dave kellam

In this month's vlog: return from Toronto, getting banh mi from Banh Mi Banh Yiu, making dumpling noodles, rainy days and bagels from St. Viateur, a visit to the Brockville waterfront with a train tunnel & turtles, Jean Talon Market and a cinnamon bun from Daddy Roll.

Vlog – June 2026 https://youtu.be/zY5hFk2jo8E Been enjoying silent vlogs on YouTube. Here's my first attempt for the month of June 2026. https://davekellam.com/videos/vlog-june-2026/

Have run into this on sites before, also with things like social media links.

There's a lot that has changed since WordPress 6.1, so your query optimizations are long overdue: remkusdevries.com/modern-word...

Attending Decoupled Days 2026 in Montreal. My friend Carl is giving a talk later about neurodiversity in tech, excited for it 🥳 @decoupleddays.com

Coffee this week – Sunday Morning This week’s coffee is Sunday Morning from Ambros Coffee Co https://davekellam.com/2026/07/coffee-this-week-sunday-morning/

A quick breakdown of Atmosphere identity and some of the apps you can use on the network.

I saw this and loved the casual chaotic weekday energy. Then I remembered world cup and time zones

This looks like a really cool initiative. Atmosphere seems like a perfect place for storing public community data

Coffee this week – Santa Rosa This week’s coffee is Santa Rosa from Ambros Coffee Co https://davekellam.com/2026/07/coffee-this-week-santa-rosa/

Quick kimchi fried rice (short) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/alDlD68ATE0 This is a good way to use up some old rice. It's fairly quick, works as a meal on its own, or doubles as a side depending on protein.... https://davekellam.com/videos/quick-kimchi-fried-rice-short/

Don’t Mess Up Prod I created a simple WordPress plugin called Don't Mess Up Prod, which adds a little environment indicator to your admin bar. If you flip around between multiple environments (local, dev,... https://davekellam.com/2026/07/dont-mess-up-prod/

Quick Japanese Curry (short) https://youtube.com/shorts/-ZvLFGWaEAk Making a quick Japanese style curry. I'm leaving out the protein, so I can use it for a few different meals during the week. I had some leftover chicken... https://davekellam.com/videos/quick-japanese-curry-short/

Smoked meat breakfast poutine seemed appropriate for St Jean

Coffee this week – Brazil Mogiana Reviving an old blog feature. My coffee this week is Brazil Mogiana from Happy Goat, for pour over. https://davekellam.com/2026/06/coffee-this-week-brazil-mogiana/

Quick Cucumber Salad (short) https://youtube.com/shorts/nHZZncAJoIA Quick and easy asian-style cucumber salad. It should take about 5 minutes to make and half an hour in the fridge. Just need cucumbers, salt, vinegar, sesame oil and... https://davekellam.com/videos/quick-cucumber-salad-short/

Making bulgogi and ssamjang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnui3mHgM6Y Decided to make some bulgogi, and then some ssamjang while the beef was marinating https://davekellam.com/videos/making-bulgogi-and-ssamjang/

Whoa. support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is...

This apple fritter from Bernie Beigne is sort of ridiculous. Saw it sitting on a cooling rack behind the cash and was just like yeah, I need you.

Alright, I'm excited about this one. Have been playing around with some site integrations that never entirely worked for me. The @standard.site support, lexicon and backfill are all pretty cool 🥳

The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later. www.pewresearch.org/...

Cardinal https://sprk.so/post/did:plc:bdyhh6wpngqlkzsd2ra7urk4/3mlsyteci7s23

Making puff pastry cinnamon rolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qu38WO_0p8 Attempting to make little cinnamon rolls with puff pastry. They turned out alright, but not entirely what I was expected. Was my first time working... https://davekellam.com/videos/making-puff-pastry-cinnamon-rolls/

From the archives: Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you. piccalil.li/blog/the-ope...

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Aeronaut I've been enjoying using Aeronaut, a Bluesky app for mac that feels quite native. Still tend to use the site in browser, but it's a nice dedicated option to have. https://davekellam.com/2026/02/aeronaut/

Love this, reminds me of Carrot weather

Here’s The Architect’s Newspaper with a withering review of Joe Gebbia’s “National Design Studio”, and what it really stands for: www.archpaper.com/2025/12/nati... As design critiques go, this is one of the best ones I’ve read in some time.

New cartoon: Why was the web developer afraid of accordions? comicss.art/comics/231/ #css #html #cartoon #joke

There Is No Antimemetics Division audiobook I just finished up listening to the audiobook version of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Can safely say that I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend. That... https://davekellam.com/2026/01/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-audiobook/

Hey @bell.bz, here's a little script to extract all the urls from your RSS post and generate an ompl file from it. Should also just generate a list of users/links in the terminal github.com/davekellam/g...

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign