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  2. ↪ Bruce Lawson: "Go .. try to find that missing closing tag on the div in your 100s of lines of HTML". https://medium.com/the-javascript-collection/html-wasnt-made-for-apps-59f870dfc075 Here: http://validator.w3.org/

    @brucel another handy trick is to view source in Firefox. Malformed HTML is red and bold, easy to see.

  6. ↪ Aaron Parecki: Zippers are kind of magic. When you have to fix one, it turns out you gain an appreciation for them not otherwise had by merely using them.

    @aaronpk true! I’ve noticed this also with other things, especially food. My (totally failed) attempts to make Skyr have made me appreciate eating it much more.

  7. ↪ LouLouK: By which I mean to say, how entrenched is thinking. Can you change that using training? Is that's what's actually needed?

    @loulouk in my experience, yes it’s possible (although I don’t know what your context is), and that regular training i.e. some feedback loop is vital. We choose the lens through which we see the world, but need to re-choose it every day if it’s not already entrenched.

  12. ↪ Aaron Parecki: Just launched a bunch of #p3k updates: * Webmention handler now accepts a "vouch" parameter. If you send one, it will attempt to verify the vouch and reject the mention if the vouch is not approved. For backwards compatibility right now, webmentions are still accepted without a vouch parameter. * Webmentions that are vouched will show the URL that vouched for them alongside the comment. * Inbound links from referers are tracked internally which I will eventually use when trying to find a vouch URL when I want to send one. * I am now indexing domains that I link to, which is used internally for webmention approval, but is also exposed at a URL structure like http://aaronparecki.com/links-to/tantek.com * Imported my entire food logs from August 2013, so my date permalinks since then now show everything I've eaten: http://aaronparecki.com/2014/01/01

    @aaronpk nicely done! Interesting UI choice to show the URL which vouched replies — presumably you’re also archiving the vouch pages? Also, are you planning on applying something like domain-based webmention approval also to silo replies? e.g. treating twitter.com/username as a “domain”

  14. ↪ Kyle Mahan: my dad always calls this “primacy and recency”, but apparently it’s Serial position effect

    @kyle_wm interesting, hadn’t heard of Serial Position Effect! And I like your dad’s terms. But what I was getting at (and inevitably didn’t communicate well) was not exactly that the items at the ends of a series are given greater mental weight, but that the relative orders of items at the ends is more emphasised than relative weights in the middle.

    E.G. in the example on that wikipedia page, of “smart, diligent, critical, impulsive, and jealous”, I suspect that the differences rank differences of (smart and diligent), and (implusive and jealous) are seen as more significant than of (diligent, critical) or (critical, implusive). Not sure if science backs this up (how would that even be measured?), but it’s something I’ve noticed.

  15. ↪ Feminist Frequency: I won't be speaking at any Utah institution again until such time as firearms are prohibited at schools. I encourage others to follow suit.

    @femfreq as a Brit it astonishes me that anyone wouldn’t ban guns in schools (or indeed in any other public place). Keep up the good work :)

  16. ↪ Kyle Mahan: Did you start with pineapple juice instead of water? IIRC, that’s what the Bread Baker’s Apprentice recommended and no matter how many times I diluted it, it stayed really fruity. Never could get it very sour though, I blame San Diego for not having interesting enough bacteria.

    @kyle_wm hmmm interesting, I’ve never heard that before! I just used tap water, maybe the idea with fruit juice is that it includes sugar which would feed the yeasts?

    Did you try using rye flour? AFAIK it has more variety of natural yeasts in than other flours, so you might have a better chance with that.

  19. ↪ LouLouK: Intensely enjoyed Countryfile feature on mediavel musical instruments. I know want a harp. I was supposed to be learning to fiddle :0)

    @loulouk a harp is probably perfect for someone with “hyper extendy fingers” :) If you want to go fully medieval, get one with bray pins for extra buzzing. You’re in London, right? There’s an Early Music Shop outlet there, IIRC they have a bunch of harps and would probably be delighted to let you try one earlymusicshop.com/London.aspx