THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

Thanks to everyone who came to our open day and first concert in the mill, and made it so special! Keep an eye out for the next one…

Soulver > RPN > Infix

I wonder how many bird species will become extinct before @_everybird_ has the chance to tweet about them.

It’s possible, however unlikely, that my new €20 printer is somehow ACTUALLY GOOD. It joined our wifi! Replacing the ink was seamless! It prints blank music stave paper! It has ink available in extra-large cartridges which still cost more than human blood but might possibly be more economical than usual! My computer discovered it automatically! It has nice UI touches, like a old-phone style keyboard for text entry which disappears when not needed! All in all, maybe this is finally a not horrible printer.

Maybe.

The Sampo is the ultimate McGuffin. No-one knows exactly what it does, but everyone’s REALLY INTO IT.

New favourite history webcomic: veritablehokum.com Lovely art style, interesting subject matter, detailed explanations and a really nice typeface.

BREAKING: NASA is developing dragons, press release on new Pluto data from New Horizons lets slip

Considering the only poisonous snake in Finland is the (non-lethal) adder, the Kalevala is surprisingly full of warnings about venomous snakes, spiders, insects, etc.

Having issues with space-containing volume names when using the /etc/fstab editing trick to gain write access to NTFS drives on Macs? Turns out the escape character is not \40 but \040. You’ll know it works when you insert the drive and it doesn’t show up on the desktop, only visible in the terminal (but still browsable in the finder if opened from the terminal).

Today: supported two of my favourite web publications (The Toast and Serious Eats) and cleaned a lot of chimneys, with predictable results:

Moving to Deutschland escapades: hired a van which is a bit too small, got it home to find that the back doors don’t open. Called the helpline and, after a recorded message telling me to exit the vehicle on the side away from the traffic (I was standing in the hallway at home), a mechanic is going to turn up and (hopefully) fix it.

New release: php-mf2 v0.2.12 is out! #microformats #indieweb

In this version: bugfixes! Improved implied name parsing! Merged pull requests! Full details and contributor list in the changelog.

In related news, the packagist website has been updated and looks very nice! Unfortunately all of my version links are now broken though. And apparently php-mf2 has been installed almost 3000 times (using composer, which is not even the most common installation method) — WOW! Here’s the to the next 3000, and more :)

Apologies to anyone who I have accidentally “followed” on academia.edu — I had to make an account to download a paper (wat) and am now apparently an “independent researcher” (huh).

Just finished reading Critical Race Theory: An Introduction and Towards a European Critical Race Theory as the former is very US-centric and not so accessible to someone not immersed in/familiar with that history.

Both are highly recommended reading, the former especially (it contains an excellent explanation, with examples, of what intersectionality is).

PSA: Practise responsible dancing!

I’ve been back from Iceland for two weeks now, but Google Translate is still in Icelandic. Any ideas on how to fix this? Other Google services appear to have reverted to English again.

Got some little bits of work done on my site today — fixed a spam archiving issue, got leaflet-based maps working again and made note locations editable. Lots more to come soon, hopefully…