Barnaby Walters

Spent the afternoon updating lightblue to build on Mac OS 10.9, successfully managed to discover+communicate with a bunch of devices around the office! Next up: serving HTTP over Bluetooth.

17:35 20^th March 2014 (updated) — 1
@jordandykstra explaining about the walrus before last night’s horizontal viola set:

10:57 20^th March 2014 (updated) — 1 1
blewharp.com finishing off her cracking harp set with a “wild woman table song” last night:

10:55 20^th March 2014 (updated)
↪ Ben Werdmuller: We want a drone-powered personal cloud that follows us around!

@benwerd cover a nodecopter in cotton wool and you’re half way there. Related: sounds like the sort of thing that @eschnou’s working on gofleye.com

00:15 19^th March 2014 (updated)
Made pasta+chicken+tahini+peanut+cucumber+chili thing based loosely on seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/02/cold-sesame-noodle-salad-shredded-chicken-easy-recipe.html, was the tastiest thing I’ve cooked in a while. Now attempting some red bean soup + wholegrain glutinous rice balls for dessert.

18:53 18^th March 2014 (updated)
Go “applaud“ @teamIdno’s Knight News Challenge submission: newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/idno-a-collective-storytelling-platform-that-supports-the-diversity-of-the-web — it’s a proven, stable project, used and relied on in the public by it’s creators every day. I’d love to see what @benwerd and @erinjo can do with some funding.

16:54 18^th March 2014 (updated) — 1
↪ Tom Morris: I was doing some Rails development yesterday: Better Errors is really awesome. It uses a library called b... http://tommorris.org/posts/8859

@tommorris wow, the Werkzeug debugger looks fantastic, going to try that out on some django projects today

11:01 18^th March 2014 (updated) — 4
Some beautiful visualisations of the process of type design: typesupply.com/news/2013/9/the-development-of-balto cc @briansuda

22:26 17^th March 2014 (updated)
Mocking up what an #indieweb subscription UI could look like:

A personal site optionally has a homepage feed, as well as linking from the homepage to other pages with some rel value. When asked to subscribe to a URL, if a feed reader finds these links, it shows a UI a list of the linked feeds, with “Homepage” (any posts found on the page) automatically selected.

The user can then select/deselect feeds, with the preview updating to reflect what the subscription will look like. The selection dialog could either be a modal which goes away once confirmed, or it could be a collapsable panel in the feed column, which has the nice side effect of putting the preview directly where it will be seen, in context.

Additionally, either the personal site could mark up, or the feed reader detect, special feeds such as personal metrics feeds, and treat those differently.

15:47 17^th March 2014 (updated) — 4
Woke up, saw bright sun from window — “great, I’ll go rock jumping at Perlan”. Made breakfast (5 mins), hailing on other side of the house. Ate breakfast (5 mins), now snowing. Wrote this note (30 secs), now sunny again. #thisisiceland

11:20 16^th March 2014 (updated)
Documented a bunch of experimental h-entry properties w/ examples microformats.org/wiki/h-entry, it’s growing more and more expressive yet remaining concise and memorable, down to extensive intense #indieweb selfdogfooding.

Also documented a bunch more #microformats2 adoption examples in the wild. Not on the list? Add yourself! Want to join the party? Getting started is easy!

23:00 13^th March 2014 (updated)
Oh the irony namitaskitchen.com/tag/korma-puri “protected by copyscape do not copy” yet quotes enwp.org/Korma ad-hoc w/ no attribution. I wonder if #creativecommons licensed recipes taste better?

20:58 13^th March 2014 (updated)
↪ Aitor García Rey: I'm probably the last person to discover that non-antique organs, those massive steel & wood entities in cathedrals, have a MIDI interface.

@_aitor generally true, depends on how puritannical the builders were :) The place I worked for took great delight in ripping MIDI hardware out of organs and replacing it with beautiful sensual wood+metal tracker systems

18:45 13^th March 2014 (updated)
↪ Jack Way: Thinking of using the Slim PHP framework for a project. Anyone had any experience of it? Should I be looking at a better alternative?

@jack_way I know people who’ve had a good experience with Slim, I use silex.sensiolabs.org myself for almost everything now as it uses the Symfony components and is excellently designed.

13:44 13^th March 2014 (updated) — 1
In London (@joviansalak)? Have a personal website/interested in having one? Go to Homebrew website club! indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-03-19-homebrew-website-club

17:33 12^th March 2014 (updated)
↪ Brian Suda: Oh, @twitter I wish I could give you some money so you can fix all your broken issues.

@briansuda building your own is probably a better bet :) #indieweb

13:47 12^th March 2014 (updated)
Successfully built a basic EEG/ECG electrode pair @hakkavelin — got heartbeat readouts showing on an oscilloscope! Next up: building an amplifier, feeding into a computer via ADC, detecting brainwaves.

23:07 11^th March 2014 (updated)
↪ Aaron Parecki: Testing out this inline reply interface from http://waterpigs.co.uk/intertubes/ I have a feeling I forgot to add support for in-reply-to to my own #micropub endpoint!

@aaronpk and replying using the same app — could this be the first indieweb conversation carried out entirely using a third party micropub app?

15:10 11^th March 2014 (updated) — 1
Also last night: second try cooking horse meat from kolaportið — attempting to make edible via boiling on low heat for 4 hours. Afterwards it was significantly more tender but still fairly disgusting — would not recommend buying. Maybe as dogfood.

11:15 11^th March 2014 (updated)
Considering the possibility that preferring to use spaces over tabs for code indentation is indicative of excess complacency with the status quo of using complex text formats to express behaviour, and of the viewpoint that code is a static, inflexible material (think raster images vs vector)

11:08 11^th March 2014 (updated)