Contact

Feel free to tweet or DM me [[@bmann::http://twitter.com/bmann]]. You can usually find me in the [[Fission]] Discord Chat https://fission.codes/discord for instant messaging. For [[Startup]] topics...

Cloudflare IPFS Gateway

[[Cloudflare]] has a Distributed Web Gateway page that covers both [[IPFS]] and [[Ethereum]]. Here is the extreme TLDR of using their IPFS gateway (if you already have your DNS hosted with Cloudfla...

Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

As high quality content and effective brand strategy move down the long tail, “community” has become an important concept for every post-Web 2.0 player. Crypto token holders, influencer fanbases, D...

EhList

A Slack for Canadian [[Startup]] founders.

Chromebook

I’m a fan of Chromebooks because they are what I used to love about my Macbook Air 11”: small, powerful, computers with long battery life. In addition, they also happen to be pretty inexpensive – a...

Duck Ramen Wiki

Some of this content is from what I called the Duck Ramen Wiki, because I set it up right around the time we went on a trip to Victoria and I made duck ramen). I put food, travel, and related type ...

Drupal and the Decentralized Web

My [[DrupalCon]] video is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrc3XH2Vdc Slides View Drupal and the Decentralized Web on Notist. Slides on Notist https://noti.st/bmann/3UmZKZ/drupal-and-the-decentr...

Yearlog

See also: [[Worklog]]. And a Yearlog seems awfully big, perhaps a [[Monthlog]] is a good place to start. [[2020]] Feb 29th: [[Leap Day]] – Rachael and I take a long weekend trip to Tofino, and come...

DO Nix Server

I installed [[NixOS]] on a [[Digital Ocean]] server using [[nix-infect]]. I can connect to it using [[BlinkShell]] on my iPhone or iPad to do various shell things: it’s useful to have a little comm...

DNSRecords-io

A simple web-based tool for exploring [[DNS]] records website: https://dnsrecords.io/ Mentioned to me by @icidasset. Built by a friend of his at Spatie, a Belgium team.

XODO PDF Reader

PDF Reader and Annotator app. https://www.xodo.com/ Something close to Mac Preview for working with PDFs in Chrome on your [[Chromebook]].

Worklog

Daily and/or weekly notes, often quite detailed, of what you’re doing. This can be part of a [[Second Brain]], or just a basic log to keep you on track. Especially for people that are doing a lot o...

Digital Garden Jekyll Template

This site started with this [[Jekyll]] template, created by [[Maxime Vaillancourt]]. The [[Colophon]] has more details about how it has evolved. Below, the contents of the original “Your first seed...

DeployToHeroku

[[Heroku]] has a “Deploy to Heroku” button that lets people deploy apps using just a browser and the Heroku dashboard. Creating a ‘Deploy to Heroku’ Button The two base requirements are that the so...

Chromebrew

https://skycocker.github.io/chromebrew/ Open terminal and get a shell: wget -q -O - https://raw.github.com/skycocker/chromebrew/master/install.sh | bash Useful packages I like: crew install nano

ChromeOS

[[ChromeOS]] is the operating system, based on Gentoo Linux, that runs on Chromebooks. Since I’ve been using Chromebooks since before they supported Linux natively, there are a variety of notes her...

Cloud Gaming on Chromebooks

Background Right now, a number of the cloud streaming services have Android apps, which will run on Chromebooks. TLDR; Parsec is currently the best option. Game Controllers I have a Logitech F710, ...

CLT Vancouver

website https://www.cltrust.ca/ Owned by [[Co-operative Housing Federation of BC]] Focused on low / moderate income housing Their office is on Commercial Drive, not far from where I live.

WIP

Work-in-Progress

WikiJS

[[Wiki]] software built on [[NodeJS]]. Has great [[DeployToHeroku]] support Home page https://wiki.js.org/ OpenCollective Donations https://opencollective.com/wikijs Github https://github.com/Requ...