Read: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey ★★★★☆ a lot of fun with an unusual take on mermaids. 📚
Category Archives: Micro
Life in Links 42
The Spring Holidays, like others will increase my blogging. It has been a busy term both home learning and back in school. Looking forward to a holiday of wee walks (still stuck in Glasgow) and some random browsing.
- Johnny•Decimal a system for organising. Been a bit of discussion on micro.blog. Sounds good, I made a start with the mess that ins my OneDrive folder, but need to re-read the instructions and start again I think.
- Himalayan Balsam | Scottish Invasive Species Initiative
The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) is a 4-year partnership project which aims to work with local organisations and volunteers to control invasive non-native species along riversides in Northern Scotland, for the benefit of our native wildlife and communities.
I see quite a bit of Himalayan Balsam around, quite pretty but a nasty smell.
- Contemplation. Dramatically Improving Your Photography With Reading via #tds2104 Contemplative Image Reading | The Daily Stillness This looks like an interesting practise.
via @wonderofscience- OpenSeadragon An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile.
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"At startup, an Android device sends Google about 1MB of data, compared with iOS sending Apple around 42KB. When idle, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with iOS sending Apple about 52KB over the same period." https://t.co/nPXiM8Tqi6
— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) March 31, 2021
- George Oates Returns to Revitalize the Flickr Commons | Flickr Blog
- Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse and Capitalism and greed gave Britain its vaccine success, PM Johnson says | Reuters via Micro.blog – @rom
The Featured image is Maxwell dynamic machine, 1961 | Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence found via the Never Been Seen | Science Museum Group Collection page, which I learnt about from Ian Guest
Watched this wee guy going back and forth with nesting material this morning.
Find an artefact in the UK Science Museum digital archive which has 'never been viewed'. https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/never-been-seen/index.html
Much amusement, interest and pleasure.
Never Been Seen | Science Museum Group Collection is a lovely rabbit hole! A marvellous idea.
A touch of frost, clear blue.
Because TiddlyWiki is radically customizable and allows you to think in new ways, it can be hard to "get it" if you haven't used it. In this video, I show what it looks like to be fluent in TiddlyWiki by creating a complete, functional application to track books and articles we've read and would like to read, in just over an hour. This video is 100% uncut and unrehearsed, programming mistakes and all. You can learn all the skills you need to do everything shown in this video with Grok TiddlyWiki (https://groktiddlywiki.com – coming soon!)
This was just great. I’ve been using TiddlyWiki on and of for a couple of years. I really like it but it has been tricky to really get into it. This was a revelation. Looking forward to Grok TiddlyWiki. In the meantime I’ll go over this video again.
Corrugated iron hut reflected in loch. We got up earlish and walked up to Jaw Reservoir. Beautiful still day & blue day. Larks singing. Geese above. A few more photos on flickr
Took a walk round Gartnavel after work. End of Term early finish, summer time & a clear sky. Saw a Green Veined White in a Broomhill garden & a peacock in Gartnavel. I’ve seen the odd butterfly flying but these the first close enough to get a good look.
Blackthorn Blossom, eagerly awaited, I’ve been passing on my commute, but this is the first I’ve seen close this year. My favourite.
Life in Links 41
- Primary Maths – Starting Points Maths interesting set of exercises and discussions.
- Raspberry Pi dog detector (and dopamine booster) uses a raspberry pi to notify when a dog ones past the window using YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection to detect the dogs from a video stream. I almost started replicating this but stopped myself just in time.
- Scratch
Here you can find a number of Scratch projects to teach primary pupils, and in particular to scaffold learning for students with special educational needs. We recommend teaching pupils about the concepts in order: Sequence > Input > Repetition > Selection > Variables > Other. In each section there are a number of projects you can use to explore code, modify or extend existing projects or to fix a program, by debugging or ordering code.
Looks as if it might be a good way to cover scratch. I used a few ideas during lockdown.
- INTERFACE CRITIQUE — Olia Lialina: FROM MY TO ME
Webmasters of the 1990s built homes, worlds and universes. But also, outside of intergalactic ambitions, they strongly pushed the concept of something being mine. The first-person possessive determiner “my” took on a very strong meaning – “my” because I build it, I control this presentation; my interests, my competences, my obsessions: in the trajectory from my to me, I suggest following its decline.
really interesting history of individuals on the web. found in Known Issues with the Web Garden | bavatuesdays
that’s the story of how I temporarily fended off some link rot in my small corner of the web.
Featured image my own dithered to grey with imagemagick, from an idea by Doug Belshaw who was trying to save energy. I just like the idea of these images for link list posts.