Boris
he/him

Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.

What if we made things a little bit better?

A day trip to Montague Harbour on Galiano to see the first Solander 38 by Rising Tide Boatworks

First post on ! Maybe move personal blog here? Maybe links aka asides? That will just be too much tech, focusing on personal will be looser.

The journey of a thousand miles begins…with having some idea of where you ought to go.

I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of […]

standard.site, leaflet.pub, and why we write in 2026

Excitedly trying out Skyreader's new link blog and opinions on link blogging

Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

An art show, Japanese dessert, and Mexican fruit

Moving off micro.blog, moving onto Leaflet for tech links

Meta Culture

The meta game of cultural impact and evolution

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