Read: Dead Lions by Mick Herron ★★★☆☆ 📚
The second in the series, grubby comic spies. I think I’ll keep reading these now and again.
Cochno Estate walk, More on Flickr #nature
Read: All’s Well by Mona Awad ★★★★☆ 📚
I really disliked, or was made uncomfortable by the narrator. Both when she was describing her illness or in her magically achieved wellness. It was compelling. Never sure if the action was real, unreliably reported or a hallucination.
2 Six-spot burnet moths mating on a harebell.
Watched: Your website is a slow, bloated, carbon-belching monstrosity
Watched: Your website is a slow, bloated, carbon-belching monstrosity
I watched this on Reclaim Open Online, I can not see how to link there so YouTube.
An enjoyable and realistic watch. I occasionally though about running my Pi off solar. But I live in a flat and hardware is not my favourite thing, maybe one day…
live your life be happy um make better websites for people not really because it’s going to save the world, because it’s not. Capitalism is the problem not JavaScript libraries…
and at the start:
if you’ve ever seen this article which I kind of like it lets you know that your personal carbon footprint was a little slogan developed by an ad agency at the request of British Petroleum to help make you feel guilty for stuff that larger and like commercial interests do so with that maybe you don’t have to feel guilty about whether you recycle or not or whether your websites are particularly fast energy efficient but I would argue that you want to do it anyway because you care about stuff like this accessibility… 1
I used the youTube auto generated transcript for the quotes, tweaked then a bit. I wonder if there is a way to search these rather than copy them out to a text editor and search there…
Featured image Screenshot of the youtube vide dithered to a 7kb greyscale gif.
Playing around, ChatGPT got me to black and white. I use ImageMagick occasionally, for tasks I repeat a lot (mapgrids for example) I’ll not learn much of it. ChatGPT may speed up my simple needs.
convert ravens.jpg -threshold 30% -fill white +opaque black bw.jpg
Read: The Wych Elm by Tana French ★★★☆☆ 📚
Narrator with a bump on the head and confused brain. Murder from the past. The story unwinds & unfolds in a teasing way.
Took a short walk on the braes this morning. Lotos of interesting birds around. #nature
#SilentSunday
Life in Links 49
- GitHub – chasedooley/mostly-free-resources-for-almost-everyone: A list of mostly free resources for almost anyone. Huge list, main topics: Computer Science and Related; Education; YouTube Educators; Media; Life, Health, and Related; Other Tools and Apps
- Raspberry “PiMac” I have my mum’s old iMac, tempted as an easy way to get linux onto it.
- Share on Pixelfed – Jan’s Blog I have a rather underused pixelfed account will give this a go.
- Lisa Orth Generative Art inspiring, but the NFT space is not one I’ve explored.
- Preserving the Past, Empowering the Future: Unveiling the Wayback Machine’s Vital Role in Investigative Work | Internet Archive Blogs Every so often I send the archive a fiver, this is just more evidence of its value. I think I use the archive at least once a week.
Featured Image: Demon in chains | Cleveland Museum of Art CC0