Weeknote 763: Hugh!

This week I have learned:

how to start building back ends as well as front ends. My LLM coding until now has focused on building simple (in structure) HTML apps. This week, I made my first foray into building a back end to support data. Hopefully I will recognise when this starts to get out of hand…
the app in question is a little art project, having spent some time last week at the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain (which is excellent, by the way). It explores the surrealism of random numbers being spoken aloud by random voices. It is also an interesting experiment in trust, technology, and people, seeing people willing to “donate” their voices to the experiment.
that the launch event for the book will be on March 19th in London. Drop me a line if you’d like to come along.
to think more and more about the gaps between structural change and actually getting people to behave differently.
a way to make a presentation random.
that’ll I’ll be demonstrating that in a room of people in Nottingham next month, so I had better get some practice in!
motivating teenagers is a type of witchcraft that I don’t possess.
I spent some time at a wonderful event organised by Kevin Molloy. It was the first time in ages that I was in a media and creative audience rather than a tech one. Very refreshing. I also saw the best opening slide I have seen in ages.
compacted fluff can knacker a USB port.