https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/summary2/Post summaries with plaintext contentHugo (https://gohugo.io)en-us© Julian Elve 2001 - 2026https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/media/icon_hufc1c15e6a498a5ebe0f850a433bf3a96_788300_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.pnghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/summary2/https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/10/09/transcribing-meeting-recordings-with-openai/Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:23:23 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/10/09/transcribing-meeting-recordings-with-openai/Using a little bit of Python to transcribe a meeting recording with OpenAI #python #OpenAIhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2024/04/22/goodbye-z80/Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:55:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2024/04/22/goodbye-z80/Which microprocessor gang were you in? #technology #nostalgiahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/22/weeknote-2024-w11-12/Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:32:09 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/22/weeknote-2024-w11-12/Complex processes, a chat with @elsua and some rewarding viewing, listening and reading #productivity #propaganda #PKMasteryhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/07/weeknote-2024-w10/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:11:01 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/07/weeknote-2024-w10/Keeping the weeknote as bucket of stuff approach #powerplatform #NHS #LinkLoghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/01/weeknote-2024-w09/Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:29:17 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/01/weeknote-2024-w09/A rare face-to-face meeting with colleagues this week to talk product strategy. Although I’m a big fan of not shuffling back and forth to an office each day (we’ve been fully-distributed since the pandemic), it was noticeable that conversation flowed better, and it was clearly easier for the meeting chair to push people to make decisions. Other highlights: a chunk of fiddling with the nuances of Power Automate controlling SharePoint access for external guest usershttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/02/23/weeknote-2024-w08/Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:36:04 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/02/23/weeknote-2024-w08/Revisiting a familiar format to reboot writing — technical debt, systems thinking and tool of the week #dotnet #TechnicalDebt #SystemsThinkinghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2024/01/05/expanding-digger-to-work-with-hypothesis/Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:48:14 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2024/01/05/expanding-digger-to-work-with-hypothesis/Expanded my Digger small-tech tool to now extract basic annotations from Hypothes.is into local Markdown notes. #small tech #notemaking #PKM #dotnet #Open Source #Digger #hypothes.ishttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2024/01/02/blogging-review-2023/Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:41:21 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2024/01/02/blogging-review-2023/A few thoughts about why my online writing tailed off from mid-year, and what I might change. #100DaysToOffload #metablogging #PKMastery #PKMhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/11/07/linear-regression/Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/11/07/linear-regression/A second notebook test with some course notes on Linear Regression #machinelearning #datasciencehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/11/07/sample-jupyter-notebook/Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/11/07/sample-jupyter-notebook/This is a test of importing Jupyter notebooks directly as work notes using the Academic CLI print(1+1) 2https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/09/11/reply-to-ton-zijlstra-the-enshittification-of-linkedin-as-dsa-takes-effect/Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:51:05 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/09/11/reply-to-ton-zijlstra-the-enshittification-of-linkedin-as-dsa-takes-effect/Same old, same old I never post my updates on there, that’s what this site and my Mastodon feed are for. If I really thought there was any value in it I would post links ‘over there’ to selected posts ‘over here’. When it first started, the idea of tracking your own professional network, and seeing “who knew whom” was something of a winner, but the inevitable swamping in “social” features, adverts, algorithmically-driven content and posts written by marketing people has made it pretty much …https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/09/04/summers-lease/Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:53:26 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/09/04/summers-lease/And summer’s lease hath all too short a date #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/28/working-with-this-hugo-site-in-github-codespaces/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:43:35 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/28/working-with-this-hugo-site-in-github-codespaces/Development Containers work well with WSL2 and GitHub Codespaces, found problems from Windows #TIL #devcontainers #codespaces #hugo #SSG #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/21/adjusting-json-net-settings-in-azure-durable-functions/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:06:39 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/21/adjusting-json-net-settings-in-azure-durable-functions/Passing objects from a third-party library between functions required a deep-dive into the internals. #Json.Net #Azure Functions #100DaysToOffload #TILhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/14/exploring-initial-teacher-training-data-with-datasette/Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:59:28 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/14/exploring-initial-teacher-training-data-with-datasette/Learning some core features of