Notes

I was writing my site’s styleguide, looked up something I needed and seconds later was reading this H… how? #truestory

Four Ukranian students create gloves which translate sign language into printed words: http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/enable-talk-gloves/ #bookmark

I just released a whole load of my lutherie notes and resources onto the web for all to see. In a profession where free knowledge sharing is by no means the norm, this is a fairly big deal.

Needless to say, I will be building on this heavily, adding more content and refining what I have as I learn more.

Doing a mass find-and-replace operation on the Perch Blog app so I can have more than one running at the same time. If you want to do something similar, here are the strings you need to replace:

• blog ⇒ yourName
• Blog ⇒ YourName
• perch_blog ⇒ yourPrefix_yourName
• PerchBlog ⇒ YourName

And then obviously rename the .class.php files and activate as you would any other app.

Yay! New ScribbleMovie update with some of the icons I put together!

Amazing birthday presents including A Million Random Digits from jwentomologist and my mum!

beaulebens my personal inclination would be Silex with Assetic (managed by Composer), and Angular or Backbone on the frontend :)

It must be amazing to be a squirrel and really be able to experience the world in three dimensions. We only really get 2 and a half.

Mobile+Responsive design side effect: People are talking about and thinking in Resources instead of Representations.

Further reading:

• Wikipedia’s Resource article
• What do HTTP URIs Identify? by Tim Berners-Lee

@laurakalbag aral there’s a lot to be said for good ‘ol HTTP terminology, even when talking about CMSes and content strategy :)

Earlier, aral wittily quipped:

The CMS I use for my personal sites is called a file system. You might have heard of it. #indieweb

I disagree with this premise. Useful and easy as filesystems are, without a wrapper like Jekyll they don’t manage content (resources), they manage representations (typically HTML).

Back in Devon after a great fake-birthday weekend in London. Ate far too much cake, and watched more Captain Scarlet than probably healthy.

joviansalak my birthday! And to see some relatives, and buy supplies for Iceland. And ice cream :)

Walking onto the quiet carriage, I notice a man lying under several of the seats. Not quite sure what to think.

Off to London!

Twelve Blog Post Writing Tips From 2012: http://tantek.com/2013/001/b1/twelve-blog-post-writing-tips #bookmark

laurakalbag you mean you spend time doing… reverse spam filtering?! Doesn’t that negate the usefulness of spam filters completely? Personally I am inclined against leaving comments on other sites anyway, it may keep conversations in the same place but it fragments my identity. Hence developing Own Your Comments

I made a little #indieweb icon set based around a simple house metaphor: https://github.com/barnabywalters/indieweb-icons

I updated my Web Actions spec/document with better terminology and examples: http://waterpigs.co.uk/articles/web-actions/

JovianSalak personally, I think Mr. Gove deserves to be singled out… :-/