years ago the United Nations Development Programme\u0026rsquo;s 1999 report on decentralization stated that “Decentralization is not an alternative to centralization. Both are needed.” The report notes that subsidiarity is an important principle for:\n … increasing the overall quality and effectiveness of the system of governance, while increasing the authority and capacities of sub-national levels. … Decentralization could also be expected to contribute to key elements of good governance, such as increasing people\u0026rsquo;s opportunities for participation in economic, social and political decisions; assisting in developing people\u0026rsquo;s capacities; and enhancing government responsiveness, transparency and accountability.\n In general we might say decentralization is a substrate for agency.\nIn her lovely book How Infrastructure Works, Deb Chachra thinks about the future of infrastructure over the next 50 years in the face of climate change. For her, decentralization is a key to resilience, an important ability for the climate fight we are in as we rebuild our massively centralized infrastructure systems so communities can build to their own needs. Diffuse, diverse, and distributed… which also happen to be the founding principles (values?) of the internet itself.\n … like forests our infrastructure systems have the potential to be modular, networked, decentralized, responsive, and resilient\n Decentralization is a technological, architectural, political, and philosophical topic that I think underlies most if not all of our coordination efforts, whether in the realm of making the net better, or battling climate change. Because it is such a wide-ranging topic, entangled in so many debates, I have struggled to solidify my personal take and capture it in a succinct blog post. The lack of a single canonical answer to “how much decentralization” makes it a slippery topic. It\u0026rsquo;s a valuable principle to guide our decision-making and I am glad to see it enshrined here in an RFC so that standards organizations like the IETF can take it under consideration as we build the next generation of internet infrastructure. Mark Nottingham has done an excellent job writing such balanced and accessible memo in a handy, shareable document to get people familiarized with the concept and its nuance. That link again: RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-31 02:25:36 -0700", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Jan 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/31/on-decentralization.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F31%2Fon-decentralization.html" }, { "id": 1016, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spoke at Osaka Web Designer and Developer Meetup about my journey in tech. Talked about the never-ending technologies I had to learn, and the socio-economic context around each career shift. We then discussed future trends.\n📸 www.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 01:53:50 -0700", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/30/spoke-at-osaka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fspoke-at-osaka.html" }, { "id": 1017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched this vid yesterday arguing that El-P is the most influential white rapper. So catching up on his non-RTJ stuff while doing laundry and chores around the house (like installing a new daughterboard on my keyboard)\n ", "dateiso": "2024-01-27 22:02:03 -0700", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Jan 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/28/watched-this-vid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fwatched-this-vid.html" }, { "id": 1018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chilly blue sky from under the life insurance building\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-23 22:58:54 -0700", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Jan 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/24/chilly-blue-sky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F24%2Fchilly-blue-sky.html" }, { "id": 1019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mmmm 😋 Ethiopian coffee and walnut cheesecake o’clock at Ourlog Coffee Roasters ☕️ 🍰\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 23:49:32 -0700", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/23/mmmm-ethiopian-coffee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F23%2Fmmmm-ethiopian-coffee.html" }, { "id": 1020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "They even sent stickers all the way to Japan for me! Thanks @jean!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 16:02:45 -0700", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/23/they-even-sent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F23%2Fthey-even-sent.html" }, { "id": 1021, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gonna be up in Tokyo on my annual retreat from Feb 18 to 21. What should I see? Who should I meet?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 03:30:10 -0700", "date": "3:30 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/22/gonna-be-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fgonna-be-up.html" }, { "id": 1022, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The high school volleyball teams brought home some silverware from the regional tournament this weekend!! 🙌🎉 Girls Volleyball team got first place 🏐 and the Boys Volleyball team got second 🏐🏐 💪💪💪 But, in a not-so-twist, I bet you can tell me WHO received the LARGER trophy??? 🏆 🤔🤔🤔 🫠🫠🫠\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 02:54:33 -0700", "date": "2:54 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/22/the-high-school.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fthe-high-school.html" }, { "id": 1023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TIL that Wikipedia maintains a list of hoaxes, ie. times the org has been tricked, and how long it took to correct the record. Talk about institutional transparency! Can you imagine a {insert \u0026ldquo;trusted\u0026rdquo; institution} doing this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 23:01:38 -0700", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/22/til-that-wikipedia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Ftil-that-wikipedia.html" }, { "id": 1024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Change moves at the speed of trust.”\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 20:47:12 -0700", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/22/change-moves-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fchange-moves-at.html" }, { "id": 1025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "CO₂ emissions from Osaka to Tokyo:\n🚅 Shinkansen is 4.2kgs/person\n✈️ = 12x🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅\n🚗 = 30x 🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅 🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅🚅\nFrom www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 00:09:11 -0700", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/21/co-emissions-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Fco-emissions-from.html" }, { "id": 1026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tragic discussion\nunseen-japan.com/noto-peni\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 20:34:44 -0700", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/21/123444.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2F123444.html" }, { "id": 1027, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spotted on the entrance to a Starbucks at Umeda St. Other than seeing one small pro-Palestine demonstration (4 people) I haven’t seen much here. Mostly just disbelief on the news. This might not even be related! 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 02:10:10 -0700", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/20/spotted-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fspotted-on-the.html" }, { "id": 1028, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to: His Majesty\u0026rsquo;s Dragon by Naomi Novik 📚\nSaw a review: \u0026ldquo;imagine Aubrey-Maturin, but Stephen Maturin is a dragon.\u0026rdquo; Instant download!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 21:43:52 -0700", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/20/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 1029, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "SLIM lander press conference hence starts in 5 mins www.youtube.com/live/Udh6\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 10:06:00 -0700", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/20/slim-lander-press.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fslim-lander-press.html" }, { "id": 1030, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon was launched last September from JAXA’s southernmost facility at the Tanegashima Space Center. I visited last spring and got a tour and ate “moon rice” for lunch. Photos: 📸 🌙 🍚\nwww.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 08:56:19 -0700", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/20/the-smart-lander.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fthe-smart-lander.html" }, { "id": 1031, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "10km to the surface of the moon! Watching the SLIM lander live on YouTube\nwww.youtube.com/live/Udh6\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 08:16:25 -0700", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/20/km-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fkm-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1032, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Ministry for the Future\u0026rdquo; is my fav radicalizing read about the #climatecrisis, filled with real-life proposals played out in the book. Watch KSR\u0026rsquo;s rousing speech about what he\u0026rsquo;s learned since, including initiatives like 30 by 30 that are making real progress.\n ", "dateiso": "2024-01-18 22:02:11 -0700", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Jan 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/19/ministry-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fministry-for-the.html" }, { "id": 1033, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First book read in 2024: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚\n🤖 🍵 🥰\n⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-16 06:29:57 -0700", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Jan 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/16/first-book-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F16%2Ffirst-book-read.html" }, { "id": 1034, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Out for some fresh air… and some castle! 🏯 Osaka Castle is an amazing facility. Although it dates back to the 16th C, it has been rebuilt (a couple times) and features a cool collection in its museum. Take an elevator to the top for a nice view!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-14 23:07:34 -0700", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Jan 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/15/out-for-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fout-for-some.html" }, { "id": 1035, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was a fun concert. In the third section they played mandolin renditions of hit songs from decades ago while the crowd sang along. Made me imagine being in my 70s at a concert singing “I Think We’re Alone Now” and “Killing in the Name” 🤔 🎼\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-13 04:28:07 -0700", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Jan 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/13/it-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Fit-was-a.html" }, { "id": 1036, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: mandolin concert 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-12 22:27:51 -0700", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Jan 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/13/current-status-mandolin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Fcurrent-status-mandolin.html" }, { "id": 1037, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading Becky Chambers’ acclaimed solarpunk novel about a tea monk serving up comfort and I think this prayer will be immediately understood by my comrades @fission.codes, @robin.berjon.com, and more 🙏 🤲 🙇‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 05:35:34 -0700", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/11/started-reading-becky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fstarted-reading-becky.html" }, { "id": 1038, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 05:29:18 -0700", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/11/started-reading-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fstarted-reading-a.html" }, { "id": 1039, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just watching this new show “Rainbow Closet” and it’s intense 😭\nThe power of a national broadcaster. (バリバラ is another good show!)\nplus.nhk.jp/watch/ch/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-09 04:28:22 -0700", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Jan 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/09/just-watching-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F09%2Fjust-watching-this.html" }, { "id": 1040, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And now Kakuei Tanaka\u0026rsquo;s house is on fire!? #2024GoesHardOnJapan\nwww3.nhk.or.jp/news/html\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-08 05:38:58 -0700", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Jan 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/08/and-now-kakuei.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F08%2Fand-now-kakuei.html" }, { "id": 1041, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking about another annual retreat to Tokyo. Last year I went up for a few days, stayed at the Tokyo Dome Hotel, and met up with some old IRL friends, new Internet friends, and some startup meetups. FUN! Thinking about going again in Feb. Who should I meet this time?