At yesterday’s HWC London, I thought I’d have a start at getting things set up such that I can publish to my website from within spacemacs (AKA Emacs with lots of customisations).
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Greg McVerryUsing emacs in termux on Android. Because… actually I forgot why. But fun anyway!
Testing posting from spacemacs as a micropub client…
On a train, in a branch, adding tests to legacy code and refactoring. Aw yeah. Love it when a test goes green.
Forget this debate about whether it is overall more productive or not – for me personally, I just don’t enjoy coding if I’m not driving it with tests.
First Homebrew Website Club meeting in Nottingham!
Exclusive: small companies tell the Guardian of the impact of ending ‘Friday fatigue’
Looking forward to the next HWC London.
Following Twitter peeps in an indiereader with granary.io and Microsub
My online social experience is mostly through the indieweb. For following people and blogs, I use Aperture, a Microsub server, to subscribe to various social feeds. And then I read and interact with those feeds in various clients – e.g. Indigenous on Android, and Monocle on the web.
Although I don’t use Twitter anymore, lots of people I find interesting still do. So I want a way of following their posts from within my Indieweb readers.
I use granary.io to follow Twitter people in my indieweb reader. What it does is convert a Twitter feed into a feed in a format that I can subscribe to via Microsub.
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OpenSSL Error – Failed to enable crypto stream_socket_client(): unable to connect
For future peoples possibly encountering this same error:
"stream_socket_client(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:14094410:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert handshake failure stream_socket_client(): Failed to enable crypto stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://some.site:443 (Unknown error)
I was getting this on a server that was running PHP 7.1. Upgrading to 7.3 resolved it.
(I also enabled SSL on the site that the call was being made from – a test site so it didn’t previously have any SSL – but I don’t think that made any difference.)
Good podcast from New Economics Foundation discussing the Green New Deal and how it might work in the UK. Pretty fascinating that majority of the Democrat candidates are signed up to it in the US. https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-whats-the-deal-with-the-green-new-deal
Aral Balkan talks about how to design tools and find ways around the big social media platforms. He calls for the design and implementation of Small Tech. I fully agree. Technology to provide us with agency needs to be not just small, but smaller than us, i.e. within the scope of control of the grou...
I’m going through the ‘Build A Laravel App With TDD’ series on Laracasts. I’m enjoying it a lot. It’s fun to code along in little step-by-step videos like this. It’s somewhere between reading a tutorial, doing a kata, and pair programming. Picking up lots of little tips about the framework, and tweaking my tools setup to keep up with the video with as little pausing as possible.
Just used multiple-cursors for the first time in spacemacs. And lo, it was good.
I love pre-2000 Autechre but never really got into anything after that. There. I said it.
Just slowly realising that you could use org-babel very much like you would an interactive notebook like Jupyter. Not tried it yet.. but that could be really useful.
I just remembered that at the recent platform coops talk, Terry Tyldesley mentioned that Resonate is investigating decentralisation. There wasn’t time for much more info than that.. but the basic gist was that they don’t want to be a centralised platform. That’s very cool to hear.
Using latest Indigenous after a month or two of social media hiatus – so many nice new features! Great stuff from Kristof (https://realize.be)
One for Jonas – “Rappers, ranked by the number of unique words used in their lyrics”. (https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/)
Nice to be back doing some IndieWeb with the HWC London crew!
Now I’m getting this error from SuperCollider:
> *** ERROR: SynthDef dirt_gate1 not found
> FAILURE IN SERVER /s_new SynthDef not found
Popped along to a talk yesterday on platform coops organised by Nesta and Cooperatives UK. Specifically discussing the capital conundrum as they call it. They’ve just put a report on it. Totally honestly, I still don’t understand like 90% of how coops work. I haven’t invested the time. But felt big love towards everyone who cares and is trying hard to make them happen.
Trying to get Tidal Cycles running through spacemacs. Almost there I think, but SuperCollider is having a permission denied about something. Might be time to try on IRC…
I’ve had a bit of a social media hiatus. Not planned – it just kind of happens now and again. I feel out of the loop with what’s happening at the world’s bleeding edge. And, that’s totally fine. But I do miss my interesting indieweb and fediverse peeps!
Just finished The Player of Games (Iain M Banks) – also really enjoyable. Less cinematic than Consider Phlebas (though still nicely paced), and a bit more to chew on philosophically. The contrast of the hierarchical Azadian empire and the egalitarian Culture is interesting. Gurgeh, the main character, from the Culture, finds some appeal in the way things work in Azad. Azad feels like a caricature of Western society as it is today – superficially advanced and urbane, but with some real darkness hidden away, out of sight.