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Community breakfast
After The Event I knew I would be taking a period of time to recover and re-discover my roots. Around this same time last year, I was clicking around groups on Eventbrite and found Community Pros of...
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Glitchy love
Today, I received some fun post from some lovely people in New York City. Those in the know, may recognise these stickers as the logos of Glitch and Fastly. I’ve been using Glitch to write and host...
View ArticleSwitching PeerTube instances
I’m all-in on the Fediverse as the best way to own my own data and network. It’s based on an open standard (ActivityPub), loosely-coupled and open source services, and everyday people (and, it isn’t...
View ArticleAmpersand Fedi
You’ve almost certainly seen those t-shirts and posters with the “ampersand” style of lists of names – these originated back in 2001 via Experimental Jetset’s design of the names of the members of The...
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Tap For Art!
Today’s mail delivery included more stickers – in addition to the collection from earlier in the week – and, these are particularly special. Three NFC stickers, each with the text “Tap For Art”...
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High Tide
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some of the events we’ve been doing as our studio. Today, we were at the High Tide Festival in Twickenham, just across the Thames from home. We generally pop over...
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(a short post, since I’ve mostly been taking some downtime after the festival at the weekend). When I dropped materials back to the studio today, I snapped a quick photo of the car’s total mileage on...
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Art, and Algorithms vs AI
I’ve given some talks in the past 6 months about the history of computer art, and in particular art created with pen plotters and drawing machines. As I got into building plotters last year, I didn’t...
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Federating my Flipboard
Do you use Flipboard? I’ve been using Flipboard for many years, since its early days – and, I love it. It has been a brilliant social magazine and discovery platform for me. I’ve been curating a...
View ArticleDeadpool & Wolverine, or, the cunning end to a Marvel-ous Fox
Just back from watching Deadpool & Wolverine – the IMAX version. I went to great efforts to avoid reading reviews or spoilers for this one. It is difficult to review it here myself without going...
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What’s up with LinkedIn?
Hey LinkedIn – U OK, hon? Today, I received an exciting (?!) message. Apparently, it’s 18 years since I created my account on LinkedIn. The message came with the usual hints that some other users...
View ArticleMessing with a messy NVMe
Today, I’ve been trying to resolve a strange error that just started showing up on one of my Linux devices – specifically, errors in the dmesg output on boot, during runtime, and at shutdown:...
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A re-introduction to my blog
OK then. I’m seemingly on a roll – since re-committing myself to writing more frequently, I’ve managed a post every day for 18 days (including today), forming part of #100DaysToOffload; and, since the...
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AI-ngels and Demons
Yesterday I came across two fun and interesting uses of large language models, in quick succession. First, I saw a post on Mastodon commenting about how “brutal” a web app called GitHub Roaster is, in...
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MNT Pocket Reform: first impressions
A couple of weeks ago I received something I’ve been eagerly expecting from a Crowd Supply crowd funding campaign. MNT have been making devices that aim to be “open source, accessible and modular” for...
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Recovering my Shuttlecraft
When I poked around with Postmarks (a federated bookmarking service) last year, I briefly mentioned another federated server, Shuttlecraft… but I never followed up on that. Shuttlecraft is a...
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Pi Pico 2
I was busy and offline for most of today, and by the time I checked “the feeds” I’d missed the excitement about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 / RP2350. I’m somewhat excited – the RP2040 and the Pico (W)...
View ArticleMaintaining a rhythm
A bit short and unstructured today, but posting to keep things moving along. End-of-weeknotes, if you will. I woke up to a beeping NAS – one of the HDDs is failing with bad sectors, and the drive is...
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Henry Found the Time
It somehow feels appropriate that this post is both a throwback to things I wrote about back in the much earlier days of my blog, and, a #NewMusicAlert. In other words, Happy Blaugust! See also: Alex...
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Fixing digital holes
My friend the brilliant Terence Eden has been working out how to fix the problem of decaying Twitter embeds – more and more people are finally leaving the Musk propaganda machine that X has become1,...
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