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 19:23:10 -0700", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/08/thinking-about-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F08%2Fthinking-about-another.html" }, { "id": 1042, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s the 7th of January so time for a steaming bowl of Seven Grasses\nen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 03:35:00 -0700", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/07/its-the-th.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fits-the-th.html" }, { "id": 1043, "type": "post", "title": "Concentric circles of content", "text": "Boris goes through his complex social media setup:\nMostly POSSE bmannconsulting.comBoris Mann https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2024/01/06/mostly-posse/ I appreciate the walkthrough and seeing others\u0026rsquo;s setup. After about 3 months on Micro.blog I feel like I could still go further. I am partial-POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) but not quite ready for PESOS (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate to Own Site).\nPOSSE ± PESOS? I use Micro blog as my main launch point on the web now, cross-posting to my 🦋 Bluesky (@chadkohalyk.com) and 🐘Mastodon account (@chadkoh@indieweb.social). I have Bridgy working for my Bluesky account so replies there come back here which is good, but haven\u0026rsquo;t figured out a workaround to do that for my Mastodon account. The Micro blog has its own Fedi address which can be followed at @chadkoh@micro.blog, but I x-post everything anyways so there isn\u0026rsquo;t really a need to follow that. I don\u0026rsquo;t really want to go through another Masto migration and consolidate my main fedi presence to @micro.blog 🫤 (my turn to cite Erin Kissane, this time on the challenge of Mastodon migrations).\nTwitter of course is gone (archives here or here) and I do have a company Fedi handle @chad@fission.social which I actually don\u0026rsquo;t use that much since any \u0026ldquo;professional\u0026rdquo; content I post pretty much just goes straight into my normal feeds.\nI really enjoy the bookshelf and photos features of Micro Blog. It gives people a good sense of what is going on in my world without overwhelming them. There is much more detail on my Goodreads (in terms of updates and tracking of reading) and Flickr (where I post a lot more pics than what goes on my blog). I could theoretically push my Goodreads RSS feed and all my Flickr posts back to Microblog but I think that might be a bit overkill for most audiences. 🤔\nSocial \u0026ldquo;media\u0026rdquo; sidebar Goodreads is the social reader\u0026rsquo;s bane of existence. Truly a template of corporate acquisition, centralization, and enshittification. I was able to quit Facebook and Google (except for shared docs with people) but cannot quit Amazon! Anyways, I started using Bookwyrm (chadkoh@bookwyrm.social), a fediverse social book-tracker, last year. It is mostly okay but has some shortcomings. I would love to make a Goodreads alt using the AT Protocol (see my call on Bluesky here).\nI use book social networks not for their recommendation engines, but for the social part: I want to know what everyone else is reading! ATP could be a good solution because you don\u0026rsquo;t have your book activity and reviews locked up in another silo, and ATP could provide the underlying infra for social network effects. I wonder if the ATP approach could result in a better experience than ActivityPub in this instance? 🤔\nOnce you have books, then you do film, tv, comics, anime, etc. Media tracking, sharing, and reviews are a huge part of user-generated content online, and just like journalists being able to take their audiences with them I think people with a large corpus of social UGC would appreciate being able to maintain control over their activity.\nConcluding consensus The online CCU (Chad Cinematic Universe) has many different components and I fear bringing them all together in one place\u0026hellip; is just too much! Splitting things up a little, with specific feeds (just follow my books on GR or BW, or movies on Letterboxd, or photos on Flickr) allows people to get just the right amount of Chad they can handle. If they want a more general feed they can go directly to https://micro.chadkohalyk.com and get a little taste of everything. And then of course, if they want a personal wrap-up on more of a monthly basis, they can subscribe to my newsletter (glibly named chadlibs) where I just share the highlights. I try to provide options to meet people where they are at\u0026hellip; which has led to this fairly complex setup. But I do think it could be better.\nAny suggestions?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 00:45:20 -0700", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/07/concentric-circles-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fconcentric-circles-of.html" }, { "id": 1044, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched Forrest Gump tonight for the first time since I saw it in theatres when it came out in 1994. Wow, still stands up 👏 😭 👏\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-05 05:37:30 -0700", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Jan 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/05/watched-forrest-gump.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F05%2Fwatched-forrest-gump.html" }, { "id": 1045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perfect blue sky for some 初詣 ⛩️\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-05 00:19:31 -0700", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Jan 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/05/perfect-blue-sky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F05%2Fperfect-blue-sky.html" }, { "id": 1046, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "2024 is “The Year the World Votes” because nearly half the world will be voting for new national leadership. Here is a roundup from FP. A big year for fighting disinformation.\nhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/02/top-global-elections-2024-india-russia-mexico-bangladesh-taiwan-venezuela-uk/\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-02 23:02:01 -0700", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Jan 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/03/is-the-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F03%2Fis-the-year.html" }, { "id": 1047, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This panel of women leaders from the Yukon was a fun listen and very inspiring for 2024. The assumption of subsidiarity in the North reminds me of what I read in Graeber+Wengrow\u0026rsquo;s Dawn of Everything #governance\nwww.canadaland.com/podcast/y\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-01 18:04:48 -0700", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Jan 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/02/this-panel-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Fthis-panel-of.html" }, { "id": 1048, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Earthquake! Whoa we felt that in Kyoto\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-01 00:16:25 -0700", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Jan 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/01/earthquake-whoa-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F01%2Fearthquake-whoa-we.html" }, { "id": 1049, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "明けましておめでとうございます🎉🐲\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-31 08:00:01 -0700", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Dec 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/01/01/000001.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2024%2F01%2F01%2F000001.html" }, { "id": 1050, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ゆく年くる年 is literally my favourite TV show. I look forward to it every year! #nhk\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-31 07:54:28 -0700", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Dec 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/31/is-literally-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F31%2Fis-literally-my.html" }, { "id": 1051, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sent out my final newsletter of the year! Now it is time to kick back, get the noodles going, and watch some end of year Japanese TV (for the last time…) 🎍🔴🎤⚪️🐲\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-31 01:22:19 -0700", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Dec 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/31/sent-out-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F31%2Fsent-out-my.html" }, { "id": 1052, "type": "post", "title": "Best of 2023", "text": "I think this photo is my fav of the year.\nHistorically my annual “best of” posts are a roundup of the best books and film I consumed, but this year I would like to add a little bit more about personal developments. With my father-in-law passing in 2022, this year was about cleaning up the estate, healing, and enjoying Japan before returning to Canada.\nWe were able to get quite a bit of travel in: Tanegashima, Kagoshima, and Kirishima in the south; a summer break in Iki; and in the north Iwate, Fukushima and Aomori. For work I took two trips to Canada and had the privilege to visit Istanbul. It was a good year for travel, though I am kicking myself for missing out on Causal Islands and I was hoping to visit Germany at some point this year.\nLosing 5 kilograms has been on my annual TODO list since Iki, but I could not justify locking myself up in a gym multiple times a week when my time in Japan is limited and I could be out seeing things. We are in the home stretch, the last few months until we leave Japan. This time it has a feeling of finality since we leave no parents and no apartment behind. When we leave Japan this time we will do so without leaving any roots. We are on the verge of one volume closing and a whole new book beginning.\n40 Questions Last month I discovered Steph Ango’s 40 Questions, a framework for annual reflection. I used it to think about my year and found it useful. I will share a few of my answers here publicly:\nDid anyone close to you die?\nFor the first time in 4 years I can say “No!”\nWho did you miss?\nLots of people. This year has been a lonely one for me. This is probably the biggest reason I look forward to returning to Canada in 2024: to hang out with my friends in person. Now, we had some friends come visit us in Japan and I met old friends on my travels to Canada and Turkey. I was especially happy to share Kyoto with people from “back home” (none of my family could handle the air travel), but maybe that oasis of excitement ended up making me feel even more lonesome.\nWhose behavior merited celebration?\n100 Rabbits, who I met in person this year. They live much further along the ethical lifestyle spectrum than I can, which I admire. As a society we need examples like this. I even looked at buying a boat this summer!\nWhat political issue stirred you the most?\nNot quite sure about specific events, since there were so many, but in terms of overall trends, I got a lot more into anarchist philosophy.\nWhat valuable life lesson did you learn this year?\nHow pretty much everything is a coordination problem, and we have to figure out how to work together in this world. This drives my interest in both governance and anarchism. It also leads to my conviction that the way I can fight climate change is by working for a better, interoperable, and unitary internet. The internet is the best global coordination platform the world has ever known, and we are going to need it if we are going to solve the climate crisis.\nWhat is a quote that sums up your year?\n “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”\n― John Maynard Keynes\n A note on the Buddhist path One of my goals for 2023 was doing more sutta study, which I did with a group of upasika from all over the world via a Zoom reading club in the early part of the year. We had weekly meetings on each chapter of The Island. This actually blends in with another trend for 2023: upāsaka training. During all of 2022 I was committed to a year of being an upāsaka, and in 2023 I actually kinda surprisingly pretty much continued that path. I meditated nearly every day this year (missed just 4 days), only drank alcohol four times, and still did about 20 uposatha days where I committed to the 8 precepts (during the upāsaka year I did about 70).\nBest of Reading Okay, now on to the more traditional annual media wrap-up.\nOf my 30 book goal I read 36 books, which is not the most I have ever done, but I had a lot of podcasts to listen to this year. (24 of those finished books were in audio!)\nMy book club only met 3 times this year, but we read my favourite fiction book of the year: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I am not a gamer, but I am a Gen Xer and came of age during this time. The emotion just sucked me in. The book played me like a game. And I recognize a lot of the work relationship stuff from my time in startups. An excellent read.\nFor non-fiction I read a number of important books, including classics like Ostrom’s Governing the Commons. New releases like Crack-Up Capitalism and Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy really captured some of the ailments of the world we live in, but I think I enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation even more since it presents solutions to make things better.\nBest of Watching I did not watch much cinema this year, but I did finally see 2022 Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once which blew me away. I saw it while in Canada in January, and as soon as it was available in theatres in Japan I took my wife. Many tears were shed. We watched it again in September. The Daniels captured so much about the Asian immigrant experience in North America.