John Johnston @johnjohnston@mastodon.social

@jgmac1106 @dajbelshaw Either of you know about https://pleroma.social looks like it might run on a raspberry pi might be handy re " I’ve noticed people setting up an instance just for themselves." Doug? I am resisting burning up my October Week holiday...

I’ve listened to the odd episode of Timothy Ferriss’s podcast as it is often recommended. I’ve never particularly enjoyed them. This post by Heather Havrilesky There Are Too Many Gurus in America
https://lithub.com/heather-havrilesky-there-are-too-many-gurus-in-america/
explains why.

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.

https://pressedconf.org

My tuppence worth:
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/word-press-for-weans-2018-pressedconf18/

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.

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...

Fascinating blog and YouTube channel on raspberry pi, hardware and bitcoin https://n-o-d-e.net/ might interest @dajbelshaw@social.coop

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?

WordPress problem mine & mine alone
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wordpress-menus-fixed-fault-mine-mine-alone/