Julien Genestoux:
I wonder what will be the first new synthetic human sense. I can see telepathy, but maybe something simpler like UV and IR perception.
@julien51 “new” as in not currently in use? Because haptic compass belts are my favourite at the moment
Completed thomaswasalone.com. It’s a really beautiful game — perfect narrative, perfect gameplay, wonderful voice acting, excellent music.
Most multi-character co-op games simply treat the different characters as providing different abilities, but Thomas Was Alone creates meaningful, believable relationships between them, despite them being non-marked, non-emoting rectangles. I enjoyed it even more than Home Sheep Home (the iOS Shaun the Sheep game), which is saying something (I was in the Game Centre top 5% for HSH2 for quite some time).
Another plus: it can be scaled up to retina-display resolution, making those rectangles extremely crisp despite the subtle tilt placed on every level.
#headcanon: bitcoin is simply a random number generator. In every other alternate reality, it went wrong and was de-bunked almost immediately, but we’re in the one where the random numbers always match our expectations, providing the illusion of causality.
“It’s hard to know what to call people… …these terms worked well for users whose mental models fitted the language we were using, they were not well understood by everyone.”
Interesting audience-based navigation research by @gdsteam insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/18/hey-you-there-the-trouble-with-audience-based-navigation reflects similar recent experiences with @indiewebcampUK guest list audience segmentation.
Packing in preparation for moving next week. Any aliens watching would be forgiven for assuming I’m a monk following some cable-worshipping religion.
__builtinpart_ :
@kevinmarks "every social network will eventually contain a slow, informally specified, bug-ridden implementation of LJ friend permissions"
@0x0acebabe @kevinmarks is said permissions model specified/documented anywhere? UI screenshots?
ind.ie:
@BarnabyWalters The videos should be working in Firefox (will test on nightly). If not, it’s a bug. Somewhat limited by Vimeo in formats.
@indie not working in FF 31 or Nightly 34.0a1 OS X 10.9.4 due to patent-encumbered encoding, screenshots:
See notes on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats#Browser_compatibility for more details
Vimeo actively blames users for using free software, do not recommend.
xkcd.com/1412 TMNT Wikipedia song fits Finnish runo-song metre perfectly, could be sung to any runo-song tune. Vice versa also applies, runo-song epics could be sung to the TMNT theme tune
Anna Debenham:
Interesting idea by Facebook to prioritise engaging content over clickbait. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28934479
@anna_debenham hrm, an interesting idea, I wonder how they plan on measuring how long people read for though?
Emil Björklund:
Just realized that you can hide elements in CSS by putting them *behind* the viewer.
http://bukk.it/mindblown2.gif
@thatemil what, by making it so large that the elements come out of the screen and go behind the user? Can that be animated?
tradition.is was thoroughly enjoyable and filled with excellent music+dancing — met new friends, learned new tunes+dances+singing styles and generally had a good time. Longer blog post upcoming, for now here’s my post-festival #tabdump:
Not all necessarily related to the festival, but learned about in the duration. Amusingly, last.fm/music/BLM has a big photo of the BLM which performed at tradition.is, but is about someone completely different!
ind.ie:
(And we are continuing to edit the videos and working on the player code so do let us know if you notice any issues.)
@indie thanks for posting the transcripts! Any plans to serve the videos in a free encoding as per https://www.fsf.org/licensing/h264-patent-license, http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm? Current encoding cannot be played by Firefox Nightly.
@schussman great work getting webmention comments set up on your site, and thanks for the kind words about my microformats2 blog post — good to know it was helpful :)
The Finnish Karelian coat of arms looks like an Adventure Time character:
The Russian one is a fire-breathing bear with knuckledusters (pawdusters? clawdusters?), which might also make a good Adventure Time character:
Checked into Háskóli Akureyri for tradition.is workshop day two
@erinjo the one I’m writing this reply in :) indiewebcamp.com/Shrewdness
Aaron Parecki:
@barnabywalters now this I would like to see!! I was thinking about building a soundcloud-like player as well actually. Even found some libraries to do the mp3 -> png waveform thumbnail generation! #music
@aaronpk oooh really? Which libraries? I looked a while ago and couldn’t find any, though it looks like it can be done with the new Web Audio APIs…
Lewis Cowper:
@graphiclunarkid It looks like you’re stumbling toward the #indieweb and what they call POSSE - http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE
@lewiscowper @graphiclunarkid yep, that sounds a lot like POSSE! Check out indiewebcamp.com/WordPress, there are some tools listed there you might find useful, and indiewebcamp.com/IRC for any questions :)
Brian Suda:
left comments open on post about usernames of children of the digital age. http://optional.is/required/2014/08/12/second-generation-usernames/ 1 comment and no spam. It won't last.
@briansuda enable webmention comments + bridgy for twitter comments! Barely any spam that way (yet, and we’re working on future spam prevention tools) indiewebcamp.com/WordPress
Ugh, all the papers I can find about potato heat penetration are behind paywalls. Apparently I’ll have to research it myself #freePotatoKnowledge #openPotatoScience