InVisible

My daughter and I have started working on a LED light installation with several hundred LEDs. We are using the wonderful Fadecandy board by Adafruit. A couple of weeks ago, she hooked up their 8x8 Matrix to the Fadecandy and started to explore programming the lights with Processing. But we have bigger plans. I ordered a bunch of LED strips with 50 WS2812 Neopixels spaced out around 10cm and we started to work on hooking them up with power and data connections today. ...

Two days ago, when I resurrected this blog, I thought I’d just start from scratch, leaving the 930+ old blog posts forever gone. Then I read how Amit moved from Squarespace to Hugo using the ExitWP tool to convert a Wordpress XML export to markdown files. I had an old export file lieing around and after just a few minutes with ExitWP I had 936 Markdown files, spanning 10 years (2003 — 2013) of my old blog content. ...

I like Analytics on a website, I don’t want to use Google Analytics. That leaves me with only a few options, one it to run my own analytics software somewhere I control. Previously I used Piwik with good success, so it seems sensible to set that up. Piwik has been renamed to Matomo and I haven’t found a simple complete installer. Server Setup I know that I should use something like Ansible to set it up, but I’m doing it by hand for now. ...

One track on the Crystal Caves album is Sideslips. When I recorded it, I also did a video recording. Enjoy:

I spent most of the time setting up this new blog deciding on which template to use. I settled on Casper-Two but had to make changes literally minutes after I started using it. I created a fork, hugo-chaschper and made the following changes: Cleaned up (HTML formatting) Removing the ‘caspertwo’ options (Casper-Two contains two ways of displaying single page content. I have started to remove the one I don’t use) Added support for IndieWeb and IndieAuth. I followed the post IndieWebify Your Hugo Website Support for Webmentions using code from Amits Blot Template and his description Re-surrect the original CSS file so that I can change it Reading time Better organisation of posts (internally) DRYed up display of article preview cards Things to do: ...

This is the experimental duo that I have with Dragica Kahlina. We met musically at a workshop for free improvisation, led by Omri Ziegele and have been experimenting and performing a couple of times.