Notes

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence has made me realise I have almost no memory of the thought patterns I used/how I thought earlier in my life.

Oh for goodness sake Yahoo Groups, Unicode isn’t that difficult. No wonder everyone uses google for mailing lists (apart, apparently, from South Brent #freecycle :/)

It seems my brother is not overly impressed with my heartfelt rendition of “Half Caste”.

What is it called when you subconsciously expect a UI to be somewhere it isn’t, e.g. double-tapping a word in a dead tree book to get a definition, or expecting a "like/favourite" button in, e.g, an email client?

And no jokes about obsession :) it can't just be me.

Shane Becker yeah, where are all these #ruby apps consuming µf2?! My fairly complete #php µf2 parser has had 55 installs so far, probably mainly me updating it :)

Feed the Demon by Robin Andrews #bookmark #capitalism #poem /cc joviansalak

Tags and categories have different connotations. To me, tags are community, collaboration, flexibility, fuzziness, visibile metadata. Categories are authority, rigidity, structure, taxonomy. Tags can be found inside content (#hashtags), categories are separate, controlling entities. Content owns tags. People own tags. Categories own content. Authority owns categories.

Beware of vague naming — some software mistakes one for the other (e.g. Mediawiki categories are in fact many-to-many).

The organisational technique used doesn’t only have technical and usability implications, but social and philosophical (or pseudo-philosophical?) ones.

.Erin Richey my reasoning is that tags are something you add to content, whereas categories are something you put content into. Tags -> content -> categories — so categories are higher up in the pecking order.

Erin Richey well, that’s the sane, eloquent, rational way of putting it :)

Tags enrich your content, categories demean it.

Spent a productive morning at the workshop making #gurdy keys (these keyboards are much bulkier than my previous one and should be more substantial and satisfying to play as a result), then toddled off to Dartington to be a stage hand for Devon Baroque w/ Robin Andrews. Now working on #taproot music module, might have a go with Glenn Jones’ microformatshiv.com later.

.Evan Prodromou “10 reasons reptiles should grow feathers”

@evanpro these are sounding a little like @wikihowTXT’s tweets

I got tired of WPSM looking and working the way it does (I wrote it when I was 13 and learning PHP), so I’ve taken the data and started building the #taproot Music module. Live here. Major #WIP but already looking and working better than the old one!

The #buzz gig went alright, considering we had major bagpipe tuning problems (chanter stuck a quarter-tone between F# and G). Thanks to everyone who came!

Now I’ve played Bach in front of a paying audience I feel like a real musician. Couldn’t have done it without Robin Andrews though :)

Setting up for the #buzz concert at 11:00 http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/p/s2

fraying just #listening to the first episode of fertile medium and really enjoying it!

Question: what is the context if you reply to something someone’s said on your own site, as a self–hosted reply (e.g. this one of mine, cross-posted here)?

In an #indieweb environment where everyone hosts their own comments, what happens to the their turf/own turf thing? Or is it more of a question of how the user agent in use displays interlinking content (and what blocking tools it offers)?

I wonder how common it is for HTTP APIs actually support PUT to a collection to replace it? Combined with the Robustness Principle it seems like a powerful tool for data migration #ownYourData #indieweb

Wow, exporting my DB of tunes (for migration into the shiny new system) as #YAML almost results in valid #ABC!

-
  TUNE_ID: 1
  T: Bourree De Brand
  M: 2/4
  L: 1/8
  C: Trad. French
  N: Bourree from France
  K: G
  ABC: |-
    d>B GB|c3g|f>d ef|ga bg|d>B GB|c3g|f>d ef|g4:|
    |:c2e2|g=fd2|e=fe2|ded2|cB AG|c2e2|g=fd2|e=f/2e/2 dB|c4:|
  words: 
  genre: folk