Neil Mather, Author at doubleloop

Really nice post by @rhiaro about Open Data Services Coop’s climate policies.

It’s all really interesting, in particular that question of – what scale should we be pushing change?

Does individual action make any difference? Does a small org make any difference? Such a tough one but I totally agree that “at the very least we can spread the message, the intent, the energy to our friends, family, and possibly our clients, who might spread it onwards.”

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2019/09/reflections-climate

6th October 2019

Woot! Started a simple knowledge base off at https://base.doubleloop.net.

Just using simple org files and org-publish to get going, but very pleased to have a starting point to grow further.

5th October 2019

Was looking for something to make a personal knowledge base in. I just want something simple that’s just backed by plain text and version control and you can statically publish. Spent a while looking at personal wiki software. ikiwiki (https://ikiwiki.info/) and Gollum (https://github.com/gollum/gollum) both look pretty cool, but more than I need. I just went with org files and org-publish in the end.

5th October 2019

Listened to the interview with Ludovic Courtès on #LibreLounge. Guix sounds so cool. So many nice features, but one that particularly tickles my fancy at the moment is having the OS config in one file, that you can just rebuild a system with. I was trying to do something like that for Debian a while back, but sounds like Guix has it baked in.

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-23-guix-with-ludovic-court%C3%A8s.html

5th October 2019

Remembering my first (and so far only) panic attack.

Thanks for posting this. I completely agree that talking about mental health issues in the open is really helpful to remove some of the stigma associated. It can be a bit scary, but the more people do it, the more normalised it will be. I posted about my social anxiety a while back.

5th October 2019

I haven’t used it, but /e/ seems like a great idea. It makes degoogling a lot simpler than doing it yourself on an existing phone. The phones are refurbished, which is good environmentally. It provides services to replace some of those you’d miss from degoogling. Also Gael Duval the founder is on the Fediverse 😉 @gael

5th October 2019

IMPORTANT

Sign the petition for the creation of the disco ball emoji

https://www.change.org/p/apple-creation-of-the-disco-ball-emoji

5th October 2019

I’m reflecting on my information strategy and how to improve it at the moment. Here’s the intro post to that, giving a bit of context.

In this particular post I’m going to chat specifically about discovery, AKA using the Intertubes to find out about interesting things. I can’t help but call my strategy for this my discostrat, apologies for that. I’ll talk a bit about how I’ve had it set up for a while, and some recent tweaks I’ve made to it, and maybe some ways I want to improve it more.