I'm here for your opera singing in the background. I'm looking at you Tricky, Vini Reilly and of course Franco Battiato.

Just back from a 10 day tour of Sardinia in a campervan. Warmer than I would have liked, but an amazing island if you're into beaches and snorkelling. Bonus being that you feel the heat less when you're in the sea lazily paddling after fish.

I've been playing about with a 13 year old application written entirely in vanilla JavaScript and it's unbelievably quick to load, smooth and responsive. I don't know what I was expecting. Currently trying to port it without losing any of the smoothness. Try it out here textav.hyperaud.io/pad/

That's all the talks transcribed and live for atmosphereconf.org/talks/ Was super happy to try out the latest Hyperaudio Lite lib and some new batch techniques for correcting Thanks to all who helped out! @bmann.ca @blaine.bsky.social @iame.li @essentialrandom.bsky.social et al. It's been fun :)

ATmosphereConf 2026

ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

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@iame.li I'm working on transcripts for Atmosphere Conf. bsky.app/profile/bman... Apparently you are the person to contact about the videos being down. Eg atmosphereconf.org/event/xXWE9Dv Any ETA on getting them back up? Thanks!

ATmosphereConf 2026

ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

atmosphereconf.org

Boris@bmann.ca · 2mo ago

@iame.li issues with VOD infra? @maboa.bsky.social is helping get transcripts and read along integrated into the AtmosphereConf site and videos aren’t loading any more. Do we need to update? discourse.atprotocol.community/t/offer-to-h...

Back into blogging and just published something I've been thinking about for a while now – making archival content more resilient and discoverable on atproto. Oral history, interactive transcripts, content addressing, and keeping important stories from being quietly erased. maboa.it/resilient-ar...

Keeping Archives Alive: Resilience and Discovery on ATProto

The Black Reproductive Justice Archive (BRJA) gathers the voices of mothers, organizers, healthcare providers and scholars – first-hand testimonies about reproductive justice, in the words of the peop...

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Getting my mojo back...

My brother in law makes mixed media sculptures. This one is marble and wood.

@jakearchibald.com Any plans to support this feature in Firefox? caniuse.com/wf-highlight

Saw the Buzzcocks on Saturday. Cue Buzzcocks earworms ever since. I like the Buzzcocks but could do with a break.

Our first ever apricot harvest...

Months in order of preference: 1. May 2. June 3. September 4. August 5. July 6. April 7. March 8. October 9. February 10. January 11. December 12. November

Oranges conserve remarkably well in a cool and dry environment. Though more difficult to peel, I have no qualms about eating a well preserved month-old orange, although I do wonder if any of the sugar has turned to alcohol.

I'm pretty sure there are bands I don't listen to because I get them confused with other bands. Viagra Boys and Vengaboys, for example.

Oh foggy day.

Not a big fan of new year resolutions, but a focus of 2025 for me will be about expanding the communities and networks I'm part of.

Rather than allow other browser engines to install-to-homescreen on iOS, Apple is removing the feature entirely in the EU. Some features are tied to install-to-homescreen, such as push messages. Apple is unshipping those for EU users. We need to act now: open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attemp...

Immediate Action Needed! - Open Web Advocacy

Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide

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I wrote a little bit about what I got up to in 2023 and what 2024 has in store... maboa.it/2023-a-retro...

The new cybertruck mini....

It may have taken half the morning but the vacuum cleaner is fixed! Fixed I tell you!!

The often unspoken complication of having solar panels is the meteorology skills required to decide whether to turn the dishwasher on.

Yes I did just record 10 seconds of background noise to test a speech-to-text API, and yes it does treat it differently to a file containing absolute silence. No text is produced in both cases, which is good.

Music software has always been a bit quirky.

96 degrees in the shade (by Third World) is so last century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE5gfZlMZY

THIRD WORLD - 96 DEGREES IN THE SHADE

This song is about the execution of Paul Bogle (ca. 1820 -- 1865) a Jamaican Baptist deacon and is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 M...

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A double album of Nick Drake covers you say? The version of Pink Moon by AURORA is sublime and very gorgeous https://open.spotify.com/track/7fHzjaSpIqRPXP2s5hJS1M?si=8edcf65a0c7b45a9

Proud to be a '6 Music Dad'... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/08/bbc-6-music-radio-station

From weird nostalgia to weak formats, 6 Music is having an identity crisis | Daniel Dylan Wray

In trying to shake off the ‘6 Music Dad’ tag and not be thought of as an indie rock hub, the BBC radio station isn’t sure what it wants to be any more

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I wrote about media accessibility and the steps you can take to make sure *all* users can take best advantage of your audio and video on the web. https://maboa.it/media-accessibility/

Media Accessibility

I’ve been working on media accessibility for several years now – this post is an attempt to collect my thoughts on the subject and provide a useful resource. Accessibility is not a new word, altho...

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OK. Where was I?