Been referring to celticlyricscorner.net a lot lately — especially good for Capercaillie lyrics #bookmark #music
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Barnaby Walters:
Anyone know how to open XLS files from census.gov on OS X? Tried Numbers, Google Drive, pandas, changing extension to xlsx but all complain about corrupt files. Specifically I want to get at https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032014/perinc/pinc09_000.htm #help
Barnaby Walters:
Anyone know how to open XLS files from census.gov on OS X? Tried Numbers, Google Drive, pandas, changing extension to xlsx but all complain about corrupt files. Specifically I want to get at https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032014/perinc/pinc09_000.htm #help
Looks like Libre Office is the way to go. Thanks @jukesie @robchamberspfc @sophiedennis @w03_
Anyone know how to open XLS files from census.gov on OS X? Tried Numbers, Google Drive, pandas, changing extension to xlsx but all complain about corrupt files. Specifically I want to get at https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032014/perinc/pinc09_000.htm #help
@adactio woot hurdy gurdy and mini nyckelharpa player! (Although that’s totally not a medieval gurdy :P)
People vaguely saying “they” did this/ “they” did that? Call them out with this handy tool! waterpigs.co.uk/they
Introducing American+Icelandic friends to Smash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ3nnn7-JO0
For more, there’s a compilation.
AAAAARRRRRRRR ME HEARTIES, IT BE THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN talklikeapirate.com #tlapd
#indyref demonstrates poor voter turnout not solved by fancy technology (to “engage the young people”) but by giving people a choice that they feel empowered by.
Update: more electronic voting skepticism in this report (warning: PDF), also has interesting data on gender in voting.
I love @allofbach but the website is not at all optimised for actually listening to/learning about the music. A potential redesign removes extraneous clicks and puts the focus completely on the music and performance:
Additional possible improvements: link to wikipedia article, IMSLP page (e.g. BWV243)
Nice to see ind.ie/blog is very well microformatted! Subscribed in #shrewdness. Pretty sure the datetime attribute isn’t supported on header elements though ;)
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Sophie Dennis@sophiedennis I am indeed, for the time being! How’s it going down in Devon?
Eating inaugural new-apartment hot chocolate out of a jar, exhibits interesting elasticity gradient from near-liquid at the top to properly gelled at the bottom — possibly a result of the heat conducting properties of glass vs ceramic?
Briefly tried @firefox Nightly e10s (tab process encapsulation), was very buggy, submitted bugs and disabled. Looking forward to trying this again when it’s a bit more polished!
Used the last of my @clarered @dConstruct chalk to help citizens of Exeter identify this weed:
Previously: drew hexagrams all over Brighton, a 6-pane hurdy gurdy reduction a la Picasso on a shopfront, saw “Happiness £1 this way ↑”, added “Complacency, free, right where you are standing”. Fleabane identification courtesy of @jwentomologist. #playfulcities
Dan YorkWebmention spam has already started to become a problem, especially thanks to Brid.gy’s backfeeding of twitter comments. For most of us it hasn’t yet been a big problem, but it inevitably will be in the future. There’s some ideas about potential spam prevention tools on the wiki: indiewebcamp.com/spam
Having a skill and being unafraid can look surprisingly similar.
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Kyle Mahan:
it turns out 2 tiny files per post (json, md) for 6500 posts uses a lot of disk space. 85mb used for 1.5mb of actual data. #indieweb #flatfileproblems
Kyle Mahan:
it turns out 2 tiny files per post (json, md) for 6500 posts uses a lot of disk space. 85mb used for 1.5mb of actual data. #indieweb #flatfileproblems
@kylewm @t’s technique of having one file per bim negates this quite effectively (http://indiewebcamp.com/Falcon#Storage_format)
Thanks to everyone who made the annual Brighton dConstruct + Indie Web Camp experience a meaningful, hilarious, insightful, political, delicious joy.
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Relly Annett-Baker:
I look over my career to date, and now educating my kids, and I realise I am obsessed with feedback loops. I am weird.
Relly Annett-Baker:
I look over my career to date, and now educating my kids, and I realise I am obsessed with feedback loops. I am weird.
@rellyab that’s a good thing! Feedback loops are awesome+important (but annoyingly difficult to visualise).