Datasette, using a small but interesting set of data from the DfE #Datasette #datajournalism #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/07/til-using-channels-in-dotnet/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:25:10 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/07/til-using-channels-in-dotnet/Using System.Threading.Channels to build async console tools. #TIL #dotnet #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/06/07/doomed-or-are-we/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 06:47:47 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/06/07/doomed-or-are-we/Yet another brief and partial attempt to make sense of the current AI debate #AI #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/05/16/applying-chatgpt-like-tools-across-your-own-data/Tue, 16 May 2023 07:09:48 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/05/16/applying-chatgpt-like-tools-across-your-own-data/Summarising some key principles from Mick Vleeshouwer. #AI #ChatGPT #100DaysToOffload #MickVleeshouwerhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/05/05/adding-label-column-for-optionset-in-fact-table/Fri, 05 May 2023 07:47:42 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/05/05/adding-label-column-for-optionset-in-fact-table/More nuances in making a useful facts table from Dynamics sales data #datawarehouse #synapseanalytics #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/05/04/adding-columns-to-parquet-based-fact-table/Thu, 04 May 2023 07:21:45 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/05/04/adding-columns-to-parquet-based-fact-table/Still learning the basics of working with Parquet files and PySpark #datawarehouse #synapseanalytics #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/04/27/this-is-what-happens/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:22:23 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/04/27/this-is-what-happens/Get back in the writing saddle somehow… #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/20/next-steps-for-personal-knowledge-mastery/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:47:32 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/20/next-steps-for-personal-knowledge-mastery/A summary of my experience with the Personal Knowledge Mastery course from @harold@mastodon.social, and my next steps #PKMastery #PKM #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/06/how-i-narrate-my-work/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 07:09:15 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/06/how-i-narrate-my-work/Documenting my current process for narrating my own and my team’s work, and directions I might develop it. #PKMastery #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/03/a-heuristic-for-choosing-people-to-follow-on-mastodon/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:43:20 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/03/a-heuristic-for-choosing-people-to-follow-on-mastodon/An experimental guide to make the Mastodon timeline both rewarding and useful #PKMastery #Mastodon #SocialNetworks #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/01/finding-connectors-in-mastodon/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:08:31 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/03/01/finding-connectors-in-mastodon/Exploring the behaviour of people who act as ‘connectors’, steered by @harold@mastodon.social, with some tools by @judell@mastodon.social #PKMastery #Mastodon #Steampipe #SocialNetworks #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/28/meetings-may-be-part-of-the-work-but-thats-not-enough/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:26:18 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/28/meetings-may-be-part-of-the-work-but-thats-not-enough/To improve knowledge work @elizayer@mastodon.social is right about meetings, but what about communities and networks? More evidence is needed. #KnowledgeWork #PKMastery #opensource #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/27/finding-the-real-work-that-meetings-are-good-at/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:01:57 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/27/finding-the-real-work-that-meetings-are-good-at/How can meetings better support collective learning? #KnowledgeWork #PKMastery #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/23/a-mcluhan-tetrad-about-github-copilot/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:12:03 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/23/a-mcluhan-tetrad-about-github-copilot/I experiment with analysing the potential effects of CoPilot using a McLuhan tetrad #McLuhan #PKM #PKMastery #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/21/four-days-work-five-days-pay/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:10:04 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/21/four-days-work-five-days-pay/The UK pilot of a shorter work-week with no pay reduction has reported positive results for both companies and workers. #FutureWork #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/31/dataverse-resilience-pause-and-reflect/Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:29:43 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/31/dataverse-resilience-pause-and-reflect/A short reflection on the Dataverse resilience tests so far #dataverse #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/30/dataverse-resilience-experiment-4/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:36:56 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/30/dataverse-resilience-experiment-4/A fourth approach to parallel record creation in Dataverse using HttpClient with retry logic from Polly #dataverse #resilience #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/27/dataverse-resilience-experiment-3/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:02:29 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/27/dataverse-resilience-experiment-3/A third approach to parallel creation in Dataverse using HttpClient without any retry logic (naive starting point) #dataverse #resilience #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/27/dataverse-resilience-experiment-2/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:02 