Table titled 'Population Projects (BCStats)' showing projected populations for Vancouver and Surrey from 2025 to 2029. Vancouver: 750,886 (2025), 739,469 (2026), 738,740 (2027), 743,432 (2028), 748,946 (2029). Surrey: 723,378 (2025), 733,760 (2026), 746,513 (2027), 760,724 (2028), 775,149 (2029). The 2027 row is highlighted in yellow, marking the year Surrey's population is projected to surpass Vancouver's

I’ve been really looking forward to the StatsCan results for the 2025 census to see if we are on track for Surrey to overtake Vancouver as BC’s biggest municipality soon. The old projections from BCStats signaled the overtake to happen in 2027, but a lot has changed since the census of 2021.

Today is #VancouverDay, and the incorporated city is turning 140+. But the history of settlement on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations goes back much, much further. 🧵

#WalkAroundTheCity

The book sitting on an iPad on a side table

Started reading Bob Williams “Using Power Well”

#amreading #booksky #bookstodon

More photos from the afternoon here 🌸 www.flickr.com/photos/sandb...

Enjoying the sakura by the sea in Steveston

#hanami #花見 micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/05/enjoying-the-...

Filed my archival requests for the Royal Geographical Society in London in a couple weeks 💪 Looking forward to seeing Younghusband’s journals and maps of the Pamirs, Kashgar, Ladakh, and Tibet! 🗺️

Read in 2026: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd 📚

Challenging. Moody. Fascinating. An admirable work of craft that inspires me to write!

Tree trunk with a bend where a bunch of moss has grown looking like a horse’s saddle

Saddle up my faerie cowboys! 🧚 🤠 ✨

#mosstodon #lichensubscribe

Paws on blossoms, Tanuki out for morning stroll

Went to Project Hail Mary with my daughters, and my buddy and his daughter. Great night out! Kids were entertained and on the way home said they “like science movies”. Giving them The Martian audiobook next. 🚀

Reflections on AtmosphereConf A reflection on AtmosphereConf, understanding this network as a subculture, joy, and what "We Can Just Do Things" actually means

My reflections on an amazing atmosphereconf

On how the atmosphere can be understood as a subculture, what the holdfast is, and what We Can Just Do Things means

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Great writing as always, but I am super glad you got to go to MoA and experience some of the west coast culture

State of the Atmosphere (CONF 2026) - Brookie’s Blog I should be cleaning the house right now but instead I'm writing about the ~Atmosphere~ again...It's been a full week since I first arrived in Vancouver, for...

did a little writing about Atmosphere Conf, hopefully ur not sick of reading about it yet 🙂‍↔️

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ATmosphereConf 2026 Amongst the blooming cherry blossoms and the busyness of students on reading break preparing for exams, the global AT Protocol community conference ATmosphereConf convened at the University of British...

Reporting from #ATmosphereConf

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My takeaway from Atmosphere: it needs to be WAY easier for builders to get paid

So I built at.fund

at.fund detects the tools you use, and tells you how to fund the builders who make those tools. And if you're a builder, it takes seconds to add records to that tell your users how to fund you 👍

Watched the Artemis II launch with my daughter live 🚀

I agree totally that “for now” a single org makes sense, just to get started. I am just saying there needs to be “make a new shape” right from the beginning. Otherwise you end up with CSSWG extending its 2 year time box… for 25 years.

Centralized Foundations are just too convenient.

If it starts with a single foundation it either needs to be time-limited or have a requirement to spin off other foundations: drive to polycentricity.

How do we slice it up, and in a way where the parts must work together and no one can filibuster?

Funding models are not binary. Beyond philanthopy and VC, there are other patterns including mission-locked, co-op, concessionary, community & oss.

Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!

our @makeworld.space will be organizing some ATProto meetups in toronto soon! Follow @atproto.to for more

Super happy I ran into you there! We gotta get together IRL in Vancouver some time.

Blossoming connections Hello there! 👋 Yesterday my wife and I took a walk to the local park to see the early blooming cherry blossoms. 🌸🌸🌸 The clouds of winter had retreated and...

End of month newsletter is out! A roundup of posts with some seasonal reflections on life changes and building community.

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雪の回廊 青森県八甲田山

corridor of snow
Hakkoda Aomori Japan

@bskyphotos.bsky.social
#photography

雪の回廊 青森県八甲田山

corridor of snow
Hakkoda Aomori Japan

@bskyphotos.bsky.social
#photography

八甲田山 青森県

Hakkoda Aomori Japan

@bskyphotos.bsky.social
#photography

Standard Site Working Group Meeting Notes 3/29/26

On March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec.

A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed.

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『おかあさんといっしょ』新“おどりのお姉さん”アンジェはどんな人? 現在は大学4年生 NHK Eテレの教育番組『おかあさんといっしょ』の取材会が18日、東京・渋谷の同局で行われ、3月30日の放送から新たに「おどりのお姉さん」を務めるアンジェが登場した。

My son is very happy to see the new presenter on Okasan to Issho is half Japanese-half English. He feels underrepresented and this is big for him. Thanks NHK. More of the same please. news.mynavi.jp/article/2026...

The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment A blog by Anuj Ahooja

I wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write.

Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.

🎂 We coulda had a pre-birthday party for you on the weekend! Congrats!

Chad selfie pointing to his conference shirt with the conf catchphrase "We can just do things"

Glenn Poppe closes his presentation with a slide saying: "We&10;can just do things TOGFTHER"

Jim Ray, Andra Rininsland, Tyler Fisher sit on a panel about how and why news orgs should build on atproto

Closing ceremony in the main hall showing Boris Mann addressing a large crowd with slides presenting the numbers for the conf: 350+ in person tickets, 557 remote, totally $47K in ticket sales which means that the community funded the conf at the same level as the top corporate sponsors

Back from ATmosphere Conf 2026: micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/03/31/back-from-atm...