LeBron James is 40! Crumbs

I don’t know if this is the case but as I am often on the beta app for iOS micro.blog I noticed push notifications toggle in app kept switching off I wonder if the updates / switching between release and beta make this happen. @manton maybe something to note.

At the Romsey winter lights garden thing at the interactive text installation everyone was putting “I love you” blah blah blah… so what did you expect

Sky Sports I hate you - moving Kick Off to 8PM for your TV schedule coupled with SW trains replacement buses means I will be running to the train station to catch the penultimate direct train home, this is one of the many reasons I will not give Sky money. Not for the Fans.

Did you say you want to hold something at 800°C for 8 seconds… or maybe like me you just don’t want to get burns when taking stuff in and out of the oven. Primajor Gloves gotcha. New gift from middle daughter 🧤

Not sure if I have now broken letterboxd feed 🤦

spent too much time debugging weird p tag issue on home page meaning blog is to wide and overspills, p display none fixes it but that defeats the point of a blog, resetting to default Marfa theme no joy, so weird and so so annoying as its very hard to debug, iPhone simulator at least helps reproduce

Don’t review films much but just set letterboxd to timeline and also added to import to blog not sure I needed to add it twice let’s see what happens…

Edit on dad taxi - daughters request “can you take us early Sunday morning for our flight” …flight is Monday 6:20am 🤦 thank goodness tickets use dates - thankfully I am still available (though it maybe busier…)

Day 5 of this stupid cold is also really annoying me now as I actually need to do stuff and some energy would be useful ⚡️

Ha @manton’s photo of the green books as Christmas Tree on sale reminded me of the Snowman made at WSA Library before we broke for the holidays.

Let’s see any good or snake oil. I’ve tried many 0% beers and they are great as spacers but Impossibrew claims no alcohol but still the “beer buzz” which often after a frazzled work day I think a couple of beers would be good which gets unhealthy quickly, especially if you really do like nice beers

Youngest has only just realised there are no trains to get to Gatwick on time tomorrow early morning - oh boy taxi Dad now required 🤦🌅🚂🤪👴🚕

Didn’t even know you could view cross posting option in macOS app to turn them on and off but the box doesn’t expand enough like categories. 3.4 (155)

@manton in theory could I set up linked in cross posting but have it off by default ? so I can selectively post by checking it on here…

The benefits of speed cubing… I have not done it have tried to learn the basics of solving and not got too far to be fair but I know @danielpunkass and family have gotten into it - The retro hobby that can help boost your happiness (say scientists) - BBC

That is it the straw that broke the camels back local small Sainsbury’s didn’t scan in the discounts on treat which I fortunately spotted. Now can’t trust the basket at all. This after crummy staff and weird shop layout change I’ll just not go again I have other options only slightly further away.

Middle daughter got me a new cap! Happy Sega Bass Fishing 🎣

Testing footnotes¹ to see if they appear as I expected

09:21 GMT in the UK means that the Earth has reached its maximum tilt in its axis away from the Sun. Which also means that from now, the days will get progressively longer. If you’re growing tired of long nights and dark mornings, more daylight will be on the way in the weeks ahead!

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary - YouTube

Recording recording … don’t even think about trying to sneak an unexpected item into the bagging area

I’m not back in the office until the 6th of Jan. woooo

Once again the UK based cloudabove who house my VPS helped me clear out a bunch of junk, logs and unnecessary data. Very useful as the Same Old Wombles weekly podcast slowly eats into my server disk space.

Does anyone have any tips of how you archive older seasons / episodes?

Another kickstarter I forgot woo

Ok harp is always cool, see more via @hollyhoneychurch generally and my youngest daughter was so close to signing up to learn … however combine harp and Bat for Lashes and I am ultra happy - The Dream of Delphi

I loved Gowalla (2007). Facebook killed it and deleted / stole all the checkins, lost forever, Moved to Foursquare (2012) and started again then to Swarm (which carried checkins over same company) Gowalla came back died again, didn’t stop using Swarm so that’s ok but

Important Reminder: The Foursquare City Guide app officially sunset on December 15, 2024, with the web version following in early 2025. However, your check-in journey doesn’t end here! Join us on Swarm, where new adventures await.

If Swarm goes under they better have an export option! @manton maybe a new importer side project

Nothing about using PayPal gave me any peace. Thankfully I have managed to move everything the family paid for away from PayPal

Aphex fan? Music From The Merch Desk (2016-2023) dropped today on all your music things - [odesli.com/m…](https://odesli.com/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/music-from-the-merch-desk-2016-2023/1779444763)

. @manton I guess I still cant send a replies still when using another mastodon instance ? (this is fine, I am use to this I just thought update might do more :) I guess this is as I haven’t set ActivityPub: Fediverse name as I already had my own mastodon name I want to keep and not a new one :)

. @manton will site update ?

Road paint new and old

Woo a great win against Doncaster putting us at the top of the play offs COYD

Good to know another complete waste of time and energy has gone into launching Sora (open AIs video machine) 🤦

BBC Sounds - Instrumental - a look at the history of music through eight objects - dctr.pro/2q2

• Theremin
• SM58
• Roland Space Echo
• AKAI MPC
• DX7 Synth
• SL 1200 Turntable
• 808
• Ableton

Brian Eno - dctr.pro/2q1

Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process. The magic of play is seeing the commonplace transforming into the meaningful.

In my own experience as an artist, experimenting with AI has mixed results. I’ve used several “songwriting” AIs and similar “picture-making” AIs. I’m intrigued and bored at the same time: I find it quickly becomes quite tedious.

Sisters with Transistors (2020) - dctr.pro/2q0

Ah ha I see that getting replies into your micro.blog timeline from mastodon and Bluesky plus being able to reply to them directly is now on option. Good adjustment. I am going to leave it on for now but if I start getting spam replies from Bluesky I’ll turn it off asap.

Leaving Norway

Well done to all those successfully elected to the Dons Trust Board this election. I was unsuccessful however 4 of the 6 (inc myself) I selected are on the board so that’s great. COYD💛💙

Testing alt text from micro.blog to Bluesky as they told me off (still refusing to turn on AI for MB images 🫣)

A whole bunch of discussions and meetings at University of Bergen Center for Digital Narrative. Lots of future collaborations on the horizons.

Dinner - Bergen

Due to very early taxi tomorrow to airport for work I am watching game at home FA Cup COYD

What do you mean FA Cup is on soon… 🐱 🐶

Trains Are BETTER Than Cars YouTube - also a lot on the issues of why EV cars are not a real solution to net zero but will cause more problems for our transport infrastructures and why we have to move away from a road orientated society.

Why is it always the way that the train you need to be delayed is suddenly on time and then the next one you need to to be on time is delayed and delayed 🤪🚂

slight panic attack Strata app had lost a load of edits. I saved it from doing that oh my word! I was having so much fun with notes/ strata I jumped on my phone but it wasn’t up to date when I started edited and almost saved, thankfully had left mac app / browser open. @manton is there versioning

Fun and Children’s games - francisalys.com/category/… - Francis Alÿs

Want to hear me butcher a question on Wimbledon finances and answer some others slightly better in the meet the candidates series for the upcoming Dons Trust Board elections. Knock your self out youtu.be/zV143GPsp…

I love the fact trains are delayed due to severe weather and yet this weather situation is not as severe as it will get if we don’t actually try to combat the climate crisis at full pelt

Wooo I have just been awarded a sizable Southampton Enterprise Development Fund!

nodenogg.in: Revolutionizing Educational Collaboration

More to come but if your interested and have no idea what nodenogg.in is then best to check out legacy.nodenogg.in (warning there will be bugs)

Have to say Claude AIs interface is one of the best I have used for AI and pair programming with the revisions and able to make interactive prototypes to the side however I don’t get £18pcm use and o2 are proving me free (1 year)Perplexity pro with Claude and gpt4o bundled in

Snow finally arrived in Southampton / Winchester today. ❄️ ⛄️

I’ll take that point 2-2 with 97th min equaliser and it was darn cold so I bought another hat and scarf

Working from under the covers today at home it’s getting cold! Off to freeze 🥶 at Fortress Plough Lane tonight COYD.

