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2017-in-review
type: Article
content: tl;dr Turns out I packed a lot into last year. Seemed worth writing up. Highlights include: Travelled a bunch, Asia, Australia, Europe. Became Dr Amy Guy: finished my PhD thesis, defended it, did corrections, graduated. Went to a bunch of conferences, won an award, got an article published in a magazine. Got a job at OCCRP, moved to Bosnia. Drafted a novel. Published some W3C specs. Goals for 2018: travel more, write more, work less. Skip to: Words Travel Work Code Stuff January: adventures February: food and procrastination March: instability, productivity April: the pit May: a mental shift, and closure on many fronts June: hard work rewarded, and a new start July: an interlude, and resettling August: summer in Sarajevo September: anxiety and relief October: time with friends new and old November: rediscovery and creation December: ending as I mean to go on 2018 Words I posted to my site 4,656 times. I wrote 275 things on here. 173 were short notes, 102 were longer articles, and they comprise approximately 59,492 words in total. That's a mean of 162.99 words and 0.75 posts per day. I wrote about 237 different topics, with the most common being travel (105), life (63), food (36), phd (34), thesis (29), hacking (27), Bali, Indonesia (25), week in review (24), vegan (24), linked research (23), nanowrimo (20), and sloph (19). I also wrote (or contributed to) 3 academic papers: Observing the decentralised social web (one telescope at a time) (Web Observatories Workshop, WWW2017) Linked Data Notifications: a resource-centric communication protocol (ESWC2017, Best Student Paper Award) Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli (ICWE2017) And: a W3C Recommendation: Linked Data Notifications (May); a W3C Working Group Note: Social Web Protocols (December); an article in a print magazine, NetMag: Web Standards Column: Linked Data Notifications (July); an unfinished draft of 30k word novel: Of the Moon (November); and a 70k word P…
name: 2017 in review
published: 2018-01-17T16:31:00+01:00
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tag: lifelogging
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activitypub
type: Note
content: ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendatiiiiooooonnnnnn.
published: 2018-01-23T15:10:00+01:00
tag: dustycloud.org
tag: w3c
tag: activitypub
tag: socialwg

jsonld-context
type: Note
content: Do any of the Python JSON-LD libraries make it easy to serialize a @context rather than just the data? All examples I can see which don't use external contexts just write it in as a string.
published: 2018-01-15T12:52:00+01:00
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tag: question
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leipzig-34c3
type: Article
content: December in Leipzig is cold. The bus from Sarajevo was 20 hours, mostly overnight. The bus arrived at the airport an hour late, and I promptly got on an express train in the wrong direction. Eventually I made it into the city, and checked into the hostel which had entirely to myself for three days. I didn't even see any staff; I was given a door code to get in. Apparently people have other things to do around the 25th of December. So do restaurant owners. None of the veg*n places I'd noted were open. I ended up spending the 25th in the central train station eating pretzels and drinking coffee, and enjoying the bubble of non-festive activities which managed to continue. I'd thought about going to 34c3 buildup at the conference center, but never quite made it. In between checking out of my hostel and checking in to a shared airbnb, I spent a few hours hiking around Clara-Zetkin park. It was cold but clear. Leipzig has a lot of green spaces, and I probably should have made time to explore more. I went to the Congress Center on the evening of the 26th for the first time. Food options were not exceptional, but there was a vegan food truck on premises (Vegan Spirit). The food they served was really good, but as with everywhere else in the vicinity, overpriced. I alternated between this and supermarket supplies. The Congress Center is huge. It has a rocket. I signed up to be an Angel, went to some intro meetings, and registered for some Speaker Desk and Subtitling shifts. But when I went to pick up the first Speaker Desk shift I was told they were not and had never been recruiting (so the 30 minutes I spent there the day before being signed up to a thousand wikis and stuff were apparently a waste of time). When I went to do subtitling, they weren't expecting so many people and I waited around for a while before being assigned anything to do. I did one shift, but gave up with helping with anything after that. I got the impression you really have to be part of an in-crowd to…
name: Leipzig and 34c3
published: 2018-01-01T09:30:00+01:00
tag: leipzig
tag: travel
tag: 34c3
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malta
type: Article
content: Liz and I spent four days in Malta, without much of a plan. We stayed in Sliema and mostly took public transport around. The bus system appears good outwardly, but actually is kind of a joke. They don't run to schedule, often sail by without stopping, come in clusters and then there are no more for an hour or more. Most stops have electronic signs which show the next bus due, but the bus may not show up at all and the sign will quietly move on. Anyway my point is, don't plan anything based on the bus schedule. It's cheap though; a ticket valid for 2 hours is 1.50EUR and more than once we accidentally or on purpose presented expired tickets to the driver and it was fine. The on purpose time was when my ticket expired whilst I was waiting 30+ minutes for a bus that should have come twice in that time, and I was all ready to argue about it, but I didn't have to. When the Sliema to Valetta ferry isn't running, the best chance of getting a bus to Valetta is to walk to the start of the line in San Giljan. The bus was packed, and not even high season.. The night we arrived was New Year's Eve. We took the ferry across the bay to Valetta and wandered around. There were lots of street stalls, crowds, and a party atmosphere. In the central square was a stage and lightshow. One one day we paid 10EUR for a harbour cruise. It lasted a little over an hour, and was pleasantly relaxing. The boat was small and sometimes the waves were big. Another day, we paid 20EUR each of the hop-on-hop-off bus. We took the south route, and visited quite a few sights. Except at our last stop, we were the victims of an unexpected schedule change and ended up waiting for over an hour and a half outside the Ghar Dalam cave (where there is nothing) and eventually gave up and got on a regular bus back to Valetta. Of course, 5 minutes later the sightseeing bus went past. I was disappointed to miss the rest of the route, as it went around the coast, to the Blue Grotto and something else. We should probabl…
name: Malta
published: 2018-01-04T22:00:00+01:00
tag: boats
tag: travel
tag: malta

