Last Updated: 1st December 2024
I’m currently in Edinburgh, studying BSc UX Design at Edinburgh Napier University, where I’m in my third and final year. I’m almost finished my Honours scoping document, which is very exciting, and am going to attempt to finish it today! After that, I’ve got a bit more university work to do but I’ve left the most creative until last so that I’ll enjoy it.
I’m still working on the upgrade to the site I did a few weeks ago.
I’m a lot happier with it now (although the build code is still a trifle
messy, and I want to organise it to be a lot cleaner). There’s two
updated I need to make happen: firstly I want to know why it takes
(almost) exponentially longer to build every time I add a new page.
Really, this should be a case of O(n), and I want to find
out why it isn’t and hopefully fix it. I’ve got some ideas.
But ultimately, the new codebase is allowing me to be a lot more proactive with the site. There’s a huge amount more semantic separation, so I’m much more comfortable writing and confident that in doing so I’m not likely to break anything. This week, I’ve just been tweaking the theme slightly, and given that I’m not entirely happy, I’m going to be doing a little more work on that.
As I’ve been bogged down with other things recently, I’ve been putting off implementing my proposed POSSE system. I am looking at implementing an open-source alternative as I’ve really just not had the chance to get to grips with the Mastodon API. It will happen, it’s sat next to me on my To-Do list staring at me eagerly right now, and I cannot wait to cross it off!
For all this iteration of the now page is meant to be in the month when I’m handing things in for university, I seem to be having quite a few ideas! This one sprang into mind the other week, and it stems from my idea for an implementation of slowing down the internet. Incidentally, that implementation no longer works, as I had to plug in the laptop running it with an ethernet cable as it’s also now running as a local server, which made the “slow” internet hotspot run much too fast!
Anyway, this idea is similar and one I might implement when I get some more time. Instead of allowing the same access to a slower version of the internet, this system uses the idea of data caps that we had maybe 10 years ago. They don’t seem to really be a thing in the UK any more, if you’re on Wi-Fi, you can download/upload an unlimited amount of data all day every day, but I remember when I was a child you couldn’t download or upload more than 20GB a month. It made me (and more my parents!) very conscious of my YouTube habits, and I wonder what the psychological impact of re-introducing such a thing might be. I will try and build an implementation over Christmas and see.
Sadly, I’ve not had all that much time for walking this month. The snow was nice, and I’ve still been up on the hills at night trying to catch people on the 8@8 PMR net with little luck sadly. I won’t have much time for walks until deadlines I suspect.
I’ve been reading most stuff from my RSS reader recently, and haven’t had the time for a good link-hopping session, so I’ve not got any links to share this time. The indie web takes work - whether that’s for the people making it or the people using it, and so finding the gems can take an awful lot of hopping around.
I’m really looking forward to resuming work on my research project into the Ouseburn Culvert! I’ve also been doing some research into the early stages of the Tyne and Wear Metro, which has been seriously interesting. A lot of very in-depth reports and documents out there.
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