It will be now soon…
Work
Working 8 hours a week on Glow Blogs as product owner.
11 Nov 2025, doing the odd day of supply at Banton where I worked until retirement. So far covering classes for non class contact. Fun stuff, micro:bits, scratch, etc.
12 Jul 2025, just retired from teaching. Officially 11 August 2025, but I am on holiday till then.
Latest Toot
rss chat: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/rss-chat/
rss.chat by Dave Winer, where each user gets an RSS feed to share their posts. It seems to be about small communities on individual servers. While it's still in demo mode and not guaranteed to stick around, it's a thought provoking way to think about at social networking, feeds and the small/IndieWeb.
Last Book
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Read Heartwood by Amity Gaige ★★★★☆
Gripping search for a missing hiker on the Appalachian trail. Told from three points of view, the lost, the searcher and a seemingly disconnected elderly lady in a retirement complex. An enjoyable read.
iNaturalist
In the last couple of years I stared adding photos of flora & fauna to iNaturalist, a citizen science project. Mostly as a way to id things. Here are the last 6:
Crucial Tracks
Crucial tracks is a nice music blogging tool, I’m not a huge music fan but this is fun. This is the last track I posted:
This Site
2025-07-20 Updated the way I display iNaturalist
Site Wishes
- Understand the IndieWeb a bit more
- work out the differences between the post kinds & IndieBlocks.
- Have a Block Theme that supports microformats 2 so I could use a block theme.
- Change theme
- Start to untangle from Jetpack
- Update my home page (just html not wordpress)