Category: tech
- Instagram as-was ()
I’ve sort-of stopped using Instagram in the last year or so, at least stopped using it the same way I used to. Now I just post once a month, with occasional extras. Anyway I’ve downloaded all my Insta posts until about 2016. You can see them all here. They’re not in any particular order, just […]
- Quick nerd note ()
Bought one of those new M1 MacBook Air laptops My word it’s fast I mean really fast The keyboard is ❤️ macos Big Sur is nice too Now I realise that most of the crashes, and broken or half-heard video calls that I’ve been putting up with for the first 8 months of the pandemic […]
- 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 […]