Family roboticist/STEM engagement academic/digital tinkerer/film maker/general-purpose geek. @jjsanderson on that other cerulean site.
Joined February 2008
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My username elsewhere is typically @jjsanderson, as here. My up-since-the-90s, never-quite-mothballed blog is at quernstone.com. At some point I’ll add links from there to… wherever.
Meanwhile: feed readers are the future. Everything old is new again.
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25 Oct 2024
It’s the annual ‘stop the muppets from wrecking another institution that’s just fine, thanks’ effort. Takes seconds to vote for the Trust’s recommendations, or there’s loads of detailed notes if you’re so inclined.
24 Oct 2024
Members, you have until 11.59pm tomorrow. I don’t know about you but Restore Trust hasn’t knocked anything into me yet, and I’m feeling pretty great.
Vote here shorturl.at/PnrfP
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17 Oct 2024
I’ve moved Twitter off the home screen of my phone, and replaced it with Blue Sky. Not expecting to be as active there as I once was here, but also expecting to be largely inactive here.
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13 Oct 2024
Wordpress is dreadful early-00s architecture that’s had a stranglehold on the web by being ‘just about good enough.’ A better platform might not have left room for Facebook, Twitter, et al.
I hope we all now move to that better platform. Just as soon as we work out what it is.
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11 Oct 2024
What is going on with all these spammy and deceitful ads which bear no relation to their host brands? This one’s an apparent outdoor clothing company, linking to a ‘motorcycle’ site styled to look like the BBC. Layers of deceit.
This isn’t an advert; what are they paying for?
ALT Utter nonsense “advert”
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10 Oct 2024
Blimey. Hanna was a legend. Unhinged, obviously, but legendary. Sadly I post-date this era of displays (let alone his Red Arrows stint), though I saw him fly MH434 often enough.
Great clip.
10 Oct 2024
1971 Fairoaks Aerodrome, Chobham. Ray Hanna puts the 1943 Spitfire Mk. IX MH434 through her paces at the Tiger Club airshow. The kind of performance that will likely never be repeated.
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10 Oct 2024
Fair play to Islabikes for making it really easy to find an obscure spare part for a bike that's 12 years old and on at least its fifth child. They may have 'closed', but their spares operation is still the best in the business.
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9 Oct 2024
What a story!
(Note the appeal for cycling-connected folks, in thread)
9 Oct 2024
🥁For the last year, I’ve secretly been working on a brand new film, and I can finally tell you all about it. 🥁
It follows a group of amazing women who cycle in Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film is 15 mins long.
Deborah, Nadia and the others in … 1/9
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4 Oct 2024
Apple’s automatic categorisation for shopping list reminders is amaz… wait what?
ALT Heading: Wine, Beer & Spirits Bullet list item: Penguin snot
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Jonathan Sanderson retweeted
22 Sep 2024
210 cyclists (double speed!) - all ages and abilities, and all sorts of cycles (tandems, follow-mes, balance bikes, cargo bikes, etc) - all adding their voices, or their wheels, to the call for more, better, safer, family-friendly cycling infra.
Oh, and 4 cars.
#kidicalmass
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12 Sep 2024
Possibly the most Hull story ever.
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12 Sep 2024
Struggling to understand bitrot in a controller that's been stable for a decade.
Turns out to be metal fatigue in a jumper wire.
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12 Sep 2024
…and just like that, the API design was incomprehensible.
Kicker: I wrote the API. This morning.
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11 Sep 2024
"Hmm, I wonder how easy it is to drive @Sonic_Pi via OSC from a @microbit_edu ? That could be fun/useful." Big thanks to @BobBilsland for this: github.com/RBilsland/pxt-son…, which is at least a great start (also for github.com/RBilsland/Microbi…, which might be what I really need…)
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4 Sep 2024
Sam’s work is both tremendous and tremendously subtle - @Sonic_Pi is one of those rare tools which enables beginners without limiting them.
I’d love to see it find a more stable financial footing.
4 Sep 2024
Does your org have a budget for supporting Open Source projects?
If so @Sonic_Pi could really do with your help right now.
Please help us continue to deliver our mission of lowering the many barriers of entry to creative experiences with code for the next generation.
DMs open.
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3 Sep 2024
Can anyone help Jamie work out what event he’s doing tomorrow?
3 Sep 2024
Akward, but if you are coming to my talk in Glasgow tomorrow… can you let me know what it is and where? I have no details in my diary 😅
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30 Aug 2024
Oh my. I can picture the little brown cups, can taste the hot ‘chocolate.’
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30 Aug 2024
It’s that most horrifying time of the year for any academic: “Please remember to reset your password.”
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26 Aug 2024
Blimmin’ ace. Another corker from Matt’s brain.
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17 Aug 2024
Either Twitter’s algorithm has got distinctly worse in the last couple of weeks, or a raft of people I actually like have stopped posting here.
Stating the obvious, I know.
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16 Aug 2024
Am I missing something, or does @DirectLine's website not actually give their telephone number anywhere? Seems odd, given their telephone character logo and, you know, the name of the business.
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