\nMost of my movie-watching time this year was with the kids. The new Spider-Man and Barbie were good. I did enjoy the popcorn-fun of Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons. When I did get some screentime alone at home it was mostly television. I caught up on the last two seasons of Ted Lasso which was my fav tv series of this year by far. It hit me on a deep level making me consider my personal leadership style and more importantly my relationship to my own mental health. Football is life!\nThe Numbers for 2023 🖋 16 posts on the old blog and 9 long-form posts on the new microblog which I started posting to in October\n✉️ 12 email monthly newsletters sent\n📸 2184 photos and vids on Flickr\n📚 36 books read\n🎞 29 films watched\nPrevious annual wrap-ups Posted on the old Wordpress blog\n Best of 2022 2021 in Books Best of 2020 The best of 2019 A quick end of year roundup (2018) Best of 2016 The best of 2015 The best of 2014 The best of 2013 My year in film and books (2012) My year in books (2011) My best to you in the new year!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-31 00:30:37 -0700", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Dec 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/31/best-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F31%2Fbest-of.html" }, { "id": 1053, "type": "post", "title": "Hagia Sophia", "text": "As described in my previous post, Istanbul is a city of layers. Nothing demonstrates this more than one of the gems of the city: the Hagia Sophia.\nBuilt on the site of an earlier Christian church erected in 336 AD by Constantius II (son of the Emperor Constantine) the current building was made in the 532 AD by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. For a thousand years it was the largest building in the world. Except for a short time as a Catholic church after the Fourth Crusade in the 13th century, the Hagia Sophia stood as a cathedral of the Eastern Orthodox tradition until the Ottomans conquered Constantinople in 1453. Since then the Ayasofya has been a grand mosque until 1935 when Atatürk, in his drive to secularize the newly founded Republic of Turkey, converted it to a museum. Most recently, in a controversial move in 2020, the long-serving conservative president Erdoğan converted it back into a working mosque.\nThis is the most barebones of history for structure that has been standing — and used — for more than fifteen centuries. The Ayasofya is an excellent symbol of the historical layers of the city of Istanbul, as throughout the centuries it has gained new additions, but with much of its original structure still shining through. I would like to give you just a few examples. Come with me on a short tour!\nDuring my stay in Istanbul I went to the Ayasofya twice since it was so amazing. Both times I approached from the “back”… once coming down from the Topkapi Palace (photos) — which holds such treasures as the Topkapi dagger, the staff of Moses, and the arm of John the Baptist — the other time when a frustrated taxi driver angered by traffic dropped us off in a sidestreet saying merely “You walk from here”.\nThe Ayasofya stands across the plaza from the famous Blue Mosque, a beautiful built to purpose mosque made in the early 17th century. The Ayasofya in contrast has had so many additions as it changed civilizational hands that it looks more like something from the \u0026ldquo;lived in\u0026rdquo; universe of Star Wars.\nFrom the outside you can see the red walls of the original church. The massive dome (more on that later) is 32 meters across and so heavy that the church walls have been buckling so later architects installed buttressing to keep the walls standing straight. There are four minarets which were added at various times, one made of red brick, adding to the architectural pastiche.\nCircling around to the front you will see a line of people out into the plaza. Since the building is once again an operating mosque, five times a day tourists are shuffled out to make way for people doing their daily prayers. The line out front can get quite long as people wait during prayer times, but if you time it right you can basically walk right in. After passing some metal detectors you get a close view of the buttresses before entering the building from the side. In the outer hall you are treated to domed ceilings with golden tiled mosaics. It feels very Byzantine. Shoe lockers line the walls where you can store your footwear before entering the mosque. The marble thresholds have been worn down by the passing feet of millions of petitioners through the centuries, and look like melted butter.\nThe crowd pushes you along to enter the cavernous building. Large circular chandeliers hang from the vaulting ceiling. Looking up — and everybody is looking up — two semi-domes help to prop up the 32 meter wide main dome which at its height it 55.6 meters above the floor. There are no supporting pillars in the middle of the building, so it feels absolutely huge inside.\nThis wide angle shot from inside shows the two semi-domes on the left and right which support the main dome. Below are the pillars of the second floor, which you used to be able to go up into, but no longer. Around the center dome you can also spot the four “biblically accurate” angels who also support the dome. In the Ottoman era the faces of the seraphim were covered with stars, but one has been restored with its face.\nEverywhere you go inside people are staring up in awe and taking photos. But there are many other details to look at other than the domed ceiling. The columns were imported from all over the Mediterranean and some have special stories. People sit on the floor and rest their backs against the columns as they gaze upward. But if you look downward, to the lush green carpet you find another asymmetry of time: the lines on the carpet are at an off-angle to the rest of the building. These are the lines that parishioners line up as they pray towards Mecca, which of course the building was not designed to line up with. I mean, it was constructed more than 60 years before the founding of Islam!\nThere are many, many more details but I hope this gives you a glimpse at not only of the historical significance of the Hagia Sofia, but also as a symbol of the history of Istanbul.\nTo see more photos and videos of the interior and surrounding area, including the call to prayer from the perfectly symmetrical Blue Mosque, see my album on Flickr.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-29 20:06:40 -0700", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Dec 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/30/hagia-sophia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F30%2Fhagia-sophia.html" }, { "id": 1054, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice discussion with @becedo.bsky.social on how Nihon Shoki \u0026amp; Kojiki are treated through time newbooksnetwork.com/meanings-\u0026hellip;\nIf you want to hear what’s IN the Chronicles, I recommend this great podcast by @tatsushu@historians.social sengokudaimyo.com/podcast\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-29 05:57:32 -0700", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Dec 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/29/nice-discussion-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F29%2Fnice-discussion-with.html" }, { "id": 1055, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got a nice snack pack for the winter holidays from the company. 🎁 It\u0026rsquo;s a nice tradition. This year I got a chocolate set 😋\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-25 23:58:43 -0700", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Dec 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/26/got-a-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F26%2Fgot-a-nice.html" }, { "id": 1056, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Xmas! 🎄 After opening prezzies we drove to Ako, famous for Chuushingura (The 47 Ronin), and had lunch with a lovely view of the Seto Inland Sea. So nice and warm 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-24 21:30:32 -0700", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Dec 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/25/merry-xmas-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F25%2Fmerry-xmas-after.html" }, { "id": 1057, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Christmas Eve on the water! Cruising around the Biwako on the Michigan\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-23 23:31:49 -0700", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Dec 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/24/christmas-eve-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F24%2Fchristmas-eve-on.html" }, { "id": 1058, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day of work for 2023 is done. ❄️ What a year! 🗓️ And I finished it with Inbox Zero 💪\nTonight I took a yuzu bath 🍋🛀 as I enter 10 days of rest, relaxation, and recharging 🧘‍♂️ with my books and my family ✌️🥰 Hope you too enjoy your hols! 🥂🍾🎊\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-22 07:42:58 -0700", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Dec 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/22/last-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Flast-day-of.html" }, { "id": 1059, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "11 year old: “OMG my friend she is SO ready for the zombie apocalypse! She can climb trees 🌲 she has a katana 🗡️ AND she has an iPad with OFFLINE games!” 📱👾\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-20 05:25:15 -0700", "date": "5:25 p.m. on Dec 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/20/year-old-omg.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F20%2Fyear-old-omg.html" }, { "id": 1060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From Heatmap Daily: “Americans often refer to their electricity or gas providers as ‘public utilities.’ But only about 15% of the population is served by a government-owned, customer-owned, or member-owned electric utility.” The rest are private monopolies. #ClimateCrisis\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-19 23:36:51 -0700", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Dec 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/20/from-heatmap-daily.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F20%2Ffrom-heatmap-daily.html" }, { "id": 1061, "type": "post", "title": "Perspective on Palestine — Review of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine", "text": "In The Hundred Years' War on Palestine Rashid Khalidi takes us through six turning points of modern Palestinian history woven with family and personal history, including his frontline experience escaping Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon War. Khalidi has a long history as an advocate and an academic and writes a highly detailed account with an insider view. He covers the early Zionist movement, the Nakba of 1948, the Six Day War of 1967, the Lebanon War, the Intifadas and the rise of Hamas, giving context throughout as to who the geostrategic players are and how they change.\nThe book ends in 2017, with Trump making promises for a new deal for peace. Things don’t look good for the Palestinians. Khalidi offers some ideas on how to proceed in a constructive manner, from first principles of equality for both Palestinians and Israelis. There is a lot in the book about crafting a more favourable public opinion of Palestinians around the world, from a few different angles. It certainly presented perspectives new to me. One key argument is that the world cannot afford to have the US continue as sole, self-selected guarantor of the peace process. That is borne not just of the evidence presented in the book, but of what we have seen in the past couple of months.\nI listened to an interview with Khalidi on a podcast or on YouTube somewhere right after October 7th. Many people were giving this book plaudits, and since he was so well spoken I thought I would give it a try. I am no specialist, so I cannot recommend this book with any real authority. But I found it very readable, appreciated the occasional personal history elements sprinkled throughout, and came away with some new frames for thinking about the problem. But I didn\u0026rsquo;t have to read this detailed and complex book to know that they need to STOP.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-19 06:46:40 -0700", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Dec 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/19/perspective-on-palestine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F19%2Fperspective-on-palestine.html" }, { "id": 1062, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My copy of EMPTY KYOTO and 2024 Calendar from @hermosawave@photog.social has arrived! 📸🎋⛩️\nhermosawavephotography.com/emptykyot\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-18 20:01:35 -0700", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/19/my-copy-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F19%2Fmy-copy-of.html" }, { "id": 1063, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My uncle-in-law was decorated with the \u0026ldquo;Order of the Rising Sun\u0026rdquo; 🎖️ for his contributions to basketball in Japan 🎊 This is his medal. When you tilt it in the light it really shines! ✨\n\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-17 05:07:26 -0700", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Dec 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/17/my-uncleinlaw-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F17%2Fmy-uncleinlaw-was.html" }, { "id": 1064, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chili crab time! 