A new weblog has been started by Anna Powell-Smith, called Missing Numbers:
Missing Numbers is a blog about the data that the government should collect and measure in the UK, but doesn’t.
I expect that whatever she finds in missing data within the UK public sector, similar or matching examples can…
June 2019
Read: Advice on crippling self-doubt
Image: Leonid Pasternak via Wikimedia Commons
Every nonfiction author feels it. That moment when you think “I can’t do this. I am not an author. I am helpless. I can’t move forward.”
That’s crippling self-doubt. It’s so common, it deserves an acronym. CSD.
Do you suffer from CSD?
Please …
Read: A world run with code
This is an edited transcript of a recent talk I gave at a blockchain conference, where I said I’d talk about “What will the world be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are ubiquitous?”
Read: Setting up federated wiki on cPanel
The installation isn’t a one-button procedure. However, an administator comfortable with opening an SSH terminal onto your shared hosting account should be able to follow the steps below. (If you have problems, the federated wiki community hangs out in a room on matrix.org).
James Holzhauer’s reign as Jeopardy champion has ended – the New York Times has the details! I only saw a bit of the first part, I would say he was ready to wrap it up…
Rendering a static site in Hugo
I am working on a project using the Hugo static site generator with the Book theme. When I looked at this command page, it looked like typing the word “hugo” at the base directory of my site would render the site to the public folder. However, when I did that, no index.html file was generated – grr! After some more searching, I figured out that if you are using a theme (like I am), the theme needs to be specified (“hugo -t book”). Once I added that flag, it worked! Oh, the joy….
On taking responsibility
When someone says “I take responsibility…”, what usually happens is that they take some action (they apologize for something, they amends, they do what they said they were going to do).
Taking responsibility is taking action.
I observed several examples of this over the past week. I attended a homeowner’s association meeting with 50-60 homeowners present. One of the agenda items was about taking care of dog poop in the neighborhood. It came out that the HOA board had decided to spend money to put a poop bag dispenser near the HOA office. However, the “year supply” of bags ran out in 5 months, and the board did not want to spend any more money on bags, so they removed the dispenser. In the meeting, there was not any further action suggested that anyone wanted to take. The real problem (unstated) was that people who have dogs that walk through the neighborhood are not picking up after their dogs (not taking responsibility).
I then thought of several things in my life that I would like to see happen (do more writing, lose weight, get in better shape). However, I have not taken any action. By my statement above, I am not taking responsibility for making those things happen.
I am taking this as an opportunity to take stock of my own responsibilities – a good action for all of us.
Read: Delivering WordPress in 7KB
Over the past six months, I’ve become increasingly interested in the topic of web sustainability. The carbon footprint of the Internet was not something I used to give much thought to, which is surprising considering my interest in environmental issues and the fact that my profession is web-based….
via Chris Kapowski
Read: WordPress.com feed reader contatenation
Chris AldrichI don’t use it frequently, but I just noticed that the WordPress.com feed reader has some functionality to concatenate and display multiple posts together for feeds that update relatively frequently. I like the fact that there’s a little less cognitive load in changing contexts from one source?…