Hi Chris,
10,000 I sub to the RSS feed! Not necessarily calming, but an amazing source of serendipity. Much appreciated.
I just noticed that my Hypothes.is account has passed the 10,000 annotations mark.
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Saw this guy at Ardinning this afternoon. Given his/her tail might be regrown I wonder if it the one I saw 3 years ago in the same place.
Had a walk round The Glen Douglas Trio today. Photos and notes on the walkmap
I also tried recording audio along the way to take some notes & record some thoughts.
But not everything has to be scalable; not everything has to be venture scale. There are a lot of public services, technologies in the public interest, and fully-profitable businesses that benefit by not trying to reach scale. Relationships are the building blocks of society; eradicating those in favor of analytics, in education of all places, is counter-productive, to put it charitably.
This is a wonderful post Ben, thanks you. It speaks, to me as a primary teacher, to more than just EdTech and startUps. The big internet beasts have some claws in education and seem to be working towards what you call the rat-maze simulation of intimacy. Governments seem bent on datafication.
Technology can be part of informal & formal personal relationships. The technology I find interesting is messy engaging and has not much to do with scalability & market share.
In my tiny world, I hope technology helps inclusion, engagement, diversification of approaches and fun. The presentation & recording of learning in a useful way by learner that is still individual, not auto analysable and open to conversation.
Bright blowy day. Ringlet Butterfly or two (saw my first ringlet of year yesterday), a lone swift about the cairn. Lots of common spotted-orchids.
Read: Rizzio by Denise Mina, ★★★★☆ short account of the murder. Not too much in the way of backstory, but lots of detail & characters. Fits very well with the painting by Sir William Allan.
Featured image: Out of Copyright, National Galleries of Scotland.
A father’s day walk in Glen Finlas
Had a nice walk along the canal this morning.
A few weeks ago I noted that videogrep had an update.
I then played about a bit, including this supercut of Casablanca. Instead of looking for words or phrases I used the bits with [music] in the subtitles. I had a couple of sticky points in the process. One where I had aliased an old version of videogrep in my bash profile (not something I very often even consider!). The other I’ve now forgotten. I posted the video a couple of weeks ago then forgot to add it here.
And the documentation to get started https://makecode.com/writing-docs/tutorials
Brian, that is very cool. Pasting an example markdown from github into the editor looks like a good way to figure it out.