Category: tech
- Nice little cards made out of bits of internet ()
There’s a website called Tinkersynth, where you fiddle with unfathomable controls to make colours and patterns on a little screen-within-a-screen. It looks like this: When you see something you like, just click the “Download” button and a png file arrives on your computer. Gather together a handful of those png files, then head over to […]
- Doing something about diversity in the tech sector ()
My fellow Public Digital affiliate Davina Sirisena, founder of the Difference Digital agency, has created something new: an online community called DINT: “A global online community set up to make connections between people who care about diversity and inclusion in tech.” DINT meets online once a month for live person-to-person discussion, and runs a Slack […]
- A big bright yellow Alfred theme ()
I use Alfred all the time, have done for years. I also have a plain grey desktop background, mostly grey windows, a grey-on-grey theme in BBEdit. There’s a lot of grey. And, as I stumble further into middle-age, my eyesight is getting worse. So I made an Alfred theme that’s big and bright and stands […]
- Blogging for teams (without using Medium) ()
Recently I was working with a team who wanted to blog about their work. Their first instinct was to start posting stuff on Medium, but I pulled a face and they immediately asked why. “Medium’s not great,” I said. “It’s so aggressive in nagging people to sign up or sign in that it becomes quite […]
- No longer hand-coded ()
For years and years, this website was hand-coded, and I was proud of that. I stubbornly stuck to my ways: writing HTML in BBEdit and uploading it via SFTP to a web host. It worked back in 1999, it still worked now. Why change? Well, because sometimes change is good thing and a good idea. […]
- Remembering the TRS-80 ()
(Warning: nostalgia herein.) This story at Boingboing, What it was like to use a TRS-80 Model 100 as a journalist on the go, brings back memories. As a junior reporter on in the early 1990s, I used a similar machine called a Tandy, but it was almost identical. I can tell you a story about it. […]
- bwrss wrap-up ()
“Been a long time” This post has changed a bit since I first published it last week, on 4 July. Since then I’ve had more feedback that’s given it a happier ending. The bwrss project is done. Did it succeed? YES. The idea was to promote RSS feeds, to remind people that they exist, to encourage people […]
- bwrss ()
Photos you can only see in an RSS feed This project’s all done now. If you subscribe to the feed, you won’t see any new photos. I have archived them in this Flickr album. Subscribe to the feed: bwrss.xml Or copy and paste this url into your RSS reader: https://gilest.org/bwrss/bwrss.xml Black and white and RSS is an RSS feed […]
- Pick a domain that’s easy to say ()
A tip for anyone who’s thinking of creating any kind of web project: if you intend to register a domain name to go with it, pick one that’s easy to say out loud. The easy way to do that is to pretend that you’re two years into the future, and that your web project has […]
- Say no to notifications ()
The only way I’ve found to make Yosemite shut up pic.twitter.com/urJgRzcWsb — Giles Turnbull (@gilest) December 3, 2014 I switch off notifications from as many applications as possible, on as many devices as possible, as often as possible. I do it because I don’t want or need to know when I get incoming email. I’ll find out […]