John Johnston @johnjohnston@mastodon.social

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/

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;-)