I am testing out Hardcover as a book tracking and journaling app this month in my 2026 journey to get off of Goodreads for once and for all. If you are using it, HMU I need to find more peeps to follow to test it properly! https://hardcover.app/@chadkoh #books

Canada's federal gov has a new program to bring researchers to Canada & my uni is starting an internal nomination process for chairs. If you are a full or associate prof working on AI/democracy/community engagement/environmental justice and you may be interested in moving to Canada, dm me

The Very Hungry Interoperator

Adjacent... I've been wonder what to call this pattern where computing "platforms" show how easy inward interop is and deprioritize any kind of outward interop. Maybe 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 has a nice ring to it 🤔

Started A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 📚 Tracking progress and chapter updates in Hardcover as a test this month: hardcover.app/books/a-p… #books #amReading

Finished Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚 Like the novelization of a David Attenborough film on the planet. Gorgeous meditation on the fragility of the planet, and of people. Lovely. Audio was great, but I can see myself picking up the text and reading again much closer in the future. #Reading #Books

Wife surprised my anime loving daughter with the hotel upon arrival in Tokyo 😄 https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/01/06/wife-surprised-my-anime-loving.html

Happy new year! Here are our January events: dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-janu...

Like the rest of the internet, Sentry runs on Open Source. Like the rest of the @opensourcepledge.com companies, we also believe in paying it back. In 2025, we gave out $750k to the OSS projects we rely on; here’s a sampling of some of them, and why they are so crucial 🧵

Thinking back to how many times we picked up a new information tool (and often put down an old one)… Also, announcing EM Lewis-Jong from @mozdatacollective.bsky.social as a speaker for #PfP✨London

Interested in how the co-op model works for creative studios? Check out this free webinar coming up Jan 20: buff.ly/zrNMYnA

Listened to half of this today: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚 Very poetic and introspective so far.

Sure, maybe you don't need more dice. But these ones help protect free speech and privacy online 🎲 shop.eff.org/products/li...

working on these ideas now

At Vancouver International Airport. Just dropped off my wife and older kid who are doing a Mommy-Daughter trip to Japan. Meanwhile I will be single-dadding it here in Canada. Good luck to us all! 🍀

Love Cal.com Been using it for a few years and recommending it to everyone.

So, who wants to play DnD and/or other TTRPG's at #fosdem #fosdem26? RT for reach because fuck my free time i guess /jk /lh

POSSE is on the front page of Hacker News right now, which I think is kind of delightful. Lots of people discovering the more human, independent approach that the #indieweb advocates.

My old friend I met in Tehran 22 years ago came over and we ate Japanese New Years food, Xmas cookies baked by my daughter, then chips & homemade guacamole, all the while catching up and talking about going to the local Korean Spa. Feel lucky to live here 😊

Okay, I it is that time of year again where I look for a Goodreads replacement 📚. Would love if it worked on atproto. I need organizing (shelves, lists, or tags), progress tracking (pages, %), the ability to post chapter notes, and cross-posting to Micro.blog/Bsky/Mastodon. Send me your reccos!

明けましておめでとうございます Happy New Year 🥳

Literally watched the whole 108 rings. I had seen clips of this before, and have taken many people to see the bell, but the whole ceremony is amazing. Picked up on a lot of details, but I bet there is so much more going on behind the scenes. I need a documentary!

新年おめでとうございます🎊㊗️ 今年もよろしくお願いします🎍 from the west coast in Canada 🇨🇦

New Years Noodle Time 🎊🍜 #年越しそば

Want a funny quiz show about what happened on the Internet this past year while doing your year end deep cleaning of windows and blinds? 😊 Listen to these fun 6 (7 🤗 if you include the host) people meme at one another in audio form 🐒 🍌 🩰 🐊

Year end cleaning podcast listening. Can’t believe it has been 15 years. I started listening in Year 1 and even met Jason and crew at a meetup in SF! The Incomparable is my third-longest listened to podcast. ✨

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

The last post of the year is up, so here is the last Newsletter of the year. Now back to end of year cleaning 🧹🧽 buttondown.com/chadkoh/a…

Best of 2025: https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/31/best-of.html Notable reads, watches, and questions for the year

Scrolling through all the #Kohaku commentary from last night. I miss the live back chatter on New Year’s Eve in Japan. All this is out of context. Could probably make an app that displays posts in sync with the show based on time stamps. But then I wouldn’t get to participate in the snark! 😔

After we watch the recording of Kohaku, gonna put this on tonight at midnight 😊 🔔

After a flood we plant trees so their root systems join to protect the vulnerable area. The key to resilience is local relationships. Come to our meetup for meetup organizers and let’s build a resilient community together. 🌲🤝🌳 #vancouver #events #communitybuilding http://meetupmeetup.com

“Don’t be evil.”

Tech sovereignty isn’t about swapping US hyperscalers for local monopolies, writes David Eaves. That just recreates dependency. Real agency comes from interoperability, de facto standards, and procurement that makes switching cloud providers simple, says Eaves.

Surburban Development Cycle — a case from Japan: https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/28/surburban-development-cycle-a-case.html

Yup! 😂

10 years ago today I swore off meat. I adopted a plant-based diet because according to @projectdrawdown.bsky.social it is one of the most impactful things an individual can do to fight climate change, especially in Canada where there is a concentrated beef sector contributing to a lot of GHGs. 🥗

The Small Change series is very recommended 📚

10 years ago today I swore off meat. I adopted a plant-based diet because according to Drawdown it is one of the most impactful things an individual can do to fight climate change, especially in Canada which is a large country with a concentrated beef sector, contributing to a lot of GHGs. 🥗

Judging AI on its ability to expand capacity: https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/27/judging-ai-on-its-ability.html

@atprotocol.dev #ATmosphereConf

Literally just watched Perfect Days tonight

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Daughter and her friends just showed up at our front door singing Xmas carols. They have been going around the neighbourhood. Apparently it is an annual tradition for the Drama kids here. 😄

Just finished The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie 📚 This is the 10th book in The First Law world, and the finale of The Age of Madness. (Also the 6th book of Joe’s I read this year!) Phew! Epic! Done! So good!

Somebody print the shirts!

A few more shots from our pre-Xmas celebrations in Vancouver on a pretty nice day! (which means overcast but no rain) www.flickr.com/photos/sa…

At the Hyatt was the annual Gingerbread House display, with a couple dozen gingerbread houses in all sorts of designs. Here are some wild examples:

Cool live jazz at the skating rink in Robson Square ❄️⛸️🎺🥁 https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/12/23/cool-live-jazz-at-the.html