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Talking about it isn’t good enough / But quoting from it at least demonstrates / The virtue of an art that knows its mind. // Seamus Heaney : Squarings

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Liked Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer (Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer)
Now imagine, for a moment, an environment where a decentralized fabric of connected personal sites allows everyone to publish their own content but also enables each individual to engage in an open discussion – answering, challenging, and acknowledging the ideas of others through this universe of personal sites.

Comprehensive discussion of the ins and outs of running your own website from an IndieWeb perspective.

I’ve been dipping my toes into IndieWeb principles  for the past few years I hope this is the direction the internet is going.

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Liked Dylan Wiliam on Twitter (Twitter)
“Now this is very interesting, and I don't think at all obvious. Reading challenging texts aloud, and at a fast pace, improved the reading comprehension of all students, but for the lowest achievers, the gains were almost twice as great: https://t.co/TxJ1MZPI4X.”

I’ve noticed I do this less and less as there seems to be more and more you have to do each day.   Need to make more time for reading to class next session.

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Liked Michael Tsai - Blog - Meet the New Dropbox (mjtsai.com)

I’ve enjoyed dropbox for a long time, but has become less useful to me first stopping the hosting web pages and then when the school network where I worked blocked it. I now use O365 OneDrive for syncing files from home to work quite happily.  I’ve quite a few aliased  setting files and the like sitting in dropbox, but they are only used from my home mac now. One or two drafts action send text from my phone to dropbox but nothing very important.

I think I’ll be trying to tidy up and drop dropbox over the summer holidays.

Some of the quotes in the linked post drip with sarcasm.

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Liked Quick Fix — a vending machine for likes and followers - Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi)
Art installation and social commentary from maker Dries Depoorter, with a Pi, and Arduino, and a nicely finished enclosure.

Quick Fix — a vending machine for likes and followers

Quick Fix is a vending machine (and art installation) that sells social media likes and followers. Drop in a coin, enter your social media account name, and an army of fake accounts will like or follow you

 

sounds like fun on several levels.

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Liked Tom Smith on Twitter (Twitter)
“Absolutely loving @p5xjs since I FINALLY got round to trying it. Decided to teach it next week. I wish the online editor had code completion because my brain doesn't. https://t.co/R6wST1yNEJ”

I played with processing on a Future Learn course a while back. I’ve noticed p5xjs and though it might be interesting to play with. Never did, still do.