Author Archives: Reverend

Bryan Ollendyke talks ELMS, Web Components, HAX, and more

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Reverend

Last Friday I invited Bryan Ollendyke on ds106.tv to discuss some of his work.* I actually had an agenda for this conversation, and that might be why it came in at over 2 hours long. I wanted to try and … Continue reading →

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VinylCam

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Reverend

Ok, I am about to try cross-casting a #vinylcast of Galaxie 500's Fire on #ds106radio to #ds106tv with a special #vinylcam I made this morning. You should check out both here https://t.co/DQNyRE6sLp and here https://t.co/GzpExUBnn6 #FridayFun pic.twitter.com/TKXudTbGuN — Jim Groom … Continue reading →

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The Evil Eye

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Reverend

As Paul Bond already noted, there was a reprisal of the Bavafest last week. We got to talk about the maestro of b-movies, Mario Bava, with Antonio Vantaggiato’s class on Cine y Cultura Italiana at Sagrado. Short version of this post: it … Continue reading →

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But what does it cost?

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Reverend

I remain interested in the cost of hosting—surprise surprise. Since January I’ve been hosting my blog on a Digital Ocean droplet, with the exception of a 30-day jaunt over to Kinsta in March to explore container-based WordPress hosting. At a … Continue reading →

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Missing MySQL Extension

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Reverend

In fact, the full error I received when trying to upgrade my WordPress instance running on Centos 7 in a Digital Ocean droplet was the following: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by … Continue reading →

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Reclaim On the Radio

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Reverend

Can it be 10 days ago already? Yes indeed it can be, on April 24th Meredith and I chatted on ds106radio about a wide range of things from wire106 to Mt Trashmore to remote working during COVID-19 to her phenomenal … Continue reading →

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Algorythmic Radio on #ds106radio

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Reverend

That was a quite a set, I'm wearing my No Nukes shirt now and channeling Jackson Brown! — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) April 25, 2020 A few years back I toyed with the idea of doing a radio show on #ds106radio … Continue reading →

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Checking in with John Johnston on #ds106radio

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Reverend

captured my likeness;-) https://t.co/PXLG40n08U — john johnston (@johnjohnston) March 20, 2020 Back on March 20th I did one of my earlier call-in discussions with Scottish educator, blogger, and tinkerer John Johnston. John has been a long-time participant to the ds106 … Continue reading →

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Playing with the Data Transfer Project

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Reverend

I wanted to get one more post out about another project I have been playing with these days. While attending the MyData conference in 2018 I saw a presentation from folks at Google about the Data Transfer Project (DTP). The … Continue reading →

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The Ghost of bava

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Reverend

This is kind of a record keeping post, it turns out when you’ve been blogging for nearly 15 years posts can be useful to remind you of what you did years earlier that you presently have no recollection of. It’s … Continue reading →

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