Daily Journal 📓 November 2020

Shorter dated entries, links, and microblogs, plus GitHub & Tangled stars.

Nov 20202:14pm

⭐️ sindresorhus/awesome 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chance to catch up with the existing ones]

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Nov 202012:00am

- Went for a social distanced walk around Stanley Park with Sean Lynch. Really great discussion! - I mentioned When Tailwinds Vanish: The Internet in the 2020s as I do to all people building Internet businesses these days. - Sean mentioned DBT, which he described as "Jinja templates for SQL" -- basically, a way to make SQL more modular and more maintainable, without having to have an abstraction layer over top of it. - Question from Sean, who lived in Vancouver's West End about 15 years ago, was why it didn't seem to have changed much. That is, different businesses and a few changes, but that…

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Nov 202012:00am

- Lots of catching up with people this week. It's Thursday night / Friday "morning" and I'm reflecting. - Today (Thursday, that is), I met up with DH for coffee, which had me reflect back to Finhaven and the path that has lead here to Fission. - Had a call with Amanda K one morning, sent her a link to When Tailwinds Vanish: The Internet in the 2020s. She was interested in my blog layout here and was asking about whether it needed a dev or not. - That led me over to the original Simply Jekyll, since this site is super customized and in a private repo. I forked it into a public repo here:…

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Nov 202012:00am

- Following up on researching external drives, I biked over to Memory Express to buy an external NVMe enclosure and a 2TB NVMe drive. - - The enclosure and drive I had researched before weren't available and because of the pandemic they aren't really allowing browsing. So, I had the sales person look up the different options for me. - I ended up with the Vantec USB3.1 NVMe Enclosure and a 2TB Corsair drive. There were slightly cheaper options than the Corsair, but it was a name I recognized and I figured it shouldn't be the absolute cheapest: - - The Vantec metal enclosure, and the board that…

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Nov 202012:00am

alias:: Nov 20th, 2020 - I had a call today with Claire and Nandini of Check My Ads and Andrea. - Check My Ads currently runs the BRANDED newsletter on Substack and were interested in Ghost. - Andrea is starting a new business and communicating with a lot of people on a lot of different platforms, and was looking at a newsletter option of Substack vs Ghost and generally owning her content. - I demo'd the Ghost editing interface using the DeployToHeroku version of Ghost + IPFS that I maintain for Fission. - I had spoken with CanTrust Hosting Coop, a Canadian hosting coop, and they don't…

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Nov 202012:00am

- Art Gallery and Downtown - Rachael and I actually slept in a bit (for us) and had breakfast at home, and then went out to the Vancouver Art Gallery. I spent a lot of the week only being indoors, on way too many Zoom calls. You need to book an appointment ahead of time, and have to wear a mask in the gallery. There were maybe 4 other people we encountered wandering around during our booking slot. The Victor Vasarely exhibition -- pop art -- was amazing. I posted on social.coop, including a painting that matches Rachael's new sweater. We'll see if I get around to posting more research and…

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Nov 202012:00am

--- date: 2020-11-08 --- Went for a bike ride in the morning. Super sunny day, but also cold. Vancouver winters have been getting brighter -- but also colder. Need a balaclava as the final piece of my biking gear, to cover my ears and neck. Just spent 30 minutes setting up a UPS Payment Account in order to attempt to pay a bill online for customs brokerage fees. There is a 10-digit account number on the invoice, but of course clicking between the different options, the maximum is for a 9-digit account number (and that's some sort of special account?). UPS Canada, a paper invoice with a tear…

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Nov 202012:00am

- OK, I clicked the buttons and made what I think are all my final purchases for my Mac Mini, other than external storage. - But first: I bought an Asus VG289Q Monitor at Best Buy earlier this week. Got it home and the screen wouldn't stay on? - At first I thought the wimpy Mac Mini maybe couldn't drive it through HDMI and I needed a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter, but those adapters don't really exist. I looked around and the various HDMI cables now do have different "ratings" on them. I bought a short gold plated HDMI cable and yes! -- the monitor works fine. - I looked back and forth at…

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Nov 20206:20am

⭐️ Kinto/kinto A generic JSON document store with sharing and synchronisation capabilities.

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