Thanks to Jeremy Keith’s post “stallmania“, I came across this hilarious site that presents imaginary dialogues with Richard Stallman, directly based on Stallman’s lengthy list of requirements for conference organisers. Stallman’s conference rider actually makes for a very entertaining reading, and contains some true gems, as this one: “Many countries have a law that hotels…
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Listening to data
Workshop, 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media, Brno.
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An evening with the Prelinger Librarians
Some screen captures from the awesome presentation given last Thursday, October 6th, by Megan and Rick Prelinger, at the exhibition space Live in your head, Geneva. The presentations and slides are licensed under CC-BY-NC. Megan and Rick are running the Prelinger Archives (founded in 1983 in New York City), a collection of over 60,000 “ephemeral”…
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My first WordPress Core patch
A few days ago, I proudly landed my first patch for WordPress Core. It started with me being frustrated over a limitation of the wp_get_archives function, that can list the archives only in counter-chronological, not in chronological order — an obvious oversight from the early days of WP, when it was viewed as a simple…
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Label Cave12
The website label.cave12.org gets a well-deserved update, on the occasion of the vernissage of the latest CD release, «Dust», by swiss composer Antoine Chessex
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Drupal intranet theme
Custom administration interface for a music festival, running under Drupal.
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The website of Cave12, a nomadic concert venue presenting adventurous music in Geneva since 2001, is one of my oldest webdesign efforts, and has been undergoing minimal changes since the first, bare-bones html version back in the early 2000s. In addition to migrating the site into a CMS in 2009, I gradually applied some under-the-hood…
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A quick and easy trick for controlling the appearance of the vimeo.com video player. Vimeo gives you various options when you manually generate the embed code on their website (font colors, showing or hiding of title, username, user icon). However, if you use WordPress and take advantage of the super easy one-line embed method, you…
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There has been a lot of buzz recently around Bitcoin, the new electronic peer-to-peer currency, and the potential disruptive impact it could eventually have on the world economy. So I didn’t miss the opportunity of attending a presentation on that topic, given Friday 1st June at HEPIA by Jean-Pierre Rupp, in the frame of the coder_night…
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Département Cinéma (HEAD)
A website for Département Cinéma/cinéma du réel, Geneva University of Arts. Running on the SPIP content management platform.
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