Playlist by Datassette

Mood: programming, concentration

http://www.musicforprogramming.net/?one

Frog Pocket – Plinty
Tor Lundvall – Crooked
Tim Hecker – 7000 Miles
Belong – Late Night
Frog Pocket – Sea Angel Lament
William Basinski – 92982.2
Praveen – Cecilia’s Fruit
Arpanet – Ionic Crystals
Tim Hecker – October
Netherworld – Virgin Lands
KGB Man – Nobody Here
Tim Hecker – Blood Rainbow
Der Zyklus – Iris / Retinal Scanning
Boards Of Canada – Kaini Industries

 

Bookmarked 'Progressive Alliance' is now the only alternative to the Tories (theecologist.org)

Thanks to the UK's crazy 'first past the post' electoral system, there's only way the UK can end austerity and neoliberal government in the next general election, writes Rupert Read: if centre and left parties join in a Progressive Alliance that represents the majority of voters.

Progressive alliance seems like the best hope of averting another 5 years of the Conservatives on June 8th.  Is it feasible?
The Green Party election broadcast for the upcoming local government elections flags the refugee crisis, NHS, inequality, climate change, lack of investment in renewables, as key issues.  Important issues, but not really issues that local government has much say over?  I also would like the video to focus a little more on the very positive and progressive policies that the Greens have, rather than just saying what is currently wrong.  But maybe that doesn’t fit so well into a short election broadcast.
A big of a long-off goal with the indieweb BDD specs, would be for it to be a generic way to automate how many of the features of indieweb a site had implemented.  Kind of an automated IndieMark.  But really, just something to give you an idea of which features you could choose to implement, and which ones you’ve already implemented successfully.  It should of course be implementation agnostic – it’s just testing functionality after all (the point of BDD).
Why do BDD with my site?  It’s mostly as excuse to play around and learn about a few different things – indieweb, BDD, codeception.  I’m also a big fan of the BDD approach, forcing you to think about why you’re implementing something, what’s the value, before you go ahead and implement it.  Plus, regression tests FTW.