Barnaby Walters • Notes

Finally got a #gurdy body design I’m happy with. Just spent 30 mins trying to persuade the printer to print it. Finally, success!

Iterating over a #gurdy with sharpies and a TV:

Today I start work on my next batch of hurdy gurdies! Making two identical evolutions of the #vio #gurdy

Making a set of #symfony2 components allowing for indieauth and CardDAV to be used for #indieweb auth #php

Cuncti Simus Concanentes at parallel 3rds on #recorder is just the most glorious thing. #music

Why is it that every time I decide to try some interesting oriental #food, it turns out to be mostly cardamon? #personal

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Sophie Dennis: @drewm :) There is a really nice dev community building, esp around Exeter. DM/email if you want any info or see @Exeter_Web or @digpenSW

@sophiedennis Drew McLellan not to forget the second largest #devicelab in the UK! /cc @nimbleworks

Woot! The various modules of my #indieweb site all now have upwards of 90% test coverage #web #dev #php

I… What? #downton ended on a happy note? No deaths?

The Christmas special had better be the zombie apocalypse

Got a lot of work done on my #indieweb publishing software today. This is in preparation to using it on a friend’s site, then releasing all the components into the public. Exciting stuff!

#TIL doctrine ORM is pretty damn awesome #web #dev #php

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Emil Björklund: @BarnabyWalters I'm guessing @andyhume might be the guy to ask.

@thatEmil good plan, will do :)

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Emil Björklund: @BarnabyWalters @Malarkey doesn't work, as far as I know, I'm afraid.

@thatEmil @malarkey poo :( Then again, it would have been a bit of a dirty hack, so perhaps it’s better this way!

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Andrew Clarke: To answer my question from this morning, I can find no (media query) way to target an iPad mini and not a 1st Gen / iPad 2.

@malarkey physical unit (cm/mm) query? /cc @thatEmil

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Nick Charlton: @BarnabyWalters Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I wonder if they also have a way to mark something as being offensive?

Nick Charlton doesn’t look like it — I hit the button and (after hanging for a sec) it said “your vote(?) was greatly appreciated”. Not great design :/

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Nick Charlton: Dicks like this: http://t.co/nsF0FaSr Make me want to leave the industry. Christ.

Nick Charlton very, very tempting to hit the “report this ad as fake” button. Surely no sane person would talk like that in real life?!

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Aral Balkan: Don’t be afraid to start. Remember that no one starts out knowing how to build the app they’re making.

Aral Balkan that is where I am at the mo. working on a mainly client side #JS app, having never done so before. Scary and fun!

Turns out seeing how many lines of HTML were saved by running The Guardian’s source through Coda’s HTML Tidy was a mistake. Coda now frozen. >3.3k lines!

Does anyone I know do web stuff for newspapers? I’d be really interested in knowing why there’s so much weird code formatting and vertical space in the source.

#Wikipedia article of the week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence