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Boris
@bmann.ca
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Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.

What if we made things a little bit better?

#Vancouver #cooking #restaurant #atproto

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📍 Museum London
Museum · London, Ontario, Canada
https://www.beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mc6ebmgwac2m

Yaya’s Cafe is inside the museum. West African and Caribbean dishes and drinks. So good!

w/ @rachaelashe.com

#BeaconBits
Iced Tamarind drink African Rice Bowl - Choose Mafe (Peanut Stew or Black eyed bean stew) | Seasoned Brown Rice, seasonal vegetables, Salad Sweet roasted plantain served with peanuts Vegetable sambosa
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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📍 Museum London
Museum · London, Ontario, CA
https://www.beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mc64dwhui22s

Touring Museum London on another snowy day. It’s a nice space!

#BeaconBits
January 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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📍 Sidetrack: A Wortley Café
Cafe · London, Ontario, CA
https://www.beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mc3o6uwyh225

Cappuccino and Matcha stop

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Pictures of dogs that visit the cafe
January 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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📍 Curiousities
Other · London, Ontario, CA
https://www.beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mbubv2ytec2k

A cute local gifts fashion jewelry store.

#BeaconBits
January 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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📍 Sidetrack: A Wortley Café
Cafe · London, Ontario, CA
https://www.beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mbuaw7xumc2s

Afternoon cappuccino at the cafe in Wortley Village

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Café sign on the outside above a window looking in Chalkboard with salty lumberjack drink
January 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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📍 Dundas Street
Other · London, Ontario, CA
https://www.beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mbsctmq2j22h

Byrne Eats Filipino Restaurant in London, Ontario. Inside of restaurant, crispy pasta, salad with crispy tofu, and fresh lumpia. Not pictured, garlic rice and some fun…

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A restaurant interior with a brick wall and a flag. The wall is decorated with woven baskets and photographs. There are wooden tables and stools in the foreground. A neon sign reads "BYRE EATS." The ceiling has recessed lighting. An air conditioning unit is mounted on the wall. A wooden board holds a pile of crispy roasted pork belly pieces, some with visible skin and others with tender meat. A small portion of green salad with leafy greens and possibly radish slices is placed on top. In the background, there is a blurred person wearing a red and black patterned jacket, a small black bowl with a green garnish, and a blue napkin on a wooden table. A white plate holds a salad with spinach, cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, red onion, and croutons. The salad is topped with sesame seeds and served with a small bowl of dressing on a wooden table. A person wearing a black and red patterned top is partially visible in the background. Two fresh lumpia rolls on a black plate next to a white bowl of brown dipping sauce. The spring rolls are wrapped in translucent rice paper and filled with vegetables. The dipping sauce appears to contain peanuts. A glass of water and a white plate are in the background on a wooden table.
January 7, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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Turns out @discourse.org has a wrapped (they call it rewind) feature, if you update & turn it on.

Turned it on for the community forum, it's private by default at /my/activity/rewind

You can publish it if you want, here's mine discourse.atprotocol.community/u/bmann.ca/a...
Screenshot of Discourse Forum rewind 2025 - my version from the ATProto Community Forum Word Usage Reading time was 28h "that's the time it would take to read through The Lord of the Rings"
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Bought this new-to-me Greek Manouri cheese at a Greek deli nearby yesterday.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manouri
A white plastic package with a blue and red label. The label has an image of a white cheese with a green leaf on top. The text on the label reads "DODONI Manouri Cheese" and "A mild, semi-soft Greek cheese." There is also a red and yellow seal that says "Protected Designation of Origin."
January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot
Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino.

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Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Here’s the full plate. Mom made mashed potatoes and red cabbage.
A plate filled with red cabbage, a turkey drumstick and white meat, mashed potatoes with gravy in a well, and a sausage apple chestnut orange stuffing.
December 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Great post by @wesleyfinck.org on interop w/out sharing Lexicons notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h

1) Lexicon mapping: @kipclip.com using community bookmarks lexicon, mapping to a Semble card.

2) Activities: other record types displayed, a bsky post with a link and a @monomarks.at bookmark.
Image of community.lexicon.bookmarks.bookmark being mapped to Semble’s link card type, network.cosmik.card Mockup of a “Cosmik Testing” account posting a Semble card, followed by a bsky post with a link, and a Monomarks bookmark, all in an activity feed.
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Here’s plate 2 of this combo.
A piece of slate with a selection of nigiri and aburi
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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📍 Kita no Donburi
Restaurant · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
★★★★☆

Back in Vancouver and doing a last office day. Taking it slow.