Failed image upload from previous post will add to that post later 0-6 win for the mighty Wimbledon in FA cup youth game. Not many Wimbledon fans to say the least but I made clear my alliance and survived 😂

So once again when there isn’t a great connection @microblog doesn’t attach images even though it claims they have uploaded. I will fix this by reposting later. This really is something I hope @manton and team can address @vincent

We are winning 0-4 and yes I am wearing my top and colours… 😬

Good job I Brought my torch. Nice spicy vegan role and good beer at Eastleigh so far (photos reattached)

Off to Eastleigh Town FC to watch Wimbledon play in the FA youth cup for £1! #coyd The closest and cheapest Wimbledon game I think I will ever attend. I just gotta make sure I find it walking from Southampton Airport Parkway.

Yes it’s that time again when I download and launch OpenTTD and think maybe this time my trains won’t crash and I’ll give up again. Also busted out my left handed sideways mouse 🤣

I see a need to update my about text again asap across the web as I need to add in my work on satirical climate and social issues games designed for the Playdate. I gotta triple down on my niches 👍 if anyone I dont know thinks my work needs a Wikipedia entry go for it 🤣👍

I spot many deliveroo people in Southampton on motorised pushbikes with no lights and no helmet of an evening. No real good comes from unregulated, zero hours contracts. I suspect deliveroo could afford basic safety provisions but as the people are self employed deliveroo don’t have to do anything…

So in case all the new Bluesky people are at all interested in previous stuff my blog that cross posts is at discursive.adamprocter.co.uk

Oh I am getting more Bluesky followers just to say everything I post is first via micro.blog on my own domain and then it shares to various other services such as mastodon and bluesky and more so my interaction on the other platforms is less because I am mainly blogging and cross posting :)

Open day at work done. Lovely to meet more prospective games students add to this a 1-3 win away at Barrow, a great away result. Now siting in 10th with 3 games in hand. 💛💙

Supermarket glitch - one of the computer overlords not able too check out my food shop today.

No Mans Sky cross save is a Beta! And is now full! Dam it

This morning at the Arts and Humanities Festival, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Games Design & Art

Nice No Mans Sky cross save good stuff. Going to be nice to have same save and continue progress across my PS5, Steamdeck and macOS.

Franchise dispatched next round here we come. Without consultation (which is the norm) they made the ticket price the lowest possible but still had no one turn up 🤣 enjoy your Sunday customers

Well the Dons Trust Board elections are up and running again here are all the Manifetos including mine - thedonstrust.org/elections…

I love car racing, on a track, I can’t stand people trying to race on public roads, I can’t wait until all public transport is either buses/ trains and autonomous cars and individuals are banned from driving.

Monty and I getting Crazy

Losing 3-2 and this was our last play of the game arrrgh - I like pinball but not in football

Joining research, education and enterprise - prepping a student workshop and testing session for Apple Vision Pro, Sennep Games and Winchester School of Art University of Southampton

Chasing bin men with my bin, they refused to take it as lid wasn’t fully shut, it was only slightly open! Literally pulled small bag out fixed. Of course I was annoyed and rushing for work myself so I cannot confirm that after he took it from me if it went into van 🤦 future note to self re bin lid

King Conker has been cleared!

I love overcast but I hate it when like all other iOS apps you tap a notification and it fails to follow you to said notification and of course determines it “read” so you have no idea what you tried to follow

Ok so my local Tesco, Sainsbury and Lidl all changed the layouts in the same couple of weeks it’s really unfair on me, I literally cannot find anything - tenor.com/bjgMM.gif

Wow what a toy and tech sale it’s like heaven! link via @siracusa @siracusa@mastodon.social

www.estatesales.net/MA/Welles…

Got a bit of a cold was suppose to be at this Games Climate event tonight but frustrating but I just can’t do it

Found it :) - dctr.pro/2py

The dataset contains more than 10,000 images each of London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong, which outnumber those of other cities. Note the gaps here: all cities of the Northern hemisphere. When I ask Midjourney for an image of a city, I see traces of these locations in the output.

pretty sure it was on micro.blog I saw an article explaining how midjourney was training on flickr creative commons images and that data set can be seen to be bias as for example there was no southern hemisphere cities in the data…. if anyone can remember this and reshare… hunting my stuff…

What a crummy FA Cup draw the Franchise away. Let’s just knock them out and play a real club next, and a game I will be happy to attend

Woo - walk in the park 4-0

Not even a replacement bus can put me off COYD

Doing a Bunch of games and Ai stuff in London. There was a arcade container on south bank I didn’t investigate

Woah FM25 has been delayed again now until March 2025. I think this is better than releasing a game that is not ready and good that they are able to do this delay but must be hard for the team. I may well in fact now pre order to support. I’ll defo dig into FM24 now mind 🤣

Got “dead” Apple TV home after not buying new one. Plugged it again as internet suggested a few hot plugs might revive it and guess what it on one plug in it is now working hahahaha (yes I tried that a few times before) wooo get in

Apple TV 4K wanted software restore can’t do that at home says take to store, store is yeah that’s not true it’s dead you wanna buy a new one 🤦 it’s not even 3 years old

Ok M$ I install the iOS copilot app for the app to literally redirect me to the 365 iOS app what is the point of that 🤣🤦 app deleted

While waiting to take Apple 4K to store to be restored plugged in old Apple TV can’t connect to WiFi as wpa3 WiFi on my eero router and I’m not downgrading that 🤦 now working out if I can finally set up my freeview tv box

powered up and updated my Rabbit R1… still no idea what to use it for… I wonder if I can connect Claude to it now.. I like Claude..

Just took a look at Forever ✱ Notes. Sounds cool but cannot for the life of me work out what I am actually suppose to do to use the system later in Apple Notes (don’t use notes much mind) as I use Bike a lot now but my organisation of my notes is terrible, Ulysses, Obsdian they are all a mess too 🤣

Apple 4K TV seems to have broke itself and you can’t home restore it 🤦 have to get a slot at the Apple Store that is ridiculous

This weeks Core Intuition includes a new jazz time section which I am a fan of - enjoy talk on latest AR / VR headset stuff aka Fancy Glasses

Not one but two Albums about Amelia Earhart’s last doomed flight from Laurie Anderson feat. ANOHNI and Public Service Broadcasting excellent 👍

Due to some stations having short platforms…

Ian King on a Sunday

Another intresting thing about turning on newsletter option in micro.blog is you get to see how little you post in a week (or not) 🤦‍♂️🤣

I think the parsnip shortage in the UK maybe at an end ! Finally can do some proper honey roasted parsnips for Sunday roast yes I am a vegan that eats honey and wears wool (some would discount me)

Wooly hat & snood deployed. Weather is on the turn.

Putting in funding bids for nodenogg.in is rather annoying when nodenogg.in URL is very early p2p 1.0 with not much accessible but had to be on that url and very searchable, legacy.nodenogg.in is the actual end of research proof of concept working release and soton.nodenogg.in is an early “beta” 🤣

Today we woke to huge damage to our football pitch at Plough Lane, one fan set up a just giving to help raise funds that maybe needed. Over £12k already, our fans (owners) never quit to support Wimbledon - Just Giving

Oxford

What the …train platform announcements about changing to winter timetable “as we enter leaf fall season” 🍁🤣 serious autumn is fine

Firefox on iOS just keeps freezing even more seriously starting to become a problem

10 free game dev / design tools

Why does Firefox on iOS now keep freezing when viewing PDFs driving me a little barmy

Ok I am a big fan of the BBC and happily pay the licence fee but the last 6+months have been terrible when will useful programmes like have I got news for you etc start again and other real world stuff … bah what am I paying for ?’!

There is no game tomorrow but I know my attire

eFootball 4.0.0 (not 25) is out now. Steamdeck and PS5 updating. Let’s see how we go. Lots of improvements over the last year. I am still concerned about the focus on mobile I keep hearing but I do continue to like the gameplay I just am rubbish at getting the right players etc ⚽️

Watership Down in 4K and in cinemas! Well looks like I got a cinema to find next month ! youtu.be/T67u55jjM…

Mega meeting today building something very exciting related to games and Southeast England more to do but everyone was very positive and will be great for students and industry. 👾

Forgot my noise cancelling headphones for the second day in a row. Really find train travel difficult without them even on my short journey and in the quiet carriage 🤷🤪🤦‍♂️

This morning I was talking to Claude about helping me some book contents and asking if I could send him a copy, he said he can’t extract or read text from a file but he totally can. Why is Claude not telling me the truth this morning very weird. Thanks for making me a slack bot yesterday tho.

