Links

1. The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor

   I really enjoyed this Radio 4 Open Country podcast about the Weald to Waves project. It was lovely hearing about the work to protect the River Ouse (Sussex), neighbouring projects to Lewes and from representatives from Lewes Climate Hub.

2. Kirby vs. this blog post

   Kirby doing it’s best LLM impression by inhaling the content in this blog post, presumably without permission.

3. Bonsai ASCII art Python script

   A cute Python script that generates procedural ASCII bonsai trees in the command line.

4. Gareth Dennis on trains and EVs

   Novara Media hosts a fascinating discussion about why we should be investing in trains and the hidden costs of electric vehicles.

5. Why we should stop saying underrepresented

   I found this an enlightening article. It makes a strong argument for the terminology we should use for describing inequalities in our society.

6. Texts.app: All of your messages in one inbox

   I’ve been using Texts.app for a few weeks now and really loving the experience. It solves the pain of managing direct messages across all the main messaging services.

7. Little Signals: A series of interaction experiments

   A series of cute physical objects to channel digital notifications into less attention-grabbing interactions.

8. Keisuke Oka’s Arimaston Building in Tokyo, Made Entirely by Hand

   An awe-inspiring entirely hand-crafted concrete building in Tokyo, Japan. It reminds me of a physical manifestation of the IndieWeb. More of this in every aspect of life please!

9. The Knowledge Project Ep. #202 – Matthew Dicks: How to Tell a Story so That Everyone Listens

   Matthew shares some terrific advice for storytelling, structure and listening styles.

10. rolltime - A New HOPE (2022): ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi

    This talk by rolltime helped me to understand the concepts and history of the Fediverse how it has been implemented and what make it better than a straight-up Xitter replacement. They have some interesting thoughts and provocations for creating more curated and valued engagements.