Enjoyed @barcamplondon today. Lovely to meet everyone and catch up with old friends. I went to talks about Colour Perception, presenting radio travel bulletins, and learned about macramé. Presented my own session with a nostalgic look back at BBC TVC, photographed in its final days. Oh, and I won some #LEGO 😁
#BarCampLondon #bclxiii

(with apologies to my regular followers for the global-post-with-hashtags-about-irl jumpscare:)

today i went to barcamp london which is an "unconference" . basically you go and put on your own talks and sessions and go to other people's ones and generally contribute to the event rather than just consuming it

i was nervous but i did a talk about using old-school web development (as in hand-coded html, css, php, and my beloved xslt) in the modern world. and i talked about how i think that's not only still a great way to make websites (especially for fun as opposed to for work) but also easier now than it has been in the past

the other talks i went to were about: weird things in colour perception, various timing attacks, open source tools for computer-aided embroidery, doing a cool trick with glowsticks, uncomfortable experiences in video games, and making generative music/sounds by shoving complicated graphs through an inverse fft

if you're in the london area and are at all interested in tech or really anything nerdy, i think you should definitely go next year, it's a completely free event (supported by sponsors, including proactive and ukgovcamp and the venue lae tottenham) and the catering was excellent :>

ok im done shilling it now, heres your hashtag soup
#barcamp #bclxiii #barcamplondon

Alan Pope @popey just delivered a talk at BarCamp London, showcasing Michael Hall's @mhall119 Savannah — a tool designed to help you to better understand, nurture, and grow your community. I’m excited to give it a try! 🦁✨ #BarCampLondon #Savannah #bclxiii

So - I thought I’d install Linux and bring it to #barcamplondon. Unfortunately, I can’t get on the WiFi and don’t know how to fix it.