the 200ok weblog

As is so often the case, I've had a new design for this blog kicking around for a couple of years. Actually applying it, of course, was never quite at the top of the To Do list. With a few days off, it finally bubbled up.

Another year, another new venue! Luna Park was a curious location, but if you want to see adults turn back into kids - give them free access to dodgem cars!

The ansarada frontend crew headed to Web Directions Code in Melbourne, to heckle^H^Hsupport Clark while he was speaking and generally to fill our brains with web goodness. Much fun and coffee was had!

A new venue, side shows, main shows, amazing talks and a good time had by all...

Raspberry Pis are awesome little machines. Even with the Aussie Tax™ increasing the price, for about $50 you get a surprisingly capable computer in a tiny form factor.

There are a few gotchas getting up and running, though – particularly if you haven’t used Linux before. For example I didn’t know the right terminology for packages and using apt-get, which made searching for help a bit annoying at first.

This post is basically a list of things I’d have liked to know when I bought my first Pi, just to get up and running faster. Hopefully these tips will save someone some time…

Jeremy's post about independent publication got me thinking... While not everyone's about to abandon the silos and self-publish everything, it should at least prompt you to consider where your data is living - and whether you can even get a copy of it.

(This post is essentially an expanded transcript of a short talk given at Sydjs.)