Alex Masters

Technologist, designer, and researcher of frugal education. Loves chocolate, music, Japan, and cats. Charlie Brooker is my spirit animal.

HEA Senior Fellow ยท Aikido Shodan
I blog at: alexmasters.com
Research at: frugal.education

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-08-13

@Ammienoot @laurenheywood

I knew it, I was sleep deprived last night, but I was pretty sure I was right.

Also, I think I may have called you Annie as my brain regularly mixes up your Ammienoot handle in my head. Apologies!

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-08-13

@Ammienoot @laurenheywood

Solid planning there Anne-Marie.

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-08-13

@Ammienoot @laurenheywood

I did not know there were other products in the Tunnocks cinematic universe. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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J. L. WestoverMrLovenstein
2024-08-07

Secret Panel HERE ๐ŸŽ tapas.io/episode/3255867

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-08-02

Blog post:
Frugal Design Thinking: Students Craft STEAM Makerspace Project using the Frugal Education Cards

frugal.education/student-steam

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2024-07-26

A hand-crafted directory of web desktops (by Simone Marzulli): simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-07-02

Blog Post:
The PlayLab Bus Project: A Journey in Frugal Education Innovation in Malaysia

frugal.education/the-playlab-b

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2024-07-01
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2024-06-05
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2024-05-30

Blog Post:- Defining Frugal Education: A Position Paper

frugal.education/frugal-educat

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Nowhere Girlgwynnion
2024-04-24

NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.

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2024-04-16

the UK brexiting itself right off the planet

A cloud over the ocean that's the shape of the UK on a map
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2024-04-07

Snowy night in Kyoto. #photography

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Jonathan Worthjonathan_worth
2024-04-07
Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-04-07

@jimgroom I recently played through Quake 2 and really enjoyed it. Always loved that game. It was a little more polished on the Nintendo Switch remaster, which added a lot to the experience.

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-04-05

@grantpotter Awesome stuff! You must be a very proud Dad. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-04-05

@jimgroom Ooooh interesting. although I'm more confused than when I stared ๐Ÿ˜†. Not sure how you pulled that off, perhaps I'm reading the plugin instructions wrong. Will have to explore further.

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-04-05

@jimgroom Ah right, I see. Exactly the same yeah.

I noticed that there's a share button in JetPack now for selective posting to my main Mastodon account, maybe this provides the best of both worlds. Maybe a good solution after all then. I think it's kinda nice having an optional blog feed (blog@alexmasters.com) people can follow if they want.

I can't find bava.social anywhere - this is my main gripe with Mastodon, although Mammoth solves most of my complaints. A blog on the way about that ๐Ÿ˜

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-04-04

I thought I'd pop back onto Mastodon to see how things are going here. I've been regularly trying out Threads, however, it's chock full of junk in the 'For You' feed, which it defaults to every time you open the app / site.

Mastodon, on the other hand, had been buggy for me and it put me off for some time. How are things these days?

Anyone about...?

Alex Mastersalexmasters
2024-04-04

Hi Jim!
I noticed you have the Bava sharing to the fediverse, directly through your main account. Are you using any specific plugin to do this or are you doing it manually?

I still have the ActivityPub plugin running in WordPress but it sends to a separate Mastodon profile. I'd quite like the option to send direct to my main profile. Any pearls of wisdom?

Big love.

@jimgroom

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