Photo of Barry Barry Frost

Notes

  • Oh dear, @RackspaceUK. I would think the first way to “Get ahead of the game” in eCommerce is filtering “NoFirstname” twitter.com…
  • After a happy period using Rdio I’ve switched back to Spotify for all my music listening needs. Despite a much larger catalogue, the killer feature Spotify lacked was a collection of albums, something Rdio’s UI manages very well. But with its new(ish) reboot, Spotify now supports how I want to play music. Switched.
  • Prompted by Dropbox’s announcement of webhooks, yesterday, I resumed my semi-regular thoughts about powering this site using a combination of Drafts on iOS, Dropbox and Heroku, perhaps with tweets via Tweetbot using a callback chain. Might have a hack on that sometime.
  • Trying out Twitter Analytics by tweeting a link to a post on my site. bfr.st…
  • Trying out Twitter Analytics by tweeting a link to a post on my site.
  • Barbecue done and now fire from the chiminea. Happy bank holiday Monday. twitter.com…
  • Congratulations and a happy 10th birthday to @mr_mcd @DavidHart @LukeInTH and all at @codegent in London/Thailand www.codegent.com…
  • “The iPad is … a temporary sidestep on the way to a future in which everyone’s computer is simply their mobile phone” dcurt.is…
  • Fun discovery yesterday: my car is 4G. I have a Three SIM card for data from which it creates a wifi hotspot, displays live traffic updates, plays Spotify, etc. Driving along the M25 I notice a little ‘4G’ icon appear. Sadly I was a little too busy driving to use it.
  • I’ve somehow been subscribed to a civil engineering recruitment postal list from Hays. We hire Rails engineers but not actual railway ones!
  • @YammerSupport Is there a way to mark all my unread messages as read? I’ve got 99+ and most are stale.
  • Yes! BT has accepted my order for its FTTC broadband, now available in Virginia Water. I’ll soon be improving on my 2Mbit/s to ~40Mbit/s.
  • Yes! BT has accepted my order for its FTTC broadband, now available in Virginia Water. I’ll soon be improving on my 2Mbit/s to ~40Mbit/s. Update (2014-04-22): Up-and-running, but only after a cocked-up cabinet activation by an incompetent Openreach engineer that left me without broadband at home for 8 days.
  • Off to a Monopoly board pub crawl but are heading home early to host some friends for dinner and more drinks. What could possibly go wrong?
  • Twitter’s new implementation of multiple photos and tags is a further step away from its simple 140-char origins bfr.st…
  • Twitter have recently announced changes to support multiple photos per tweet and tagging of people in photos, changes that bring their service even closer to Facebook/Instagram. What saddens me is the continued shift away from the original concept of a tweet being entirely encapsulated within 140 characters to fit neatly in a SMS. It’s easy to see why, but photos and tagged users will be hidden in a tweet’s metadata rather than being part of its body. It’s expected that Twitter will include the...
  • Wedding wine testing today and thankfully being driven. Perk of getting married.
  • Wedding wine tasting today and thankfully being driven. Perk of getting married.
  • My notes from last night’s London Homebrew Website Club meetup #indieweb bfr.st…
  • Last night was the first London Homebrew Website Club meetup. I said a few words about this site and touched on some of the IndieWeb concepts I’ve been experimenting with, which seemed to go well. Strong turnout of about a dozen people: some completely new to the ideas and others who have been involved with the community for a while. And good to swap notes afterwards with Glenn Jones who demonstrated his work-in-progress Transmat platform and to see some of the location functionality under the...
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