malta-phots
type: Add
content: Some days in Malta with Liz. We stayed in Valetta, but visited as many hotspots as we could manage. Post about the trip.

malta-to-bosnia
type: Article
content: Travelling from Malta to Bosnia without flying seemed like a good idea at the time. Well, overall it was a good idea. I'm just really tired right now, the morning after. Ferry 1: Valetta (Malta) to Catania (Sicily) I took a 9 hour night ferry from Valetta to Catania. The ferry was called Barbara. Hi Mum. There are two ports at Valetta. Forni was all closed up, and the one I wanted was Pinto (deduced from the office address on the Tirrenia website, not through any helpful where-to-checkin instructions). Pinta is at the very far end of the Valetta Waterfront, after all the shops and restaurants. The point that is labelled on the big wall maps as Pinta was dark when I reached it, and panic started to rise. I checked my GPS and backed up a bit in case I'd missed it. I hadn't. I charged forward again to look for signs or secret doors I might have missed. Aha! Tirrenia was at the far end of this particular structure, opposite to where it is labelled. A small printed sign directed passengers around a corner, through a waiting room and up some stairs. I entered a small office, where a smiling old man said 'Hello! We've been waiting for you!'. I'm not kidding. I was a good hour early at this point. He directed me to take a seat, and took my ticket and passport, and scribbled some things and typed some things, then printed a sticker with a barcode on it which went on the back of my ticket. Then another gentleman said 'come, I will escort you to the ship.' I felt quite important. We picked up another guy from the waiting room, and we were shown across the carpark to the ferry. Turns out we were the only two passengers. The other was a pleasant Ukrainian man named Vlad. We had our pick of sofas in a very small room next to the cafeteria, where a few ferry staff were eating and the TV was blaring. I went up on deck until we had cleared Valetta port. The stone walls and forts around the town were lit up and made an impressive sight. The sky was mostly clear, the moon almost full,…
name: Malta to Bosnia, by land and sea
published: 2018-01-08T12:30:00+01:00
tag: sicily
tag: naples
tag: ferry
tag: bus
tag: travel
tag: malta
tag: transit
tag: italy
tag: catania

morrissey
type: Note
content: I'm going to have to listen to the new Morrissey album at some point, aren't I.
published: 2018-01-15T23:04:00+01:00
tag: life
tag: music

