Reanimating a Little Printer project
I’ve made a little app which generates an image for you to display or print how many people there are in space right now. The code is here.This is based on work that the excellent design and technology...
View ArticleRSS for fun and the public good
I follow Steve Messer’s blog – he’s a product manager in the UK Civil Service, making land and housing data easier to find, use and trust. And he writes weeknotes which I enjoy reading.He mentioned...
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I open a lot of tabs. A lot. Maybe as many as you.Every now and then I have to plough through them and close down stuff I’ve either dealt with, bookmarked, or just forgotten why I opened it in the...
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“This paper lays out a unified framework of the ergodic animage, the rule-based and interaction driven part of visual representation in video games”I do sometimes wonder if other people browse the web...
View ArticleBooks of February 2024
As predicted it was impossible to maintain the rate of January, obviously this is a system which I can game if I just read novellas!Ella Minnow Pea– a fictional story of authoritarianism implemented...
View ArticleWordPress is gone, static site blogging with Zola is here
The move is finally done and sometime last week I switched my blog over to a statically-generated site powered by Zola. This is the first post I’ve written directly into Zola.In a month’s time I’ll...
View ArticleFinding out how to write
Posting to a statically-generated site is theoretically easy - it's just a file on your desktop after all.But whilst the words are easy, it's also easy to mess up the metadata, and wouldn't it be nicer...
View ArticleHilarious blog editing malarky
So after titling the last post "Finding out how to write", it turns out I broke just about every single link in it by writing in one tool, pasting into another, not checking it had pasted in OK and...
View ArticleVery weaknotes
This week I had to chase a badger out of the garden because it was trying to break into my food waste bin, and break up a fight between some robins and goldfinches.Spring on the edge of the city is...
View ArticleWebmentions and a splash of colour
What did I get done this week? What am I doing next week? Is there anything where I'd like some support to help me move forward?Well, the confidence to drill into walls and doors without making a...
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