Mark Boas

A sculpture consisting of a face of white marble mounted within wood.

My brother in law makes mixed media sculptures. This one is marble and wood.

GitHub - hyperaudio/hyperaudio-lite: Hyperaudio Lite - a Super-lightweight Interactive Transcript Player Hyperaudio Lite - a Super-lightweight Interactive Transcript Player - hyperaudio/hyperaudio-lite

Let me know if you want interactive transcripts / captions. I'd be happy to sort that out for you with github.com/hyperaudio/h...

Interesting. TBH I haven't tested. Assumed caniuse.com was correct. Thanks!! 🤞

@jakearchibald.com Any plans to support this feature in Firefox? caniuse.com/wf-highlight

Saw the Buzzcocks on Saturday. Cue Buzzcocks earworms ever since. I like the Buzzcocks but could do with a break.

Keir Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ island of strangers speech Immigration speech was criticised for echoing Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ rhetoric

See also www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Duck test - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test

A basket of apricots.

Our first ever apricot harvest...

Definitely. My Scottish version would be substantially different.

Months in order of preference:

1. May
2. June
3. September
4. August
5. July
6. April
7. March
8. October
9. February
10. January
11. December
12. November

Oranges conserve remarkably well in a cool and dry environment. Though more difficult to peel, I have no qualms about eating a well preserved month-old orange, although I do wonder if any of the sugar has turned to alcohol.

I'm pretty sure there are bands I don't listen to because I get them confused with other bands.

Viagra Boys and Vengaboys, for example.

Photo of a vineyard in the fog. A pylon fairly visible in the middle distance.

Oh foggy day.

Likewise Aisha! Doing ok thanks. Hope you're all well too :)

Oh god yes. It's terrible, so frustrating. I too gave up.

... and building bridges between them where possible.

Not a big fan of new year resolutions, but a focus of 2025 for me will be about expanding the communities and networks I'm part of.

Cool! Have you considered adding Interactive Transcripts to these? They can help with accessibility. github.com/hyperaudio/h...

Immediate Action Needed! - Open Web Advocacy Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide

Rather than allow other browser engines to install-to-homescreen on iOS, Apple is removing the feature entirely in the EU.

Some features are tied to install-to-homescreen, such as push messages. Apple is unshipping those for EU users.

We need to act now: open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attemp...

I wrote a little bit about what I got up to in 2023 and what 2024 has in store...

maboa.it/2023-a-retro...

A picture of an old car that looks like a cybertruck, but smaller.

The new cybertruck mini....

It may have taken half the morning but the vacuum cleaner is fixed! Fixed I tell you!!

But, who is Nomadland?

The often unspoken complication of having solar panels is the meteorology skills required to decide whether to turn the dishwasher on.

Shame. You could have called it pizza carbonara.

Yes I did just record 10 seconds of background noise to test a speech-to-text API, and yes it does treat it differently to a file containing absolute silence.

No text is produced in both cases, which is good.

Music software has always been a bit quirky.

Is this before or after the pizza goes in the oven?

This song is about the execution of Paul Bogle (ca. 1820 -- 1865) a Jamaican Baptist deacon and is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 M... THIRD WORLD - 96 DEGREES IN THE SHADE

96 degrees in the shade (by Third World) is so last century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE5gfZlMZY