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Energized Mood Flux
A few weeks ago, we had our second experience of the wonderful community that is the Electromagnetic Field festival. The EMF24 sign: solar panel, water installations, and recycled circuitboards....
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Hacking with plotters
I spent part of Saturday working on my latest plotter project. We spend a lot of our time making art with pen plotters, and I’ve become really interested in all aspects of the machines – from the...
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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...
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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)...
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I love the Web
I use a lot of apps, and, I love my iPhone. BUT I really love the Web. A few things lately reminded me of what a great and – so far – durable, open set of of technologies the Web is based on. You can...
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Today, I was at Canons House & Gardens in Mitcham with two of my friends from our local maker group, Makeroni. Makeroni itself evolved out of the earlier HackWimbledon meetup – we try to get...
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Return of the Ogg(Camp)
One of the earliest community events that I got heavily involved with here in the UK was OggCamp. Back in the later part of the first decade of the 21st Century, otherwise known as around about 2009,...
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On Symbols & Symbolism
Some chatter on the Fediverse in the past couple of days, around a proposed symbol for the network of networks. Background There is an icon / logo that has been used for the Fediverse as a whole, for...
View ArticleTweaking templates
Now that I’ve got the site more into a shape that I’m happy with… I’m doing more tweaking. Since I published the site with the refreshed theme, I’ve made a few updates: I made various adjustments to...
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Today’s notes
I had hoped – and really wanted – to be at Wuthering Bytes / Open Source Hardware Camp this weekend, but didn’t get that sorted out because of Reasons. So, I spent today doing various other things...
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Somewhere in the (M5)Stack
Following on from yesterday’s tech activities, today I went along to Makeroni, and later spent a bit of time tinkering in the studio, and that’s where today’s blog post starts. The images are a bit...
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MNT Pocket Reform: a (literal) field test
Using the Pocket Reform outdoors I am typing this while sitting in the Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace, as a test of being out with it. We are at the Hampton Court Food Festival today. It is a...
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Learning about the ATmosphere
Quick post, mostly to journal things. This evening, I went along to an interesting talk about ATProto and its ecosystem, that was held at Newspeak House in Shoreditch. This was a presentation by Dan...
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The Web, made by Humans
During my recent blogging revival I’ve already written about how I love the web1. I’ve also commented a couple of times about uses of AI and Large Language Models and the kinds of confusion that can...
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Keypad hacking
I’ve had an Adafruit Macropad for a little over 3 years, and while I was working from home at the start of that period it was permanently on, connected to my MacBook Pro on my desktop, with a variety...
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Fediverse for government organisations, a follow-up
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the notion that governments can do more to secure their own online voices by owning and operating their own Fediverse instances (Mastodon, as an example). I am by...
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Another midweek grab-bag! Today I met a connection I hadn’t seen for ~10 years for coffee, and had an excellent and wide-ranging catch-up. I love reconnecting, and rediscovering common interests....
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Progress is easy to miss
Fair warning – I’m likely to struggle to make a clear point in my post today; this will be a little rambling… but, you know what? that’s part of the reason that I want to write it out. I’m processing...
View ArticleMore grumps
Last weekend, we recorded episode 3.19 of Techgrumps, aka your monthly dose of very annoyed technology industry professionals letting off their frustrations with the big news stories related to tech...
View ArticleUnderwhelmed by Glowtime
I followed today’s Apple launch primarily via the Verge liveblog (I was out, and unable to watch the stream itself). I think I got more entertainment from the banter between the writers, and their...
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