🦀\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-17 03:49:47 -0700", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Dec 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/17/chili-crab-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F17%2Fchili-crab-time.html" }, { "id": 1065, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting ideological analysis of Cixin Liu’s popular Three Body series, especially this bit on how Chinese and American reactionaries use one another\nmadeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 17:24:44 -0700", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/17/interesting-ideological-analysis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F17%2Finteresting-ideological-analysis.html" }, { "id": 1066, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "He also has this striking map showing countries coloured depending on if most of their wealth is owned by the bottom 80% or top 5%. (Luckily in this map New Zealand and Australia were not left out… still not suprised though)\nFrom www.rubenmathisen.com/blank-2\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 04:57:39 -0700", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/16/he-also-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fhe-also-has.html" }, { "id": 1067, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Maps showing \u0026ldquo;% of Total Wealth Owned by the Top 1 Percent\u0026rdquo; per country by continent.\nFrom www.rubenmathisen.com/blank-2\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 04:56:38 -0700", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/16/maps-showing-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fmaps-showing-of.html" }, { "id": 1068, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another great video from About Here:\n #density #urbandesign\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-15 21:28:50 -0700", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Dec 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/16/another-great-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fanother-great-video.html" }, { "id": 1069, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is Dec 15th in the year of our Lord Buddha 2566 and it is deva-damned 23°C out here‼️ 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-15 02:37:01 -0700", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Dec 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/15/it-is-dec.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F15%2Fit-is-dec.html" }, { "id": 1070, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adobe PDFs\u0026hellip; just\u0026hellip; no\u0026hellip; NO! 😫\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-12 22:45:21 -0700", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Dec 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/13/adobe-pdfs-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F13%2Fadobe-pdfs-just.html" }, { "id": 1071, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daughter\u0026rsquo;s grade 6 class is working on the topic of \u0026ldquo;materialism\u0026rdquo; right now. It is inspired by this photography project from a while ago where families around the world brought all thier belongings outside for a portriat:\nhttps://gigazine.net/news/20110901_families_and_their_possessions/\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 22:07:58 -0700", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/12/daughters-grade-class.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F12%2Fdaughters-grade-class.html" }, { "id": 1072, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve heard of \u0026ldquo;ducks in a row\u0026rdquo; … but\u0026hellip; 📸 🐦\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 01:26:32 -0700", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/11/ive-heard-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Five-heard-of.html" }, { "id": 1073, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 14 year old daughter to me: “I’ve never seen a grown man cry… except for when you watch Totoro. Every… single… time…”\nTruth! 🥹🥹🥹🌱🌽🐈🚌\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-10 03:26:04 -0700", "date": "3:26 p.m. on Dec 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/10/my-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F10%2Fmy-year-old.html" }, { "id": 1074, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blue skies and primary colours walking around the neighborhood today 📸 #Osaka #Tenma #Ogimachi\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-10 00:44:26 -0700", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Dec 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/10/blue-skies-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F10%2Fblue-skies-and.html" }, { "id": 1075, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started reading The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi 📚\nOnly one chapter in and it’s more complex than I thought. Got new perspective on the “triple bind” of metropole (London) enabler (League of Nations) and settlers that don’t answer to the metropole. So much detail in this book.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-08 06:12:48 -0700", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Dec 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/08/started-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F08%2Fstarted-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 1076, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been shopping for overear headphones to replace my old Sony’s. Today these landed in my inbox randomly! They look great! Love the idea of repairables that can last forever. They are just missing the holy grail feature for headphones: a MUTE button 🔇\nshop.fairphone.com/fairbuds-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-08 06:04:51 -0700", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Dec 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/08/been-shopping-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F08%2Fbeen-shopping-for.html" }, { "id": 1077, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started listening to the full-cast audio of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman \u0026amp; Terry Pratchett 👼😈 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 05:05:30 -0700", "date": "5:05 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/06/started-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2Fstarted-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 1078, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 📚\nEnjoyed it a lot. Full of wonder! See my chapter notes here: www.goodreads.com/review/sh\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 05:00:01 -0700", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/06/finished-how-infrastructure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2Ffinished-how-infrastructure.html" }, { "id": 1079, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Osaka Tenmangu. Sugawara-no-Michizane stopped on his way to Dazaifu before being elevated to God of Letters. (Learn more about him and the fight against covid: chadkohalyk.com/2020/09/1\u0026hellip;)\nMore 📸 flic.kr/s/aHBqjB6\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 00:03:01 -0700", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/06/osaka-tenmangu-sugawaranomichizane.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2Fosaka-tenmangu-sugawaranomichizane.html" }, { "id": 1080, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Nice intro to an incisive book. End of the year is a time for reflection, but it is ALWAYS a good time to re-examine your inner work camp. #burnout\nMy review from 2017 here: chadkohalyk.com/2017/07/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-04 20:01:21 -0700", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/05/httpswwwyoutubecomwatchvqikrybdtw-nice-intro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F05%2Fhttpswwwyoutubecomwatchvqikrybdtw-nice-intro.html" }, { "id": 1081, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Clock tower at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. I graduated the One Year Program in 2000, and came back to work in the PR office from 2002-5. Now, in 2023 I am here with my 11 year old as she takes the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-02 21:06:39 -0700", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Dec 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/12/03/clock-tower-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F12%2F03%2Fclock-tower-at.html" }, { "id": 1082, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Posted my end of month roundup newsletter. This month\u0026rsquo;s theme is \u0026ldquo;Continental Edges\u0026rdquo;\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-30 01:56:43 -0700", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Nov 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/30/posted-my-end.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F30%2Fposted-my-end.html" }, { "id": 1083, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see the traditional Christmas Kurage have been set out 🎄🎅🏽🪼\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-28 22:56:50 -0700", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Nov 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/29/i-see-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F29%2Fi-see-the.html" }, { "id": 1084, "type": "post", "title": "Istanbul — Look around, feel history", "text": "Istanbul, Constantinople, Nova Roma — the city at the crossroads of the world — is a city of layers. First settled 6000 years ago each new community was built on top of the previous. And being located at such a strategic point as the world’s only trans-continental city, there have been a lot of different people groups and empires with designs on the city.\nI was in town for just over ten days, mostly for work, but my old pal Chris Gunson flew up from Dubai and we toured around together for a few days. Twenty years ago Chris and I used to talk and trade book recommendations about transcontinental history, but this was the first time we could walk old streets together (a meeting in Kazakhstan was aborted in 2004 for a bad visa, which redirected me southwards to Kashgar and the Pamir Plateau. A few pics from that trip long ago.)\nThis post serves as a bit of a trip report. You may want to read it while browsing the galleries of photos on Flickr, linked at the bottom of this post.\nA sign through the window.\nIstanbul has changed hands between the Greeks and Romans a number of times, before being conquered by the Ottomans in 1453. After so many years of Turkish rule, it is easy to forget that Istanbul was once part of “Magna Grecia”, Greater Greece, and even part of the Delian League. The old names of cities found in Thucydides and other classics are still there under Turkish localized names: Smyrna is now the seaside resort of İzmir; in 325 CE the First Council of Nicaea was held in the modern town of İznik; one afternoon we crossed the Bosporus in a small ferry to visit Kadıköy, an older area of the Asian side of Istanbul that used to be called Chalcedon, where the fourth ecumenical Christian council was held in 451 CE. This is in fact the area where archeological artifacts have been found dating back to 5500 BCE.\nAs Constantinople, the capital of eastern Christianity and inheritor of the Roman Empire after Rome fell and the West sunk into the Dark Ages, the city suffered many attempts at conquest by various people groups such as the Goths and Persians. It was impregnable, largely due to the massive triple city wall, first built by Constantine and then added to by King Theodoseus in the 5th Century. They held for a thousand years before finally being breached in 1453, when the Ottoman conquerers used massive cannons of Hungarian design to launch cannon balls weighing 500 kilograms into the walls. This created holes for the invaders to break through, but didn’t actually destroy the walls which still stand today. Just a short walk from the 1453 Museum, which describes the conquering of the city in very cinematic fashion, you can get right up to the walls. I saw tourists crawling up and inside. Today the wall runs alongside a freeway. From working class neighbourhoods inside the walls people drive their cars through old arched gates to access the freeway. Here and there in the green space between the walls and the freeway people have planted vegetable gardens!\n5th century walls of Theodoseus.\nThe Ottoman period lasted until 1923 when the Republic of Turkey was founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who transformed Turkish society. Driving into the city from Istanbul Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, I immediately noticed all the Turkish flags hanging from apartment windows and strung along and across the streets. This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding. Not only that, but the day after I landed was the anniversary of Atatürk’s death, on November 10th 1938 at 9:04am. Why do I know the time? Well, while we were having breakfast at the rooftop restaurant of my hotel, with an epic view of the sunrise over the Asian side of the city, all of a sudden I could hear the horns of the ships in the harbour blasting simultaneously. I thought it was some sort of earthquake warning or air-raid siren. Looking around I noticed all the hotel restaurant staff line up and stand at attention. Not knowing what was happening I stopped eating and just waited for something to indicate what was going on. After a minute of very loud silence, the staff went back to work and the harbour continued to buzz with activity. This happens every year, and I heard from one Turkish man that back in the day drivers would stop and get out of their cars to stand by open driver doors out of respect.\nTurkish patriotism hangs above everyone\u0026rsquo;s heads.