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/27/dataverse-resilience-experiment-2/A second approach to parallel record creation using ServiceClient but using Parallel.ForEachAsync #dataverse #resilience #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/26/dataverse-resilience-experiment-1/Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:09:29 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/01/26/dataverse-resilience-experiment-1/I try a naive approach to parallel record creation using ServiceClient and example code from the documentation. #dataverse #resilience #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/dataverse-resilience/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 06:15:56 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/dataverse-resilience/A collection of notes exploring how to make applications that rely on Dataverse more resilient #dataverse #resilience #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/01/10/doctorow-on-social-quitting/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:16:40 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/01/10/doctorow-on-social-quitting/Author and commentator goes to the heart of what is happening with #BigSocial #100DaysToOffload #social platforms #platform capitalism #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/01/06/a-new-year-and-100-days-to-offload/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:55:24 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/01/06/a-new-year-and-100-days-to-offload/No wrap up of 2022 yet, instead a commitment to just keep writing #100DaysToOffload. #100DaysToOffloadhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/12/06/a-rusty-advent/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:19:09 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/12/06/a-rusty-advent/I’ve been using Advent of Code to start playing with the programming language Rust. This is what the journey looks like so far (early days). #programming #Rust #AdventOfCode #AI #ChatGPThttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/12/02/example-of-adding-antora-local-author-preview/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:01:03 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/12/02/example-of-adding-antora-local-author-preview/Making it easier for developers to contribute to #docsascode by adding Antora local preview tools to code repos #docsascode #antorahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/12/02/reply-to-chris-aldrich-feedreaderfriday-a-suggestion-for-changing-our-social-media-patterns/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 07:07:28 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/12/02/reply-to-chris-aldrich-feedreaderfriday-a-suggestion-for-changing-our-social-media-patterns/I never stopped reading stuff in a feedreader, but I like the #feedreaderfriday meme! #feedreaderfriday #IndieWebhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/11/21/see-you-never-twitter/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:02:07 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/11/21/see-you-never-twitter/I’m moving interaction away from Twitter #socialmedia #fediversehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/11/08/joined-the-fediverse/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:53:49 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/11/08/joined-the-fediverse/I’ve set up a Fediverse account on a private instance of Mastodon. Here’s why. #fediverse #social media #IndieWebhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/09/15/bursty-backlogs/Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:21:13 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/09/15/bursty-backlogs/How many times do we hear ‘When will this feature get built?’ ? #software engineering #agilehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/09/09/learning-tools-2022/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:28:14 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/09/09/learning-tools-2022/Updating the list of my favourite tools for learning, and noting what has changed since 2019. #PKM #toolshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/07/27/revisiting-the-power-of-context/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:30:28 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/07/27/revisiting-the-power-of-context/Has anything really changed for networked learning? #wayback #PKM #associative thinking #digital gardens #wikihttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/07/15/digging-out-diigo-notes/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:15:58 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/07/15/digging-out-diigo-notes/Digger is a command-line tool to extract annotations from web-based services into local Markdown notes #small tech #notemaking #PKM #dotnet #Open Source #Digger #diigohttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/smalltools/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:34:56 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/smalltools/Software tools in the spirit of Small Tech #technology #smalltech #softwarehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/07/13/renewal-revisited/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:30:28 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/07/13/renewal-revisited/Looking back 20 years to some ideas from Tom Peters. #wayback #worklife #creativity #ideashttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/05/24/reply-to-ton-zijlstra-julians-nudge-to-explore-hypothes.is-api/Tue, 24 May 2022 13:23:08 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/05/24/reply-to-ton-zijlstra-julians-nudge-to-explore-hypothes.is-api/Ton expresses his concerns about annotations in any online tool (the example is Hypothes.is) being potentially risky, if nothing else as a consumer of learning time that isn’t well integrated with his other notes: The type of interaction and annotation I have/do with a source text I normally do locally. Unless it can be a PESOS (Post Elsewhere Syndicate to Own Site) flow, exchanging that current value of processing things locally for merely the potential for interaction and conversation is …https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/05/24/reply-to-ton-zijlstra-clipping-articles-from-feed-reader-to-obsidian/Tue, 24 May 2022 06:28:24 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2022/05/24/reply-to-ton-zijlstra-clipping-articles-from-feed-reader-to-obsidian/I look at what a ‘web colleague’ has done, and think about how I might solve a similar problem. #PKM #personal software toolshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/03/23/an-issue-combining-flow-and-power-apps-custom-api/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 06:26:57 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/03/23/an-issue-combining-flow-and-power-apps-custom-api/Unexpected side effect from changing a custom API that was being called from a flow #Power Automate #Power Platformhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/02/21/webmentions-revisited/Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:54:18 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2022/02/21/webmentions-revisited/Some changes to webmentions handling on this sitehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/svelte/Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:14:51 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/svelte/A basic exploration of the web framework Svelte #code #learning-in-publichttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/09/17/experimenting-with-svelte-ep01/Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:10:01 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/09/17/experimenting-with-svelte-ep01/Getting a basic site running locally #code #learning-in-publichttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/09/17/experimenting-with-svelte-ep00/Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:00:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/09/17/experimenting-with-svelte-ep00/Why I want to explore this new-ish web framework #code #learning-in-publichttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/14/no-cameras/Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:01:49 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/14/no-cameras/Why you shouldn’t worry if your colleagues don’t switch on their cameras in virtual meetings #Future Workhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/13/streaming-creates-media-jobs/Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:27:28 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/13/streaming-creates-media-jobs/“Streaming demand for UK shows will create 30,000 film and TV jobs” says the Guardian, as demand from the global streaming giants for UK-made programmes goes unmet. #media #economyhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/11/british-exceptionalism-again/Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:58:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/11/british-exceptionalism-again/World-leading case rates per-capita again #covid19https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/04/how-to-make-schools-safer/Sat, 04 Sep 2021 17:56:56 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/09/04/how-to-make-schools-safer/Prof. Christina Pagel tweets about IndieSage’s work to improve Covid safety in schools and workplaces. #covid19 #public health #schools #ICYMI #IndieSAGE #workplaceshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/05/21/querying-application-insights-using-an-interactive-notebook/Fri, 21 May 2021 11:21:46 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/05/21/querying-application-insights-using-an-interactive-notebook/Using .Net interactive in a Jupyter notebook to query application logs #notebooks #dotnet interactivehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/05/21/exploring-interactive-notebooks/Fri, 21 May 2021 11:20:26 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/05/21/exploring-interactive-notebooks/Learning to use interactive notebooks #notebooks #jupyterhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/05/11/the-very-model/Tue, 11 May 2021 07:31:06 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/05/11/the-very-model/A ditty for our timeshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/05/10/zotero-to-markdown-notes/Mon, 10 May 2021 09:09:43 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/05/10/zotero-to-markdown-notes/A workflow to integrate Zotero and your notes #PKM #zotero #obsidian #foam #howtohttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/05/07/maths-for-data-science/Fri, 07 May 2021 09:40:36 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/05/07/maths-for-data-science/Signing up for a refresher #maths #learning #out-of-comfort-zonehttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/05/01/reinventing-my-note-making-practice/Sat, 01 May 2021 16:17:02 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/05/01/reinventing-my-note-making-practice/Summarising my current practice in using notes to enable both work and learning #PKM #notemaking #Zettelkastenhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/04/28/2021-04-28-wordpress-log-to-seq/Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:52:47 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/04/28/2021-04-28-wordpress-log-to-seq/Throwing an idea to the lazyweb #wordpress #seq #ideas #lazyweb #logginghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/04/25/anti-libraries-and-anti-scholars/Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:58:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/04/25/anti-libraries-and-anti-scholars/On the importance of the books you havent read #PKM #Taleb #anti-scholarhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/04/22/d365-uk-user-group-april-2021/Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:07:04 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2021/04/22/d365-uk-user-group-april-2021/D365 / Power Platform user group was held online, here are brief notes on my experience of the day #powerplatform #dyn365ug2021-04https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/01/20/new-tools-for-note-making/Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:12:58 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2021/01/20/new-tools-for-note-making/Toolset for desktop