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Welcome to the blog for PT World, where the latest updates will be posted. Just getting started, but in future you can expect project news, views, embryonic ideas, draft articles, comment and so on.

See the welcome post for an introduction to the site’s relaunch.

A summary list of posts, in reverse chronological order.

  • MakeStaticSite on GitHub
    Work has continued on MakeStaticSite, the Bash utility to create static snapshots of websites, refine and deploy them — just through a single command. Now at version 0.22.2 and available for download, recent updates include: We’ve even updated the animation on the Home page, extending the SimTerm plugin in the process. Now that MakeStaticSite has Read More …
  • AI – Imagining in the morning, Engaging in the afternoon
    Exhibition at the Weston Library On Saturday morning I met up with a friend at the Bodleian’s Weston Library in Oxford. On entering the building, we paid a quick visit to a small exhibition, Imagining AI, curated by Professor Ursula Martin, who has considerable knowledge of the history of computing, and has written and presented Read More …
  • Introducing MakeStaticSite for website deployment
    (from a technical perspective) Launch of MakeStaticSite.sh Website November 2022: A website dedicated to MakeStaticSite is now available at https://makestaticsite.sh/. It provides the latest version of the software, released under AGPL, along with various documentation to help getting started. Motivation The process of developing this website has evolved considerably. On setting it up a few Read More …
  • Welcome to the Relaunch of ptworld.net!
    Hello.  After months of preparation, I’m pleased to welcome you to a completely overhauled website, launched on 25 September 2022. The site covers various endeavours past and present, offering an unusual east-west approach to the intersection of society and technology.  Faced with the increasing pervasiveness of digital systems encroaching ever deeper on our lives, I wish Read More …

Further posts are available on my Blogger site, paultrafford.blogspot.com.

This page was published on 3 June 2022 and last updated on September 28, 2022 .