I’ve seen quite a few blackthorn blooming along the road this week.
Read: Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead ★★★☆☆ 📚
Met a Scary Tree yesterday morning.
For today's TDC... #tdc3704 #ds106 Apocalypse [Now] Animated https://dlvr.it/SL40DL
ds106 snake not to good on mobile.
#tdc3704 I could say I was hypnotised by the beauty of the Apocalypse [Now] Animated & that is why this is a day late, but it just took me a long time. The #ds106 snake rides the wave of borrowed code, till the end of time or the pi’s SD card gives up.
Just had a fascinating meeting with @joedale where he shared some audacity workflow wizardry.
I started my early 2011 MacBook to open a a cd yesterday. The trackpad bulged ominously. New battery arrived today along with the correct screwdrivers. It feels quite snappy. I think I’ll start using if for 32 bit stuff which should let me update the newer one.
A hint of spring?
First time I’ve felt spring might be around the corner, beautiful blues today.
I find it pretty difficult to keep up with any sort of daily activity.
Sunday Serendipity
The weather outside is frightful, but I want to avoid the usual internet distractions.
A while ago I signed up for the Vmail newsletter. This is from VOLE.wtf and seems to be put together from stuff submitted by anyone!
One of the items was Wilderness Land a map of links generated from a google spreadsheet which leads to many rabbit hole sites.
Here are a few:
- Radio Garden a globe full of radio stations from around the world.
- Library of Colors Another site for serendipity, arranged around colour words from page titles.
- Pasta Guide Nice an simple site, lots of information without adverts and other distractions.
- corpora/data/words at master · dariusk/corpora found via the Library of Colors, lotf of useful looking lists of words.
- 🛰️ See A Satellite Tonight, probably not tonight here given the weather we are having.
Featured image: Image from page 130 of “The Canadian field-naturalist” (19… | Flickr found via a search for Public Domain photos and the word Serendipity.
Another favourite source of daily serendipity is the dailywebthing daily pointers.
A website where you can pay your dues to the pug in a rug, by honoring it with your eyes. - The website https://puginarug.com - The code https://github.com/tholman/puginarug
Pretty delightful video showing how the The Pug In A Rug Site/page was made. Simple enough for me to learn from.
I usually do not use YouTube videos for learning preferring text or text and image. This video hit the sweet spot for me.
It also felt like Tim was working it out as he went along, developing ideas and fixing mistakes.