Turned out nice in Southampton today now was rather wet all morning 🌧️ ☀️

If you would like a weekly digest of my blog you can subscribe here emailed to you every Sunday - discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/subscribe…

Warning warning Football Manager 24 is free on the Epic Game Store this weekend ⚽️

Did someone say MA degree show opening telepathic uniforms ?! I think so 🤣

Ok being a sucker for fishing games this is excellent No Mans Sky Aquarius can we have golf next please ?

Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work.

• Guardian

3 guys in a car pull over while I’m walking my dog “excuse me we are not from around here do you know where to buy weed” me “I’ve no idea sorry” British we apologise even when we shouldn’t 🤣 now I question my walking gear tracksuit trousers, hunters guild gamer jumper and listening to late 90s rave

Do I like good lager ✅ Do I like sea salt ✅

Hmm why is my link not styled when it’s after a quote

discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2024/08/2…

discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2024/08/2…

Oh boy something to figure out 🤦‍♂️

Today starts the hard transition from holiday mode to work mode

🍺🍺🍺🍺👾👾👾👾🥱🥱🥱 📤📆📈🧹📎🗃️💼📊📑🧑‍💻🧑‍💻

I was a big oasis fan back in the day (1994-1999) however ignoring the snark 🤣 this alternative list of bands from Manchester contains some great pics - orllewin.uk/blog/Manc…

A long time ago I made an animation about the destruction of Wimbledon FC and then was asked to update it for AFC Wimbledon to support an end of season event. The update featured a special version Fat Man Scoop did of his song for us very sad to hear he has passed away - youtu.be/04pk6_9F_…

I had to travel so…

I don’t think it’s fair to say other alternative models just haven’t worked because people prefer Big Tech. No, these alternative models have not received the capital they need, the support they need. And they’ve been swimming upstream against a business model that opposes their success.

• Wired fantastic interview with Meredith Whittaker - Signals President

Train Guard you are my superstar. Good job you said your changing at Basingstoke right? Else I would have been staying at my friends in Sailsbury… well I would have been imposing myself 🤣

First game of the season for me, well Ipswich in the cup but first game this season tonight… I think I am ready…my football going outfit, blue and yellow trainers, yellow jeans, new warchild home yellow and blue top, replica 1988 walk out FA cup jacket topped with AFC Wimbledon baseball cap

Good to know - Public Information Film

When your technician says has anyone see the PS5 controllers at work I fear the worst… lets hope they are just misplaced 🎮

I bought Train Sim World 3 a while back on steam (for my steamdeck) and have it on my PS5. The free upgrade to Train Sim World 5 (in the first 30 days of launch 17th Sept) is a great way to get people onto the latest update and then purchase content while I am a mega novice I will upgrade.

We are not going to have just one investor, we will have 40,000 of them. But, however much money you give, you will only get one share. We are not only saying a different football is possible but we are saying a different monetisation of football is possible.

• www.skysports.com/football/…

Last week and a bit of annual leave. Been taking it easy and helping finish things around the house trying not to get too grumpy as I hate anything DIY but my wife is excellent at it.

Managed to get some solid time in GT7, although not enough eFootball and I spent coins on the upgraded path 🤷

Digging into my micro.blog logs, hopefully fixed github now.. but I see a lot of this error how do I find out more ? @manton

Feed: Error uploading to Mastodon, trying again…

Also any idea why this one keeps coming up

Feed: Skipping item with no GUID, feed 4551754

Disappointed with the Dons Trust Board at the moment. Yes a number of them are people I know and friends doesn’t mean I don’t disagree with direction of travel. Will be standing at next elections to ensure we (the fans) don’t dilute our shares below 75%.

Yeah stuff you Tesco express thanks for moving everything around. I know why you do it. I hate captalism so much

Colonialism and nationalism, we’re rejecting all that’: the folk musicians rethinking Britishness

• Guardian

Got distracted by YouTube Premium suggesting I don’t live in Argentina, MB bug / feature requests and weirdness and some work work. Half the day on leave gone! Time to do kitchen, make lunch, play some more GT7 VR and maybe a bit of playdate dev with Claude.ai

Oh any new blogs you create get added as feeds to your main account by default… wow that threw me off

Ok to be fair I might message @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social hey can you play PSN now but as we are also mad busy people we tend to have even that locked into a weekly calendar event 🤪 I’m now also bothering him on socials whoops #mutingmyself now 🤣

I love it when @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social mutes me, he tells me he is doing it like I ever message him an emergency he could just mute and unmute me without side complaining about my noise to signal ratio 🤣🤪👍 I would never know 😂

Hmmm none of this screams to me taxing the rich and closing loop holes feels like it will be taxing and depriving normal working people again… www.theguardian.com/business/…

Yeah there was a change I am on annual leave ! So been sitting playing with code

Slowly new playdate game is coming in along more coding with Claude ai (I got pro for a month) today reimagined the main level interface pretty happy so far, but as with any decent project pen and paper always needed

Well at least I know that UK won’t be getting Apple Intelligence.

The fantastic Cory Doctorow connects his term “en💩tification”

To Apple’s jerk move to take more money from creators via Patreon - dctr.pro/2ps

Another reason to check out liberapay.com

Half way through my annual leave is the moment I finally stop annoying the family and get into the leave grove and forget about work only to then realise I’m half way through my leave and start to think about all the things I need to do for work 🤦‍♂️

A Decade later and we still have to ask who’s gonna stand - youtu.be/NkiRR3T_3…

Hey everyone I have to say I continue to love @coreint podcast so if you don’t support yet please do @danielpunkass and @manton make a lot of sense around tech stuff. Well worth support

FYI @manton thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/08/1… @thoughtshrapnel

The boys 🐱🐶

Bah well that was a pretty poor performance from us against Bromley. Lost 2-0. Now to see if I can not have that ruin whole weekend 🤪 - deflated

Loss of artic sea ice followed by dieback on the Amazon destroyed us! Brutal end to Daybreak the other week. Really shows that tipping points if they combo would be a major & faster than expected disaster for the planet! Got the family all talking about the climate issues 👍

How to switch from Figma to Penpot - penpot.app/blog/how-…

Summer holidays 🐶 🐱

In positive news in Southampton the number of anti racism demonstrators that took to the streets and to the location of a hate march out numbered the few facists that showed up by a huge majority to demonstrate peacefully against violence and hate.

It’s good Southampton council have made a statement but I am sorry this is not an anti-immigration protest it is a hate event. There is no need to oppose immigration no one is coming to the UK to rip it off, fill it up or force you to change your ideals.

My daughter’s work is closing early today due to reports that rioters are planning to meet near work and our house tonight in Southampton. I hope the police are able to handle the situation and there are no injuries. Of course they have already unjustly caused fear for many in the local community

Players and fans prepare our stadium (Plough Lane) for the start of the new season by rehanging all our flags in the main stand - Sky Sports News

Same Old Wombles - Season 3 trailer is out - find us on all your podcatchers like overcast - overcast.fm/+AA7xbdXo… - Come on you Dons (COYD) the number 1 widest podcast about AFC Wimbledon you could ever hear!

Pre season friendly away to Maidenhead

Monty Boy and Ian King 🐱 🐶

Fun as ever to celebrate the games design & art students completing 3 years of study with us at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Here I am captured on the Uni official instagram heading to my seat on the platform ready to cheer (well clap sensibly 🤣) well done class of 2024

My new playdate game is in a good space quickly and able to do some design testing thanks to Claude AI (and a bit of chatGPT but I prefer Claude for this so far) lots to say on how AI can be useful as a tool within Game Design processes but for now back to my game here is a very early sneak peak

Evening

Southampton Sunday

Can someone on MB mention me - maybe I can mention myself @adamprocter

Secret street signs

I do wish push notifications for micro.blog mentions would work :( @manton do not appear on Mac iPad or iOS

Can’t park here mate

All I am going to say is Apple TV screen saver function is just broken. And yes I reset the whole freaking box

How many hot animals can you spot…

I was distracted watching so a bit slow on taking the photo. Airplane and helicopter with not a ton of separation! Plus I always forget I set the action button to camera for this kind of thing and I never remember!

Hey anyone know of an iOS app like pinpoint that works it was so great for quickly drawing arrows and thing on screenshots it has since stop recognising screenshots so you can’t edit them in app youtu.be/rCR4Sc2dg…

Sunny Southampton 28°c

This is great. In the garden shade, good sun & on leave and listening to this guitar playlist which is rather excellent thanks to @simon@simonwillison.net for linking to it www.holovaty.com/melodic-g… and for @adrian@holovaty.com creating it!

Am I excited about the new season back to podcasting and our new logo to betcha! Sameoldwombles.com

I have to ask releasing potential real threats early but locking up for decades individuals really concerned about the climate collapse….

Not everyday you get to hear comments from Alan Kay on the future of the internet. Didn’t get a photo of Vint Cerf but boy these people are sharp! Celebrating 50 years of the internet at The Royal Society In London.

Some interesting comments on the amount of energy the Internet and ICT will consume and that renewables are not the silver bullet answer

Party went well

JAWS party close to kick off

Happy days DHL driver claims he only started working today so either Tuesdays driver is back in training as to what signed for means or he was fired 🤣 - new top finally arrived long sleeve are ace and details are very cool

This is some of ideas I have been playing with related to AI in nodenogg.in local, small, private and directed by the user

If the largest LLMs are inherently plagiarism machines, it could help to refocus on smaller, personal LLMs that only gain knowledge at the user’s direction. @manton

www.manton.org/2024/07/0…

3 lions on their shirt says Ian 🐱

Fear not this Southampton twat is now the proud owner of a new Wimbledon top who football manager gave the sponsorship to war child you twat. Hey DHL signed for doesn’t mean leaving outside my house NOT signed for you idiots

Signed for sure… or left in my safe space with neighbours thanks DHL parcel of my new Wimbledon top stolen ! You twats. Leaving in my door step is NOT signed for or left with my safe space

Been shuffling a few things around atm so the version of nodenogg.in from my PhD work now resides at legacy.nodenogg.in with the main URL starting to showcase work on the new p2p decentralised version and all starting to bundle under https//strangetool.store more to come over 24/25

Rearranging the front room is always a pain when you have a bunch of consoles to re hook up

• Switch
• PS2
• PS3
• VHS/ DVD player
• Dreamcast
• Wii

It’s looking close that after 2.5 years in my own home I maybe able to actually spend August enjoying the garden and such while on leave and NOT doing DIY it’s so close

New crazy taxi game will be MMO !

The new Crazy Taxi — like the reboots of Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage — does not yet have a release date.

Love it on my Dreamcast (which is still playable)

Monty 🐶 King of the weekend

We’re delighted to reveal our Umbro home kit for the upcoming campaign, in the Club’s traditional blue with a yellow trim. War Child are proudly featured front and centre of the shirt in a gesture driven by the Club’s longstanding principal partner, Sports Interactive.

www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2024…

AFC Wimbledon

Hmm I think @manton and @danielpunkass should be much harder on Apple, if they use this excuse to leave the EU myself and many other 30+ year Apple fanatics will switch platforms. The EU is actually trying to protect people against corporations monopolies that destroy markets.

The Digital Markets Act establishes a set of clearly defined objective criteria to qualify a large online platform as a “gatekeeper” and ensures that they behave in a fair way online and leave room for contestability.

• Spains to lose
• Germanys to win
• Englands to fluke

(Euros 2024)

Via @JohnPhilpin episode of the Monkees starts with Peter being interviewed by a machine - pretty much every conversation I have with Siri and Alexa, Rabbit mildly better - 1966 - john.philpin.com/2024/06/3…

Pretty excited I came up with a new playdate game concept this week. Repo is set time to get version 0.0.1 underway. Playdate SDK updated, gitlab server updated 🤦‍♂️, basic structure sorted. Now to decide on the pipeline (again) 🤣

Good to hearing from early career researchers and staff as part of AI @ Southampton today on the Highfield Campus. Great to hear from a bunch of people using and thinking about AI critically, ethically and with no hype and demonstrating real world use cases. 🤖

My mother in law had such a passion for life. We lost her suddenly just over 2 years ago but the ice cream van pulling up outside my house and her love for a 99 or the cold Coke and lemon I am making now for the family reminds me to try and be as positive as she was, I find it hard.

Due to hot climate a Fire near the line after Southampton and power issues at Paddington… mean I am starting to further regret 20% off my Blenheim for travelling green could have drove. The trains home are cancelled, running one is 70 mins delayed. You see how this will spiral more climate pain.

27c

A typical day on Englands Public transport #sellingenglandbythepound

What the BBC… two games at once

Cheeky chill out. Tails and Rosie

A little stop of in the city. Doing my bit for the flying insects that are not Flies! (Hey get off my bin!)

Another excellent live improv from Mentat youtu.be/N_Jx-qO0U…

Dam it we need to ban private schools, private health care, private transport, private anything

London Games Showcase in Hoxton London is 95% ready to go for opening tomorrow (19th June) 6PM - come and play 11 fantastic BA (undergraduate) final year project. Next step become paid game makers!

In other euros new ITV seem to have a remix of never ending story theme tune as part of their show 🤦‍♂️ (NB. I like the film and song but whoever is the rights owner doesnt care) ⚽️

Some exciting games at the Euros today ⚽️

Not every week you get to do a talk about AI to languages, culture and linguistics department and reference Rick Beato - maybe my YouTube habits are not that bad 🤣

In Winchester, UK tomorrow evening like games and wanna see more we open 6PM all welcome. Miss that we have a games only even in London (Hoxton) next Wednesday

WWDC - math notes is the most interesting thing

WWDC keynote unimpressive neoliberal nonsense. I am not a super wealthy American. Nothing in that keynote was that intresting. Apple Intelligence is too late and not that exciting. I mean beyond making it really clear detecting AI plagiarism in education assignments was always pointless

Not watching the keynote “live” will catch it later

Waiting for Gary Numan !

🐱 Rosie Vox

• Covid
• Cost of living
• Climate

I wonder what the next C will be

Cats

IMAGE 1: Start of workshop - Happy IMAGE 2: Middle of workshop - Manic IMAGE 3: End of workshop - AI Companion from pocket reveal!

AI Arts Festival workshop on Sunday, unpacking and critiquing Generative Image making by prompting, painting and generating.

Tonight! Wooo

Can I mention myself to trigger a push notifications on iOS test I wonder @adamprocter

Time to sell the ash tray nicked and gifted to me by my grandma for my 16th birthday made by some guy called Charlie in ceramics class Cambridge in the 60s. Hopefully I’ll get more than 50 pence for it. 101 pottery class

Sunday fun workshop for AI Arts festival getting visitors to think about and play with AI image generation by writing prompts and painting while I got mid journey also respond to the same prompts. I feel like a number of participants not only had fun but left knowing a little more about how AI works

We have an ended up with a system designed to privilege the obnoxious and the individual. Not to mention the rich and … obnoxious I can’t think of a better word as I didn’t go to Oxbridge and get schooled in how to screw others over

This is the kind of hell normal people have to worry about every month

HMRC issues apology as half a million people miss out on child benefit payment after glitch

The companies waiting to be paid will slap on charges and damage people’s credit rate.

Everything is broken

I am “slightly” getting agitated with all these electric engine (delivery) push bikes flying past me on the pavement

Any micro blog people know what I need to do to remove the big gaps above and below video in my css perhaps ? @help discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2024/06/0…

Very fortunate to see the Orchestre National de Jazz perform Ex Machina live today as part of the AI Arts festival in Winchester, England. Orchestra featuring AI that listens and plays in real time with the band.

All set for my AI Arts Festival workshop. Human to Human - Human to Machine prompting generative painting. Theatre Royal Winchester, England. Part of my work with nodenogg.in and human undertable artificial intelligence.

Well it arrived. I will give a review at some point

How British video games became a billion pound industry - www.bbc.co.uk/teach/art…

7 weeks are now up since the initial email back from NLnet Foundation about our request for funding a phase of nodenogg.in development… I await nervously to see what happens as 7 weeks was a timeframe given as to the earliest we might hear something

“… we have consistently overlooked the repercussions of these advances on the climate crisis.”   - www.theguardian.com/commentis…

When the AI on your iPhone keyboard is total junk and you reflect upon the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s just wrecks my brain every time 🕰️🚀⌨️

Hmm eFootball 2024 on steamdeck is not on a specific version of proton yet I have to download shader pre-caching updated so often which can mess up my gaming commute as WiFi on trains is still slow. 🤖🚂👾

The Business Case for Working Openly and Transparently - dctr.pro/open

Brilliant article on the benefits and approaches of working openly @dougbelshaw.com @epilepticrabbit@social.coop @dajb@social.coop - must read for you, your organisation to benefit from working openly!

