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I’m living in a software-oriented version of that Monty Python sketch that begins, “I’ve come for an argument.” Wilfried always accused me of being a software critic, a term I have resisted in that a critic is not usually understood to also be a practiser. But perhaps it’s an appropriate term for rattling around digging […]

When i feel it’s quite clear to me what i need; yet i spend half an hour attempting to articulate it to someone who knows me very well; I drop back to trying to articulate it here. Since i Stopped Coding, i’m doing a lot less, and talking a lot more. I want to make […]

I flicked through a lot of pictures taken at etech on flickr , and the ones that drew my attention were taken by, or taken of, people i knew. When pictures were unlabelled, especially if i didn’t recognise people in other pictures taken by the same person, i gave less attention to the pictures i […]

Since the journalling thread last summer, i’ve been idly dreaming about collecting RDF feeds of all the information i generate through the keyboard. dashboard i liked a great deal - edd did some great tricks with it. I hear excited things about beagle. But i don’t run a gnome desktop; i do a lot of […]

Coming across Getting Things Done through a piece of giles writing about productivity that edd put me on to. I recalled how highly dngnand had spoken of the book last year and sworn by the Life Balance PDA version; we’ve talked with perigrin about writing an irc lifebalance bot based on dngnand’s description of the […]

after a brief wikipedia ramble i found myself at the distributed proofreaders europe site, almost as if wikipedia was expelling me to go do something more constructive instead.
DP is a feeder project for the free ‘etexts’ at project gutenberg; organisers scan out-of-copyright texts, and submit the batch of pages with best-effort OCR scans, which are […]

i decided to use Class::RDF as a small test case for what a more ‘literate’ project and programming behaviour might be. a small collection of files, rss feeds of cvs commit notes and code journals written on irc, a DOAP file, some beautiful code coverage reports made by Devel::Cover.
imagining a wiki-like interface, to code, to […]

bugfixing indyvoter drove me to crazed thoughts of conversational development methods: of consensus code generation without becoming a slave to formalisms or change control regimes. we all wander down paths of reasoning, change APIs, leaving no breadcrumbs on the onramp.
i didn’t have to invent a development methodology: i stole one from the preface to Tom […]

indyvoter finally ‘went beta’ at the weekend, during a training mission in Ohio, having bust a gut hacking on it the previous week. By now it’s into the third rewrite and looking stable, with half as many features again on the release list.
Hopefully, it’s more than a YASN - find friends, join communities, write blogs, […]

i made an RDF API to the del.icio.us api, to make a point. The RDF version of the del.icio.us api works exactly the same as the real one, but the results are in RDF, and everything that goes through it gets stored in an RDF model. this means that you may get back more context […]