\nEvidence of the 100 year anniversary are all over. Many shops have 100th Anniversary marketing displays in their windows. At Taksim Square, a large plaza in the heart of the tourist district, is a massive circular display blaring out patriotic messages featuring smiling families, guns, and fighter planes. There is a huge light show at the gigantic new mosque on the square, an initiative by the long-time President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Taksim Square is normally thought of as a symbol of the country’s republicanism and secularism. The new mosque, completed in 2021, is a conspicuous symbol of conservatism on Turkey’s contemporary politics.\nErdogan’s presence is easily spotted across the city. He used to be mayor of the city, but ever since the AKP got into national power and he became president, the politics of the country have slanted more conservative. Some of Erdogan’s initiatives, what he himself has called his “crazy ideas”, are large scale construction projects such as the controversial Istanbul Airport (for whom allegedly all the building and maintenance contracts went to his relations) and his giant canal proposal. Other initiatives are more on the side of promotion of Islamic culture, like the controversial Taksim Mosque. When looking across the Bosphorus Strait from my hotel, the horizon of the Asian side of Istanbul is dominated by two structures. First is the giant Çamlıca Tower, the tallest structure in Istanbul, a telecom tower with observation deck and restaurants. To the left is the Grand Çamlıca Mosque, the largest mosque in Turkey able to hold 63,000 worshippers for prayer times. This mosque was opened in 2019 and sometimes referred to in the streets as “His Mosque”. You will note that it has 6 minarets.\nTower to the right, mosque to left.\nThe only other mosque in Istanbul to have such a thing is the beautiful Blue Mosque, across the river to the south on the Golden Horn in the old city. This mosque was built in the early 17th Century by the master architect Sinan (who was obsessed with the Hagia Sophia, topic of a future post) at the direction of Sultan Ahmed I. At the time, the only other mosque with six minarets was the mosque of the Ka\u0026rsquo;aba in Mecca. When the Blue Mosque was completed people were shocked at the audacity, thinking the Sultan too proud. To resolve the situation he sponsored a seventh minaret at Mecca.\nThe area around the Blue Mosque is spectacular to walk around. But beware of the terrible Istanbul traffic in getting there! One time we had a taxi driver frustrated and yelling at everyone around us stop the car and get out, go five cars up to yell and someone, then came back to tell us “You walk from here.” In front of the Blue Mosque is a plaza that is built upon the old Hippodrome which is a few layers down. As the capital of Eastern Rome they people needed their bread and circuses! In ancient times the spina of the hippodrome, the long section down the middle which charioteers would race around, used to have many treasures brought from across the empire. Now only three remain: an obelisk brought from Egypt In 390 CE which dates to 1490 BCE; another obelisk of more murky past; and the remains of the Serpent Column which Constantine brought from Delphi in 324. I was very excited to see the Serpent Column, a bronze pillar cast by the Greeks in celebration of their victory against the invading Persians in the 5th century BCE. This thing is 2500 years old and just sitting outside! You can go and see it any time. Amazing!\nVery excited to be so close to a 2500 year old artifact!\nMy most favourite thing of this area is the Hagia Sophia, the cathedral originally built in the 4th C and converted to a mosque in 1453. That deserves its own post.\nIn cold winds and rain I wandered from the Blue Mosque and the Ayyasofia up to the Grand Bazaar, a mostly covered shopping area with over 4000 stores. Here I badly negotiated for a box of delicious Turkish Delight and a nazar pendant. I am terrible at negotiating in these situations. Though all in all I think I did pretty well and was never taken for a real ride. Once we fell for the old shoeshiner- dropped-brush-scam, but other than that, our wallets were safe.\nThe weather was bad for some of the days. The wind rocked our ferry crossing back from the Asian side, and one freezing morning when I went to the local Kathie Dunyasi (a kind of Turkish Starbucks) all the seats were taken by cats who came in from the cold!\nOther days the sky was a gorgeous blue and we could walk the steep, narrow streets around the Galata Tower, the historic district of Genoese traders. The cobblestones and European buildings reminded me of Lisbon. I have now been to the Westernmost and Easternmost edges of Europe, but never in between. Also, both Lisbon and Istanbul are Cities with Seven Hills! I am cursed! (However, I found out later that many more cities claim this honour).\nOn another sunny day I was able to walk up to the Topkapi Palace, built by the Sultan and home to many treasures. The Palace is located at the tiP of the Golden Horn and affords clear views of the north part of Istanbul and the main bridge that crosses the Bosphorus to the Asian side of the city. Inside the complex we wended our way through the harem, visited the sultan’s chamber room and bath, and took in all sorts of treasures like the Topkapi Dagger, which features massive emeralds on its hilt. I first saw the Topkapi dagger in Osaka many years ago when it was on tour around the world. I was very glad to see it in its home.\nThe Topkapi Dagger, in all its shiny glory.\nIn 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, the city was ransacked by Europeans at the behest of Rome. They destroyed much, but also stole important Christian relics like the robe of Mary and probably the Shroud of Turin. There still remain some artifacts, held in Topkapi Palace. There you can see the relics like the arm of John the Baptist, the staff of Moses, David’s sword, and a whole bunch of personal belongings of the Prophet Muhammad.\nIt was short, but I enjoyed walking the hills of this old city, visiting just a couple of its 3500 mosques and two of its many football stadiums. I ate well, but did not get the opportunity to enjoy a Turkish bath. Also, there are a lot of smokers, both inside and outside of restaurants, so beware! (In fact even the taxi drivers smoked like chimneys while they raced through the streets, or sat perfectly still in traffic banging on their car horns.)\nIn preparation for the trip I read Thomas F. Madden‘s Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World which gave me just enough detail to appreciate the layers of history of the city. Also, check out the episode of Geography Now on Turkey which is lots of fun.\nPhoto Galleries on Flickr 🇹🇷 Istanbul (All Photos) 138 photos, 24 videos 🏛️ 1453 Museum and City Walls 7 photos, 7 videos 🏰 Topkapi Palace 25 photos, 4 videos 🕌 Hagia Sophia and surroundings 22 photos, 4 videos Also read my post on the Hagia Sophia here → ", "dateiso": "2023-11-27 04:29:44 -0700", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Nov 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/27/istanbul-look-around.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fistanbul-look-around.html" }, { "id": 1085, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is a working day of planning and reading. The perfect day to walk-to-think, periodically stopping at cafes to read/write. I am wandering through Kyobashi and Shiromi where I get a view of Osaka Castle 🏯🍂 and spot some tourists driving gokarts 🏎️ in costumes 🤷‍♂️ Stimulating!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-26 19:02:23 -0700", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Nov 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/27/today-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Ftoday-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1086, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Uploaded a bunch of photos/vids from Istanbul. You can check out the collection. I will follow up with a blog post later this week. 📸\nwww.flickr.com/photos/sa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-26 00:08:33 -0700", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Nov 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/26/uploaded-a-bunch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F26%2Fuploaded-a-bunch.html" }, { "id": 1087, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Early Sunday morning, everyone in the household asleep 😴 I sit on the balcony in the cool autumn weather 🍂 with a cup of steaming coffee ☕️ bathing in the warm sun 🌅 I hear birds🐦‍⬛ and kids at practice in the baseball diamond ⚾️ below. Enjoying being reflective. 🥰 Take care ya’ll!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-25 15:49:20 -0700", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Nov 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/25/early-sunday-morning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F25%2Fearly-sunday-morning.html" }, { "id": 1088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In this in-depth Syllabus interview with Evgeny Morozov, William Davies presents a handy periodization of neoliberalism, including how their thought has changed throughout. +nuance Well worth the read\nwww.the-syllabus.com/ts-spotli\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-25 01:41:50 -0700", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Nov 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/25/in-this-indepth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F25%2Fin-this-indepth.html" }, { "id": 1089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Takes me back to when I was working in Nagoya port as a bunker agent one season and boarded about 120 ships. Fun to learn how to read infrastructure like this: hakaimagazine.com/videos-vi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-24 09:37:02 -0700", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Nov 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/24/takes-me-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F24%2Ftakes-me-back.html" }, { "id": 1090, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying“How Infrastructure Works” by Deb Chachra with a nice mocha and donut at my new local coffee joint, a funky hipster place that is also an art gallery and skateboard shop 🛹☕️🎨 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-23 23:04:02 -0700", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Nov 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/24/enjoyinghow-infrastructure-works.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F24%2Fenjoyinghow-infrastructure-works.html" }, { "id": 1091, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 📚\nI was looking forward to start this book, but chapter 1 has me really excited. I will do chapter notes on Goodreads as usual.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-23 22:09:45 -0700", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Nov 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/24/currently-reading-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F24%2Fcurrently-reading-how.html" }, { "id": 1092, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A nice little video walkthrough of Embark, featured in the latest Ink \u0026amp; Switch essay on dynamic documents: www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-23 20:11:14 -0700", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Nov 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/24/a-nice-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F24%2Fa-nice-little.html" }, { "id": 1093, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After 24 hours of 🚕🛩️🚌🛩️🚌🚕 I am back in Osaka 🇯🇵 Perfect blue sky and 17°C. Gorgeous! Kids will be home soon and it will be Turkish Delight for everyone 🙌 🇹🇷\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-21 00:11:16 -0700", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Nov 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/21/after-hours-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F21%2Fafter-hours-of.html" }, { "id": 1094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wheels up! See you in Japan!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-20 05:27:48 -0700", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Nov 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/20/wheels-up-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F20%2Fwheels-up-see.html" }, { "id": 1095, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last view of the sunset coming up over the Asian side of Istanbul, across the Bosphorus Strait. Soon I will be getting in a taxi to the airport, and making the long journey home, to the other edge of Asia.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-20 00:38:33 -0700", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Nov 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/20/last-view-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F20%2Flast-view-of.html" }, { "id": 1096, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Appreciate this deep dive on the costs to provide secure and private chat from an org I whole-heartedly support: Signal. They even dig into some of their unique privacy-preserving techniques, eg hiding GIF search terms (Meta aquired Giphy, getting a bunch of data before selling it on to Shutterstock! Now your info is owned by three companies!)\n In this era of expanding consolidation, you never know where your data may end up. The only winning move for services that care about your privacy is to not collect any sensitive data in the first place.\n signal.org/blog/sign\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-19 03:10:37 -0700", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Nov 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/19/appreciate-this-deep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F19%2Fappreciate-this-deep.html" }, { "id": 1097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Istanbul is the city of cats. I am at Kahve Dunyasi, a sort of Turkish Starbucks. It is pouring rain outside, so the cats take refuge inside the cafe!