Barnaby Walters

Apparently, making sure a directory exists is an exceedingly complicated task: stackoverflow.com/questions/273192/create-directory-if-it-doesnt-exist-for-file-write

Idea for focus-maintaining anti-rabbit-warren UI: “current task” bar, simple user-editable text field present on all screens, subdued but not inconspicuous, persistent reminder of current short-term goal.

Should be somewhere out of the way but accessible at a glance, i.e. only eye movement required to see what it is. Key combo to instantly clear and focus for editing.

Moderately productive Sunday — set up bitcoin, dogecoin (mined 9 DOGE!), tor and GPG, made best pizza so far and repaired headphones.

Cryptocurrency prediction: the easiest one to use will succeed. Currently it seems to be dogecoin.

It’s not often I come across a cringeworthy wikipedia article, but Educational Technology is particularly bad

Achievement Unlocked: sleep cycle disrupted without crossing any timezones. Back in Iceland again.

Reflecting on 2013 with my #family. Biggest things personally have been making my second #gurdy, moving to Iceland and meeting+working with all the great people over here. Lots of #indieweb and #taproot progress, including a great indiewebcamp in September.

Looking forward to 2014: more cooking, more indieweb progress, seeing more of Iceland, going to some gurdy festivals, improving hardware hacking abilities, connecting my gurdy and other devices to the web and each other.

I gave my brother my old MacBook this Christmas, first thing he did was get Final Cut Pro and start making things:

http://youtu.be/ETJnozPlIMc

OH “rocket is the tastiest green thing ever invented. It really shouldn’t be that tasty” — @jwentomologist

It had to be done #doge #iceland:

Anyone know of an iPhoto-like application which progressively enhances the filesystem instead of lumping photos into an application-specific blob of magic?

Made some @_aitor style hot chocolate with biscotti: