“I had no idea when I got the initial email about my apartment going “smart” how much my life would change in the course of a month. At the time I was speaking in front of a room of cybersecurity journalists, and it was all I could do to keep my cool and quickly blast off an appalled (and probably less than tactful) tweet. Only a few weeks later, my situation has changed everything.”
Reposting: lustdaddy on Twitter
“Everything I know about these Kardashians I learnt against my will.”
Watching some training courses on a Saturday morning, like a nerd ?
I’ve been a member of Alfonso “Banshee” Giraldez’s and David Mommel’s Miniature Art Academy for the last few months, and it’s been great for me. The course has been fantastic so far, concentrating heavily on the “why” over the “how” and exposing me to new ideas and techniques. Both Alfonso and David are passionate about seeing what we do as painting on a 3D canvas, rather than “miniature painting,” so apply many skills and tools used in traditional art techniques. If you’re interested in improving and expanding your skills – or even just beginning! – I highly recommend the Painting Academy level.
This is what my next 2 ½ months of hobby time looks like ?
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I’ve got 4 badass miniatures to paint over the next 2 1/2 months, and I don’t think I could be happier. (Well, maybe I’ll be happier if I do them justice ?) #PaintingWarhammer
“In this article, we’ll start dipping our toes into the power of CSS Grid by building a couple of common responsive navigation layouts. It’s easier than what you may think, and since CSS Grid was built with responsiveness in mind, it’ll take less code than writing media queries all over the place. Let’s do this!”
I might switch my current gallery code to use CSS Grid instead of Bootstrap’s “Card” system (built on Flexbox).
CSS has come such a long way since I started using it earnestly, circa 2001.
“Graham Lebeter, a semi retired businessman working on a University of Edinburgh research project on the rejuvenation of high streets, says the future is not going to be easy, but there are proven methods which can aid rejuvenation.”
I just spent 5-10 minutes getting Webmentions working on IndieWeb Textpattern (receiving only, for now). It was super simple, thanks to Webmention.io and this script from PlaidWeb. Check out an example. I’m hoping to have the guide for this written up in the next day or two, as time allows.
And the resulting photograph. I’m not happy with how this model turned out in the end, thanks to trying to fix some avoidable mishaps, but I’m taking it as a learning experience.
Behind the scenes of of a model photo shoot ?
“Learn all about the properties available in CSS Grid Layout through simple visual examples.”
I’ve just posted the second how-to article to IndieWeb Textpattern – preparing your site for IndieAuth.
This one took a bit longer to write than I anticipated. IndieAuth is a slightly weird concept to describe and write about in easy to understand terms. I’m trying to keep the level I’m pitching IndieWeb Textpattern at to be pretty low, so I found myself going back and revising things several times. On the plus side, writing about these topics is reinforcing how they work in my mind. Practice and documenting things have always been my best teacher ?
While I was researching the article I discovered that IndieLogin doesn’t necessarily check for an authorization_endpoint link at URLs marked as rel="me" – something which was unexpected behaviour. I’d planned to use this site as my example authentication provider, but couldn’t and reverted to using Github. I’ve added this to my list of things to investigate.
If you’re interested, here’s the current content plan for the site, although I’ll be adding more articles as I re-familiarise myself with developing Textpattern plugins, and open up more integrations.
I logged into the Textpattern forums this morning for the first time in quite a while! #BackInTheDay
