- How to make an iBeacon out of a Raspberry Pi
Another thing to add to the list of things to do…
Links for Wednesday October 9th 2013
- iKettle – buy at Firebox.com
A colleague sent this to me as joke about my gadget freak tendencies. Sadly, I completely and unironically think this looks ace, and will almost certainly get one as soon as practical.
Links for Monday October 7th 2013
- 31 days of halloween | Atlas Obscura
I want to remember to come back and read this lot.
Why Buy Old Sounds
One of Sun Ra’s business cards, and a mantra for life.
Links for Friday October 4th 2013
- russell davies: the web, the web, the web
Follow up to the post I linked yesterday, explaining his thinking (which I agree with, and is what I took from his post) in more detail.
Links for Thursday October 3rd 2013
- russell davies: death to innovation
Yes. Very much this. Spend as much time and money on ensuring you meet the basic minimums your customers expect as you do on innovation. Do this on a *ongoing* basis. Revisit what you've already build. Spend money on building it again, better.
Links for Thursday September 26th 2013
- buger/gor · GitHub
This is a tool that will take traffic that's hitting your live server, and replay it against other environments – effectively conducting as-live testing against other systems. This could be very useful indeed. - Lyke-Wake Dirge – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I turned this up a few years back, and then forgot about it. I have uses for it, and don't want to forget again.
Links for Wednesday September 25th 2013
- Frank Chimero × Blog × The Inferno of Independence
This is some utterly splendid writing on, well, I guess it's on work, creativity, and loneliness.
Links for Tuesday September 24th 2013
- View Park Sloper walletpen by OneStarLeatherGoods on Etsy
Quite tempted by one of these – a bit bigger than I like my wallet to be, but I like the idea of being able to keep a Field Notes notebook in there without it getting dog eared.
Links for Sunday September 22nd 2013
- Shahr-e Sukhteh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, how I *wish* I'd known about this about six months ago. Still, filed for later.