David Mead

With the IndieWeb Summit going on, I thought it a good time to update this blog to the latest version.

Steps

• backed up the MySQL database for the site
• copied the site, via FTP, to my local machine
• downloaded latest zipped file from https://withknown.marcus-povey.co.uk/
• unzipped and FTP’d new files over to server, apart from the Uploads and Configuration folders
• refreshed in browser and voila! content is still there
• revoked all IndiePub account access (not needed but wanted a fresh start on this build) and logged back in to:
  • Quill
  • Aperture
  • Together (didn’t work as header/footer plugin needed to be added back in with needed content)
  • OwnYourSwarm
  • OwnYourGram (giving it another go, but it still doesn’t work)
• added back in Food and Listen plugins from my local backup

Going forward

So far so good. OwnYourGram still doesn't want to work with my server for some reason. Nothing is being pulled in to Together so maybe that needs a little time.

The most notable changes are tidying up of the settings and configuration sections which looks great. There's also a new (updated?) editor which is cleaner and works well.

My existing Twitter plugin broke the site, so I pulled down a new version from GitHub.

#blog #WithKnown #KnownCMS #IndieWeb

As Warren Ellis searches out physical copies of his music collection, I got to thinking of the various digital music products that I can no longer access.

Loscil - Adrift

This first appeared for iOS and I waited to get the Android version. Turns out he couldn't get it through the regular app store, only Amazon's version (size limitations?). I had to install Amazon's store on my Nexus 7, then download it through there.  I liked it, but it never quite worked all the time and would shut off.

Since my Nexus 7 died, this has been lost to me as it won't download to the older Kindle I'm using.

A (non-endless) version of  'Bannockburn',  is on Bandcamp.

Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers - Bloom: 10 Worlds

Again, something released on iOS, Bloom was a great generative music app.  I used to play it on my wife's 1st Gen. iPad, but it never came to Android.  A decade later, 'Bloom: 10 Worlds' appeared in Google Play.

I would set this going then throw it to my Chromecast to have it playing through the TV. When my Nexus 7 died so dit it-unable to run on my newer Pixel 2 phone. Peter Chilvers himself replied when i ran into this...

"Unfortunately there’s an audio glitch that only occurs on the Google Pixel range, so we took the precaution of excluding it until that can be fixed. At time of writing, it seems to be beyond our control, but if we can find a way to work around it, we’ll make it available."

I live in hope.

MUJI - MUJI to Sleep

This was an app that would play nature sounds to help you sleep.  One of the extra cool things it did was...

"Use the smartphone's light and camera to measure your pulse. From countless sound combinations, the best relaxing music for you is created."

It's now branded 'MUJI to Relax', so that's a win.  MUJI has a good article on sleep too.

SSEYO Koan

In the back of my mind I remember a Flash/SSEYO Koan thing too. It was an early generative music player, but I lost that late 90's.

#music #listen #memory

Putting pay to the fact, as a kid, "Norway = nul points". First up some electro-pop starting with Aurora's 'Churchyard'...

...then Sigrid with 'Sucker Punch'.

An old favourite of mine, Royskopp, have now started to release their "Lost Tapes". 'Church' is very good.

Ending with a more "traditional" track from those proto-Norse folk singers Wardruna — 'Solringen'

 #listen #music #norway