Matt Seymour @realmattseymour@qoto.org

@gwmngilfen you can get poe breakout adaptors to provide 5v usb. But it’s going to cost much more if it’s a marginal benefit.

@gwmngilfen I’ve used poe adaptors and a poe switch which has the advantage of allowing remote restarting.

@peterdrake @rnitsch The entire work sounds like biased pseudo-scientific nonsense.

There’s also a hurdy gurdy.

I’m standing near someone with a sackbut which gives me great pleasure.

Awh yeah.

At the excellent Kiosk coffee in York

@rhiannonrevolts @iona it’s not rare to consider a minister to be so ignorant but quite another to have one so brazenly admit it.

We've moved on to Jeff Buckley - The Last Goodbye. This is a damn fine playlist.... damn fine.

Listening to music from the 90s I'm struck by how much mastering has changed. Most of this stuff will have been recorded to analogue tape and quite a lot will have had an entirely analogue mastering process too. Compared to music released more recently it's really light on the bass. Take me a while to mentally readjust to this being a balanced and natural sound.

Cake's version of I Will Survive is a fine thing to listen to.

A couple of years ago as close, long time friends started turning 40, we had a bit of a get together in lieu of being able to get to each individual celebration. I put together a playlist. I'm listening to it now and it's amazing. Wonderstuff, Guns 'n' Roses, Counting Crows, Kula Shaker, The Lighting Seeds, T'Pau, and even some Bananarama.

I have always avoided learning how to code. I've dabbled in HTML in the pre-css days (yes I'm old) and I used to type basic programs from a magazine into my ZX81 back in the day but somehow without actually learning anything in the process.

So this needs to change but I'm not sure where to start. Day job is in networks, so what do folk recommend... python? And what's a good route to start for an absolute beginner?