Well I know one part of this weeks plan is to reset my Apple ID password again and then in one hit create at least 8-10 app specific passwords to this include some spares and store them in 1password as that part of apple workflow is just broken

Southampton v Leeds play offs

Yesterday another gallery opening I seem to be at almost twice a week at the moment I had great fun Gods House Tower opening of latest Zest Collective work was excellent and a live set from Benji was excellent such a cool guy. Check out his latest Album.

In further news lying face down on a flat roof drilling a polycarbonate roof onto pergola struts as a stupidly skinny man without a cushion was a bad idea. My ribs hate me now

In other news what is going on with parsnip shortage at small supermarkets

Every time we use the term “hallucination,” it is harder to remember that Clippy is a better mental model for existing AI than Skynet is.

It might be too late to withdraw the election of “hallucination” to term du jour in the public discourse, but we may still be able to draw on Mjolsness, Baker, and Kanade’s version of the term to recast AI’s output as the bullshit it truly is.

Calling out the term Hallucination when a machine creates complete nonsense or as reframed here BS - dctr.pro/2pn

I feel privileged to call Victor Burgin a colleague, today he was on campus talking about and showing his most recent work Adaptation with memories of Sheffield and SOLARIS, all made in the Unreal game engine and yes at 80 he makes work in unreal! Digital natives digital migrant nonsense debunked 🥹

Rabbit R1 has had tracking info for almost a month… and just been reporting “shipping information received” wonder when it will actually ship to me🐰

Some of my building fun for Lego serious play activities as part of the faculty two day away day. I know this stuff as approaches to creative thinking but also nice to be on the other side of the coin. It was useful as a mechanism to generally open conversation as much as a thinking approaches.

Another weird bug the steamdeck gaming mode no longer loads up any public WiFi log in pages have to switch to desktop mode which is no fun and can mess up if your mid game and changing wifis :(

Well at least I know why sanelater stopped working but I don’t think I have time to reset my Apple password again for the one missing app specific password this morning 🤦‍♂️which will trigger needing to recreate 4 at least in one sitting. Such a weird bug

Need to write to apple support. So annoying. Cannot create app specific passwords except for once after a password reset any future returns to add more will prompt for password to create and will always claim incorrect password. Do that too much and you are forced to reset your apple password again!

Finally catching up with full state of Micro.blog but @manton @vincent @jean you need 8 apps so I can have two nice looking rows on my phone 🤣 - turned the ability to reply directly on my blog on another nice feature thanks and the curate reply visibility is spot on icing on the cake very nice

Plenty to do but not today thanks

Myself and Fine Art Painting Senior Lecturer Dr Christina Mamakos will be showcasing approaches to understanding AI image generation as a creative tool related to Painting practice. Sign up and join our workshop of Human to Human, Human to Machine Prompt image making. Join

That was slightly scary Monty (my dog) and I were just attacked by a random pitbull type dog in Southampton. No injuries thankfully. Owner (I think) appeared and pull. Dog off and we legged it the other way. 101 Reported incident was almost a normal day for me 🤣

This is great let’s hope the Premier league teams do one right thing in a long long time and kick VAR out ! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…

Strange football “fans” that want their team to lose. Erm nope win every game who cares about anybody else. Win every game you play. That’s pretty much the rule of thumb. Premier league has some strange “fans” but hey Premier league is also anti football fans so 🤷

What could be considered baffling is how I get an original Dreamcast to output hdmi 👍 but hey that’s another story

These boys are the best. 🐶 🐱

Eurovision

Gah BBC iPlayer PS3 app no longer works. Hmmm that messes up my set up for front room. Blooming annoying and shouldn’t happen. Hmmm

Ian the cat venturing outside a little with his “buddy” Tails 🐱

Onwards and upwards! COYD

Interval at Romesh Ranganathan gig Bournemouth.

Just being able to play Sensible Soccer (SWOS) on the train steamdeck is worth every penny

Annoying and weird steamdeck gaming mode no longer loads public WiFi login pages. Have to go into desktop mode to get online. Hmm must be a recent update thing

I dunno students trolleys and cones it’s just a thing!

Well tomorrow may 10th is the official eFootball boycott. Do not even launch it. In protest of the major 3.5 regressions!

Winchester, UK Monday 13th May come play some student games from Year 1 and 2 Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton at the Nutshell 15:30 - 18:30 - www.thenutshellwinchester.com/shows-and…

Our British made Dualit toaster might have cost £60 to repair but we’ve had our toaster for well over 20+ years so I don’t mind. Could have binned it and bought a cheap one but no this is the future, right to repair and all.

I see Dorsey has quit Bluesky

Rage against the Machine never specified which machine they were furious with but I reckon it was probably a printer.

🤣 Source unknown

The internet is in decline - it needs rewilding - The Observer / Guardian via @adders thanks

Nice chill beats for the bank holiday - YouTube

I can’t keep up with the printed things I get but I try and they are worth it

Ha when @corvus suggested my blog is cogent by suggesting a recent post was not I have to say that made me happy that anything I post is seen as cogent 👍 let the good times role.

James Bridle has been co-creating and making chairs with AI - Fantastic stuff dctr.pro/2pk

I’m still doing this because the world is flooded with overpriced, crappy, subpar software. It hurts people and it hurts the economy.

Jason Fried - dctr.pro/2pi

You know what I love making random veg based soups. It’s pretty easy, helps reduce any possible wasting of veg and generally (now) they taste great.

• Sustainable
• Portable
• Local
• Private

This is what I try to ask of my technology and this is how I try and build technology.

To be clear I am working on at least 3 AI projects and lots of experimentation myself but mindless use of AI and ill information about ethics and environmental impact must be addressed. This week saw two projects on the environment using mid journey for assets had no clue of the energy usage

I get the arguments @manton @danielpunkass but joking about energy use in the climate crisis related to AI is a little crass, so I want it off in MB for now, I’m not anti AI. I choose vegan, I choose energy use and my tech choices (yours) for the planet, not extreme in these views mind - Atlas of AI

I use AI especially if I can run it locally as I do with llama/stable diffusion when my computer is on anyway. I ask chatGPT to help with code understanding energy use. AI is off on Micro.blog as I don’t want my photos (re)scanned but if I could be selective maybe and local definitely @manton

We can have a different web - dctr.pro/2pg

Cat owners eh! 🐱

Dam it stupid train WiFi got too busy and I just won a last minute game in eFootball which now looks like it won’t count towards my 2 game consecutive win is the Italy events team thing. ⚽️

Also shout out to the sorry I’ve now forgotten the MB person that created the MB photoblogger shortcut. I didn’t use it to post but I used it to tell me the prompts for each day ! @challenges ! Woo

Wooo gotta catch them all I now finally have all the current pins on Micro.blog

Small waterfall at highfield campus today. Teaching and learning faculty conference.

No matter what I try I cannot get my desktop wall papers to stay consistent drives me mad - macOS bugs

Once I completed my 30 day photo challenge I will go and edit them to add good Alt Text (manually) - this post is to hold me accountable

My Rabbit R1 is on its way! I thought being in the UK i would have to wait much longer !

Home ground in my original hometown - Wimbledon. We haven’t been back at plough lane for long and it’s still magically !

Time to drift away

What a community we are - photo with Champions. AFC Wimbledon ladies

All clubs are equal but some are more equal than others! Yesterday we gave out our Same Old Wombles podcast awards at the last game of the season. Hung out with most of the first team, the manager, the PLC chair, our head of football operations. You know like you do at all the other clubs… COYD!

Surprise! we sprung our same old Wombles awards at end off season match

Not sure why but my Apple account has been locked twice this week. And I did sign out of all devices and only use 1password generated codes. So very odd

Well in Southampton this is where you normally see Critters !

Orbital

Arrived … orbital

The spine of WASD is a series of career talks today.

Foam board print for wife was so light I left it in shop. Thankfully retrieved shortly after!

Dreamy !

