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Tom Morris

At #bclxiii one person asked me what tech events are still going on in #London?

The combination of the COVID pandemic and WFH has kinda done a number on tech meetups/user groups/etc. Plus RIP Skills Matter, and Meetup and Eventbrite are, well, not exactly optimal for finding things.

Off the top of my head, the London Ruby User Group is pretty active, as are Python London, Rust London, the London Java Community, Codebar etc. What else?

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Paul

I had a fun day yesterday at #bclxiii . The event was really well organised, the venue was nice, the food was great...but more importantly, the people and sessions were awesome.

I attended sessions on schema.org, supercomputers, community management, long distance running (and being healthy), a fab photo tour of BBC Television Centre and I gave a session myself about new features coming in Firefox.

I hope that the learning and sharing that started there will continue - a really great event.

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Terence Eden

I demo'd something at #BCLxiii that I was thinking of doing for #EMFcamp.

This is "BarCamp Bingo" - a silly getting-to-know-you game.

Find people who match the criteria, note their names, complete the whole sheet for fabulous prizes.

Source code at github.com/edent/Getting-To-Kn

Lots of people seemed to have fun while playing it and some got very creative with their interpretation of the answers.

Feedback welcome!

Find someone who... Is wearing mismatched socksWalked to the unconferenceHas changed their nameHas read the Voynich ManuscriptHas given up smoking Travelled here from overseasHas the same favourite dinosaur as youHas a cool scarIs lactose intolerantHas an original Gameboy Knows a really funny jokeCan run faster than a speeding bulletHas a catHas the same favourite food as youWas born in the same month as you Has a pet snakeAppeared on TVTakes their tea the same way as youCycled to the unconferenceHas walked on the moon Knows the meaning of life the universe & everythingIs wearing badgesHas the same number of tattoos as youCan speak FrenchHas a dog with two noses
Another page of silly questions
Increasingly silly questions.
Some questions are sensible, some not.
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Kestral

Super interesting to spend some time post #bclxiii chatting to Samuel from the Bluesky team about the platform # and the ways it is and isn’t similar to ActivityPub, Twitter, and other platforms present and past.

Interesting times ahead.

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summer!
(with apologies to my regular followers for the global-post-with-hashtags-about-irl jumpscare:)

today i went to barcamp london which is an "unconference" . basically you go and put on your own talks and sessions and go to other people's ones and generally contribute to the event rather than just consuming it

i was nervous but i did a talk about using old-school web development (as in hand-coded html, css, php, and my beloved xslt) in the modern world. and i talked about how i think that's not only still a great way to make websites (especially for fun as opposed to for work) but also easier now than it has been in the past

the other talks i went to were about: weird things in colour perception, various timing attacks, open source tools for computer-aided embroidery, doing a cool trick with glowsticks, uncomfortable experiences in video games, and making generative music/sounds by shoving complicated graphs through an inverse fft

if you're in the london area and are at all interested in tech or really anything nerdy, i think you should definitely go next year, it's a completely free event (supported by sponsors, including proactive and ukgovcamp and the venue lae tottenham) and the catering was excellent :>

ok im done shilling it now, heres your hashtag soup
#barcamp #bclxiii #barcamplondon
#barcamplondon
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