DuckDuckGo’s r.duckduckgo.com redirects are intermittently giving Connection Reset errors — just one of the reasons why it’s better that they don’t exist. Let each link link to the thing it says it links to.
DuckDuckGo’s r.duckduckgo.com redirects are intermittently giving Connection Reset errors — just one of the reasons why it’s better that they don’t exist. Let each link link to the thing it says it links to.
Learnt about the Txalaparta from @begoesti — a rather wonderful Basque percussion instrument.
For someone who doesn’t own a TV, I am unduly excited about next weekend. SO MUCH HYPE.
Heading over to Sumendi, hoping that I do actually have a reservation. Everything looks delicious!
Looking to join/start a casual recorder consort in Reykjavík — anyone know of one, or people who might be interested in joining? Preferably with a focus on early music, not vital though.
.Brian Suda PUN THIEF
@wordridden ever tried making moffles (mochi dough waffles)? Apparently they’re rather delicious
Had many basic software development lessons hammered in by personal experience over the last couple of years: hierarchy bad. side effects bad. many moving parts bad. undue complexity bad. inconsistency bad. SQL databases fragile. always be reducing.
It’s amazing just how seductive complex, unproductive tools can be. Successfully overcome+abandoned:
PHP remains productive and speedy (with composer, delightful dependency management), python nice with some irritations. jQuery useful when absolutely necessary, plain #js with small libraries loaded via requirejs handle most progressive enhancement concisely. node.js nice for some things, preferring go’s approach to async programming but still not much everyday need for it.
Avoiding middlemen: LESS, SASS, Coffeescript. Unnecessary for most of my work, and more moving parts is bad.
Now bothering me is the frameworky nonsense accumulating in #taproot. Need to cleanse.
#indieweb goal: by 2014-01-01, no longer be using twitter.com to read+reply to my friends’ content.
It’s already possible to use web action toolbelt to add indieweb reply/bookmark buttons to twitter.com and weave to expand POSSEd copies into full posts, but I think that’s as far as the “progressively enhance the twitter UI for indieweb support” train goes. Remaining pain points:
Pieces in place allowing a seamless transition from using twitter.com:
Pain points still to be resolved:
Cut a process which was taking 20 mins down to 40 seconds — moral of the story is: building systems which allow you to see the system work in real-time and get an intuitive sense for how long things take is more effective than poring over SQL logs trying to figure out what on earth’s going on in retrospect.
Popped into the Reykjavík craft fair, learnt a useful trick from ingasoldesign.com — coconut oil (same as the stuff you’d use for cooking) can be used as an easy-maintenance, odourless wood finish.
@pfefferle so my question is: is there a specific name for words like this?
.@pfefferle words like the ones listed here: rebecca2904.hubpages.com/hub/german-words-that-dont-exist-in-english — words for really specific feelings or ideas which would take a phrase, metaphor, meme or story to express in English
#german speakers: is there a German word for German words for concepts for which there isn’t an equivalent in English/x other language? (bonus points if that word describes itself)
Had a go at making Dosas (cc @roopagulati) — simple potato+cumin filling, used hjartasalt (hartshorn powder) in batter instead of baking soda. First one was pretty good, second one a bit too wet.
Is the filling supposed to be easily spreadable? Mine may have been way too thick. #cooking #dosas #food
@w03_ recursive functions are fun. Once you’ve figured them, closures and first-class functions out you’re pretty much there :)
@julien51 indeed, I have plans for a caching system using superfeedr, as I’ve quickly found that keeping the feedback loops as tiny as possible is vital for productive piping! What’s your preferred communication method? I hear jitsi does pretty good encrypted voice/video calls these days…
Pushed php-mf2 v0.2.3 — the most spec-compliant yet! Loads of bugs fixed in this version, including one very overdue one from a year ago. Down to one open issue, and I’m pretty sure that’s fixed too.
EEEEVIL:
“Council can now steal instruments from #buskers. civil disobedience campaign begins” [1] — @indyrikki via Jovian Salak
As reported by: Ham&High News Change org
Threatening to fine someone £1000 is bad enough, but for musicians, confiscating instruments is much more than theft — an instrument is an extremely personal extension of your body.
Of course, no-one wants excessive noise pollution, but charging buskers a yearly fee and holding legal threats above them is going to achieve the exact opposite goal, by putting acoustically playing children and amateurs off, leaving more room for the serious buskers - the ones who can make troublesome noises with all their amps and equipment.
As a long-time busker in the UK I’ve always found the police to be supportive and helpful (once memorably dragging a drunkard off me at Christmas late night shopping). Hopefully the police in Camden are equally reasonable and won’t strut around intimidating children.
How to watch a film, Háskolábíó style:
Tjarnabíó is like this too. Not that it isn’t well-priced or enjoyable, but… there are some optimisations which could be made here.