mostar
type: Article
content: This weekend I went to Mostar with Elizabeth and MB. We took the 0707 train from Sarajevo on Saturday morning. The pinky sunrise was softened by the already accumulated smog, which obscured our view from the train for at least thirty minutes before we finally crawled out of it in the mountains. The smog was still waiting on Sunday evening to greet us on our return. So.. it was a good idea to go away this weekend. Mostar was bright, clear, and less cold throughout. And the colour of that water! Officially the train arrives into Mostar at 9am, but it was after 0930 when we got there. Between three of us we paid 46km (23EUR) for an apartment a hop and a skip away from the old town. Our hosts picked us up from the train station. Mostar is small, and at least as battered by the war as Sarajevo if not more so. Abandoned buildings are striking. We went to see the famous bridge of course, and had coffee looking over the river. We went to the Hammam museum (15 mins, 4km) and inside a mosque beside the river and up the minaret (12km), which was super cool. The Bridge Museum was closed. Old town is nice to wander around, but packed up pretty early. It's not tourist season I guess. After a nap, we hiked up to the controversial cross on Hum Hill. Instead of taking a path or road around the back of the hill, we charged straight up the Mostar-side, which was rocky and steep and probably there weren't landmines but also it was a sniper stronghold so you know. Good views of town. We returned via the road, which took longer but was less perilous. Veggie food was not easy to find. Nowhere even had krompirusa. It was on the menus (but spelled krompirača??), but nobody had it. One place managed to dredge up some vegetable mush and rice for me. I ate the apple part of a tufahija (baked apple) and the others ate the cream. Turkish delight and halva were abundant. This was a high sugar weekend. We also drank a lot of Bosnian coffee. Except the next day! We headed to Teco, since it's listed…
name: A weekend in Mostar
published: 2018-01-28T23:00:00+01:00
tag: mostar
tag: travel
tag: bosnia
tag: vegan

not-an-escalator
type: Note
content: "I'm a doctor not an escalator!" That's my favourite one so far. I'm on Season 2 of ToS. It's still a chore, but there are little things that make it bearable. The way Spock and Kirk look at each other, for one. Also every time Sulu does a countdown, and Chekov constantly claiming everything was invented in Russia.
published: 2018-01-16T22:41:00+01:00
tag: tos
tag: star+trek

nurse
type: Note
content: Nurse Chapel is the real hero of the piece.
published: 2018-01-31T22:46:00+01:00
tag: star+trek
tag: tos

photos-mostar
type: Add
content: A weekend in Mostar, Bosnia. Blog post here.

photos-sarajevo-2
type: Add
content: To the Bobsled track in the snow with Elizabeth and Marybeth.
published: 2018-01-14T18:31:35+01:00
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photos-sarajevo-3
type: Add
content: The Bosnian pyramids at Visocko. Plot twist: they're not really pyramids. Also on this trip I couldn't really see them, but it was still fun.
published: 2018-01-20T15:05:09+01:00
summary: Amy added 18 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

sarajevo
type: Note
content: Sarajevo is having a bad air day. Badum tchsh. *cough*
published: 2018-01-16T09:46:00+01:00
tag: sarajevo
tag: life

sea
type: Note
content: I left a script running overnight and to start with the sound of my laptop fan was annoying, but then I reshaped it to feel like I was falling asleep to the sound of the sea.
published: 2018-01-31T08:10:00+01:00
tag: life
tag: hacking

social
type: Note
content: ActivityPub and WebSub went to REC this week and the work of the Social Web WG in general has been getting a lot of attention, including AP making it to the top of hackernews. There are lots of good comments, but of course it's the negative ones that stick around when you release your babies into the harsh wilds of the Web for the last time. There was a lot of conflict inside the SocialWG, and a lot of compromise. The comments that irk me the most are the ones that suggest we made decisions on a whim without thinking about things at length, or ignored prior art. Sure we standardised multiple ways of doing similar things, but the decision to do that came only after much wailing and gnashing of teeth* and faced with the prospect of not standardising anything at all in this space. Or alternatively one- to two-thirds of the group meeting with suspicious accidents in lieu of consensus. It wasn't for funsies. We weren't trolling implementors. We were just trying to cope. Anyway, what reassures me in the end is that, as we could never make everyone happy, at least we've somehow succeeded in making nobody at all happy. The art of consensus™. * and over a year of work, dozens of telecons and several face-to-face meetings around the world often at participants' own expense, and not a little yelling.
published: 2018-01-25T18:15:00+01:00
tag: standards
tag: websub
tag: social+web+protocols
tag: socialwg
tag: activitypub
tag: w3c

social-2
type: Note
content: BY THE WAY anonymous internet strangers, if you are upset and confused about decentralised social networks but (and this part is important) don't want to be confused any more, and maybe even are implementing some things or at the very least skimming the specs a bit, do come on over to #social channel on irc.w3.org where we're all still hanging out and willing to help. This stuff is complicated and distressing... trust us... and we (the Working Group and proximate communities) went through a lot of shiz so hopefully you don't have to. If IRC isn't your thing, most of the editors and implementors are willing to help out to some degree, and you can track down contact details starting in the metadata at the tops of specs. We do have lives though and most of us aren't being paid to work on this stuff, but we stick around because it's important to us, so please be patient and considerate too.
published: 2018-01-25T18:37:00+01:00
tag: social+web
tag: decentralisation
tag: socialwg

transit-photos
type: Add
content: A three day voyage over sea and land from Malta to Bosnia, with stops in Catania (Siciliy), Naples (Italy), and Zagreb (Croatia). Blog post here.