Not feeling blue today after catching a little bit of the living library event on world earth day at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

A friend of mine moved house this weekend otherwise I would normally be absolutly smashing it at fall guys, rocket league and red dead 2 right now. Part of this post is true…

I put my usb torch charger magnetic lead somewhere so safe 🤦‍♂️

Day 20 What a mountain to climb AFC Wimbledon Women Champions promoted to Level 3 so technically now playing at a higher tier than our men’s first team nationally COYD !

Day 19 a little while ago I was on honeymoon and earned my ice hotel diploma

Today pop up showcase at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Final year WSA student games in progress 11-4PM. If your near come and play !

Day 18 we don’t know when his birthday is as he was a rescue abandoned as a young pup so we treat him every day. Monty we sure do love you.

FA and Premier league making disgraceful changes to the FA Cup

• www.efl.com/news/2024…
• www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2024…
• www.fairgameuk.org/press-rel…

No idea why eFootball 2024 3.5 update is taking so long to install on steamdeck - I love my steamdeck but updates are insane and you better install them all before anywhere out and about as public WiFi etc. is not gonna be your friend!

Tranmere you are totally correct as a Wimbledon fan / owner I wish we had made this statement www.tranmererovers.co.uk/news/2024…

Day 17: I like the mood of our original brand logo which secretly still happens to stay alive thankfully

I love maths

I wonder if photo upload from Ulysses might be the answer to oddness with official app and cell Connection uploads

Rosie not Impressed

The photo blog challenge has become more challenging when iOS Micro.blog app claims to have photo attached and uploads and then doesn’t bother 🤦‍♂️ - something to do with cell network connection. But all the UI and posting indicates all good.

Day 16 - I work in a university… IT, admin & processes often provide transcendence… “experience that goes past normal limits”

I’m for free choice however I have seen enough death personally from smoking. I smoked from 12 until 23 (still regret it) and one of our daughters who smokes. Any watering down of the ban is because of lobbying by big tobacco as Tory’s rebel - reminds me to re visit The Rainmaker by John Grisham

Just found out about a show called - The Underdog: Josh Must Win - this show is a disgrace. Nick Grimshaw you should be ashamed. A show full of fake dolled up guys and girls try to make the “nerd” win. Wow channel 4 you should probably be privatised at this point. Terrible

Ok I have missed a specific MB photo blog challenge small BUT it means I can post the right prompts now but will try to do small on day 31 as I started on day 2 🤦‍♂️ if not and I get that far I’ll just post any photo to get the pin! 🤣

Hmmm and now my self hosted gitlab is having an SSL issue it must have heard me when I said “my gitlab hasn’t been acting up for a while” 🤦‍♂️

Why has it taken me this long to realise when I get frustrated with the iOS microblog app and its weirdness on longer posts I could have just used Ulysses on iOS to publish. 🤦‍♂️

Day 15 after strolling to and from Avenue campus (40mins round trip) in the British sun I was certainly a Flâneur and needed refreshment at Beards and Boards craft beer near home.

I actually think Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs are/ would be disappointed with current Apple. Let’s see if WWDC 2024 changes that…

Day 14 cactus 🌵

Day 13 each page is not that cheerful this month but I do love what Stack sends me 📸

Day 12: Magic performance on the Xylosynth by James Larter. Playing his own stuff + Glass and Reich to close out Moving Colour Exhibition at The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art.

Well newcastle deaf fans are buzzing already ! www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…

Salisbury Computer Centre

Day 11 : Southampton sky

Yes signed for two more years COYD Omar!

I can confirm my new home office “beer” fridge is ultra silent. Happy days

Excellent day 10 @challenges I was happening to have to do the train to London today visiting Now Play this and Glow exhibitions at Somerset house and kings college ! 📸 peak train home! To Irish dancing in Basingstoke 💃

Day 9. Double baked crispy jacket potatoes + crispy bacon + crème fresh for the non vegans at home. (Mashed 🥔 filing was oat milk, vegan cheese, vegan Philadelphia + spring onions) mine topped with vegan cathedral city cheese served with simple salad - I ate my skins too mind. Crispy, creamy, nice!

Last night all the results went our way. Saturday we are away to Swindon. Don’t think we are ready for promotion tho it might mean we hold onto some of my fav players but playoffs is a good cash injection but if we ended up playing them I’ll be at home and donating to DLAG what I would have spent

Pleased to say our application for funding next bunch of major (aka rewrite) updates for the release of nodenogg.in is in / acknowledged with nlnet.nl under the first NGI Zero commons call. Of course rounds of panels to get through etc but right now glad to be at the point to be in the mix.

Ordered new office (beer) fridge can’t take it, cleaned it all checked the fan and compressor nothing obvious to a non fridge repair person and I am pretty sensitive to sound. Got a low energy replacement all the reviews say it is whisper quiet. Old fridge is relegated to party apperances only now🎉

Hmm just noticed on micro.blog app on my iPad I got notifications of replies, iPhone hasn’t received any for months. 🤷‍♂️

LIDL sells Oatly barista milk so much cheaper than everywhere else but it’s been sold out last two times I’ve been (and yes I would also likely buy 5) but it means I don’t want k buy it else where which means I am close to running out. 😩🤦‍♂️

Frustratingly my home office fridge has started to make a lot more noise which may mean it’s on the way out. Atm it’s just really annoyingly noisy and not sure I can deal with the noise. May have to just bite the bullet and order a new one.

Day 8 : Prevention 📸

Have been living here for less than two years and this is a pretty rubbish prevention there have been at least 6 crashes I have noted on this cross road and I probably missed others. And it’s a 20mph road!

chatGPT I dont mind you as a coding buddy but I am hoping soon though I will be setup with just local stuff using Ollama and some python going forward soon…. we shall see

Now I just need to learn home to be a prompt engineer 👷

I can now use a local RAG and LLM to work with text contained in a json file. Just been playing with a blog of mine and twitter archive

code - github.com/adamproct… twitch demo - www.twitch.tv/videos/21… longer post - soon sources added to code base - soon

Dam the Burger King whooper flavoured Doritos nacho crisps I got the other week had accidentally opened on the side and so they are all stale. I was looking forward to trying them out 😩

Day 7 : well-being

I find that football for me now is even more of a mental health support since covid and work pressures. This is the moment I head to my seat and for 90mins my mind just focuses on one thing our 11 men kicking a ball. 💛💙

💛💙

You can’t really tell but it was windy all the way home from football yesterday day 6 📸

Day 5: serene 📸

Great podcast on opensource LLMs - Oxide and Friends with Simon Willison

well I think I know what is causing my blog upset on mobile device rendering, If I bump up the overall font size to 1.2em this then forces the container to be too wide. Haven’t hacked a fix yet annoying as font is too small. Only seems reproducible on device which makes testing a royal pain

Deployed using conventional commits with nodenogg.in p2p alpha, makes a lot of sense and since I like semantic versioning, should be able to make this go hand in hand very well.

Day 4: fake foliage 📸

If this sounds intriguing at all - spatial multiplayer free/libre software for in-person messy collective thinking within social learning spaces and communities of practice. Then please star the alpha repo of nodenogg.in peer to peer (yes hosted on Github dont come at me)⭐️

I think that if you follow me on micro.blog a link to my new microcast should appear in time if not but semi interested in hopefully ongoing short audio ramblings check out microcast.adamprocter.co.uk - it wont be on podcast directories but you can just add it the URL in you fav podcatcher

As discussed on @coreint I’ve been a power pack Alfred person for years and to be frank I don’t use any of the power in it but if Apple LLM local spotlight that would be major. As spotlight is just broken

Nothing to see here 🐱

Day 3 : card 📸

🐶

Day 2 : Flower 📸

ok @manton I found the file (dont know why search didn’t work)

• your_instagram_content
• content
• posts_1.json

my images appear blank but I can select them see attached but I dont want to import them to discursive.adamprocter.co.uk I want to import them to my other micro.blog (in same account)

When ChatGPT and I dont really understand yml github actions / workflows and Github organisations settings, combined with personal settings, combined with repo settings…it was a LONG afternoon! However nodenogg.in now has a new live docs site up and running (feel free to guess its URL) 🤣

Thanks to micro.blog changes to premium giving me more than one blog, I can leave fragmentum.adamprocter.co.uk my previous WordPress hosted microcast in retirement and set up a new one on micro.blog, which I have now done at microcast.adamprocter.co.uk

note to self also need to test that bookshelf code again and see if I can resurrect that page on my blog ….