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-19 00:53:22 -0700", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Nov 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/19/istanbul-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F19%2Fistanbul-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1098, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Only a couple days left in Istanbul. Went back to the Hagia Sophia. Just amazing to think of this being built in the 6th century, and added to and extended for centuries. The dual half-domes hold up that gorgeous main dome, that still stands 1500 years on 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-18 14:29:07 -0700", "date": "2:29 p.m. on Nov 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/18/only-a-couple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F18%2Fonly-a-couple.html" }, { "id": 1099, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rooftop breakfast overlooking the Bosphorus as the sun rises over Asia\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-13 23:29:52 -0700", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Nov 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/14/rooftop-breakfast-overlooking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F14%2Frooftop-breakfast-overlooking.html" }, { "id": 1100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More scenes from Istanbul:\n the Galata Tower, symbol of the old 13th Genoese colony at the Fenerbahçe stadium in Kadikoy on the Asian side of Istanbul many many flags for 100th anniversary of the republic night view from above the Grand Bazaar ", "dateiso": "2023-11-12 06:57:25 -0700", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Nov 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/12/more-scenes-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fmore-scenes-from.html" }, { "id": 1101, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some scenes from Istanbul:\n the Hagia Sophia inside the Hagia Sophia sun rises over the Bosporus from Asia the walls of Theodocius II, built in the 5th C ", "dateiso": "2023-11-10 06:08:56 -0700", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Nov 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/10/some-scenes-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F10%2Fsome-scenes-from.html" }, { "id": 1102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The roar of the chanting fans in the Besiktas stadium beside my hotel MIGHT keep me up for another 50mins for the second half of their Europa Conf match… but their passion is DEFINITELY putting a smile on my face! 😁⚽️🏟️\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-09 11:45:27 -0700", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Nov 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/09/the-roar-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fthe-roar-of.html" }, { "id": 1103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welcome to Istanbul!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-08 21:36:09 -0700", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Nov 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/09/welcome-to-istanbul.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fwelcome-to-istanbul.html" }, { "id": 1104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Whoa! The route is through Russian airspace! No polar route or southern bend for me this time. Turns out Turkish Air is one of the 55 that still fly through Russia: www.businessinsider.com/airlines-\u0026hellip;\nSee you in 13h40m 👋\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-08 06:42:27 -0700", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Nov 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/08/whoa-the-route.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F08%2Fwhoa-the-route.html" }, { "id": 1105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The last time I was at T3 Haneda was before the border opened last year. It was a total ghost town, not one restaurant open and I had to eat at 7-11. Now it is full of tourists having late dinner at 9pm at a ton of open restaurants along halls designed to look like old Edo streets.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-08 04:45:59 -0700", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Nov 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/08/the-last-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F08%2Fthe-last-time.html" }, { "id": 1106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Almost time for wheels up! (Osaka Itami Airport)\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-08 01:38:10 -0700", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Nov 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/08/almost-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F08%2Falmost-time-for.html" }, { "id": 1107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just left the house. It is now 🚎🚌✈️✈️\nOsaka → Haneda → Istanbul\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-07 23:48:36 -0700", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Nov 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/08/just-left-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F08%2Fjust-left-the.html" }, { "id": 1108, "type": "post", "title": "Attending the Internet Governance Forum - Stakeholders", "text": "(This is a post in a series about attending the Internet Governance Forum 2023 in Kyoto.)\nTo describe where the Internet Governance Forum fits in terms of internet governance, we have to also describe the other stakeholders in the system. Internet governance is polycentric. The IGF is just one part of a network of stakeholders that hold influence over how the internet works. Its key mandate is to bring various stakeholders together in a forum to discuss public policy, which is a key differentiator from other technology fora.\nBeing an initiative of the UN, you might think that nation states are the only important stakeholder, but the IGF was designed from the beginning with multistakeholderism in mind. In fact, multistakeholderism was probably one of the top three topics discussed during the week in Kyoto, possibly triggered by the actions of China at previous meetings as it tried to use its influence as a big stakeholder to try and force internet governance into mere bilateralism (You can read a little background here. I asked people who were at the meeting in Ethiopia who told me some of the stunts being pulled by the Chinese contingent there. This year it seemed pretty quiet to my eyes.).\nThe IGF holds dear a key belief of a singular, unbroken, and supranational internet. Thus it tries to include a broad number of regional and international actors to come and weigh in on important debates. Let’s break down the organization of the IGF first, and then connect that up to the wider web of who else is involved in governing the net.\nBreaking down the IGF First you have the MAG, or Multistakeholder Advisory Group, which is made up of 56 representatives from various stakeholder groups. They meet a few times a year in order to execute the annual meeting (you can see the list of current MAG members here). The MAG is supported by the Secretariat, which is the UN staff based out of Geneva that support the activities of the MAG. This group of just 6 people are the only full-time staff of the IGF, and are ultimately responsible for running a global hybrid conference with 11,145 registrants. 😱\nBeyond those two main parts, there are something called NRIs, or “National, Sub-Regional, Regional and Youth IGF initiatives.“ This is a wider network of smaller fora organized either geographically or around a specific theme, holding their own annual meetings. There about 123 regional and national IGFs recognized by the global IGF in Geneva (here is Canada’s and Japan’s). Youth Initiatives can be part of regional IGFs or independently organized. They are the IGF’s way of capacity building by increasing youth participation in internet governance.\nThe stakeholder community So, the MAG, Secretariat, and NRIs engage with other stakeholders, bringing them to the table for policy discussion. The IGF groups stakeholders into the following five categories:\n Government Intergovernmental Organization Civil Society Private Sector Technical Community When you apply to attend, you must identify yourself as coming from one of those groups. When I looked at the participants list I counted about 4000 organizations being represented. That is from 178 countries. So, I won’t list all the stakeholders, but I can give a few examples to give you an idea:\n For Government there are many lawmakers and representatives of agencies from different countries. A politician from Nigeria asked some incisive questions at a DNS session I was in, and I had a good hallway chat with a person from USAID. Representatives from the UN, the EU, ITU etc are in the Intergovernmental Organization category. I was in a couple sessions with an OECD policy analyst working on Data Governance and Privacy who I liked. Civil Society includes human rights NGOs and other advocacy groups. The Internet Society, Wikimedia Foundation, Access Now, and the Green Web Foundation. I was very impressed with the well-spoken Anita Gurumurthy, ED for IT for Change in India. Many of these people spoke up about the IGF being held in Saudi Arabia next year, feeling like this stakeholder group is being shut out. The Private Sector group captures companies and interested individuals. I registered as this group. But it does contain large corporate interests. Attendees from Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and Meta were there. The head of public policy Cloudflare gave a couple of good sessions, and the Global Product Policy at Mozilla was very well-spoken. The final group – Technical Community – is a big one which includes reps from Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) like the IETF and W3C, professional orgs like IEEE, as well as important internet organizations like IANA which delegates IP numbers to the five Regional Internet Registries who coordinate via the Number Resource Organization (NRO). There was a large ICANN contingent in Kyoto, and booths from various operator organizations such as ISPs, IXPs, and Telcos like NTT. However, I felt that the technical presence was a bit lacking. More about this in another post. One other group that was well-represented was academia. There were many scholars and students there, especially from Kyoto which is a college town.\nSource: IGF 2023 Participation and Programme Statistics\nSo, who does really run the Internet? \nAn heroic attempt at explaining how no single entity runs the internet, from the Wikipedia article on internet governance.\nInternet governance is continuously evolving as we try and solve complex problems as the internet not only expands in usage across the world, but brings new problems due to scale. Since the first event in 2006, IGF participation has grown, especially with the ability to attend virtually. Here are the registration numbers for the last 10 years (includes both in-person and online):\n Bali 2013 - 2,000 Istanbul 2014 - 3,694 João Pessoa 2015 - 2,130+ (couldn’t find online attendance stats) Jalisco 2016 - 4,000 Geneva 2017 - 3,680 Paris 2018 - 4,400 Berlin 2019 - 5,679 Online 2020 - 6,150 Katowice 2021 - 10,371 Addis Ababa 2022 - 5,120 Kyoto 2023 - 11,145 More and more stakeholders are taking an interest. Countries may make the laws and look for input (or don’t) from other stakeholder groups, but they aren’t necessarily the final stop on the power spectrum. For example Mark Nottingham points out (in an excellent post!) that what standards orgs do is a kind of ”architectural regulation” which:\n … sits alongside other modalities of regulation like law, norms, and markets. Where the FTC uses law, the IETF uses architecture – shaping behaviour by limiting what is possible in the world, rather than imposing ex post consequences.\n That makes Standards Development Organizations another kind of Transnational Private Regulator (TPR).\nThere are many ways to get your say and how we govern the internet is not set in stone. We still have another 2.6 billion unconnected, the ongoing threat of a splinternet, geopolitics and geoeconomics amongst other influencing factors. And we need need NEED to have this communication and coordination infrastructure up and running if we are ever to work together globally in defeating the biggest existential threat on the planet: the climate crisis. Ultimately, this is why I find the IGF process so fascinating and intend to become a more engaged stakeholder.\n#IGF2023\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 05:00:42 -0700", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/05/095155.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2F095155.html" }, { "id": 1109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, November 5th in the year of our lord Buddha 2567, the weather was 28 flippin’ degrees celcius here in Osaka 🥵\n#ClimateCrisis\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 03:33:57 -0700", "date": "3:33 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/05/today-november-th.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2Ftoday-november-th.html" }, { "id": 1110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Took the new bike for a ride down the river this afternoon. Hit the old Sakuranomiya Public Hall, which used to be the entrance of the Japan Mint; across the street is the current Mint building; the bridge beside the Mint lit up with Osaka Castle top right; the Imperial Hotel with a dinner cruise.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-04 03:10:19 -0700", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Nov 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/04/took-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F04%2Ftook-the-new.html" }, { "id": 1111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been prepping for my trip to Istanbul next week. Getting excited! So much to see so I have to be choosy. If you have recommendations please share! 