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Barnaby Walters

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

Pronouns: they/he

  1. ↪ Roopa Gulati: Wish I could have been there - nothing beats British apples. https://twitter.com/SybilKapoor/status/656405338015535104

    @roopagulati German apples aren’t too bad either — there was recently a mobile apple press in town, so we collected ~100kg of apples and pears from the region and had them pressed into 80 litres of delicious apple juice!

  4. for anyone using QtMultimedia QAudioInput with python’s wave module to write PCM data to a wave file: to convert between QAudioFormat’s sampleSize() number and wave’s sample width number, divide by 8, e.g:

    wave_file_to_write.setsampwidth(audio_format.sampleSize() / 8)

    QAudioFormat’s sampleRate() number works as it is.

  10. Event: Tanz auf dem Kornboden

    Duo Gerhardt und Walters (me and Philipp) are playing dance music from Mecklenburg on bagpipes and hurdy gurdy in the Neumühle on the 3rd of October! If you’re in the Brömsenberg/Lübtheen/Schwerin/Hamburg area, come and dance!

    Dance introduction course at 18:30, concert at 20:00, entry free. Cakes and suchlike available to buy, eat and then deposit the remains in our shiny new composting toilet!

    (ha ha, uh, that got weird quickly)

    Neumühle, Ausbau 10, 19249 Lübtheen — once you find Brömsenberg, look for the big red mill. It is quite hard to miss.

    We have a band photo now! I think that means we’re officially a band, or something.

    RSVP on Facebook if that’s your thing. You can also like our page, which apparently means something!

  11. It’s possible, however unlikely, that my new €20 printer is somehow ACTUALLY GOOD. It joined our wifi! Replacing the ink was seamless! It prints blank music stave paper! It has ink available in extra-large cartridges which still cost more than human blood but might possibly be more economical than usual! My computer discovered it automatically! It has nice UI touches, like a old-phone style keyboard for text entry which disappears when not needed! All in all, maybe this is finally a not horrible printer.

    Maybe.

  15. Considering the only poisonous snake in Finland is the (non-lethal) adder, the Kalevala is surprisingly full of warnings about venomous snakes, spiders, insects, etc.

  18. Moving to Deutschland escapades: hired a van which is a bit too small, got it home to find that the back doors don’t open. Called the helpline and, after a recorded message telling me to exit the vehicle on the side away from the traffic (I was standing in the hallway at home), a mechanic is going to turn up and (hopefully) fix it.

  19. New release: php-mf2 v0.2.12 is out!

    In this version: bugfixes! Improved implied name parsing! Merged pull requests! Full details and contributor list in the changelog.

    In related news, the packagist website has been updated and looks very nice! Unfortunately all of my version links are now broken though. And apparently php-mf2 has been installed almost 3000 times (using composer, which is not even the most common installation method) — WOW! Here’s the to the next 3000, and more :)

  20. Apologies to anyone who I have accidentally “followed” on academia.edu — I had to make an account to download a paper (wat) and am now apparently an “independent researcher” (huh).