New York Times is a gaming platform via @thoughtshrapnel

thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/0…

Connected my blog to my bluesky account - I think this is worth doing…

Day 1 : Toy 📸

Oh crumbs an MB error may have just posted my last post 3 times 🤣

My fruit bowl may need some attention 🤣

We played much better today than Friday and against Stockport we took it to them unfortunately they were too strong for us, mega set of subs and we lost 1-0 in the final mins. We did well but I think our playoff hopes are well and truly done and dusted today. Can we hang onto our best players mind😩

Southampton please take your bins in….

Delayed trains on the way to the big match. Hoping to pick up my purchased this morning limited edition top AFC Wimbledon X Warm & Wonderful X War Child. 50% of profits go to War Child and 50% to the AFC Wimbledon Foundation.

Dam it train Wi-Fi logged me out so lost my points etc on eFootball match when it ended ⚽️ I mean I don’t know I am doing with these points but I don’t like losing them and the match being expunged from my record. (Even though I lost)

Any idea @help why I can’t fix this on mobile home page only effected.

can anyone offer some MB css @help - I want to have set for this page only discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/education…

.toc-list, .toc-list ol { list-style-type: none; }

but it is overridden

The CSS on my blog is still broken on small screens which I have yet to work out why, doesn’t scale to fit so has stuff off screen and nothing has changed. Rather annoying.

🐱🐱🐶

Gah today was pretty rubbish. Good end taking and hearing about department research but most of the day just depressingly annoying.

AI has a huge impact on the sustainability of the planet as it burns so much energy. This is a plain truth.

Ha turns out it was a photography class originally not poetry but the parable is still totally true just make make make ! austinkleon.com/2020/12/1…

A week in with my barefoot shoes, weather improving so I splashed on some new shoes. When I say splashed £25. I get the idea rebarefoot and I am enjoying the space / fit. I was fortunate to meet Dai a friend of @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social in London as a proper bare foot professional let see how I go

Oh boy Labour plans to use AI for..LINK

I get home sit down and 2 out of 3 cats and the dog just sit on me and paw me. Yes they have been feed just want more attention and a warm spot I guess 🐱 🐈‍⬛ 🐶

Snuck a pick at Folk session in the Guide Dog Pub Southampton. It was me audience of 1 and 13 players! It was a bit awkward to start but 2 beers in I was just happy to enjoy great live music in a small but lovely pub back room.

Maximo Park new single - Favourite Songs - great stuff - [odesli.com/m…](https://odesli.com/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/favourite-songs/1733961725?i=173396173)

My watch just advised me to record an elliptical work out - I don’t think it really understand that rushing to the station and back to house and back to station again as daughter forgot her keys doesn’t really count.

The Dune Films Are the Most Important of the 2020s. But Not for the Reasons You Think. Technology isn’t destiny - dctr.pro/2pf

Excellent new Pearl Jam album coming Dark Matter - [odesli.com/m…](https://odesli.com/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dark-matter/1730087669)

Custom LEGO kit of the Cherry Red Records Stadium has been developed in collaboration with WiSH (Wimbledon in Sporting History). For each set sold, £5 goes to the Charitable Trust to support its aims.

buildablebybrickthis.com/collectio…

It’s not big and it’s not clever however the FA fined Pell for supposedly deliberately miss kicking balls during his warm up into the stand of Franchise watchers.

Our fans have just paid the fine 🤪

Also I hear we have a new song

10 balls hit by Pell hit the Franchise Ba…

Education Tech

Talking ‘AI’ down is still talking about AI, it still adds to the vortex of attention. There are other many more important things in the world to be anxious about (though ‘AI’ seems set to make all of them worse).

dctr.pro/2pd

Ok someone tell me how hiccups serve any purpose. I hate them and as soon as I am able to find water to drink upside down from they are gone utterly pointless and so annoying.

Oh dang it. App Store iOS Mb app and epilogue are ahead of TestFlight on iOS now. Anyone in TestFlight check your apps 🤣🤦

My weekends are fantastic or totally ruined by just 90minutes that starts at 3PM on a Saturday. Prior to this time I am generally happy and afterwards either ecstatic or miserable. This weekend misery. It’s the hope that kills you.

More history returned and restored to Plough Lane. Followed by a dreadful 0-2 defeat

It’s unclear how my almost bankruptt council in Southampton can go for almost 3 months of completely disrupted bin collection. My recycling is now heading to landfill unacceptable

Why do I have to wait for 4K blu ray until Dec of dune part 2. As I watched it in the cinema I think I should be allowed to buy it now. What am I gonna do sell tickets to watch in my home office 🤣🤦

Sound of cinema - Dune BBC Radio 3

Ok yeah I randomly last minute got myself and youngest daughter tickets to see Edward Scissorhands at the mayflower theatre Southampton Wednesday night. One of my favourite films. Hopefully it will be good. Not reading reviews or info. Yeah that’s how I roll!

Yes I know my hair is thin and thinning but why would the barber encourage a comb over style by leaving the left side longer. Unless you have super glue you will always look well like you have a comb over. Thankfully my daughter apprentice hair dresser of Hampshire in her spare time has fixed it

I guess if I want see day of death I have to add it as an anniversary to contact card. Just weird to have had birthdays appearing for friends / family that are no longer with me

Ok beating Notts County away is great need to follow it up on Tuesday night home to Gillingham COYD

International women’s day = super important

If your not sure why go out there and find out more about oppression and see what you can do to help

Had a pretty crummy day mentally. Rosie is trying to cheer me up… I think 🤣

I didn’t and will never watch them play us home or away but John Green does a great job of summing up some of the emotion connected to my team youtu.be/yA7W1MmQH…

Can’t collect our bins for over 8 weeks … maybe this is why 🤦 Southampton: Emergency support for council facing ‘bankruptcy’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e…

What the

apple.news/AVoD_D3Oa…

If that’s behind a pay wall here

Dam it 10 weeks and still no recycling collection in Southamptonon central. What the heck!

£70+ million paid in dividends to train share holders in 2023.

£220+ million in profit for SWTrains in 2023.

Prices go up in 2024.

Trains getting progressively worse in 2024.

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What what yes yes 0-0 against Grimsby but replica 88 walk out jacket is now mine

Train prices go up. All the trains are cancelled this morning 🤔

Nice write up of this seasons game AFC Wimbledon v Franchise - www.terraceedition.com/home-haut…

Ray captures why I don’t attend as well. They are not a football team, we shouldn’t even have to play them.

I will never watch them but we won And if your worried about Noah the ball boy well he seems ok Josh was pretty happy too and the players and team, came into the pub to celebrate with the fans, never forget, football is for the fans, not franchises! Fan owned, community club. The real Dons COYD

Yep great news people my flexi ticket to work has gone up by an additional £6.90 for my normal 8 tickets, nice way to help encourage public transport use, oh hang on private sector own our public transport… go shareholders! go! Nice one

The boys are back

Not watched any trailers - off to see Dune Part 2 this afternoon (Everyman cinema) 🪱 🐛

Today taking students on a tour of ustwo games, Oval and then taking in the delight digital media arts exhibition in Borough Yards, London Bridge.

Of the 92 clubs to compete across England’s top four divisions in 2022/23, 22 have so far released financials for last season

Of those 22, just four - Manchester City, Watford, Brentford and AFC Wimbledon - booked a profit

Net result across the 22 clubs: £197m loss

This is a short MB post to see if I can notice any speed changes when posting from iOS app…

I’m on iOS micro.blog and epilogue betas happy to join any others but not sure how @vincent @manton

If anyone is looking for a blog / website solution I cannot recommend micro.blog enough. New pricing makes it even more of a steal. I don’t get anything from @manton but I am a massive fan so check it out

www.manton.org/2024/02/2…

Yep

Update news re Southampton bin collection report. All the roads around ours seem to have been collected. Resorted and did @ on my dead twitter account as well. Because you know city councils won’t be on mastodon or following the pulse of blogs online via search because the web is still in trouble 👿

Well done German soccer fans keep up the fight 50+1 www.dw.com/en/bundes…

Arrrgh no recycling bins collected from us in 6 weeks. And no glass today. Seriously understaffed council collection services ! I am fuming as it’s building up in my house and littering our streets - Labour Southampton City Council

More updates to our GDA projects site today with almost all our 2024 projects sorted. Exciting times. If you’re in London or Winchester, UK (in June) come see and play the games too ! https://winchester.games

These progress bars etc and visuals and time estimates are difficult to do but I do love this 😂 imagine waiting 39 years for a download

I think of the last 3 games we have lost 8 points. From what I saw we could/should have won all 3.

