Nice walk yesterday morning. Meadow Sweet starting to come out. 8 Ravens flying above edge of braes. Butterflies: Ringlet, Small heath, Meadow Brown. Lots of folk on the road, Braes quiet, quite wet in long grass.
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Life in Links 48
I’ve not posted links for a while, these are some of the things I’ve found interesting in the last couple of weeks.
Technology
- Ian Betteridge on Meta and Mastodon
- Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 – The Verge
- The Opt Out Project Yes, you can live without Big Tech. If data is the new oil, then I’m here to help you go electric. via Joe Jenett
- delightful creative tools again via Joe
Education
- Hello World RSS Feed podcast feed from Raspberry pi folk
- Environment data logger | micro:bit for next session in school?
- Hedy – Textual programming made easy Hedy is suitable for kids aged 10 and up and designed for classroom use. Teachers can use our free, built-in lesson plans, but can also author their own lessons and load these into the Hedy user interface. I’ve never tried text based coding with pupils, afair
Sounds
- Episode 1: The Apes of Gibraltar – Fearful Symmetry intereguing podcast, I’ve only listen to this episode, hard to describe.
- Worldwide Weather | Joe Woodham Worldwide Weather is a lo-fi foley adventure. Featuring wailing guitars aboard hypnotic tape loops, gale force bass VI and squally seagulls.
Nature
Featured image found with Openverse, attribution copied from the caption. Winding Chain – Triple Square Link with Wooden Spacers, 5½-inch Pitch, Wrought Iron, 1850s-1870s by Photographer: David Thompson is licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Read: Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson ★★★★☆ 📚
1920’s London, mad night life, huge cast of unique and surprising characters tangled in a web of crime(s). Very funny, gets so complex there is a lot of tying up of loose ends in the last couple of chapters.
Lovely father’s day walk from Stronachlachar round the west end of Loch Katrine. warm day, but good breeze and not much in the way of hills made for pleasant stroll. lots to see. More photos.
#SlientSunday
Listened: Seawilding – Scotland
Listened #2 Seawilding – Scotland
On the west coast of Scotland, by the shores of Loch Craignish, a community has come together to help restore their marine environment.
When deciding on how to put something back, they identified two priority marine features they could do something about.This is a story about carbon capturing seagrass, water filtering oysters & the passionate people tirelessly working to restore both.
Really interesting listen especially about the extent of oyster beds and sea grass around the Scottish coast in fairly recent history.
In the 1790s, as many as 30 million were harvested a year from the Firth of Forth, just outside of Edinburgh.
By 1882, the Edinburgh Oyster Hall was down to just 55,000.
We saw a pair of adults dabchicks feeding 3 very young chicks earlier this week. This evening one adult fishing and feeding a chick, another adult, with a chick peeping out from its feathers, on a nest.
Read: Slow Horses by Mick Herron ★★★ 📚
Enjoyed this, even though I’d seen the TV series.
We have improved the embedding of thinklink, content on Glow Blogs. I’ve a simple example and more details on the embeds blog. Pasting an embed code now is converted to a shortcode, with any setting included.
I’m no super billionaire businessman, but to cut off the world’s largest web publishing platform from adding content to your product is— dumb ass to the nth degree.