Vienna’s 2023 City Nature Challenge had more observers, observations and species than last year, and many observations still need final IDs. Here’s some of the more notable ones.

Vienna’s 2022 City Nature Challenge had more observers, observations and species than last year, and many observations still need final IDs. Here’s some of the more notable ones.

A (very) belated follow up to Getting Started with Microformats 2, covering the basics of consuming and using microformats 2 data.

I was asked to perform the same analysis as I did for the CNC Wien for the data from Graz, so here it is.

I analysed the CityNatureChallenge 2021 Wien observations, and found that as of 2021-05-12, 747 of the total species had only been observed by a single person. So special thanks to these 68 people, who are responsible for a staggering 31% of the species observed.

While trying to learn embedded rust, I ran up against issues connecting my black pill STM32F103 boards to the ST-Link v2. The solution is simple but badly documented, so here it is with nice illustrations.

Yes, it is possible, just a little awkward.

One of my evolutionary, hybrid, next-gen UI ideas, which I decided was better out of my brain than in it.

On the 14th September 1950, the cargo plane “Geysir” crashed into Iceland’s largest glacier, Vatnajökull (vat-na-yer-kutl, no, not the one which stopped all the planes in 2010). Operated by Loftleiðir, which went on to become Flugleiðir and then the present-day Icelandair, this aircraft was flying from Luxembourg to Reykjavík for a refuelling stop before flying to its final destination.

A brief, illustrated guide to setting up web audio streaming on your domain with automatic archiving using Icecast2 and Puredata.

How exactly is the word “vocabis” phrased in the C14 song? If you speak (and sing) fluent medieval Spanish latin it’s probably obvious, but for the rest of us, there’s YouTube.

One of the main themes of IndieWebCamp UK 2014 was a heavy push for TLS support on our personal sites, mainly thanks to the eternal patience and knowledge of Tim Retout. A large proportion of the participants either got TLS working on their site for the first time or upgraded their support to remove vulnerabilities and support snazzy extra features like perfect forward secrecy.

2014 bought the latest evolution of the festival of luthiers which started at St. Chartier before moving to Chateau d’Ars, and is now Le Son Continu. This year I was particularly excited because of the chance to meet Marcus Weseloh and try out his MidiGurdy.

When consistently failing to synchronise orbit and dock got boring, I started installing mods and building whatever nonsense their parts inspired. KAS confused me a little at first (what use is a grappling hook on a rocket?), but adding in Hooligan Labs’ Airships, B9 Aerospace’s cargo holds and Firespitter’s propulsion parts results in some really fun craft.

What’s the minimum amount of code required to make XMLHttpRequest more concise?

Superfeedr has this awesome feature allowing you to subscribe to fragments of an HTML page rather than the whole thing — perfect for cases where the publisher of the HTML page doesn’t send PubSubHubbub pings to let the hub know when content has changed, as this forces the hub to poll the content and notify subscribers on even the smallest change to the content.

Classic microformats have been serving the web community’s need to extend HTML’s expressive power since 2004. Through an evolutionary, open, rigorous community process and human-first design principles, structured use of the class and rel attributes have paved the cowpaths of publishing data about people, places, events, reviews, products and more.

Documenting the idea, inspiration, purpose, background and initial steps toward a device for measuring the speed of a hurdy gurdy wheel.