Two men had an argument during the Kansas City Chiefs celebrations drew guns and so other people drew guns.

This is an another shocking event. I am just glad that carrying a gun is not something that is deemed lawful in the UK and Europe.

My thoughts with all tragically caught up in this incident.

Great game don’t see how this is even useful mind.

I’m technically not a professor (I’m am semi technically an Associate Professor but it gets complicated) but if you get an email claiming it from Professor Adam Procter it won’t be from me. People are spamming people with my name. I feel honoured but I don’t need cash (the scammer probably does)

Interesting postmortem blog post on Muse development from Adam Wiggins dctr.pro/2pa much for me to muse upon for nodenogg.in for sure to cc @manton you may also enjoy.

1-1 we needed to win really. Train replacement buses also a pain but worked ! Hmm not as bad a day as I feared

Game studio Die Gute Fabrik on 4 day week and the climate report from making Seasalt Chronicles - great insight on a progressive approach to indie game making.

Piano man has released a new song - a 30 year gap where it’s seem the industry and perfection got in the way. It’s great - Billy Joel Turn the Lights back on - YouTube

Recording Same old Wombles podcast season 2 episode 23 today was magical as we recorded it with my friend who had double heart bypass surgery 3 weeks ago. www.sameoldwombles.com/season-2-…

I have all pretty new Apple devices iPhone, iPad, mac, watch, headphones etc but I am sick of them always being out charge it’s ridiculous ok not as bad as intel etc but its actually a problem - to be fair the mac is the only one I have less worries about

Ah so Southampton the reason are bins are not being collected is because the council have after union intervention decided to treat its staff fairly and safely. So the actual fix is you need more staff and lorry’s but you haven’t done that part yet as that… costs money

Packed train you leave your seat for the toilet and people take it wow

Grammys no thanks but brittain.tech/fastcar.m…

When back in the day you thought wow finally televised Houses of Parliament this will help us all get an insight into real democracy and now it’s just watching two privileged boys having a go at each other. I guess in Oxbridge they call this “debating” 🫠

Well I guess all the layoffs epic made can be reversed now… neoliberal hell

www.theguardian.com/film/2024…

Oh boy 🤦‍♂️

I wouldn’t say they are like homeward bound friends to be fair 🤦‍♂️

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How plant based “cheese” spread by Philadelphia is more expensive than the regular one requiring cows etc etc is beyond me. But it is good for my bagel lunch. So I’ll suck up the price 🤦‍♂️

Sunday

A non fan in the ground apprently used racist language towards Bugiel at the end of the game, Bradford will do all in there power to remove this person from attending future games (thank you). Photo Bugiel and I with his family after game this season - he is one of my fav players this season.

dctr.pro/2p5

• AI and board game reconstruction

This for me is one of the most moving albums from Steve Mason - go listen link

Only 118 new emoji coming in next iOS update … 😵😬🫠

Oh do micro.blog posts with video not cross post to mastodon? @help

Oh do micro.blog posts with video not cross post to mastodon? @help

Seriously Sainsbury’s your policy for when you take in unsold papers is stupidly early. Some of us are busy. And yet you don’t close for 2 more hours but the papers are considered unsold and packed away…

Well I had an excuse to get my head into Godot 4 at Global Game Jam, We are hosting again at work (Winchester School of Art) this weekend. I do love how easy it is to get things up and running. Fear not I made sure we have healthy snacks too.

My review of my 2023 post is still sitting in draft … I will publish it this year 🤣

THE COMING GAME ENGINE INFLECTION POINT - dctr.pro/2p4

Open source is democratizing video game development - dctr.pro/2p3

Yeah I have decided I hate the head sets the staff wear in little Sainsbury’s as they just use them as as walkie talkie gossip channel I stand waiting…

Kicking off Global Game at Winchester School of Art today for a weekend of game making. Games will be online to review late Sunday!

Of course on my phone the buttons do not appear. Don’t cha just love a good bit of expensive corporate cloud IT…

Need macOS icon book

Thanks at fediverse - [odesli.com/m…](https://odesli.com/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/allfather/1718462950) via @grueproof@mastodon.social

Oh if I haven’t made it clear I will never watch us play them. Neither home (neither will I resell my season ticket, my seat will remain empty) or away (stadium paid for by Asda/IKEA). So when there is some wind up about attendance at that game just do some basic homework about actual attendances…

All this talk about being inclusive and supporting diversity yet every single funding call related to academic or related requires you to fill in a text based application form. I’m getting sick of it.

QuickTime on macOS is great for screen recording locally but the .mov files are just insanely massive and the limited options in QT export doesn’t help. So to fix my PowerPoint bloat had to do the “make .zip, pop every video through VLC conversion, replace, rezip and rename back to .pptx dance”

Well I finally gave in to properly use chatGPT help me solve a code issue and to be fair the conversations helped and I am confident it saved me time. I’m not pleased about the cloud power consumption etc. I look forward to Apple sorting an on device chatGPT…

Tomorrow’s performance / presentation…. don’t normally use Powerpoint but it was useful for this double team effort … let us see how many people we get doing our new idle social dance we created ! And we couldn’t resist the final slide… which has the music etc for the dance…

Today we had our first inside tour of the current empty shell of our new campus building for creative tech and games. It’s pretty exciting.

I have it on good authority (@brendandawes@mastodon.social) it’s a generative system but is not AI. Everything gets badged as AI these days but very Interesting approach to film editing and viewer experience mind dctr.pro/2p1

Just your typical Sunday… also note how Alexa still spells my name wrong

Is it just me or do MB mention notifications no longer work on iOS?

Making a vegan roast while mainly listening to Vangelis

So my friend Toby who is helping (basically leading) with nodenogg.in p2p has just redone code base with yJS now over trystero as webtorrent was too patchy and we refuse to use Firebase (Google) - it’s looking cool and working much better for sync over webRTC

It’s still minus 5 in Southampton ! What the blazes 🥶 Monty the dog I don’t think even with you coat your gonna wanna go out yet.

At least I know what I won’t be doing in 2024… improving Wikipedia

I’m in the first 100k but because I live in the UK / Europe my Rabbit is unlikely to be dispatched until end of 2024… while shipments in the USA start in Easter and the hardware designers are in Germany… hmm

Picture attached @help I added a books plug in and I guess it’s connected now my blog doesn’t update

Testing 123

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Quoting one of the many sub-postmasters affected in the post office scandal this week

Why has it taken an outrage from the public that the government had no choice but to act? This story has been out there for 20 years. We could have had this dealt with well before now. It should not have taken an ITV drama to force the government to take action. - Chris Head

Loved ITV Drama, it has engaged the public but lets note that journalists including Private Eye exposed the post office scandal in 2011. The current PM announcement to overturn convictions is great but it’s a PR stunt in an election year. Many sub-postmasters just paid the “debts” what about them?

Turned up the thermostat and thankfully found my winter shoes. Getting mighty cold in the South of England this week.

Blooming snowing 🌨️ ⛄️ ❄️ can we get a work snow day ?! 🤣

Exciting news the remastered nodenogg.in (fully decentralised) is starting to take shape I’ll be making community focused guides on how to use in education and how to get involved in the code (if thats your thing).Toby has been working away on the base code and has made leaps and bounds in no time!

If you were unaware of the complete in justice dealt to post office sub masters in the uk then do watch the itv dramatisation - Mr Bates v The Post Office. Excellent stuff. JUSTICE

Well it’s the hope that kills you - lost 1-3 - out of the FA Cup unfortunately

Will Anderson (film maker / animator) talking about his love of process and using blender as a tool to experiment with new ways to animate and tell stories - YouTube

Ok scratch the flask python websockets thing ! This Trystero + Vue and we have a realtime multiplayer decentralised app up and running in less than a couple hours!

Reworking the nodenogg.in high level architecture concepts. Vue is deffo in the mix the rest could be anything although next looking at flask (python) and websockets for some of the sync stuff.

Nice article on programming. Great end sentence too.

Hacking is forever.

Whenever anyone asks me if I can code or programme I always say no I’m more a hacker 😊 so true

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft - The New Yorker