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Digging into Webmention
One of the points of writing on the Internet is our ability to link pages together in a web. We do this in HTML with links, like this:My friend Ton <a...
View ArticleDiary of a Squirrel Goes to Summerside
Diary of a Squirrel went to Summerside to demo comic-making. I love it when the doing of something involves documenting the doing of the something.Oliver and I dropped in on the Behind the Panels...
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Filling in Missing Images in Wikimedia Commons
In this morning’s University of Winds newsletter, Mita Williams points to ici, a tool created by Ed Summers to help people help fill in missing imagery on Wikipedia.While trying it out, I discovered...
View ArticleControlling How Webmentions are Rendered
Ton continues to wrap his head around Webmention, and wonders about how mentions should be displayed on the “mentioned” site:What strikes me as odd now is how little control I have over how the...
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Cardigan Milkshake
As the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market enters its chaotic July season, with the aisles clogged with the agog, it’s nice to seek solace in the arms of its Cardigan cousin,where Ola Hammarlund will make...
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Under the hood of Webmention.io
As I mentioned when I was talking about my nascent Webmention setup, the tiny Drupal module I’ve coded up only sends Webmentions, it doesn’t (yet) receive them: for that I’m outsourcing things to...
View ArticleTurning off AMP
A couple of years ago I turned on AMP rendering of pages here, a sop for Google, which was pushing this as a way of improving the browsing experience for mobile users.While this was a relatively benign...
View ArticleRetroactive Webmentioning
By way of testing out my Webmention module for Drupal, I took the 256 posts I’ve written here this year, ferreted out all the external links, discovered their Webmention endpoints, and sent a...
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Visualizing Linking to Myself
Earlier today I mused about linking to myself:Discovering that I refer back to earlier posts as often as I do makes me wish I had a way of visualizing the interconnections between my posts; now that I...
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Better Link Visualizing with Gephi
Following on from yesterday’s experiments, I did some exploring today in Gephi, an open source graph visualization program.Gephi will load DOT language files, of the type I generated yesterday showing...
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Adding the Hillsborough River Path in OpenStreetMap
I had the crazy idea last night that I should bundle Ethan the Dog into the bicycle trailer and ride out to the Dog Fun Park near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital so that he could get some exercise. This...
View ArticleBeta Testing the Evolve ShowerStart
In 2013 the City of Charlottetown offered free “low flow” shower heads to residents with shower heads rated more than 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm). Ours was exactly 2.5 gpm, so we weren’t eligible, but...
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Google Home Mini on Sale
The Google Home Mini is on sale for $39.99 until July 12, 2018 at The Source (née Radio Shack). I picked up an extra one, for Oliver’s room, to allow him to listen to music at bedtime.It replaces a...
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Big Rainbow Valley
The Rainbow Valley film is playing every Wednesday night this summer on the plaza at the Confederation Centre; Oliver and I were there for tonight’s showing.It’s such a great film, and I was happy to...
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I Made a Hardcover Book
Until I took a bookbinding workshop from Jennifer Brown in 2013, the craft of making books by sewing together sheets of paper seemed impossibly arcane, beyond the realm of something I might ever...
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Engage the Plasma Drive
After a three week delay due illness, I was back at Canadian Blood Services in Charlottetown this afternoon for my monthly plasma donation.Since I started on this round of donating, after a 10 year...
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Dog Poop Bag Dispensers on OpenStreetMap
Metadata at its highest expression: OpenStreetMap has a feature for excrement bag vending machine that I discovered by accident today whilst supplementing the map around Confederation Landing Park.I...
View ArticleTotal Eclipse of the Heart
It seems that I cannot escape the theatre: I move, and the theatre follows.It all started with a sewer backup.As the CBC reported in mid-June, the Mackenzie Theatre, an annex of the Confederation...
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I Made a Coptic Stiched Book
One of the challenges I face in learning about bookbinding is a striking inability to think clearly in three dimensions; it’s no wonder that my vocations to date have been firmly rooted in the...
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Red Thread
One of the advantages of having a partner in the fibre arts industry is a ready supply of various and sundry threads. Courtesy of same, I sewed up a new text block yesterday, using some red cotton...
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