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Here is today's #dailycreate #tdc4198 #ds106 Show us your growlery! https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4198/ Reply with your response and the same tdc**** hashtag

A screenshot of the webpage
Kilpatrick Walks
Some trails layered on a map

 

Is the best place for me when I am grumpy.

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pi.johnj.info/kilpatrick/

Is the best place for me when I am grumpy.

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Ardinning loch winter afternoon. Dark clouds, light silhouettes trees and reflects on the loch.

Today’s #DS106 challange is worth more than a tweet. #tdc4124 #ds106 Is today the day it all breaks? | The DS106 Daily Create

If Twitter switch off the old version of its API, then some of the functionality of the Daily Create will break today. See Cogdog’s blog for an explanation.

This sucks. It really sucks. As Alan says, life will go on. But just in case it doesn’t, make something, DS106 style, that expresses how sucky this really is.

The twitter API has, over the years, enabled a lot of wonderful things. In my opinion none more so that the #DS106 #DailyCreate. This provides simple daily creative prompts, but more importantly it pulls responses together onto its WordPress Home. I imagine Alan especially feels this pain. He has tirelessly kept this up and running and helped other use the technology elsewhere (the Daily Stillness is one I love).

There may be a silver lining, the slim chance that there is an increase in open, shares and self owned streams, open protocols and interop may increase, or even flourish. Mastodon is growing, I hope RSS does too.

Featured image, my own.

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Replied to #tdc4067 #ds106 Verify that you’re not a robot- V2 by ReverendReverend (daily.ds106.us)

The first reCAPTCHA was simply checking a box or retyping a word. They’ve had to improve the technology to keep ahead of the scammers, bots and other nefarious digital villains out there. Need a laugh after a frustrating day on the web? Check out this YouTube video,”Verifying that you’re not a robot“, a hilarious personification… Read more »

Not a robot #tdc4067 #ds106

Gif of kung fu fighter punching through google captcha

I took an old gif I made back in 2014 and added the captcha frame.

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Interesting dilemma, Thinking about moving to #ds106 https://social.ds106.us. It seems moving mastodon servers is not that difficult. I think you lose old posts but since I’ve POSSED some from my blog it is not a problem. Alternatively the ActivityPub WordPress plugin turns your blog into a member of the fediverse. The is attractive, but I am not sure how much understanding & work is needed. Or I could stay on mastodon.social

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Replied to The GIF Is on Its Deathbed by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)
Kaitlyn Tiffany reflects on the demise of GIFs. She discusses the embarrassing nature in which particular GIFs are used on repeat. In addition to this, the MP4 format is a lot smaller. Ir is interesting to look back on when I presented on GIFs as a form of quick makes.

Hi Aaron,
Thanks for this link, your pull quote is perfect. As a recovering gif masochists it really struck a chord. I never aimed for perfection just some strange self imposted notion around file size. I blame #DS106 for my may years of gif-addiction.

I don’t know if I’ll every break completely free, yesterday an image on my camera roll cried out for giffing. The modern way, an iOS shortcut resulted in a 2.2MB monster. After a fair bit of command line, with Eddie Kohler’s gifsicle, I eventually opened an older version of Mac os on parallels that could run FireWorks to to squash it to 448KB.

Although making gifs is redundant & silly, it has given me so much fun over the years and I like to feel taught me a lot.

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My buddy John is now back to school as a teacher in Scotland. His summer redux includes a wonderful video collage of summer photos

Thanks for the love Joe,
Just when I think I’ll get rid of the sidebar. They do seem to have gone out of fashion. I guess I’ll keep mine till they come back in😉
Ds106, was/is a wonderful course on ‘digital storytelling’ that has run in several universities but allows anyone to join in. A source of a lot of fun and a lot of learning about owning your own space.
The video is in the style of the now disappeared online service pummelvision. After it went I wrote a script to replicate it.