Reading How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford.
Notes
5492Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Playing Tie The Bonnet (reel) on mandolin:
https://thesession.org/tunes/7222
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6PKNPnkUQ8
Replying to a tweet from @hdv
It’s the classic metacrap problem: invisible metadata rots.
https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm
It’s one of the reasons why microformats always favoured marking up existing, visible (user-facing) data.
Replying to a tweet from @yatil
This is an interesting development though:
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/07/using-chrome-to-generate-more.html
HTML -> accessible PDF as an archival workflow?
Strolling along the seafront with the Clearleft crew.
Did anyone spot the, um, deliberate mistake at the end of this week’s episode of the Clearleft podcast? Where I sent you to the wrong link for the design maturity survey?
It should be https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/designmaturity
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @jina
No rush! You can take as long as you like.
(As you know, I am no stranger to playing the long game. 🙂)
Playing Pull Out The Knife And Stick It Again (jig) on mandolin:
https://thesession.org/tunes/398
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EbhSHyvFls
Replying to a tweet from @ThainBBdL
Whoops! Thanks for spotting that—should be fixed now.
Replying to a tweet from @linushoremans
Nice! (and thank you!)
Replying to a tweet from @meyerweb
When I was a kid, I thought the word “character” started with a “chuh” sound (’cause, y’know that is how it’s spelled).
I also pronounced the “b” in the “subtle” …which wasn’t.
Reading a lot just leads to embarrassment.
Replying to a tweet from @robweychert
Smooth!
(like butter)
There’s a new episode of the Clearleft podcast!
https://podcast.clearleft.com/season01/episode05/
It’s about design maturity and I have questions: morphology, longevity, incept dates…
(Thanks to @aarron for agreeing to a grilling)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Playing Maud Millar (reel) on mandolin:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZPbVPrtTA
Monday, August 3rd, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @harrybr
Yes.
I refuse on principle to use an ISP that does any traffic shaping.
Playing Tom Mhick’s (polka) on mandolin:
https://thesession.org/tunes/11284
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZ7-qnLdNY
Gave blood today.
“Nice veins!” I was told. I always get complimented on my veins and it always pleases me inordinately.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
Playing The Monaghan Jig on mandolin:
https://thesession.org/tunes/67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KehNOfm96Lc
Checked in at The Hartington. Sunday roast — with Jessica
Replying to a tweet from @aerotwist
Seeing as Safari shows all the computed properties correctly, I’m guessing it was something that was introduced after the Webkit/Blink fork?
But weirdly, Firefox is showing the same behaviour as Chrome.