Ah, pivot tables. We meet at last.
Month: November 2017
Made a little bit of progress on the photo posts. Mostly progress in understanding how they work, not so much actually changed in the output of my site. The BDD approach worked OK too. A long way off from a solid development process, but again a good learning experience.
Great interview with Carne Ross (‘The Accidental Anarchist’). He gives a very articulate account of his views on anarchism, which are given an interesting perspective given he was previously fully ensconced in the present power system as a British diplomat. I found very interesting the discussion around the suggestion that anarchism fosters a more loving society.
Ahhh this is going to be super helpful: https://github.com/barnabywalters/php-mf-cleaner
My images posts look a little funky, so I’m going to try and fix that – and try to do it in a test-driven way.
I attended my first IndieWebCamp last weekend, in Berlin. It was a brilliant experience – great city, great venue, great organisation, and great people.
In brief, the indieweb movement is about reclaiming your identity and your data back from the corporatised web. It advocates having your own website, where you blog, microblog, post images, add check-ins, etc – and crucially, interact with others – all the things you might currently do across multiple silo’ed platforms owned by the big digital corporations, but here originating from a site under your own control.
Sunday started off with a session with DATA4CHAN.GE – ‘visualising human rights’. It was a mini data dive, looking for patterns in data provided by the Kenyan organisation CHRIPS. We used rawgraphs.io, a really cool tool for playing around with data and quickly visualising it to get a feel for it.
Last chance to make my notes from MozFest before they slip from my mind.
This was my second year attending, and it was just as great and inspiring as last time. If anything there were more talks that I was interesting in attending than last year. (Could have been the whole Decentralization track that added to that.)