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Barnaby Walters

Arranging atoms and pressurising air in a variety of manners, such as:

Pronouns: they/he

  1. Sighted a majestic sky whale hovering low over the mountains to the south-east of Reykjavik this morning.

    Any assertion that it was in fact some ski slopes lit up in the dark will be met with insistent mutterings about celestial cetaceans.

  2. Finished off a tiring 15000 step day with my best Spanish-style hot chocolate yet: milk, cornstarch, vanilla, dark chocolate, cinnamon, himalayan salt, a little licorice, masala curry powder and crumbled walnuts. mmmmmmmm.

  3. Favourite quote from Shaping Things by @bruces so far:

    “What is a “brand”? It’s a mark seared into the surface of something. Is that the best you can do in the way of establishing a relationship between us?”

  4. In reply to a post on twitter.com

    @LapTop006 @kevinmarks somehow I doubt that’s going to end well, e.g. “I just had a great idea for a thing!”

    “Check out this thing I just bought!”

    “There’s a thing on my wrist!”

    “I’m wearing a thing!”

    “I need a raspberry pi and some sensors so I can make a thing!”

    It’s hardly a specific term which enables efficient, productive communication :)

  6. What are internet of things devices called?

    Each computer hardware form factor has gone through several names before one started to obviously dominate. Palmtop, PDA, handheld computer, smartphone, notebook, laptop, clamshell, netbook, portable computer, tablet, slate, touchpad computer, “phablet”.

    What should the new class of devices being created under the “internet of things” banner be referred to as?

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  10. Acquired today: one pizza stone and a paddle! Hopefully this will push my pizza quality to the next level now that I have a decent dough technique.

  11. “Kickstarter’s terms won’t let us run our campaign, so we’re running a kickstarter to raise money to build our own crowdfunding platform”

  13. Quite disgusted by the sales copy on sen.se/store/mother — an interesting idea creepily presented. What’s the physical metaphor for the “mother” itself? Or does it end up being just a weird looking ornament, awkwardly placed within ethernet-cable distance of the home router?

  17. now sports a composite homepage feed, meaning it’s not just notes which show up on the homepage, but also articles and music!

    Next up: breaking out various post types which I’ve been overloading notes to create, e.g. checkins, audio, photo, into their own things, remove the ability to create “named notes” (that was a stupid, yet well styled, idea) and figure out what to do with all the old notes which should actually be in other categories. Auto-detecting which templates to use for them should be easy enough, but I doubt I’ll be able to move them all into their new homes.

    All that old content will have to stay as notes for the purpose of URLs and querying, but in at least some cases can be styled better. Overall I’m comfortable with this, as it leaves history (and, more importantly, URLs) untouched without compromising the reading experience too much.

  19. Playing around with plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 on the . It seems that old Apple keyboard+mouse are not supported even via a USB hub, but Dell USB keyboard and mouse are even without kbargs=-b in the config file.

    I’ve also had no success just formatting the SD card and dragging the image on, whereas unmounting it, then using dd to transfer the image works perfectly.

    It’s rather an intriguing operating system which I think will reward further study. Next steps:

    • Get a working kbd+mouse so I can play with it at home
    • Get it connected to a network
    • Connect it to a mac via drawterm and try using it as a visual terminal and mounting the filesystems on each other
    • Installing it on multiple Pis and connecting them together, to share processing power or memory or something

  20. ↪ Jack Way: So to upload a profile pic I had to use gravatar which meant I had to choose a unique wordpress blog url. To whom does this make sense?

    @Jack_Way such nonsense is why my github profile photo stubbornly remains geometric shapes. I already gave them my URL, just get the favicon or parse the h-card photo out instead of using SPOF silo.