Spending my last morning at kexhostel taking photos of all the great #microcopy they have here
Long shower queue at #kexhostel today, so I spent the time coming up with a better way of counting on fingers. Binary is not very ergonomic, my way is more limited but still gets you up to 99 using only fingers as state, and potentially 399 using arms as state too.
19874 #steps today
Oh Quick Look, why are you incapable of handling unicode?
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Sophie Dennis:
Inside a guitar. Another inside the instrument photo via @BarnabyWalters http://t.co/LWKnaHSBcd
Sophie Dennis:
Inside a guitar. Another inside the instrument photo via @BarnabyWalters http://t.co/LWKnaHSBcd
sophiedennis s/guitar/hurdy gurdy ;)
sophiedennis wow, that thing’s seen some serious repair work, judging by all those cleats! Related but not nearly as shiny:
7388 #steps today
Robin Andrews sort of — I get a notification, and I see it. The tweet is still public (anyone can see if they go to twitter.com/robinmujician), but it only appears in people’s feeds if they follow both of us.
Robin Andrews that’s the idea :) Use it for sarcasm, jokes, logging, diary, short conversations, political statements, quotes, links… just not conversation :) IRC/XMPP is better for that
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Bastian Allgeier:
In 2016 Google Glass & Google Blink will be merged into Google Eye – a web-connected replacement for your right eye with great web standards
Bastian Allgeier:
In 2016 Google Glass & Google Blink will be merged into Google Eye – a web-connected replacement for your right eye with great web standards
@bastianallgeier then, promptly shut down, removing the developed world’s ability to perceive depth.
6568 #steps today
Just had my first sushi, thanks to briansuda — wow, how have I not come across this before?
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Laura Kalbag:
My life is so much better since I forced Mail.app to copy 'email@emailaddress.com' rather than '<Full Name email@emailaddress.com>'
Laura Kalbag:
My life is so much better since I forced Mail.app to copy 'email@emailaddress.com' rather than '<Full Name email@emailaddress.com>'
Laura Kalbag just the other day I was thinking that applications should accept those strings as valid email addresses, and parse them as such
How to make nice Mediawiki clean URLs — this is the cleanest, simplest way to do this I have found so far #bookmark #mediawiki
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Brennan Novak:
@BarnabyWalters ahh, glad you're staying @KexHostel as it is rawesome and cozy. I suggest eating downstairs, it's really tasty!
Brennan Novak:
@BarnabyWalters ahh, glad you're staying @KexHostel as it is rawesome and cozy. I suggest eating downstairs, it's really tasty!
Brennan Novak yeah, KEX is great. I had breakfast downstairs on the first day, but I’m kinda short on cash right now so DIYing all food :)
#kexhostel #protip: use the leftmost two slots of the toaster in the 2nd floor kitchen, the right two slots only toast one side between them!
15522 #steps today
#idea for an augmented sense useful for musicians: add the ability to hear whether or not a note is in tune. Not sure how best to implement this — some sort of kinetic feedback system would be the most straightforward, but doesn’t seem true to it’s purpose in the same way that the belt buzzing north does.
How about a small speaker on the shoulder/in a hat which plays a very quiet A 440hz — then use the beats to judge whether or not the note is in tune.
Possible problems: might only work adequately for A and related notes (E, maybe D), might be irritating to have a constant sound — like artificial tinnitus. Also irritating if notes which the wearer doesn’t control are slightly out of tune! Probably the most simple solution is to allow the sound to be toggled quickly and easily.