Barnaby Walters

Checked in to #exeterweb @ the City Gate Hotel, Exeter

try/catch are the most undervalued control flow statements. I think it’s the negative connotation of exception.

I find it disturbing that the 6^th google result for “content negotiation” is an article from 2003 about how it shouldn’t be used. This needs to be changed.

THE SPACE CHAPTER OF SHAUN THE SHEEP HAS BEEN RELEASED!

I have waited so long for this.

I am hugely annoyed at @twitter’s API stupidity, but almost as annoyed by their failure to provide a consistent tweet authoring experience across their platform.

If I see “remaining chars = 0”, I expect the tweet to post, not give me some near-meaningless error message. I also expect URLs to be automatically detected and compensated for consistently across the platform. This is just crap #ui.

Just put in a few solid hours working on https://github.com/indieweb/php-mf2/ — it’s now at v0.1.6 and has preliminary support for the microformats-2 canonical JSON representation. As always it is installable via composer via "mf2/mf2": "0.1.*"

I didn’t think I’d be able to train myself to use the keyboard shortcuts for curly quotes, but it’s actually second nature now.

Just had rather an educational experience using devices at the #exeterweb lab. Will publish thoughts and results later on.

Someday, someone’ll invent a car where the indicator relay ticks in time with the music.

Off to my local (communal device testing lab) /cc Jeremy Keith

Played Nigel Eaton’s “Halsway Schottische” on a pipe organ today #music #gurdy

Wow, PHP 5.4 delivers on it’s promise of improved performance. I’m seeing <1/2 the memory usage of 5.3.8