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Edent

@Edent@mastodon.social

Longer hair than you.
Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as https://mastodon.social/@Edent on most social platforms.
Did an MSc in using the Metaverse for analytics.
Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.

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bkardell, to random
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I've been sick so my personal/appearance care has been kind of near 0 and I've got like a 50% beard on the rest of my face now - every time it gets to this point I am like "should I try a full on beard, I'm halfway there".

Edent,
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@bkardell
Do it! Join the bearded brotherhood™

Edent, to meta
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🆕 blog! “It isn't who you know - it's who knows you”

I'm terrible at networking. I forget people's names minutes after meeting them, I never have business cards and lose the ones I'm given, and I can't go five minutes without burbling some nonsense. But I recognise that networking is a skill and, like any skill, it takes practice to succeed. I've always been told that […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/it-isnt-who-you-know-its-who-knows-you/
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#meta #work

Edent, to FIRE
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🆕 blog! “An adult gap year?”

I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/an-adult-gap-year/
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#FIRE #personal

adamcohenrose, to random
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Who do I know coming to this year?

Edent,
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@adamcohenrose
👋

jonty, to random
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Wales has launched their own "metaverse" and it is indistinguishable from Second Life circa 2006.

There is a big dragon. There are small dragons. You can ride a cable car. I have met exactly one other player.

https://visitwales.com/metaverse

Edent,
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@jonty nearly 6 of us now! I'm playing on the train tracks 🙂

Edent, to academia
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Hey #academia friends.

If - and it is a very big if - I wanted to start a PhD in about a year's time, what should I do now to prepare?

I got my MSc a year ago. I haven't started looking at any specific programmes yet.

UK-based tips especially appreciated!

Edent,
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@Dtl
You're not the first to mention that.
I think it is pretty good. And I'm not looking to make a career out of it, so that takes some of the pressure off.

Edent,
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@tomayac
Thanks, that's useful. I'll probably try to do it without an employer TBH.

Edent,
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@the_accidental cheers. I'll check it out.

Edent, to JasperFforde
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde”
★★★★⯪

Fourteen years ago, I read Fforde's Shades of Grey and my life hasn't been quite the same since. It was a magical tale, almost totally devoid of exposition, building in an fantasy world like no other. Fans have been clamouring for a sequel ever since. The first few chapters of the sequel do an excellent […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/book-review-red-side-story-jasper-fforde/
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#BookReview #jasperfforde

Edent,
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@sarajw
Heheh! I know it well. I even went to the Fforde Fiesta a few years ago and had a very enjoyable chat with him.

Edent, to random
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Outstanding! Back in ye olden days that would have been a four-part story with decent cliffhangers.

Dtl, to random
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Who is going to @emf this year?
I should probably try to be a bit more social and actually talk to people this time. Rather than just be shy from afar.

Edent,
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@Dtl I'm reasonably friendly to chat to 😄

Edent, to webdev
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🆕 blog! “Accents and eBooks”

By and large, the English language doesn't use diacritical marks. Even our loanwords are stripped of them; we drink in a cafe rather than the more pretentious café. This has a consequence for HTML and, by extension, eBooks. As a quick primer, modern computing gives us two main ways of displaying a letter with an […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/accents-and-ebooks/
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#ebook #HTML #unicode

Edent, (edited ) to random
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Here's something I <del>wrote</del> found last century in preparation for my .
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/1998/05/unofficial-exam-guidelines-please-display/

Edent, to random
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Surely Colin is absolutely riddled with syphilis?

Edent, to random
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Oh! This is clever. Using the AP bridge, you can follow my ActivityPub account on BlueSky!

Hello bsky friends!

Edent,
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@redauburn
Have you ever considered not replying to a post which isn't meant for you?
Try it sometime, it is delightful 😄

niclake, to random
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I couldn't figure out what to write today, so here's a list of thoughts. https://niclake.me/35/

Edent,
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@niclake @robb
The trick is to get a heated bidet. So much more civilised. Ours also automatically moves back and forth for extra cleansing.

Edent, to random
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🆕 blog! “1,000 edits on OpenStreetMap”

Today was quite the accidental milestone! I've edited OpenStreetMap over a thousand times! For those who don't know, OSM (OpenStreetMap) is like the Wikipedia of maps. Anyone can go in and edit the map. This isn't a corporate-controlled space where your local knowledge is irrelevant compared to the desire for profit. You can literally go…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/1000-edits-on-openstreetmap/
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Edent,
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@phlash Do you know if there's a way to remove a tree? I couldn't see it when I logged in.

Edent, to opensource
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If you're coming to , I'll be giving a talk all about the UK's Contact Tracing app - and whether open source saved lives.

https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/16-lessons-learned-open-sourcing-the-uks-covid-tracing-app

Edent,
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I've just done my first run-through of my #EMFcamp talk.

Exactly 27 minutes long.

Which means - assuming no one laughs, claps, or heckles - I'll have exactly enough time for 1½ "not so much a question, more of a comment"s at the end 😄

Edent,
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@hugh
Oooh! Is that a new thing?

And by Q&A tent, you mean the bar, right?

Edent,
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@CatherineFlick @jonty @hugh
Yeah, I also remember a throwable mic!
But I'll increase my content by 11% to cover any shorfall 😄

Edent,
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@pikesley
How do you feel about a stage invasion?

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