Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
I've avoided going deep with LLM usage, including for agentic coding. This is has been for a number of reasons. I don't want to be sending data to US tech platforms is a big one. I don't want to start there, and I don't want to get used to it. And I didn't want to have a mental model that was "these…
Today was a heck of a day. I was supposed to fly out to Barcelona, for an Ink & Switch team retreat.[^inkandswitchwork] [^inkandswitchwork]: I haven't really talked about it or announced it very publicly, but I've been working with Ink & Switch (which is an industrial research lab focused on buildin…
Today is my 50th birthday. I've been putting words on the Internet in blog form for close to 25 years[^domain]. I feel good. I don't feel "old", although tweaking my back carrying some bags out to the cab for the trip to Berlin in October 2024 is when I realized that yes, my physical being was maybe…
Thanks to Graham Fleming, we've got an initial launch of a Vancouver Community Search Engine. Visit search.dwebvancouver.org to search local community people, organizations, events, communities. It will return "internal" results first, that appear on the websites of the links that have been submitte…
My Daylight Computer got delivered yesterday! A quick set of unboxing photos at Z-Space[^photocredit] while sitting at the main lounge table. In the meantime I've linked it to my Google account, taken some notes in Google Docs, and used the Notebook app to take handwritten notes during an in-person…
It's now the week after Vancouver Startup Week. I ended up attending very few things (that's a me thing, not a reflection on the event itself)[^sorry] and am feeling inspired and energized. Thanks to the VSW organizers for being resilient and keeping things going for a decade. Smart Young BC Ian Va…
Reading a post by Rui on his Tao of Mac led me down a number of rabbit holes: Cool review of a mini Linux gaming PC! Bazzite gaming Linux distro! Universal Blue format for desktop distros! All things I read and wanted to both share with others and leave notes for myself. I use journals to bookmark /…
I’ve been hesitating about whether in my new journal setup[^journal], I would write about / share items around venture capital and fundraising. It’s an area of expertise of mine, but the fediverse is hostile to the entire concept of investment. I decided to filter out cross posting of items tagged…
An overview of my social accounts and posting. It can be summarized as mostly POSSE.[^overload] This started as a short post to put directly into a single Mastodon post about my three Mastodon accounts, but kind of got out of hand, so now it’s a blog post. I use @boris@cosocial.ca as my main Mastod…
I missed Berjon’s ActivityPub Over ATProto when it was published back in November 2023. It’s a design provocation of using the two protocols together: > With relatively little work, we could run ActivityPub atop an AT Protocol PDS. The little sub heading says “¿Por qué no los dos?”, which of course…
I didn't get much blog tinkering done over the holidays, other than just barely opening my code editor and making a new branch, deciding to delete my archive from this site, and see if Obsidian can work for what it's intended to be: a fancy Markdown editor! This is my January 1st log of things to lo…
This is very much a blogging about blogging (and Digital Garden) post. I've written many words in many places since the last post. Many of those words have been into LogSeq, which I flipped the switch on at the beginning of this year to run this whole site, including my (lapsed) tech blog, and long…
I’ve been thinking about kickstarting a couple of different app ecosystems. I’m going to be a bit vague here, but imagine a tablet like dedicated device. I wrote a post about using the reMarkable — so maybe consider something like that. But more open and a desire to build a software ecosystem around…
Originally written by me in the Fission Discourse forum, posted January 2022. My focus on tooling is in part because the affordances of tools is what influences the day-to-day praxis of organizations. NetworkedOrgs is my local notes page that connects more related articles and resources. --- At the…