This episode I had a great conversation with Andy Birkey, the original creative weirdo, famous in the maker community for his wonderful dog Fiona, who always gets him up to see a sunrise.
This time I talked with Patti Gilstrap (@pattibrooklyn on Instagram) about dance, sewing, puppets, blacksmithing and robots and the winding path along the way.
This time I talked with John Graziano, aka GrazMakes on your usual platforms, about curiosity and a constant desire to modify things to understand how they work and to take things apart to bend them to your will.
There's a few parts of the web application stack I'd like to explore a bit more, to build my knowledge and keep up to date, as well as showcase my work in an open source example project.
Combining my historical interests in coding, and art.
Simon Willison is one of the folks that reminds me periodically, I should post here more. He recently shared https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/ again, and here we are.
Learn a bit about a way to think about Mastodon philosophically and a bit about running an instance.
For around 18 years I have been participating in the Open Source web development community, concentrating on back-end web development, including content management, knowledge sharing/management, and online learning communities.
H5P is a standard for reusable, sharable learning content. I have been working to bring H5P support to Django-based projects for a while now, and I have found the easiest integration so far. The h5p-standalong project is a pure Javascript implementation. By adding the hooks for server-side content delivery and progress recording, we can focus on the parts that Django does best, and leave the Javascript to the h5p-standalone library.