Month: April 2017
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
Really like the @indie ethical design manifesto. Respect human rights & human effort & human experience on top. https://ind.ie/ethical-design/
Moeity by Helios is a great soundtrack to a morning stretch.
Manufacturers should design electronics to last – not for the dump. http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-electronics/ (Video from 2011, still just as relevant now.)
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.