Writing
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This week
Some things that I’ve done, watched, read and listened to this week.
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D3.js book series dates charts
I’ve written a thing in D3.js to draw charts that show when books in a series are set, compared with the dates on which they were published.
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What I’ve been doing recently
Some things I’ve been doing.
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My old HyperCard stack
A HyperCard stack I made in the early 1990s can now be used in a web browser.
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Graphing the Guardian’s Eco Ratings for cars
I made a graph comparing the fuel consumption and carbon emissions of cars reviewed by the Guardian, to the Eco Rating in the review.
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Selective Listening
I had a scene in a film which you can now view online for free.
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FFFFOUND! export script
A Python script to export your Ffffound.com images
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Add a Google map to Django admin to get latitude and longitude
How I added a Google map to the Django admin page for a model that has latitude and longitude fields.
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Two blogs, one WordPress
How to make two blogs in one WordPress install.
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Twelescreen updated for 2017
I updated Twelescreen with this year’s politicians and up-to-date code.
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US maps from 1963
I scanned the covers of 66 maps that my mum collected while travelling across the USA in 1963.
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Last.fm added to Django Ditto
I’ve updated Django Ditto, which can now also archive your Last.fm listens.
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MoMA Exhibition Seplunker
About a website built with Good, Form & Spectacle for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The Waddesdon Bequest website
About making a website for the British Museum’s Waddesdon Bequest, with Good, Form & Spectacle.
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Some kettle suggestions
I asked people to recommend kettles on Twitter. Here’s what they said.
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Thanks Leonard
I used a bit of one of Leonard Cohen’s songs on a dating service.
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What isn’t an Incredible Journey?
Is Twitter’s closure of Vine an Incredible Journey?
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Failing and trying and failing and trying again
I’ve started doing some acting classes again, after about eight years of no acting.
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Django Ditto and archiving your stuff
About making Django Ditto and whether it’s worth archiving all your ephemeral digital stuff.
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The Shaolin Film Club
What I can piece together about the mid-1990s film, music and computer games club.
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Everything had to be new
On the fads of 19th century Parisian bohemia.
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WordPress.com, and user testing, by phone
On WordPress.com’s two confusing interfaces, and wondering if user-testing of websites should include a remote support scenario.
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Folklore universe
About a 2001 paper that looked at how creatures created on a gadget spread around a school, and how people fail to see beyond their own small network.
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On spending too long setting up one webserver
I learned how to use Ansible and it took way too long because I like to do things properly.
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A thought on job ads
On recruiters’ emails that are really dull.