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Barnaby Walters

Arranging atoms and pressurising air in a variety of manners, such as:

Pronouns: they/he

  1. Went to my first climbing tournament at Klífurhúsið today. I was worried it was going to be all competitive and difficult, but it was loads of fun, with a surprising number of easy-to-somewhat-challenging (for me, approx. V2) routes. Finished with 62/220 points, looking forward to improving on that at the next one!

  4. More fun: use the apparently undocumented /QUALIFIER = '"' (that’s a double quote inside two single quotes) option in a GET DATA to make CSV lines like

    1,5,3,4,"A text value with a comma, which is still only one cell"

    work correctly.

  5. Finally solved a long-standing problem getting Icelandic characters to work properly in files being downloaded onto Windows machines for use as SPSS syntax. Turns out the solution is to explicitly set the download charset to UTF-8, and to prepend an unnecessary BOM (yuk) to the beginning of the file as so (context: Django view):

    import codecs

def export_spss(request):
    response = HttpResponse(export_spss(), status=200, mimetype="application/x-spss; charset=utf-8")
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=syntax.sps'
    response.content = codecs.BOM_UTF8 + response.content
    return response

    Why is a BOM, which should be completely unnecessary in a UTF-8 file (it has no variable byte order after all) apparently required by some Windows software in order to tell it that the file is UTF-8 encoded, despite Unicode mode being on? Sigh.

  6. Found this watercolour in a book about actively listening to music:

    “Pennsylvania Farmstead with Many Fences“, Unidentified Artist

    Photo from MFA Boston website

  7. The chants page on wetheprotestors.org (via @deray) is my favourite thing right now.

    I also documented a bunch of awesome chants, some slightly longer, from footage earlier in the year. They’re listed below if anyone’s interested. I couldn’t figure out some of the words here and there, so apologies for any mistakes! Corrections happily accepted.

    No justice no peace (optionally x3)
    no racist-ass police

    I got my hands on my head [hey] please don’t shoot me dead

    hands up, don’t shoot

    who shuts shit down?
    we shut shit down!

    who’s streets? our streets!

    mike don’t get it
    shut it down
    his daddy don’t get it
    shut it down
    [?] don’t get it
    shut it down
    his mom don’t get it
    shut it down

    you can’t stop the revolution
    they won’t stop the revolution
    they can’t stop this revolution

    hey hey, ho ho
    kill the cops they’ve got to go

    these cops don’t like it
    we want an inditement

    indite, the pigs (?), send the cops to jail
    the whole damn system is guilty as hell

    back up, back up, we want freedom, freedom
    all these racist-ass cops we don’t need ‘em, need ‘em

    Most of these are from http://new.livestream.com/ASN/CG and http://new.livestream.com/ASN/CG/videos/69296983

  11. ↪ Tantek Çelik: new home page * 100 posts via flat bim files * <64KB HTML * <1s page load no DB XHR ∞scroll needed beat that, silos :)

    @t excellent minimal Like implementation! Whilst your homepage performance is admirable, I don’t think you can meaningfully compare it to silo infinite scroll untill there’s some sort of pagination :) Currently, without rel-prev[ious] links, there’s no way for crawlers (e.g. readers like Shrewdness, semi-hypothetical “your year in indieweb”) tools to find your old posts other than fetching each one individually, which for many cases takes too long to provide a good experience — e.g. crawling your years worth of content takes ≈162s, verifiable with the following bash+PHP code:

    curl -Ss https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

./composer.phar require taproot/subscriptions

php -a  # Start an interactive shell, paste in following code (alternatively save into file):

@(require 'vendor/autoload.php'); $start = microtime(1); echo "Starting crawl…\n"; Taproot\Subscriptions\crawl('http://tantek.com/2014/365/t1/indieweb-like-posts-2015-commitment-done', function ($r) { echo "."; if (substr($r['mf2']['items'][0]['properties']['published'][0], 0, 4) == '2013') { return false; } else { return true; } }); $total = microtime(1) - $start; echo "\nYear crawl for 2014 took {$total}s";
  16. ↪ Kyle Mahan: That is brilliant and also it reminded me that I was supposed add a grated carrot to the dinner I just made :D

    @kyle_wm mmm, grated carrot! The best thing about this rule is that it applies to almost any cake recipe. For “x cake”, 1/2 sugar, double x for deliciousness.

  17. ↪ Capybaringkindness: @BarnabyWalters Yeah, I've been testing this out - French duolingo is also ok with "his dress" etc.

    @crispindgwalker oh cool! Just worked through the “Family” skill and it included non-marital nouns like partnership/relationship, as well as depicting a gay couple in the photo accompanying “der Partner”. I’m impressed! A big improvement over the generic traditional het white family depicted in every school language textbook ever.