🛫🇹🇷\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-03 19:42:31 -0700", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Nov 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/04/been-prepping-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F04%2Fbeen-prepping-for.html" }, { "id": 1112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Some thoughts are come in to your head to die\u0026hellip; but if brain is sick enough?\u0026rdquo; Genius 👏👏👏 ⌨️\n#mechanicalkeyboard\nwww.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-02 00:40:22 -0700", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Nov 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/02/some-thoughts-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Fsome-thoughts-are.html" }, { "id": 1113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And now for a little specialty coffee. This is an Ethiopian bean from Tamiru’s Sky Project. You can learn more here shop.glitchcoffee.com/en/produc\u0026hellip;\n☕️ #coffee\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-02 00:13:22 -0700", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Nov 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/02/and-now-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Fand-now-for.html" }, { "id": 1114, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Found a nice little restaurant in the Asahi Newspaper buildings in downtown Osaka for lunch with my wife. I used to come to these buildings 20 years ago to train in jujutsu. A lot has changed!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-01 21:00:31 -0700", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Nov 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/02/found-a-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Ffound-a-nice.html" }, { "id": 1115, "type": "post", "title": "Attending the Internet Governance Forum - Experience", "text": "(This is a post in a series about attending the Internet Governance Forum 2023 in Kyoto.)\nThe Kyoto International Conference Center is a sprawling complex on the north side of the city, at the very last stop of the Kyoto Municipal Subway line. The subway exit features a circular chamber with a 10m wide IGF logo on the floor welcoming visitors. Hallways are lined with posters for the event, and two escalators later you exit to the ground floor and a red carpeted entrance.\nParticipants take selfies at a couple of entrance displays before heading into the building and passing through one of about ten metal detectors. On the left of this “new hall” are about thirty booths where you can complete your registration and retrieve your security pass for the five day conference. UN Security personnel augment the facility security, with prefectural and national police positioned outside the building at secure points.\nThe Kyoto International Conference Center is made up of a number of buildings but at the center is the original concrete building finished in 1966 in the style of Metobolism (a la the Nakagin Capsule Tower that was torn down last year in Tokyo). It has nary a straight wall, with vaulted ceilings that remind me of the shinmei-zukuri architecture on display at the Ise Grand Shrine in Mie (see a trip report from a few years ago).\nIt was here at the KICC in 1997 where the Kyoto Protocol bound the world in an ultimately failed commitment to lower greenhouse emissions and avoid the climate crisis. Luckily the Internet Governance Forum is a gathering for dialogue, without any mandate for decision-making. This freedom of discussion gives participants a chance to speak their mind and not temper their views in order to release a singular consensus-circumscribed statement.\nThe schedule of 355 sessions was broken down by a few tracks covering the following themes:\n Al \u0026amp; Emerging Technologies Avoiding Internet Fragmentation Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Online Safety Data Governance and Trust Digital Divides and Inclusion Global Digital Governance and Cooperation Human Rights and Freedoms Sustainability \u0026amp; Environment Each of the above themes was its own track, but there were also the cross-cutting:\n High-Level Leaders Track Youth Track Parliamentary Track Intersessional Work Newcomers Track That is a lot of content! Every room was equipped with a multi-camera setup and a whole A/V staff so you can watch all the videos on YouTube (with Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, or Arabic simultaneous translation).\nEvery session I attended started about 10 minutes late. The speakers were all accomplished public speakers, especially notable considering that for many English would be their second, third, fourth, or fifth language. People would float in and out of the room, either checking it out to see if it was worth it, or seeing what they could before having to rush off to another session which clashed on the schedule.\nThere are many different sized rooms. A session might be in the main plenary hall, which seats 2000, or in a smaller side room shaped like a classroom for only a couple dozen people. Up on the sixth floor were a bunch of boardrooms where the invite-only bilateral meetings were held. There was a whole other conference going on up there.\nBetween sessions people would leave the wood-panelled rooms, cross wide fields of thick green carpet traversing stairs going in every direction past banquet tables laden with silver-aluminum kegs of conference coffee (a very special global brand that might also be the outcome of some international global standards conference decades ago), down one hall and then another, to the Annex or second Annex. At every juncture you were pretty much guaranteed to see a handful of the 6,279 on-site participants perusing large displays of the floor map, packets looking for the best path to their next session.\nAttendees came from 178 countries. Many represented in their cultural regalia: you could see sari, topi, gele, and more. I was there as a boring middle-aged white North American in a blue striped buttondown and black slacks. 😅\nAlong the halls were low leather couches where people would meet, holding paper cups of coffee while deep in discussion in many different languages. Many people seemed to know one another. Or they might be typing into a laptop catching up on work, or even napping on a bundled up jacket catching up on sleep as they suffered jet lag.\nAt about 11:30, for two hours, lunch was served in the two great dining halls where people would gather and discuss over bento boxes or a plateful of buffet food. There was also a cafe area with an outside patio where people could enjoy the warm October Kyoto weather (and a cigarette… except for that one handsome French guy who dressed really well and smoked a pipe! ).\nAt the end of the day, usually close to 7pm I would trudge back from the Annex, past the garden and by the lounge area, down the main stairs and across the bridge over the canal (with many police standing around on watch) to the Event Hall where all the now empty vendors booths are located, then out the New Hall past the metal detectors and into the cool evening air only to head into the underground for the subway home.\n#IGF2023\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-01 18:13:01 -0700", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Nov 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/11/02/attending-the-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Fattending-the-internet.html" }, { "id": 1116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Monthly Newsletter is out!\nbuttondown.email/chadkoh/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-31 04:01:18 -0700", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Oct 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/31/monthly-newsletter-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F31%2Fmonthly-newsletter-is.html" }, { "id": 1117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "IETF got backronym game 👏👏👏\n SIP Best-practice Recommendations Against Network Dangers to privacY (sipbrandy) DANE Authentication for Network Clients Everywhere (dance) Serialising Extended Data About Times and Events (sedate) WebRTC Ingest Signaling over HTTPS (wish) ", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 17:37:56 -0700", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/31/ietf-got-backronym.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F31%2Fietf-got-backronym.html" }, { "id": 1118, "type": "post", "title": "Attending the Internet Governance Forum - An intro", "text": "The Internet Governance Forum is a multistakeholder forum established by the United Nations and held annually around the world since 2006. The 18th edition was held in Kyoto, the city in which I reside, so I decided to attend.\nI have been to a few technical conferences, barricaded in rooms with passionate technologists arguing over the most minute details of a newly forming standard, but the IGF promised something different. This is a policy forum to discuss the societal impacts of digital technology worldwide. It is “multistakeholder” in that participants come not just from the national governments of UN member states, but also inter- and non-governmental organizations, private sector, and the technical community. The forum brings together people from all over the globe (11,145 registered participants with 6,279 from 178 countries showing up in person in Kyoto) to talk about how we should govern this supranational resource we call “the internet.” It is certainly my kind of place!\nOver the five day period I attended just 21 of 355 sessions. My approach was simply to spend the entire conference listening and learning. I did not speak up during sessions, but approached panelists afterwards or in the halls including people from more familiar technical forae like the IETF, ICANN, and IEEE, but also many human rights activists, politicians, and even more lawyers. High-level speakers included people like Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, former PM Jacinda Ardern, Maria Ressa, Meredith Whittaker, Vint Cerf, and more. I spoke to many people on duty in the vendor booth area, including the policy team of Wikimedia, The Citizen Lab, Github, LEGO, and more. Each time I chatted with someone I would ask the same three questions:\n How many IGFs have you been to? Has it changed over the years? What is the goal of your organization in attending? That was usually enough to kick off a conversation, sometimes leading to a second convo, and always to an exchange of business cards.\nI wanted to find out a few things: 1) why do people go to IGF? 2) why should the average dev working on an app care? and 3) as someone who works in tech, has an MA in International relations, how have I not heard of this before?!\nThere are many answers to those above questions, and I spent the five days from morning to night learning a lot about the structures and actors involved in internet governance. Too much for a single blog post, so I think I will post a series of shorter notes in the coming weeks. Some topics I would like broach are:\n How the event was structured and what it was like shuffling from room to room how the IGF fits into the global internet governance regime as a whole Multistakeholderism and its challeng{es|ers} What trending topics were being covered in the sessions and in the halls Some of my memorable sessions and interactions Outputs from the forum are still being released, so there might be some other topics to report on. If you have any questions or requests please let me know and I will try to cover those as I progress.\nPosts in the Attending the Internet Governance Forum series Intro (this post) Experience Stakeholders #IGF2023\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 04:22:58 -0700", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/30/attending-the-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Fattending-the-internet.html" }, { "id": 1119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another of Japan’s charming manhole covers\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-29 00:21:42 -0700", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Oct 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/29/another-of-japans.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F29%2Fanother-of-japans.html" }, { "id": 1120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Took the train up to Kyoto to the old apartment to pick up some things and see how the real estate agency interior designer staged the place with all kinds of modern furniture. We took some family selfies on the tiny European couch and at the dining table with the fancy plates 😂\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-28 22:13:33 -0700", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Oct 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/29/took-the-train.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F29%2Ftook-the-train.html" }, { "id": 1121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Under the bridge art in Osaka\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 23:15:13 -0700", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/23/under-the-bridge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F23%2Funder-the-bridge.html" }, { "id": 1122, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, we made it. Moved to Osaka successfully. Still some unpacking to do, but we made good progress. Really helps being minimalist 😅\nToday at lunch the kids and I counted through every move we‘ve done since we first left Canada: 2020 = 4, 2021 = 3, 2022 = 3, 2023 = 1. We are getting good at it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 05:33:27 -0700", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/22/well-we-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F22%2Fwell-we-made.html" }, { "id": 1123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went to Osaka to pick up keys to the new apartment. Popped into the neighbouring Tenjinbashisuji shopping arcade, which is said to be Japan’s longest at 2.6km and over 600 shops. Myakumyaku, the Expo mascot welcomes us!