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Chad Kohalyk
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Generous with Likes ❤️ 📸 🖊️ 📿 🙏 He/him 日本語 🙆‍♂️ THFC.

https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/

#japan #photography #buddhism #books #PublicInterestTechnologist

Also @protocolsforpublishers.com & @dwebyvr.org

PfP @kawaiirailroads.millie-may.net‬
A few more photos from the forest

🚪🍁🐝🍄‍🟫
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Talking a walk in the forest listening to a Dhamma talk contemplating wisdom, surrounded by many handfuls of leaves. ☸️
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Currently reading: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson 📚

Here’s to the next thousand pages …
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Last night we gathered community builders to ideate on how we can rebuild Vancouver’s once-thriving meetup scene. 🥳 What resources can we pool for the betterment of the ecosystem? 🤔 It was a total blast and we are collating our findings and planning Stage 2. 📈 If you’re an organizer, REACH OUT 🤝
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"There's a there there." #ietf124

Lots of enthusiasm and positivity (and advice from experienced folks) for forming an #atproto WG at @ietf.org

We had 130 people on the stream and a very active chat.

Great job @bnewbold.net and @dholms.xyz and everyone else.

Thank you all for showing up! 👏
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@iame.li and @ngerakines.me at the mic in-person at #ietf124
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We are here in the @ietf.org BOF meeting for #atprotocol

Lots of friends from the community here to show support ✊
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Dosa time
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Daddy daughter time at the #archery
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Started The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social 📚

GenAI shows us what we already are. A mirror can be useful, showing us what we cannot normally see, but it can occlude and distort.

Also re-reading her Technology and the Virtues which I used teaching Digital Ethics at UBC
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Photos from around my city today
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I done moooooved! Hat tip @baileytownsend.dev for your service! 🤠

I am now posting to you via a tiny computer at @z-space.ca

(thanks to @bmann.ca and @hyl.st for getting everything set up to make this such a smooth migration)
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Currently reading: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

Started the Andy Serkis narrated version. Already 10% in but is it only Ch2! There have already been about 8 prologues and prefaces and various philological treatises. I just wanted to get to the bloomin’ party! 🍖🎇
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social

Found a new one at Birken Forest Monastery near Kamloops BC, photo taken during my last retreat (see more photos micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/09/27/b...)

神仏習合 but with Theravada? 🤯

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October 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Going through some old photos. Here’s the Lions Gate Bridge in 1959

#vancouver #history
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Vancouver’s “Powerbroker” — a sort of review of “Becoming Vancouver”: https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/10/19/vancouvers-powerbroker-a-sort-of.html

Who is the Robert Moses of Vancouver? #vancouver #longread
October 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Went for a walk in the forest with one of my oldest friends and his dog. Very content. 📸
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
These leaves are sooooo red! 🍁🇨🇦📸

These and a few more fall photos uploaded to www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Good morning.

Looking out the window.

Contemplating impermanence.
October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Started listening to The Hobbit as narrated by Andy Serkis 📚

After one chapter it is delightful.

I am going to do a reread of the main four books and then expand into the full Tolkienverse over the next few years.
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Finished Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis 📚

Really useful book. 👍 Will write a bit of commentary later this week.
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Finished A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie 📚

The last 20% of the book was basically setup for the next book. That said, he sure packed in a lot in those two closing chapters.

5th Abercrombie I have read this year. Sheesh! can I hold off for the last two of the series!?
October 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The #polyglotunconf afterparty was held at the False Creek Yacht Club. The organizers did a great job at making the weather nice 😎 Had a good time connecting with some very interesting folks. This is a great conf for bringing together people from many different walks of computing life.
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM