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tldr; Android devices are cool, confusing and interesting. I’ll say I was late to the mobile device party, even though years back I did a bunch of coding for the Palm. How things have changed, yadda. But when everybody else at Talis was provided wih the latest iPhone, I slipped through the net. It was known that I’d probably leave...

I’ve spent a lot of time around SPARQL stores, a big proportion of it doing user interface bits. Usually this has involved a bunch of server-side code, templating, transformations or whatever, but recently I stumbled a way of avoiding this entirely, putting all the work client-side, in conventional browser Javascript. I doubt this is original (once you’ve seen it, it’s almost...

Can’t be bothered looking into it right now, but writing down for something to come back to. A hypothesis, that flocking behaviour is so ingrained that humans will express it in their writing. I did do a few Wikipedia pages when the thought crossed my mind, and apparently humans do flock like sheep/birds/wildebeasts – in a crowd, if 5% change...

Please ignore : just testing Conditional GET on my prototype feed reader. PS. that worked for a new post, now testing for a changed post – this one again.

“You aren’t gonna need it” (acronym: YAGNI) is a principle of extreme programming (XP) that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary. XP co-founder Ron Jeffries has written: “Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.”  but Engineer for serendipity. I reckon the way through these is to...

Recently I’ve been trying to look at the tech with fresh eyes, I have a strong sense that there are gamechanging things on the horizon (again), but then by definition unexpected innovations are hard to predict (again). But it is possible but chuck Monte Carlo noodles in the dark and see which stick. Yeah, mixing metaphors is kinda where I’m...

As suggested by Frances, over the last week or so I carved some castanets. Here is/are the finished article(s) together with most of the tools I used. (I typed this up as I went along, so the tense is all over the place.) Aside from a little gouge work with a mallet on the workbench, I did everything on this...