Posted on 4 August, 2022

Read: Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman ★★★☆☆ 📚
Good fun Georgian mystery, no great suprises.

Posted on 31 July, 2022

Read: Upgrade by Blake Crouch 📚★★★☆☆
Climate change, gene editing, upgrades for humans. So fast paced you don’t really think about possible plot holes. Very much a page turner.

Re: slippy

Posted on 16 July, 2022

john

Replied to https://boffosocko.com/2022/07/14/55807162/ (boffosocko.com)

I’m curious if anyone has tried building a digital public zettelkasten on WordPress in general or using using the Slippy plugin in particular?

Hi Chris,
you would think WordPress could do this.

I installed slippy on a test blog. As far as a quick look showed it would not be useful for a public slip box. There is no published url that I could easily find. The repeated slips appear in the editor.

Posted on 15 July, 2022

john

Bookmarked Raspberry (steve-best.github.io)

I'm pleased to report that our iMac is now better than ever, thanks to Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac (also known as Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop). What exactly is this operating system with an incredibly long name? It is a Linux distro based on Debian with the Raspberry Pi's desktop environment. (This is not actually the operating system that is typically installed on the Raspberry Pi devices (Raspberry Pi OS), but Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop and Raspberry Pi OS are incredibly similar.)

Looking at mum’s old intel iMac in the back room…

Reversing Gif

Posted on 15 July, 2022

john

I was interested to read How to Reverse an Animated GIF

convert water-forward.gif -coalesce -reverse -quiet -layers OptimizePlus -loop 0 water-reversed.gif

So gave it a quick try. The result wa fine, but my 228kb gif was 1.1 MB in reverse. So I had a wee look art the gifsicle man page and ended up after a few tries with:

gifsicle -U stairs01.gif "#-1-0" --colors 32 -O3 -o downstairsR.gif

249kb

animated gif from black and white film reversed so woman appears to walk down the stairs — I can’t recall when I made the original gif and which film I took it from.

Posted on 8 July, 2022

john

Liked Edtech is killing us: Random notes on a Neil Selwyn talk about edtech and climate crisis (ammienoot.com)

we currently live in a period of edtech excess and that this is fuelling increasing disadvantage and climate crisis. He remains sceptical, like many of us, that the answer to these big problems is yet more tech.