Haven’t had sushi in like a month. My favourite take out place is closed so getting a big sushi combo.

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Back in Vancouver and doing a last office day. Taking it slow. Haven’t had sushi in like a month. My favourite take out place is closed so getting a big sushi combo.
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot
Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
★★★★★

Enjoying a cappuccino and a Hoettok (korean sweet pancake).

This is my local and also Ryan’s office.

w/ @depatchedmode.bsky.social

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Enjoying a cappuccino and a Hoettok (korean sweet pancake). This is my local and also Ryan’s office. Enjoying a cappuccino and a Hoettok (korean sweet pancake). This is my local and also Ryan’s office. Enjoying a cappuccino and a Hoettok (korean sweet pancake). This is my local and also Ryan’s office.
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Haha. Umm. I’m an idiot.

Hey @ronentk.me the advisory team should maybe all get on a call in the new year to get to know each other.
Screenshot of Cosmik Network advisory circle that features Maria Antoniak, Laure Haak, and Boris Mann. Boris is an idiot because he’s @-replying to Maria mentioning Cosmik network
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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The Leaflet Thread Viewer is super interesting. I will say the "triple pane" looks kind of hilarious on desktop web.

Second screenshot, Amber's thread is what I wanted to highlight. Having this "thread view" embedded would also be interesting. I picked the second post to embed.

Screenshot of the article on Leaflet, which links to the share bsky post by me, which then shows the beginning of the bsky thread. Triple pane! Screenshot of the article, showing the second pain of Amber's thread in Leaflet. It shows the whole thread even when I chose to embed the second post.
December 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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For this interested in knowledge graph things, this is all currently custom on my site. Screenshot is a zoom-in of the notes graph explorer, with a Jobs Below the API collection page I put together.
A graph of linked / backlinked pages on my site https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/ Hovering over the https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/jobs-below-the-api/ node shows the other linked pages.
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I saw @case.bsky.social's share of the No Jobs for Horses article (2016) which made me go gather up the Jobs Below the API articles, with the Forbes article chart being the one that likely many saw at the time.

10 years ago!
Chart by Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2015/02/04/google-cabs-and-uber-bots-will-challenge-jobs-below-the-api/ Titled Dead End Jobs Below the API, Above the API Jobs starts shrinking from 2005 with a Below the API Jobs (Tasl APIs), and then 2020? a Below the API Robots (Automation) section
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Finally taking off. Green de-icing fluid flowing off the Porter Air wing.
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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In case you’re wondering, blowing snow / sleet rain highway drive between London and Hamilton ON at 5am SUCKED.
Picture of Hamilton ON airport entrance flanked by Christmas trees. The sign says Departures / Départs
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Stay winning @bnewbold.net! #atmosphereconf
bryan's "Your signature tag #atmosphereconf (used 17x)"
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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It is unexpected what happens with custom handles (see alt text)

Solution: put a full profile url bsky .app/profile/bmann.ca

Still begging for user docs…
Screenshot of new contact imports - there’s an invite button next to each contact. I’m listed as one of the avatar pictures. I hit the invite button and sent myself an invite - it shows my custom handle bmann.ca On receiving my message — you can see that iOS auto links the custom handle. Clicking on it takes to my web page, not my profile
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Now I’m browsing venues.

Super Flux has “Heavy Fruit” with rotating flavours. It’s basically… a beer smoothie, but brewed that way. More of an experience than an every day.
Two glasses labeled Heavy Fruit, one orange one red, with Superflux fruit smoothie style beer Photo ganked from Google Maps reviews - thanks Jason Calimbas
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I’m on iOS and installed the shortcut (excellent!). Something going on when I try and annotate. Here’s a screen recording.
December 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I’m London ON for some family health stuff.

We ended up at The Bombay Vibes thebombayvibes.ca - in a little strip mall next to / inside of an indian grocery store.

I had panj puri for the first time, aloo tikki chaat, samosas, and paneer tikka masala with rice and garlic naan.

Very good!
This is the pani puri mixture on a little street cart but inside that gets fired up when you order. pani puri with some raw onions on the side. This was the spicy flavour, they also had a sweet tamarind. In trying to explain them I said “it’s like doing shots but it’s food” Aloo Tikki Chaat - Chopped aloo tikki's, cholay, yogurt, mint, tamarind, onions, cilantro - this was a little soggy around the edges but was still tasty. Samosas and tamarind sauce in the background. Paneer Tikka Masala, rice, and garlic naan. Everything was clearly made fresh on the spot - hot and tasty.
December 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM