John Johnston @johnjohnston@mastodon.social
Teacher, primary. http://johnjohnston.info
My class and I have been having lots of fun with a raspberry pi, mynaturewatch camera
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/bantonbiggies/2018/06/15/my-naturewatch-pictures-mynaturewatch/
And some notes:
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/naturewatch-camera-in-the-class-1st-try/
This is a raspberry pi project for the faint-hearted. Really straightforward
Jay feather taken with my new close peg 'macro' lens. £1.99 from eBay including P&P HT @daibarnes on instagram. It came with a fisheye and wide angle too!
#pressedconf18 run by @nlafferty & @Patlockley on Twitter was inspiring, 12 hours of organised #WordPress in EDU tweets. Starting holidays head a buzz, best fun I've had on Twitter for a while. Much better use of twitter than news feed. Blog posts popping up archiving presentations too.
My tuppence worth:
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/word-press-for-weans-2018-pressedconf18/
Issue [#295]: A wee problem... https://mailchi.mp/thoughtshrapnel/295 https://social.coop/media/BRFQD-B9VTo2gGJQBkU
“They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake” #bigdata #surveillancecapitalism
Think that made me happiest today😀 . I finally tried getting rid of pinterest results in searching.
Search Term -site:pinterest.*
did the trick (pinterest has multiple domains). This at school where search is google. I've switched to duckduckgo at home and don't see pinterest.
Testing syndication to Mastodon from WordPress http://boffosocko.com/2017/10/25/testing-syndication-to-mastodon-from-wordpress/
just found https://fed.brid.gy/ by @me which looks interesting:
"Bridgy Fed lets you interact with federated social networks like Mastodon and Hubzilla from your IndieWeb site"
Looks like it will not be one click to install, so I might wait and think a bit...
this is now up and running on fed.brid.gy. feel free to try it out!
Fascinating blog and YouTube channel on raspberry pi, hardware and bitcoin https://n-o-d-e.net/ might interest @dajbelshaw
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/microcast-11-podcasting-thoughts/
Microcasting some podcasting thoughts
I’ve been playing with automatically combining, layering & merging images recently with some rough rules. Mostly from the same walk and in order taken. They seem interesting to me. Perhaps, taken in series giving an ‘impression’.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/troutcolor/albums/72157687032915510
Just downloaded >900 audioboom MP3s tagged #edutalk & related info now just need to figure out how to get them on the Edutalk WordPress site replacing posts that embedded the boos. Feeling a bit better now about audiobooms removal of free podcasting
This made me smile, a lovely idea: http://cdevroe.com/demos/a-color-for-every-address-in-the-world.html
Just got an email from mastodon. Reminded me I'd not been here for a while. I've been mostly paying attention to micro.blog over the summer. Think I need an app rather than depending on browser. Wonder what the best app for iOS would be?
@johnjohnston yes! we're actually planning to work on this soon. details in http://indieweb.org/2017/ostatusbridge , maybe eventually as http://ostatus.brid.gy/ . first step will probably be add ActivityStreams 2 support to https://granary-demo.appspot.com/ .
WordPress problem mine & mine alone
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wordpress-menus-fixed-fault-mine-mine-alone/
Help, updated to #WordPress 4.7.5 and my menus have got weird, titles now ellipse or category description! Can’t fix by editing. http://johnjohnston.info/blog/
Wondering of there could be #webmention support in mastadon? even it the same way bridgy added it to twitter? Still figuring out various #indieweb things on my blog and micro.blog.
wee bit of silly fun from the weekend: riffing on the oblique strategies using Bill Smith's photo set: http://johnjohnston.info/oddsandends/byzantium/ another way to solve a creative impass;-)
