Saddened by the irony that Jeremy Keith’s The Long Web links to headconference.com, which no longer exists :(
Saddened by the irony that Jeremy Keith’s The Long Web links to headconference.com, which no longer exists :(
Thinking of marking up my hurdy gurdies as schema.org MedicalDevices, with “partial deafness” as an adverseOutcome, and “growing a beard” as a seriousAdverseOutcome.
“I thought you were going to something called pigpen” — John Walters on #digpen
Indiewebifying my #digpen lanyard: http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/p/t4
#mole sighting
Field full of #mole hills sighted
7559 #steps today
If you traverse google street view in the opposite direction the camera was going, you're going back in time
#taproot / #webactions design #principle: easy things should be easy, remove friction so hard things are no harder than they need to be.
16256 #steps today
#exeterweb conversation summaries:
Doing acceptance #testing in a different language to your application is philosophically a good idea.
When syndicating data, the quality can be used to determine the canonical version even if the separate versions don't link to each other (example: photographer takes RAWs, gives TIFF to client, RAW is proof of provenance) #POSSE
Not drinking tea and not having cream on cream teas reduces the day to day hassle, stress and confusion of living in Devon by approximately 90%.
RobMMcCarthy both! Really looking forward to your talk — but expect heckling if you mention schema.org ;)
Checked into Localeyes, Ashburton for the two-yearly eye excercise session. First time I’m having to pay for it (not being in school is scary)
14273 #steps today
#watching Insect Dissection. Amazing stuff, but I wish they'd stop using “insect” and “bug” interchangeably.
Jack Way Cmd + F5, Ctrl + alt + a and see what it says :)
archiveteam do you have archives of personal sites killed by Wanadoo/Orange at mysite.freeserve.com?
And the compliment of that #universallaw: the simpler the text-publishing service, the more interesting uses it’s users will put it to, provided it paves their cow paths (e.g. Twitter with RTs, #hashtags and @-replies).
Give users constraints and simplicity, see what they do, then solidify that functionality — or, from an #indieweb point of view, give yourself constraints, then pave your solitary cowpaths.
New #universallaw:
It doesn’t matter what the original intention of the service was, if it allows people to publish text on the web, it will be used as a chat room, a blog and an advertising outlet.