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Moving from Gmail
I finally got around to moving my email from Gmail to Fastmail. It’s been churning away moving over 8 years worth of emails for over 24 hours now.
First, that meant sorting out my domain name. It was with namesco, who don’t support two-factor auth which no longer feels like an acceptable risk for something that has defacto access to your email.
I moved it to iwantmyname.com. All very easy.
Since they have one-click DNS setup for Ghost and github pages, I figured I may as well sort out my blog whilst I was at it.
I culled my old one when the wordpress/ubuntu installs went horribly out of date, and never got around to sorting it out.
So I now have blog.memespring.co.uk.
They also make it simple to point a domain at github pages, so I figured I should fix the broken links I created to random talks / downloads etc.
I’ve started to rescue old content from a mix of backups and archive.org at www.memespring.co.uk. Mostly slide decks for now, including this one from a 2006 event that I seem to remember Francis signed me up to talk at without asking me (I had never did any public speaking). Glad he did.
I also added the video of the talk I did last year at Opentech which, listening to it now, lays out some of the early thinking behind habitat.
Notes: Capital Ring, habitat
Completed the Capital Ring. Last 3 stages were a bit epic - about 19 miles in one day. Nearly walked into a deer.
The Capital Ring is well worth the effort, but there’s a total lack of good online information about it. It’s crying out for a dedicated wiki of tips, being able to link to each stage, open GPX tracks.
Off work this week, mostly working on habitat. I now have a working example client for posting location data, and for editing scenarios.
Both are written in Backbone.js, which I still haven’t fully got my head around.
I ended up slightly hacking the oAuth workflow - since the habitat server is self hosted, the idea of issuing client ids, then adding those to the client, then giving permission is a bit odd. So, for now at least, the clients can choose their own.
Notes: 5 - 9th May 2014
Walked stages 9 and 8 of the Capital Ring South Kenton to Osterly (3 more to go).
Final show and tell of the Land Registry concept.
More work on habitat - a personal, programable datastore (or that’s what it is untill I have a better desceiption). I got oAuth working using Flask oAuthLib. So you can now allow clients types of access to specific resources.
Julian was down from Liverpool, so took him to visit South London Makerspace.
Saw Mountain of Love (Eddie & Piers, formerly of Alabama 3) at Jamm.