Ryan Robinson / is on Nostr

He/him.

Work in #Tech including #Drupal #WebDev and #Microsoft365. Degree in #ComputerScience #CognitiveScience where I was (and still am) particularly interested in #Linguistics.

#Anabaptist (#Mennonite) #Christian with a large dose of #LiberationTheology. MDiv.

#Raptors fan #WeTheNorth, and #WNBA.

Movie and TV watcher.

#Narcoleptic.

#kwawesome #Kitchener #Waterloo

Last Notes

2024-07-21 22:35:42

After a long time on the to-do list I made some progress converting my tech blog from #Jekyll to #eleventy.
I got it to build and hosting within #GitHubPages. I'm still going to have to do a lot with the templating (never used #Nunjucks before but it looks a lot like Twig), stylesheets, converting all my old posts (markdown is all the same but some of the metadata needs to be different), clearing out the parts of the site I copied from that I don't need...
So, probably another year or two...

2024-07-04 18:28:20

I've seen a lot lately about Trump's plans to silence any expert who doesn't give him all the answers he wanted. Poilievre is already trying to do it in Canada, too. #CdnPoli
Bruce Arthur: ‘People should be afraid’: Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have been targeting experts. Is this just the beginning?
Experts whose research and opinions don't dovetail with the policies of Pierre Poilievre's Tories are becoming political targets, Bruce Arthur writes.

2023-08-22 11:43:54

There's some conversation on #Bluesky again about why they gave up on Mastodon (fediverse) and wow, it's another good reminder of how a minority being assholes here really blew their chance to make this a good digital home for many.
At this point I'm kind of thinking the best case scenario is that Threads makes ActivityPub the standard and some new software takes over Mastodon's spot as the default independent implementation, just to purge the negative association with "Mastodon."

2023-08-20 23:57:11

Interesting that the new Canadian Conservative campaign to Axe the Tax doesn't mention that it would presumably also axe the rebate that gives us more money in advance than the vast majority of us will pay into the tax. I guess "axe helping the planet and the people who live here while also making money" isn't as catchy. #CdnPoli

2023-08-14 16:30:59

Calling #Christian #church #Theology Mastodon: I'm likely preaching on communion/Eucharist/Lord's Supper for Worldwide Communion Day in October.
So an open question: what do you think communion is? I want a constructive answer (what it is), not a deconstructive answer (harmful understandings you reject).

2023-08-10 21:14:01

If you told me 10 years ago that Russell Moore would be ostracized by US evangelicalism as too "liberal," I would have been extremely confused.
He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis : NPR
Russell Moore criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside.