Read: Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin ★★★☆☆ 📚
First Rebus, a darker character than the later series (which I’ve read quite a few in random order). I got the first 3 in a kindle 99p bundle so will read the next couple too, not just yet.
Read: Three Fires by Denise Mina ★★★★☆ 📚
Lightly fictionalised account of Girolamo_Savonarola‘s life in Renaissance Florence. Radical & powerful social reformer, anti-semite & inspirer of bonfires of the vanities.
Loch Ardinning – British Dragonfly Society
I’ve visited the loch and the The British Dragonfly site many times. Never this page. Quite delighted to see that the header photo is mine. I presumed picked up from Flickr.
My class finished a wee podcast episode today. As usual I find this a very worthwhile exercise in class.
Read: Real Tigers by Mick Herron ★★★★☆
Third I read in the series, most enjoyable so far, I chuckled out loud a few times. A bit too much shooting. I couldn’t read the next one until I read other things, but feel the pull.
Life in Links 53
I am a fan of micro:bits too, these look like great lessons, nicely packaged. CC BY-NC too.
I’ve mostly been avoiding Twitter/X recently, but I still get emails. This looks like it might be fun in class.
I don’t really do much with spotify either, but looking for a poetry podcast I found this one and enjoyed this episode.
Some news. I've been working with Automattic for most of this year on a new version of FeedLand that runs in their cloud. The advantage is it will scale like the most popular websites in the world do, as WordPress does. It's meant a lot of internal changes in the software, but at the same time, it still runs on a Digital Ocean server, and on desktops as well. The next FeedLand works at all these levels, for a person, a workgroup and the world. Obviously, lots more to say about all this.
This looks like really interesting news. I’ve been using FeedLand , for a while, even had it running on a Raspberry Pi until I got into a snarl with domains.
Looking forward to the lots more Dave has to say.
#SilentSunday
Read: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★☆📚
Engrossing, the game programming context kept out of the way & I let the characters shine.
Thus measures implemented to protect pedestrians work very effectively with the cars that do least damage, but are next to useless with the cars that cause most harm.
There doesn’t seem to be any advantages to SUVs. Powerful list of downsides.