The making of a new blog theme

Henrik Carlsson posted this article on 25 apr 20 and tagged it with Blog Theme 2020 Narrating my work

One of the best signs of spring and summer is that I get the urge to tinker with my blog. Right now I’m going through very old posts and making sure that the images in them aren’t broken. Also, I think I’m going to redo the blog’s theme from scratch.

Here’s some thought I wrote down for myself late yesterday.

A hamburger menu is boring but expected, almost demanded, of a modern site so I’ll probably use one.
The categories doesn’t mean anything anymore.
The main taxonomy is the Post Kinds.
- Most posts will be either a note or a Photo.
- What used to be snapshots are moved to photos post kinds.
- Post kinds are distinguished from each other on the homepage and similar pages using slightly different background colors.
Tags are highly important.
- Therefore they should be displayed prominently in the UI.
- And be chosen carefully. They should describe the content of a post, not the kind of post it is. I.e. a photo of Iris should be tagged with Iris but not with Photo, Snapshot or something similar.
Inline comments on home and archive pages is great!
The problem with not caring about categories is posts that have a substantial amount of text and an audio file. Are they podcasts, i.e. Audio post kinds, or are they notes/articles? With categories I can use multiples. With post kinds it is either or.

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Henrik Carlsson posted this reply on 24 apr 20 and tagged it with Online education

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@jemostrom I have the same experience. A few of my students speak up in the large group but it’s pretty much the same students that used to talk the most in lectures on campus as well.

In smaller groups it works much better. The breakout rooms of Zoom is a nice tool for that.

The chat is a different beast. There they tend to be quite chatty. Lot’s of good questions, and sometimes answers to each others questions, and also quite a lot of internet humour, text based memes, etc. In one lecture I had to tell them to back off on the silliness in the chat so valuable questions and/or answers didn’t disappear in the flood of jokes.

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Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 17 jan 20

Thanks Aaron. So far I’m happy with it, though I think I realised what I compromised on by buying such a comparatively cheap polyphonic synth (as compared to say a Prophet 12 or something). I would like a whole bunch more modulation, both sources and destinations.

My other synth is a DSi MoPho, which is monophonic and its modulation matrix is annoying to program but gloriously flexibel.

So far I don’t have any Volcas but several of those where on the table for me when I decided on which synth to buy. The Volca Modular har more of a Buchla approach to things, rather than a Moog style approach to things, right?

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Aaron Davis
18 januari, 2020 09:17

To be fair Henrik, I am still new to the modular world. I think that as Brian Eno would put it, I have been a ‘keyboard player with a few sounds’ (and a poor one at that!) Although I remember listening to the Early Gurus of Electronic Music a long time ago and tinkering what applications like Fruity Loops, I never quite grasps the modular world. What intrigues me is that it is an exploration. This is something Jonny Greenwood touched upon in an NPR interview.
For now I am off to explore the differences in styles …
Aaron Davis
18 januari, 2020 09:17

To be fair Henrik, I am still new to the modular world. I think that as Brian Eno would put it, I have been a ‘keyboard player with a few sounds’ (and a poor one at that!) Although I remember listening to the Early Gurus of Electronic Music a long time ago and tinkering what applications like Fruity Loops, I never quite grasps the modular world. What intrigues me is that it is an exploration. This is something Jonny Greenwood touched upon in an NPR interview.
For now I am off to explore the differences in styles …

Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 16 jan 20

@odd That sounds like a reasonable approach to things.

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Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 16 jan 20

@petebrown and @macgenie I see, thanks! I’ve never used any kind of pressure cooker so this was new to me. Reading the list of the things the InstantPot can do makes me want one.

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Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 14 jan 20

@macgenie Same here, but also with the sense of annoyance over all these people – not just Billy – who want to be ”the next Steve Jobs” or who want to make their company ”the Über of [insert whatever]”. So annoyance over start-up culture in general, I guess.

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macgenie
14 januari, 2020 20:28

@MrHenko I was pretty horrified by the power of Instagram aka Facebook. I had no idea. I think I had already quit by the time I watched the documentary, and it confirmed that decision to quit both.

Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 14 jan 20

@furstenberg You are kind of selling me on the director’s comments. So far I don’t think I’ve ever watched a movie with the director’s commentary track, but maybe this will be the first. Thanks!

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Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 14 jan 20 and tagged it with Star Wars The Last Jedi

@odd You are right, off course. The problem is that I find the ignore part hard to do.

And that’s probably why I feel especially negative toward the idiots on ”the left”, rather than on ”the right”. The stupidities of ”the right” is fairly simple to ignore. Just don’t read their fringe publications. Ignoring stupidities from ”the left” on the other hand would require me to ignore so much mainstream press.

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odd
14 januari, 2020 15:25

odd mentioned this note on micro.blog.

Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 08 jan 20 and tagged it with Star Wars The Last Jedi

I am probably the odd man out here, but when I talk about my problems with the ”culture war” destroying my will to rewatch The Last Jedi, it is mainly not because of Evil Right-Wing-Alt-Right-Nazi-Incel-Hobgoblins, it’s because of their opposite yet still strangely similar counterparts telling me that if I don’t love this movie, it’s probably because I’m a misogynistic racist who hate people who aren’t skinny.

It’s gotta be possible to find a movie okay but not great.

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odd
8 januari, 2020 19:44

@MrHenko Ctrl-Alt-Ignore them all, go see the movie and try to watch it with a fresh mind, and enjoy the parts you like. 🥳👍
odd
14 januari, 2020 15:25

@MrHenko Yeah, I think I see what you mean. I’m of no particular political affiliation, but I guess I’m a bit centrist, with some ideas towards both sides, and some completely my own. I try to get my news from independent sources (if some indeed can be called independent), and otherwise I read with those “ah, of course they’ll say that, being one of them”-eyeglasses. It’s tiresome, but I feel I need to get some information. There’s a lot of good info here on micro blog and the connected blogs too.

Henrik Carlsson posted this note on 08 jan 20 and tagged it with Star Wars The Last Jedi

@furstenberg The Last Jedi will probably grow on me to once I rewatch it. The problem for me is that it got caught up in the stuped ”culture war” that we seem to be fighting on the internet every single day.

Was it that the commentary helped in expressing his intentions with the movie, or where they just fun/interesting comments?

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furstenberg
8 januari, 2020 23:00

@MrHenko So his comments enabled me to understand more of his intentions. I think it was very ambisious. I’m not sure I felt he succeeded. And in that lies some of my issues with the movie I guess.

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