vegan-in-malta
type: Article
content: My airbnb host in Malta expressed alarm and concern when she found out I am vegan. I hadn't gone there with particularly high hopes, but there were a few places on Happycow. So without further ado... Valetta Our first night in Malta was NYE and we wandered into Valetta to find it packed and bustling. We stumbled upon Soul Foods, who were able to squeeze us in at 1900 but were otherwise full. Soul Foods is really wholesome homemade food for omnivores. The vegan main was an ayurvedic dish of lentils and grains. It was really delicious and flavoursome. Liz and I split two raw desserts; chocolate 'salami' and carrot cake. I loved them both, but they were 'too healthy' / not sweet enough for Liz. More for me. Not cheap, but justifiably so. Every time I tried to stop at Grassy Hopper, a veggie place, it was closed. We found Theobroma, a rawvegan dessert stand. I had a spectacular chilli hot chocolate with homemade almond milk (cashew is also an option; and hot chocolates come in plain, orange or white too). We picked up a peanut butter cup and a hemp seed chocolate bar ('too healthy') to enjoy later. Everything is also gluten free. Next to Theobroma is Pastahaus. We went in on Liz's instinct, and this was probably both of our favourite meals. They have a huge array of homemade pasta, and at least four without eggs. They understand and are happy to explain what's vegan, and persistently offered a vegan wine. I chose a pasta made from semolina and hemp, accompanied by an avocado and almond sauce. They have a vegetable curry sauce too, as well as basic chilli oil and tomato and basil ones which I suspect are amazing. We shared bruschetta to start. On the way to the ferry on my final evening, I stopped by Gurag. This place was somehow just what I needed; it seemed attuned to my mood. It's an all-veggie 'hangout and bar'. The space is small and was busy and loud, but they have seats downstairs. Nobody else was down there, so I had sofas and a generally peaceful laid back space…
name: Vegan in Malta
published: 2018-01-04T22:30:00+01:00
tag: travel
tag: vegan
tag: food
tag: malta

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Spent 4 days exploring Malta. Spent three days travelling by land and sea from Malta to Sarajevo.
name: Week in review: 1 - 7 January
published: 2018-01-07T23:59:59+01:00
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Made an RDF exporter for aleph. Blog post coming soon. And some data modelling. Went to yoga thrice. Went to Karuzo \o/ it had been so long. Wrote 1800 words of fiction. Went on Sarajevo mini-adventures, to Kozija ćuprija (Goat's Bridge) and up Trebevic to the bobsled track in the snow. My SD card suddenly ceased to function :o lost a week of photos. Mostly mundane, but 2/3 of the Goat's Bridge walk. (It stopped in the middle of taking photos on that walk). Chilled and cooked and ate with Elizabeth and Marybeth. Wrote a short storie about Evie Blue's first day at school.
name: Week in review: 8 - 14 January
published: 2018-01-14T23:59:59+01:00
tag: yoga
tag: sarajevo
tag: week+in+review
tag: writing
tag: travel
tag: aleph

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Made followthemoney into an RDF ontology and put docs up for the namespace. Fiiiinally got /yyyy/ and /yyyy/mm collections up in sloph. Went to Visoko to see the Bosnian Pyramids.
name: Week in review: 15 - 21 January
published: 2018-01-21T23:59:00+01:00
tag: hacking
tag: sloph
tag: travel

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Data modelling. ActivityPub and WebSub went to REC. Learnt how to crocodile stitch. Went to Mostar for a weekend.
name: Week in review: 22 - 28 January
published: 2018-01-28T23:59:00+01:00
tag: mbaking
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: socialwg

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: A walk to Goat's Bridge, east of Sarajevo. Lost half the photos cos my SD card went kaputt en route.
published: 2018-01-13T19:30:01+01:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo