Barnaby Walters

Steaming is rapidly becoming my favourite way of cooking things.

Any ideas why the Icelandic locale in #python+natsort doesn’t correctly sort Icelandic characters alphabetically (aábcdðeé etc)? I just implemented a rather awkward hacky way of sorting them using the alphabet and natsort.versorted, but would rather find a way to correct the root issue.

Just released mf2/mf2 v0.2.10! This long-awaited update is all the hard work of @dissolve333 and contains some minor parsing algorithm fixes and support for parsing <area> elements. Thanks Ben!

Based on the numbers of people dressed up as traffic cones, I’d say it’s probably graduation day in Reykjavík.

Tried watching Türkisch für Anfänger for German practice and learned two things: my hearing comprehension is much worse than I anticipated, and Lena is really, really annoying.

Last year’s Tradition for Tomorrow in Akureyri was a fun festival, and this June it’s being re-born as Vaka. There’s a bunch of awesome artists playing including Jackie Oates, SANS and Dråm. I will be going! You should too.

Teaching #PGP at the @UngirPiratar cryptoparty — got three new people successfully using encrypted email, and many keys signed!

Summer must be here, the bikers and skaters have arrived in Ingólfstorg again!

My friend @ceciliakovacs24 had her life wrecked by domestic abuse from a criminal, and has now been failed by the police and legal system. Join me in helping her get her life together again: gofundme.com/qrs52s

#gurdy trompette study tip: watch the trompette string whilst buzzing. Watching its motion can help judge the evenness of your buzzes, and help identify buzzes which are weaker, shorter or merging together. It’s a convenient, built-in way of making the invisible (sound) visible (movement of a string).

Graph showing anticipated success of silly plans in DnD:

Our new office printer does its bit for the environment by stubbornly refusing to print anything.

Added the dove and Ecuadorian fragrant wood to my Wood Is Good shrine back home in Iceland:

(The lego figures are of a scientist and pizza delivery person, representing wood science and delicious wood-fired pizza ovens, respectively)

A short recording of Gregory Jolivet’s beautiful 5-time waltz “Main Dans La Main” played in C on my Vio gurdy, after a post-travel maintenance session and string change:

I’m now using a steel core, stainless steel wound low G chanter. It has a slightly harsher sound than the synthetic+silver strings I was using before, and is prone to attacks with lots of high partials, but is much more durable.

Just found out about Vicente Parrilla, a rather excellent early recorder player with a focus on improv:

Can sadly confirm that this 50.50 post about the state of sex ed in the UK is accurate. Non-UK friends: is it better elsewhere? Were you taught about consent and LGBT relationships? Did you experience similar religious censorship?