We’re going to do some work on the Lab Day talks before we release them. In the meantime - all the Day 1 & 2 talks are up!

Local-First Conf@localfirstconf.com · 5d ago

Talk recordings from day 1 & 2 are live! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How Streamplace Works: VOD (Closed Beta) https://blog.stream.place/3mnfydkktw225

Weekend Adventures July 2026 https://blog.bmann.ca/3mrm5pebwm22v

Weekend Adventures July 2026 - Boris Blog

In which Rachael has a birthday and we eat & drink delicious things

blog.bmann.ca

How Streamplace Works: VOD (Closed Beta) https://blog.stream.place/3mnfydkktw225

Picture that @evan took of me just before the panel I was moderating at #DWebCamp. Look at that big #CoSocialCa sticker!

Goodmorning fedi, I just woke up in a windy tent in the middle of a field and sleepily scrolled thru all the opening talks at #DwebCamp to figure out what my first stop needs to be: def have to catch @cwebber, @dholms.at and @boris discuss the trade offs […] [Original post on social.wake.st]

Talking in a room with no name. https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mpnir2rvec2j

Talking in a room with no name. - We Can Just Do Things

"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?

wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub

Testing Mastodon author tags for this page https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/homelab/

Homelab

Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.

bmannconsulting.com

Some thoughts on extending lexicons https://amybunny.offprint.app/a/3mnzodqsmxc23-some-thoughts-on-extending-lexicons

Some thoughts on extending lexicons | Offprint

And editing posts on bluesky, apparently.

amybunny.offprint.app

How to easily add Standard.site support to your website https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-06-05-how-to-add-standard-site-support-to-your-website/

Two questions from the Jagged Frontier https://aparker.io/questions-on-the-jagged-frontier

New report: Can Canadian co-operatives build and own their own AI infrastructure? We looked at the technical, financial, and market feasibility and found a viable path forward. The Canadian Solidarity Stack is out now.

Read the Study

This study, produced by CanTrust Hosting Co-operative and Hypha Worker Co-operative with funding from Co-operators’ Co-operative Development Program, examines whether a genuinely co-operative alternat...

cooperativeblueprint.ai

If you’re enjoying #pubconf2026 from afar, talks are streaming here https://stream.place/publicspaces.net @publicspaces

@publicspaces.net's livestream on streamplace node

PublicSpaces conference 2026

stream.place

RE: https://techhub.social/@fedicon/116688319685513603 Hey #CoSocialCa - @fedicon is happening again this year in August in Vancouver as part of #fossy2026

FediCon@fedicon.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

🎉 What if the Fediverse met... in real life? FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web. Talks, Demos, Lightning Talks, Panels and more. Come be part of a community gathering focused on the Fediverse, the Social Web, and the people building the future of open social […]

🎉 What if the Fediverse met... in real life? FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web. Talks, Demos, Lightning Talks, Panels and more. Come be part of a community gathering focused on the Fediverse, the Social Web, and the people building the future of open social […]

Check out @expede.wtf's lab note about designing bijou64, Bijective variable-length encodings for unsigned integers. It is "accidentally fast", which was a surprising and delightful result.

Brooklyn Zelenka@expede.wtf · 2mo ago

Oh hey, I wrote thing 💎 www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bij...

Here’s a petition by MP Jenny Kwan to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22 https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416 Simply: 1) Withdraw the bill 2) Don’t collect & retain metadata 3) Don’t weaken or break encryption, now or […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Buying another miniPC https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3mmnledzqmk2e

Buying another miniPC - Boris Mann Tech Blog

GMKtec Nucbox G10 for $400CAD

blog.bmannconsulting.com

Cooked tonight, which was exactly the kind of at home relaxing I needed after a lot of time traveling. Broke apart a whole chicken and roasted the legs & wings, and then separately the two breasts upside down. Salt, garlic powder, paprika, a bed of yellow peppers & onions, rice on the side.

Are there any Canadian computer assemblers? I’m looking for something like System76 or Framework (both US) or StarLabs (UK). #canada #elbowsuptech

A new Lab Note by Ink & Switch Researcher John Mumm, "Progressions", about the learnings from composing independent audio tools into Patchwork, part of our malleable software research www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

Bill C-22 is quite clearly a bad bill that the Canadian government is digging in it's heels on. Michael Geist @mgeist covers the latest, which is Signal @signalapp saying they will pull out of Canada if it passes (there is a requirement of retaining metadata for a year -- e.g. phone numbers […]

I’m heading to Berlin next week. Come to the Berlin ATProto meetup if you want some stickers! https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/post/3mk2m7f3xa224

Boris (@bmann.ca)

My first trip post AtmosphereConf where I am putting together a pack of travel stickers to give to @flo-bit.dev and leave behind for other @atproto.berlin folks

bsky.app

My first trip post AtmosphereConf where I am putting together a pack of travel stickers to give to @flo-bit.dev and leave behind for other @atproto.berlin folks

I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of […]

Learned about GNOME OS from @pojntfx and also the concept of “distroless” https://os.gnome.org Anyone have opinions, pointers, blog posts about GNOME OS and/or distroless?

GNOME OS Nightly

Try the latest and greatest GNOME software in a VM or on real hardware

os.gnome.org

I'm super hyped to announce that Bluesky Socal PBC has given me a grant to work on the Federated Credential Management (or FedCM) standards to make them really work for all decentralized web applications. This is why I stepped up to be an Invited Expert with the W3C FedID Working Group earlier […]

We hit 1000 guestbook sign ins at @z-space.ca today! @hilk.eu hit the button and captured the whole crew who came for member show & tell Thank you to @jonny.z-space.ca who built the tech & made the space & brings the energy to connect us together.

Finding an accessibility-first culture in npmx Today is the alpha release of npmx — an alternative browser for the npm registry. Abbey Perini joined early and soon discovered accessibility was a deep part of the culture, right from the start, which was both refreshing and incredibly productive. […]