Chad Kohalyk
@chadkoh.com
Generous with Likes ❤️ 📸 🖊️ 📿 🙏 He/him 日本語 🙆♂️ #COYS #SurreyBC 🇨🇦 https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/ #PublicInterestTechnologist #buddhism #books #photography #japan Also @protocolsforpublishers.com & @dwebyvr.org PfP @kawaiirailroads.millie-may.net
“go to hell” is basic. “i hope your favorite app gets acquired by bending spoons” is smart. it’s possible. it’s terrifying.
Ruh roh. Stayed away from AirTable for a long time since I figured something like this would happen. The risk of centralized cloud apps 🤷♂️ Not happy about it. This is why we need to billionaire-proof our software.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · yesterdayBending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.
Rascal News@rascal.news · 2d agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026. protocolsforpublishers.com/mike-masnick...
Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers
An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.
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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
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Protocols for Publishers✨
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Powell Street Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We spent the afternoon there, saw some friends, ate some food, listened to some drumming, and painted some fish (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gyotaku-japanese-fish-printing)
Yeah it’s 3am but I been going down a Northeast India rap hole. Kim bring the pen game and Reble is a revelation! 💎 youtu.be/u6KDqfCco…
Downplay a book or movie: Grapes of Irritation
You Can Call Me Al@shropshirelad.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: The Average Gatsby
This looks cool → digshibuya.com Shibuya opens its streets as an urban laboratory… issues a global open call to artists and innovators. Applications in En open to 31 Aug. Last years' fest had 470,000 people! #Japan #art #tech (h/t @z-space.ca)
Mother and daughter worked together this morning 👩🏻👧🏻 to make snacks for daughter’s school potluck today. Looking forward to pics of all the other food! 🥘 🍱🍲
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Today on my walk under the wild green trees and amber setting sun I started listening to The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 📚
I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
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“The easiest way to tell if a platform is open or not: do you need to ask permission to integrate with it? Open: RSS, IndieWeb, Bluesky, Mastodon, Micro.blog. Closed: Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube.”
Manton Reece@manton.org · last wk.Dave Winer blogging about a new WordPress → RSS.chat integration from Matthias Pfefferle: "Matthias didn’t need to tell us about what he did until it was done. That my friends is how the web works, that’s what I’ve been trying to... https://www.manton.org/2026/07/28/dave-winer-blogging-about-a.html
Woke up to the earthquake news in Kumamoto. I remember the last big one that hit the mainland in Kumamoto. 😬
I want a super lightweight markdown editor that hides the markup like Obsidian, but is single doc and has text editor features like Sublime Text. Also needs common keybindings. Something I can quickly launch and format text in without creating a new file in my Obsidian Vault. Any recommendations?
Anglo-Saxon maxxing Some of the resources I have been diving into over the past few months https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/07/25/anglosaxon-maxxing.html
Been consuming The Odyssey meta all day: podcasts, interviews, behind the scenes, Emily Wilson’s reaction to the film. It is a very impressive feature, and totally worth watching on a big screen if you can. I have decided to move Circe by Madeline Miller up to my next book read!
Here’s your Saturday morning read: “We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers ‘look for the helpers’ talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
How to be useful
What’s your go-to piece of advice in life?
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