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 00:31:50 -0700", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/21/went-to-osaka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fwent-to-osaka.html" }, { "id": 1124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look what arrived the day before we move out! It is the pre-order I made forever ago of Jocelyne Allen’s translation of Susumi Higa’s award-winning OKINAWA manga. ⌛️😅📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-20 18:51:20 -0700", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Oct 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/21/look-what-arrived.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Flook-what-arrived.html" }, { "id": 1125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Goodnight Kyoto (from my balcony of the past 18 years)\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-19 05:13:15 -0700", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Oct 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/19/goodnight-kyoto-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Fgoodnight-kyoto-from.html" }, { "id": 1126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since I moved my standing desk, monitor, and everything out of the coworking space in preparation for our move to Osaka, this has been my standing work setup\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-18 21:57:34 -0700", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Oct 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/19/since-i-moved.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Fsince-i-moved.html" }, { "id": 1127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On my way to get a latte ☕️ and maybe a slice of cake 🍰 just walking past a 13th C temple ☸️… as you do in #EverydayKyoto (only 4 more days left until we move 😢)\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-17 21:17:27 -0700", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Oct 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/18/on-my-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F18%2Fon-my-way.html" }, { "id": 1128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Forget that man baby manifesto, I recommend this one 🌱 www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-17 20:38:33 -0700", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Oct 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/18/forget-that-man.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F18%2Fforget-that-man.html" }, { "id": 1129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "GOLD: an acronym for sustainable web design principles = Green, Open, Lean, Distributed. 🌱Read more at branch.climateaction.tech/issues/is\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-17 15:29:08 -0700", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Oct 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/17/gold-an-acronym.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F17%2Fgold-an-acronym.html" }, { "id": 1130, "type": "post", "title": "Stopping flying considerations", "text": "🔗 Should I stop Flying — Outside Online\nAppreciate the discussion in this piece. It is something I have thought about for years, and actually one of the reasons I don\u0026rsquo;t look forward to when I return to Canada where everything is so remote. Imagining a no-fly future — whether due to carbon laws, massively increased expense, or the threat of RPGs (see Ministry for the Future my fav book of 2022 for more on that extreme form of flygskam) — I would rather live some place like Europe or Japan: dense with a good rail system. Even if you could never leave by air, the on-the-ground travel links are so good you could still enjoy the travelling life without the extreme GHG emissions. It is like buying two cakes.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-17 00:03:46 -0700", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Oct 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/17/stopping-flying-considerations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F17%2Fstopping-flying-considerations.html" }, { "id": 1131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning, clear blue sky. ☸️ 📸\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-16 17:58:26 -0700", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Oct 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/17/good-morning-clear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F17%2Fgood-morning-clear.html" }, { "id": 1132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got a Covid booster in one arm, and a flu shot in the other 😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-16 04:09:35 -0700", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Oct 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/16/got-a-covid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F16%2Fgot-a-covid.html" }, { "id": 1133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🐡 Fugu skin hot sake 🍶\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 05:03:51 -0700", "date": "5:03 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/15/fugu-skin-shochu.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Ffugu-skin-shochu.html" }, { "id": 1134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🌅 Sun has set on the final day of the #IGF2023. I attended 21 sessions, only about 5% of what was on offer. I had many interesting hallway discussions and took 7000 words worth of notes. I still have much follow up, and will write about takeaways. But for now, good night IGF, and thank you! 🙇‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-12 03:45:50 -0700", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Oct 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/12/sun-has-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fsun-has-set.html" }, { "id": 1135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gorgeous day for day 4 of #IGF2023 at the Kyoto International Conference Center. Today we discussed how the nature of the internet has changed and how the IGF can evolve as a multistakeholder forum for the future. This year there are over 8000 participants, the most in the IGF\u0026rsquo;s 18 year history.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-10 23:03:46 -0700", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Oct 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/11/gorgeous-day-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F11%2Fgorgeous-day-for.html" }, { "id": 1136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day 3 of #IGF2023. Starting the morning off with a Tor session. The weather has finally brightened up so we can get a nicer view of the Kyoto International Conference center’s garden. THIS is the Kyoto I want everyone to experience 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-09 16:06:05 -0700", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Oct 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/09/day-of-igf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F09%2Fday-of-igf.html" }, { "id": 1137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Official greetings at the opening ceremony for the #IGF2023 conference. Lots of messaging around keeping a SINGLE internet, and “global digitalization” (getting EVERYONE online)\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-08 22:43:30 -0700", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Oct 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/09/official-greetings-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F09%2Fofficial-greetings-at.html" }, { "id": 1138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A few snaps from Day 0 of the #IGF2023\n(Descriptions in the alt tags)\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-08 04:55:02 -0700", "date": "4:55 p.m. on Oct 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/08/a-few-snaps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F08%2Fa-few-snaps.html" }, { "id": 1139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been in #IGF2023 sessions all morning. Doing booths and hallway track in the afternoon. Just had Taro Kono and Maria Ressa walk by.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-07 23:13:21 -0700", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Oct 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/08/been-in-igf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F08%2Fbeen-in-igf.html" }, { "id": 1140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman 📚\n(off the cuff review posted on Goodreads)\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-07 05:42:10 -0700", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Oct 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/07/just-finished-underground.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F07%2Fjust-finished-underground.html" }, { "id": 1141, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new Nintendo mural is complete in the Hankyu underground passage between Karasuma and Kawaramachi stations! I popped down early before there were many commuters to take some photos. Symbol of Kyoto! 🎮📸\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-05 17:50:22 -0700", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Oct 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/06/the-new-nintendo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F06%2Fthe-new-nintendo.html" }, { "id": 1142, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The UN\u0026rsquo;s #IGF2023 is about to kick off on Sunday. Over 7200 people will be attending here in Kyoto. Already I feel like a ton of people have arrived, but it is hard to delineate them from the regular tourists 😅 Still though, getting excited!\nintgovforum.org/en/conten\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-05 00:38:07 -0700", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Oct 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/05/the-uns-igf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F05%2Fthe-uns-igf.html" }, { "id": 1143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Opening with a quote from Invisible Cities and celebrating reading to muse on atomization and social capital? This was a nice little read\nreviewcanada.ca/magazine/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-03 02:35:42 -0700", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Oct 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/03/opening-with-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fopening-with-a.html" }, { "id": 1144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been waiting for the internet repairman for 2 days, recalling those times on the road with spotty to no internet connection. O! Where art thou device-to-device sync!? ⛈️👰\n#LoFiSoftware\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-02 18:03:16 -0700", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Oct 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/03/been-waiting-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fbeen-waiting-for.html" }, { "id": 1145, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Goodnight Kyoto\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-02 03:36:08 -0700", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Oct 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/02/goodnight-kyoto.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F02%2Fgoodnight-kyoto.html" }, { "id": 1146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚\nIf you want to catch up on 20 years of Cory Doctorow\u0026rsquo;s advocacy for a better society in just a few hours — or get someone ELSE caught up — this is just excellent!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-02 03:29:54 -0700", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Oct 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/02/finished-the-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F02%2Ffinished-the-internet.html" }, { "id": 1147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sharing my Mastodon and Bluesky links with the accompanying 🐘 and 🦋 emoji I realize the \u0026ldquo;Elephant \u0026amp; Butterfly\u0026rdquo; would make for a cozy pub\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-02 03:16:57 -0700", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Oct 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/02/sharing-my-mastodon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F02%2Fsharing-my-mastodon.html" }, { "id": 1148, "type": "post", "title": "First!", "text": "Hello there! 👋 Thought I would give a quick self introduction.\nI am a 🇨🇦 in 🇯🇵 interested in tech and society, Buddhism, travel, and more. You can get to know me more here:\nmicro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/\nI have a large collection of posts at my main site (https://chadkohalyk.com), most recently:\n Why Kyoto is the way it is The Santiago Boys LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud Driving Fukushima: The 3/11 nuclear disaster 12 years later That might give you an idea of my interests.\nOver the past couple of years I have been eyeing Micro.blog as an alternative to my \u0026ldquo;legacy blogger\u0026rdquo; setup that dates back some time. I plan on focusing my attention here as a way to lower the boundaries of posting. I was really sold on the idea of Mb as an IaaS \u0026ldquo;indieweb as a service\u0026rdquo;, and have been following Manton for more than a decade. I still have some customizing and theming to do, but I won\u0026rsquo;t let that get in the way of posting. 💪\nIf you have recommended follows or Mb tips, please let me know. Cheers!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-02 03:16:05 -0700", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Oct 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2023/10/02/first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.chadkohalyk.com%2F2023%2F10%2F02%2Ffirst.html" } ]