Barnaby Walters

#headcanon: bitcoin is simply a random number generator. In every other alternate reality, it went wrong and was de-bunked almost immediately, but we’re in the one where the random numbers always match our expectations, providing the illusion of causality.

21:06 29^th August 2014 (updated)
“It’s hard to know what to call people… …these terms worked well for users whose mental models fitted the language we were using, they were not well understood by everyone.”

Interesting audience-based navigation research by @gdsteam insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/18/hey-you-there-the-trouble-with-audience-based-navigation reflects similar recent experiences with @indiewebcampUK guest list audience segmentation.

10:53 29^th August 2014 (updated)
Packing in preparation for moving next week. Any aliens watching would be forgiven for assuming I’m a monk following some cable-worshipping religion.

17:39 27^th August 2014 (updated)
↪ __builtin‮part_ ‭: @kevinmarks "every social network will eventually contain a slow, informally specified, bug-ridden implementation of LJ friend permissions"

@0x0acebabe @kevinmarks is said permissions model specified/documented anywhere? UI screenshots?

14:04 27^th August 2014 (updated)
↪ ind.ie: @BarnabyWalters The videos should be working in Firefox (will test on nightly). If not, it’s a bug. Somewhat limited by Vimeo in formats.

@indie not working in FF 31 or Nightly 34.0a1 OS X 10.9.4 due to patent-encumbered encoding, screenshots:

See notes on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats#Browser_compatibility for more details

Vimeo actively blames users for using free software, do not recommend.

11:00 27^th August 2014 (updated)
xkcd.com/1412 TMNT Wikipedia song fits Finnish runo-song metre perfectly, could be sung to any runo-song tune. Vice versa also applies, runo-song epics could be sung to the TMNT theme tune

08:52 27^th August 2014 (updated)
↪ Anna Debenham: Interesting idea by Facebook to prioritise engaging content over clickbait. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28934479

@anna_debenham hrm, an interesting idea, I wonder how they plan on measuring how long people read for though?

10:31 26^th August 2014 (updated) — 1
↪ Emil Björklund: Just realized that you can hide elements in CSS by putting them *behind* the viewer. http://bukk.it/mindblown2.gif

@thatemil what, by making it so large that the elements come out of the screen and go behind the user? Can that be animated?

10:10 26^th August 2014 (updated) — 1
tradition.is was thoroughly enjoyable and filled with excellent music+dancing — met new friends, learned new tunes+dances+singing styles and generally had a good time. Longer blog post upcoming, for now here’s my post-festival #tabdump:
Not all necessarily related to the festival, but learned about in the duration. Amusingly, last.fm/music/BLM has a big photo of the BLM which performed at tradition.is, but is about someone completely different!
21:36 25^th August 2014 (updated)
↪ ind.ie: (And we are continuing to edit the videos and working on the player code so do let us know if you notice any issues.)

@indie thanks for posting the transcripts! Any plans to serve the videos in a free encoding as per https://www.fsf.org/licensing/h264-patent-license, http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm? Current encoding cannot be played by Firefox Nightly.

18:24 25^th August 2014 (updated) — 1
↪ : Tuning up my Little Piece of the Indieweb

@schussman great work getting webmention comments set up on your site, and thanks for the kind words about my microformats2 blog post — good to know it was helpful :)

20:51 24^th August 2014 (updated) — 1
The Finnish Karelian coat of arms looks like an Adventure Time character:

The Russian one is a fire-breathing bear with knuckledusters (pawdusters? clawdusters?), which might also make a good Adventure Time character:

20:18 24^th August 2014 (updated) — 1
Checked into Háskóli Akureyri for tradition.is workshop day two

09:58 22^nd August 2014 (updated)
↪ Erin Jo Richey: What are your favorite tools, readers, or apps for consuming feeds (RSS or otherwise)?

@erinjo the one I’m writing this reply in :) indiewebcamp.com/Shrewdness

09:43 20^th August 2014 (updated) — 3
↪ Aaron Parecki: @barnabywalters now this I would like to see!! I was thinking about building a soundcloud-like player as well actually. Even found some libraries to do the mp3 -> png waveform thumbnail generation! #music

@aaronpk oooh really? Which libraries? I looked a while ago and couldn’t find any, though it looks like it can be done with the new Web Audio APIs…

20:57 19^th August 2014 (updated) — 2
↪ Lewis Cowper: @graphiclunarkid It looks like you’re stumbling toward the #indieweb and what they call POSSE - http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE

@lewiscowper @graphiclunarkid yep, that sounds a lot like POSSE! Check out indiewebcamp.com/WordPress, there are some tools listed there you might find useful, and indiewebcamp.com/IRC for any questions :)

16:29 19^th August 2014 (updated)
↪ Brian Suda: left comments open on post about usernames of children of the digital age. http://optional.is/required/2014/08/12/second-generation-usernames/ 1 comment and no spam. It won't last.

@briansuda enable webmention comments + bridgy for twitter comments! Barely any spam that way (yet, and we’re working on future spam prevention tools) indiewebcamp.com/WordPress

22:54 18^th August 2014 (updated)
Ugh, all the papers I can find about potato heat penetration are behind paywalls. Apparently I’ll have to research it myself #freePotatoKnowledge #openPotatoScience

19:30 18^th August 2014 (updated)
Is there a list somewhere of all the #ferguson announcements/statements made by officials e.g. local government, police, state+higher level government?

18:40 18^th August 2014 (updated)
The new papaparse.com is one of the best open source library websites I’ve ever seen. Going to be referring to this pattern in the future.

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