Chad Kohalyk

Once all the Starter Packs are made, and we move on to *Advanced Packs*, someone will finally make a “Radical Politics, Open Source, Cooperatives, Governance nerds, Book reviewers, atproto Missionaries, Japan history, Photographer, Travel Writers, Rap fans, Dad Jokes Pack” and add me to it.

Lots of clarification in the replies

2026-10 - İstanbul, Tűrkiye Derek Sivers interviews 30 locals over 12 days. I like the idea of chatting with people and sharing their stories. Often in my travel writing the people I meet are kept pseudononymous. Maybe I should ask next time? Here’s my report from Istanbul →

NE India tying up with SE India and it’s another banger. Kidd Mange! Take a breath my man! 😮 #rap #music music.youtube.com/watch

「Googleオープンソース」のブログが Standard.site 対応して、バックフィルもしている模様。 <meta content='blogger' name='generator'/> Blogger.com なのか

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

Landing in Ottawa. Look at those leaves! (c/o my wife) https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/10/26/landing-in-ottawa-look-at.html

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Legend has it that there's going to be a robust tech-in-journalism track at Atmosphere 27. A community of hundreds of the most cutting-edge builders and thinkers on the internet will be there. You should probably apply to speak and share your work. Yes, you. atmosphereconf.org/speak

Hear @wesleyfinck.org speak!

Our First Nations traditional territory maps are progressing. We're likely a week away from completing our alpha build. This will replace the Native-Land.ca territory maps, which went offline earlier this year (though they have other maps still online). It'll go online at knowledgekeepr.com

3:50am. “Up and atom” to drive my wife to the airport for her early morning flight. She is off to Montreal as a delegate to the National Association of Japanese Canadians. ⚜️

Practice. 🎯 (literally the only pic I took since I was shooting terribly all night 😅)

Just watched. So happy for Spurs! #COYS Please let this be a trend and the settling in is finally happening.

A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our choices, and make them together. Want to join? https://inference.coop

Local Wiki will show you all the interesting things within a 30 minute walk from you. www.neil-scott.com/localwiki By @neilscott.substack.com

Warm autumn blue skies in Vancouver

the prime minister of japan is posting about PHP

Me: (quietly crawls into bed with my crab hat on) Her: WAH! You scared me!! Me: Why? It is just I, your loving husband of 27 years. Her: That’s too long… ☠️☠️☠️ #truelove

Started reading: American Hagwon. Going to see Min Jin Lee talk at UBC next month with my wife 📚 #amReading #booksky #bookstadon

I repeat:

Next year, we will assign one issue to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

all atproto server-side apps/services: you are affected. - pds: service proxying is outbound tls requests - firehose consumers: tls to relays/jetstream - relays etc: tls to pdses, plc - identity resolution: tls to plc and did:web hosts - etc if you only ship code to the browser, you are ok.

Asked @attie.ai: "Please analyze all my Likes and create a list of the top 10 accounts that l like, with a count of how many of my Likes each has, and a percentage of total likes" Wow! Friends! 🫶 There is only 1 person on this list I don't know IRL (TBH I was expecting The Onion to be ranked)

The perfect website doesn't exi- owlsintowels.org

am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling

Finished Soil and Soul by Alastair McIntosh 📚 What an extraordinary book! So many highlights that I need to process. I learned a lot about Scottish history, my history as my ancestors came to Canada around the time of the Clearances, but I am not sure if related yet (researching this now!)

Go to your camera roll, search for “boat”, post one that you like.

congratulations to kelowna's newest councillor

WCAG 3: a different future for accessibility "WCAG 3 is the first ground-up rebuild of the standard since … 1999. … it’s an entirely different model. Instead of just asking “Does this page have alt text for images”, it asks “Can a blind person actually consume the image’s content”." #a11y

What is turning into an annual tradition: sunset photos from the False Creek Yacht Club, the afterparty for #polyglotunconf 🌅 Had a great time again this year. We talked a LOT about AI, but I also made a bunch of real human friends. 😊

about to cross 500 apps querying microcosm services daily

Atmosphere update: atproto apps are growing 20% month over month, and last week we passed 1,000 daily active apps.

Ran a session called “What if YOU owned the software foundation?” and got a room of governance nerds to talk about how a foundation can serve devs and users as member-owners. Got some gold! #polyglotunconf #cooperatives

Got my coffee ☕️ got my notebook 📓 got my @inkandswitch.com swag 👕 got my energy ⚡️ time for the annual Polyglot Unconference! www.eventbrite.ca/e/polyglo…

Beautiful day to do the thing 🗳️

Today has been a day of watching FD Signifier tear Killer Mike a new one, alternating with this old documentary of Thomas Merton. We all live a life of contrasts 🤷‍♂️ youtu.be/Q-4PV3Z9E…

The Call for Presentations (CFP) is now open for @atmosphereconf.org We're looking forward to seeing your great submissions!

A brief demo & meditation on personal software I presented at an adaptive software meetup last night

This just makes me smile! 🤩 Looks great!

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@onemoregamepod.bsky.social just working my way through the backlog after your Stonetop ep got shared in the Discord. Looking forward to the Dolmenwood ep! Just listened to the DM ep, and you alluded to it but wanted to ask about composing your table, and aligning playstyles and players. Thoughts?

For those at @atproto.to (and those that couldn’t be there) if you wanted more of a deep dive with @bad-example.com about how 🌟 > 🚗 check out this event! 🗓️

Although I had paused when Elon bought it in Oct, I finally stopped cross-posting to Twitter in Dec 2022. A couple months later deleted and archived all my posts. I was on Mastodon full time. My first Bsky post was Jan 18 2023. Haven’t logged in to the Dead Bird for nearly 4 years.

Back from #PfP✨Toronto we are processing the materials from the all-day workshop. The conversation continues of course, with some of our attendees heading up to Ottawa next week on October 22nd for Press Forward's annual summit on #independentmedia Learn more www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...

Have been feeling a bit overwhelmed so took a little time to connect with nature And stay grounded. Found this big ole stump, and a building that looked like a Karuizawa udon house!

Publishing “Cryptographic Right Answers” for developers is a tradition by now. Colin Percival started in 2009, Thomas Ptacek followed up in 2015, and then Latacora carried on in 2018 and 2024. I put together a list updated for the renewed urgency of migrating to post-quantum algorithms.