Kiasmos⬈ have been providing some of my favourite beepy-boopy music of recent times. They have a newish album out⬈, which is excellent. My favourite track of theirs, though, is still Looped⬈ from their 2015 debut album:
We had the July edition of LocalGovDigital Live!⬈ This morning. We were meant to have a session on the Open Referral Standard but sadly Jukesie was poorly and couldn’t make it. So, we had more of an open discussion instead. Think it went ok, although personally I think these things work best with a proper presentation of some sort. #
Stefan pointed out⬈ – quite rightly – that my idea for publishing a daily note and then adding to it throughout the day will be terrible for a lot of RSS subscribing types. This is because RSS feeds don’t tend to appear as new when they have been edited, only on publishing. So, I won’t do that! #
Somehow I missed this post⬈ when it appeared a couple of weeks ago. The digital folk at Birmingham are continuing to do some amazing work despite the financial situation they find themselves in.
Finding ways like this to improve the small tactical stuff is really important. Doesn’t take away the need to focus on big picture, long term structural change – but having both running in parallel means people are seeing results and improvements all the time. Good for morale! #
The linking-to-paragraphs solution I figured out yesterday has made my mind spin a few times around what other bits of blogging heavy lifting could be done on my desktop rather than server-side. Suddenly a switch has been flicked and I kind of understand the appeal of flat file blogging engines, like Jekyll⬈ etc. #
Another little presentational tweak to the blog – post titles now have an emoji prefixing them, as a guide to what they contain. So daily notes have a calendar, links posts a link (duh!), longer pieces an open book, techie bits a person behind a laptop, and a TV screen for video posts. Am doing this manually at the moment, suspect there would be a way to automate it but I can’t be faffed. #
The complexity is the attraction – reflections on trying to use crypto⬈ – interesting stuff from Terence Eden, especially this:
I don’t need to know how the underlying infrastructure works. I don’t need to understand how the global financial system works. But, with crypto, I need to understand staking, gas fees, bridges, offramps, DeFi, and a dozen other things. This is stupid. It makes insiders feel smart because they have embraced the self-created complexity, and allows them to feel smug that normal people aren’t as smart. That’s it. That’s why some people love crypto.
I suspect this may be true of other technologies, too. #
Fellow Kiasmos fan here! 🙂
I used to do something similar to this when as a Director of E-Learning in schools, but I used P2 to kind of microblog posts instead of having them daily. Was *really* useful for looking back through stuff and seeing what I actually did with my time. Nice work.
Yeah, this isn’t quite perfect, but it will do for now. What I would really like it for the individual gobbets to exist in their own right, as well as in the daily form.
I think I could do it with a custom post type of some description – however, I’m not sure it would be worth the effort!
Any other recommendations for Kiasmos like music? It’s my go to sort of thing when I am working 🙂
I tend to listen to Tycho, Bonobo, Marsh, Maribou State, stuff like that. But if I really need to focus, I use Brain.fm (which I got a lifetime deal for via AppSumo years ago!)