Barnaby Walters

@hotdogsladies + brother conversation continues: “He does it all the time and it drives me crazy” => “I think he’s crazy already”

Listening to @hotdogsladies workflow: “An office is a place you work”. Response from 13 year old brother: “This guy is clever”

More tags+@openphoto API fun: My instrument catalogue now pulls in tagged photos on most pages: http://waterpigs.co.uk/lutherie/

Toggle commentedness in CSS with just the first /*:

/* css.code:to { be: toggled; } /**/

My mum just described the iChat connection noise as “R2-D2 asking for help”.

Playing my Gurdy and the 1920s Winsor banjo I’ve just repaired is humming along.

How the **** does a blank square communicate the ability to upload a file?! I’m looking at you, FB:

Doing some wxPython programming. “Menu” is one of those words that, when you look at it properly, looks really weird :s

Warning: Just received Paypal-imitating phishing emails that look marginally more credible than usual. Please warn vulnerable relatives.

I can’t build an #indieweb backfeed system that uses Facebook because I’m under 18. That is protecting my privacy? Crap.

I love living in a household where, triggered by me whistling a bar of a tune from Riverdance, half the family picks it up and it echoes through the house

11.5ms is optimum remote musical collaboration latency! Or so Stanford tell us: http://opensoundcontrol.org/files/gurevich-latency.pdf

Pyo tip: Turn down the master volume if you’re getting nasty scratches + pops in your recordings

Achievement Unlocked: First Solo Drive

My dad has made many great contributions to my upbringing, not least in bringing home a dead mole, which exploded.

I used to think that us Brits, collectively, were a bit rubbish at making trad folk songs new

Then I found out about Solarference.

Wow.

The real reason I consider passing my driving test to be more important than my GCSEs:

It’s not the amount of work/money that’s gone into it. It’s not the fact that being able to drive is liberating. It’s not even the fact that it will help my business

Firing up InDesign for the first time in a while. I’m torn between loving it and feeling I’m betraying all the best parts of the web by using it :(

Wooooo!

I passed my driving test!