Barnaby Walters

As always, the classes are available on Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/activitystreams/activitystreams #php

17:35 12^th October 2012 (updated)
I’m making a set of PHP5 classes to represent activitystrea.ms data in applications: https://github.com/barnabywalters/php-activitystreams #indieweb

16:58 12^th October 2012 (updated)
This morning I am brutally murdering approximately 80 ice cream sticks for #lutherie purposes.

07:46 12^th October 2012 (updated)
“Nothing gets bugs fixed faster than when the developers themselves are constantly hitting them!” Scripted, a JavaScript Editor

#dogfooding

21:46 11^th October 2012 (updated)
If you’re a PHP dev and you haven’t heard of Composer yet, IMO you’re doing it wrong!

15:35 11^th October 2012 (updated)
Composer is a great tool. I finally replaced a load of my hacked-together libraries with proper Symfony and Zend ones.

15:27 11^th October 2012 (updated)
↪ Visual Idiot: The new eBay: because box shadows aren't any good unless they're solid black. http://t.co/v6h6xoZo

.@idiot also, “each item is instantly shoppable”

12:10 11^th October 2012 (updated)
Marvellous escapist stickers blend in with visual clutter on the tube: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19858746

11:30 11^th October 2012 (updated)
↪ Drew McLellan: @BarnabyWalters One eyebrow or two?

Drew McLellan alternate so as to count from 0 to 3 in binary. Your dominant eye is the MSB

09:29 11^th October 2012 (updated)
↪ Drew McLellan: How do you pronounce Knuth, as in Donald E Knuth? I’m, err, asking for a friend.

Drew McLellan ken-oo-tuth, with compulsory eyebrow raising on the “oo”

09:25 11^th October 2012 (updated)
↪ Tom Morris: Someone's responded to my blog post in Russian. http://t.co/JnREAZWR Google Translate isn't really helping me understand it. ;-)

Tom Morris I especially like the translation of “prick” to “woodpecker” ;)

07:25 11^th October 2012 (updated)
Having a great time discussing design and UX with my awesome photographer friend

17:17 10^th October 2012 (updated)
I quite like this anti-badger cull poster (via fb):

09:55 10^th October 2012 (updated)
↪ Tom Morris: Details on how to become a balloon pilot in the UK. Why? Because (a) it'd be cool and (b) taking aerial photographs. http://t.co/ddCON05h

@tommorris that would be cool, but I’ll stick to adding POIs for the moment and build up to piloting a balloon :)

22:11 9^th October 2012 (updated)
“If you can't tell what's important to the user, better to avoid confusing/distracting them with things that are not” Tantek Çelik

18:54 9^th October 2012 (updated)
↪ Aral Balkan: You know what runs on any screen, every device? An API. The future isn’t cross-platform UIs, it’s continuous client experiences.

Aral Balkan and as usual, the future is the past, with extra bits on — a return to true REST and no more http abuse

16:26 9^th October 2012 (updated)
I really regret not having used version control over the entire lifetime of my site, I’d love to make a time lapse /cc Jeremy Keith

13:53 9^th October 2012 (updated)
…and with a mere ~160 lines of code changed (including very little markup), I am much, much happier with the overall aesthetic.

13:51 9^th October 2012 (updated)
Decided I’m sick of my current site design, but that with a few very small changes I can make it look a whole lot better. Woo design iteration!

10:54 9^th October 2012 (updated)
Just uploaded a demo of my Vio Hurdy Gurdy’s pickups: https://soundcloud.com/barnabywalters/vio-hurdy-gurdy-bouree-aurore-sand

09:06 9^th October 2012 (updated)