Category Archives: Software

Hooray for Distributed Version Control. Boo for Dropbox

I’ve been having problems with Dropbox lately, not updating all files. I still haven’t got to the bottom of that but last night I worked on a Python script down our studio and wanted to polish it up at home … Continue reading

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You’re the product, not the customer

Mathieu also pointed me towards this pertinent summation of Facebook, Google & Co: If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. blue_beetle, you said it very well.

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Memory Palace Operating System

A very inspiring talk tonight in Neukölln with Mathieu Baudier. He was talking about his vision for a file browser where instead of some hierarchical structure on the left hand panel (or in the case of mac, some shortcuts) and … Continue reading

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Garmin Forerunner to GPX with heartrate as elevation (altitude)

It seems like I’ve been working on this for ages but I finally managed to get some kind of output from the Garmin Forerunner 301 that Miles Chalcraft kindly leant me. Grab GarminTools from here. Plug in the Forerunner and … Continue reading

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Questions and Artists

Artists answer questions about GPS I asked the following artists: Christian Nold https://www.softhook.com/ Esther Polak https://www.estherpolak.nl/ Duncan Speakmann https://productofcircumstance.com/ Simon Faithfull https://www.simonfaithfull.org/ Jen Southern https://www.theportable.tv/ Martin Howse https://www.1010.co.uk/org/ all of whom have used GPS in their work, the following questions: … Continue reading

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