Erin McKean:
if you would like to irritate a teenager restate whatever you're asking them to do from their point of view and append "FML" to the end
@emckean feed my lizard
#TIL 7th January is the Japanese Festival of Seven Herbs day enwp.org/Nanakusa_no_sekku — might try making some of the herb rice porridge next year
Heading over to Háskolatorg for HÍ Japanese day festival.
At any given time my web archive HTTPS to HTTP domain ratio is almost exactly 1:10. Right now it’s at 410 HTTP domains and 41 HTTPS domains. Note that this is just the count of the domains I link to (and which link to me), unweighted by the number of actual physical links.
Sighted a majestic sky whale hovering low over the mountains to the south-east of Reykjavik this morning.
Any assertion that it was in fact some ski slopes lit up in the dark will be met with insistent mutterings about celestial cetaceans.
Finished off a tiring 15000 step day with my best Spanish-style hot chocolate yet: milk, cornstarch, vanilla, dark chocolate, cinnamon, himalayan salt, a little licorice, masala curry powder and crumbled walnuts. mmmmmmmm.
Favourite quote from Shaping Things by @bruces so far:
“What is a “brand”? It’s a mark seared into the surface of something. Is that the best you can do in the way of establishing a relationship between us?”
@LapTop006 @kevinmarks somehow I doubt that’s going to end well, e.g. “I just had a great idea for a thing!”
“Check out this thing I just bought!”
“There’s a thing on my wrist!”
“I’m wearing a thing!”
“I need a raspberry pi and some sensors so I can make a thing!”
It’s hardly a specific term which enables efficient, productive communication :)
The @technicalhumans blog blog.technical.io is a wonderful resource. I love how they de-mistify the processes behind designing, building, testing and shipping hardware for tinkerers.
Ubiquitous computing demo video from 1995 demonstrating seamless creative collaboration across devices and space: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/quicktime/UbiCompTeaScene.qt
Their acting isn’t great but the technology is impressive.
What’s your favourite general term for internet-of-things-connected devices/objects?
Acquired today: one pizza stone and a paddle! Hopefully this will push my pizza quality to the next level now that I have a decent dough technique.
“Kickstarter’s terms won’t let us run our campaign, so we’re running a kickstarter to raise money to build our own crowdfunding platform”
#screenshot: The absolute worst page-load time I’ve ever experienced:
Quite disgusted by the sales copy on sen.se/store/mother — an interesting idea creepily presented. What’s the physical metaphor for the “mother” itself? Or does it end up being just a weird looking ornament, awkwardly placed within ethernet-cable distance of the home router?
Finally managed to book transport for Halsway Gurdy Weekend. See you on Feb 7th, fellow #gurdy enthusiasts!
Off to Háskólatorg to help @mailpileteam pack some perks
Steeleye Span:
And another with @terryandrob during The Dark Morris Song #Wintersmith pic.twitter.com/PXlHVKfPMC
@crispinwalker you’ve been doing Pratchett—inspired morris dancing? That is all kinds of awesome
#taproot now sports a composite homepage feed, meaning it’s not just notes which show up on the homepage, but also articles and music!
Next up: breaking out various post types which I’ve been overloading notes to create, e.g. checkins, audio, photo, into their own things, remove the ability to create “named notes” (that was a stupid, yet well styled, idea) and figure out what to do with all the old notes which should actually be in other categories. Auto-detecting which templates to use for them should be easy enough, but I doubt I’ll be able to move them all into their new homes.
All that old content will have to stay as notes for the purpose of URLs and querying, but in at least some cases can be styled better. Overall I’m comfortable with this, as it leaves history (and, more importantly, URLs) untouched without compromising the reading experience too much.
Jeena