and mobile note-making #PKM #notemaking #Zettelkastenhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/12/02/d365-user-group-december-2020/Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:28:07 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/12/02/d365-user-group-december-2020/D365 user group was held online, here are brief notes on my experience of the day #powerplatform #dyn365ug2020-12https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/20/note-making-the-starting-point/Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:12:59 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/20/note-making-the-starting-point/A baseline of my historic note-making practices #PKM #notemaking #Zettelkastenhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/20/note-making-goals/Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:29:48 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/20/note-making-goals/Why do I make notes? What do I want to change? What are my goals for this process? #PKM #notemaking #Zettelkastenhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/note-making-practice/Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:31:02 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/note-making-practice/Documenting changes to my tools and practice #PKM #notemaking #Zettelkastenhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/19/tagging-choice-as-expression-of-distance/Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:41:07 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/19/tagging-choice-as-expression-of-distance/Does our choice of the words we use to tag concepts reflect our inner context? #folksonomy #linguisticshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/13/taking-stock/Fri, 13 Nov 2020 06:25:59 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/11/13/taking-stock/A silent blog doesn’t mean nothing is happening! #metablogginghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/11/the-agility-gap/Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:07:31 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/11/the-agility-gap/Some quick notes on “The Strategic Agility Gap” by David Woods1 Summary The growth of new technologies and new levels of has led to new organisational capabilities. With these new capabilities has come greater levels of complexity and inter-dependence, which in turn lead to unpredicted and unpredictable areas of brittleness / lack of resilience. Combine these factors with an increasingly complex world and there can be unpredicted failures and outages. Examples include the impact of ransomware …https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/antora-local-authoring/Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:32:31 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/antora-local-authoring/Writing content for your Antora site In the note about publishing I described how the final published site gets built. However in reality you will want to preview your work locally before you push to the published site. Antora supports an author mode of working where it builds a site based on local clone(s) of the content project(s) (as opposed to fetching a specified branch or tag from the published repository/repositories at build time. #docsascode #antorahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/antora-publishing/Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:34:13 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/antora-publishing/Approaches for publishing Antora projects to websites on Netlify and Azure #docsascode #antora #CI/CDhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/antora-basics/Thu, 03 Sep 2020 08:33:20 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/antora-basics/Setting up a basic Antora process #docsascode #antorahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/documents-as-code/Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/09/03/documents-as-code/Managing documentation using code tools #docsascode #antorahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/antora/Thu, 03 Sep 2020 06:18:50 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/project/antora/Docs-as-code websites with Antora #docsascode #antorahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/08/14/notes-on-eghbal-working-in-public/Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:38:46 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/08/14/notes-on-eghbal-working-in-public/Nadia Eghbal’s revoew of how open source really works in 2020 #opensource #nadia eghbal #bookshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/08/04/a-simple-classification-of-e-learning-methods/Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:05:19 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/08/04/a-simple-classification-of-e-learning-methods/In order to structure a broad overview of e-learning tools for colleagues I set out a simple two-dimensional grid of cardinality against time: cardinality - how many learners are working together, simplified to 1 v many time - synchronous learning (in real time) v asynchronous learning (each learner chooses when to undertake an activity) e-learning activities in time and group-space #e-learninghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/06/29/five-evidence-informed-uses-of-edtech/Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:56:39 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/06/29/five-evidence-informed-uses-of-edtech/Notes on presentation by Mark Anderson #edtech #e-learninghttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/06/09/flipgrid-for-learning/Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:54:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/06/09/flipgrid-for-learning/FlipGrid is a tool to allow short video interactions from a group of students or delegates #msteams #edtech #flipgrid #collaboration #videohttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/06/09/wakelet-and-ms-teams/Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:29:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/06/09/wakelet-and-ms-teams/Overview of using Wakelet curation tool inside MS Teams #msteams #edtech #wakelet #collaboration #PKM #curationhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/05/18/notes-on-how-to-build-your-personal-learning-plan/Mon, 18 May 2020 10:11:35 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/05/18/notes-on-how-to-build-your-personal-learning-plan/A group of Southern Hemisphere Microsoft experts are running a month of live broadcasts under the hashtag M365May, more info Helen Blunden ran a session on How to Build Your Personal Learning Plan Notes Here are my rough notes and links to resources that Helen mentions: modelling based on most interesting project you have learned from - apply those ways of learning to your work think about filtering content you find using hashtags - in other words the early beginnings of establishing your own …https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/05/18/weekend-gardens/Mon, 18 May 2020 08:38:46 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/05/18/weekend-gardens/The Garden metaphor is becoming embedded #PKMhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/05/11/how-to-take-smart-notes/Mon, 11 May 2020 14:26:35 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/05/11/how-to-take-smart-notes/My Kindle notes #PKM #Zettelkastenhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/05/08/weeknote-2020-w16-19/Fri, 08 May 2020 15:50:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/05/08/weeknote-2020-w16-19/And then a whole month had gone without publishing a weeknote. The lockdown phenomenon of days blending together, combined with deep focus to support colleagues in pivoting to online delivery. We’re starting to move beyond simple digital replacements of one-day seminars (even though they have been very successful), and have started building out a six week whole-school-staff CPD course into Moodle. With a much reduced team, my time has been split between operational support to colleagues …https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/04/26/2020-04-26-convert-html-to-markdown/Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:30:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/04/26/2020-04-26-convert-html-to-markdown/Initial use case - easily grab Kindle notes and post to markdown blog read clipboard convert HTML to MD output md file or paste to clipboard #todo #toolshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/04/26/2020-04-26-export-fed-wiki-to-static-archive/Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:27:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/04/26/2020-04-26-export-fed-wiki-to-static-archive/A tool to create a static archive from a Federated Wiki instance or farm. pass base url(s) as parameter iterate over wikis Retrieve site map iterate pages retrieve page json convert to HTML save as file Update Consider this or this for possible retrieval shortcut and insight to json data structure #todo #toolshttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/04/09/2020-04-09-weeknote-2020-w15/Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:13:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/04/09/2020-04-09-weeknote-2020-w15/Adaptations… #zoom #moodle #msteams #Life in the time of Coronahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/04/07/evergreen-notes/Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:12:35 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/04/07/evergreen-notes/An approach to note-taking that seems to have deep parallels with Federated Wiki #PKM #Evergreen Notes #Zettelkasten #Vannevar Bush #Memex #Andy Matuschackhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/04/02/a-look-at-covid-19-data-journalism-part-1/Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:58:06 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/04/02/a-look-at-covid-19-data-journalism-part-1/The data journalists are telling the truth our politicians are ignoring #pandemic #Life in the time of Corona #data journalismhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/03/30/government-briefings/Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:57:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/03/30/government-briefings/I’ve pretty much stopped watching the official briefings, between shouting at the politicians and urging the journalists to be more probing they aren’t good for my peace of mind. Far better to read a considered report in a reputable source later. Alistair Campbell nails it with his 20 phrases that should be banished from Covid-19 briefings: We’re leaving no stone unturned. (Show don’t tell) We’re working round the clock. (Show don’t tell) We’re ramping up. #Life in the time of Coronahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/03/30/weeknote-2020-w13/Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:26:00 +0100https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/03/30/weeknote-2020-w13/In terms of work this was the first full week of distributed working. I spent a fair bit of time coaching colleagues on how to work more effectively using Teams. I think one of the hardest things for people who are first exposed to the messaging side of the application is to learn a more considered approach when posting in a channel. The difference between a new post and a comment seems very hard for some people to pick up, and I think the app could do more to signal to people that channel chat …https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/03/20/weeknote-2020-w12/Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:46:34 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/03/20/weeknote-2020-w12/The lessons from abandoning focus time reporting, and adapting to life under Corona #Life in the time of Coronahttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/03/06/digital-literacy-at-work/Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:55:59 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2020/03/06/digital-literacy-at-work/A model of digital literacy from academia that might apply at work too. #skills #digital literacyhttps://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/03/03/move-a-wiki/Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:00:51 +0000https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2020/03/03/move-a-wiki/Moving wiki to a new server #linux #FedWiki #DigitalOcean #ubuntu