Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

  • 16:32

    Hiking in China – exploring the Ninghai national trail system (Lands Remote) China's first national hiking system, the National Trail System – Ninghai, offers 500km of waymarked hiking trails through the mountains near Ninghai city in Zhejiang province, China. Ninghai is just 2.5 hours south of Shanghai on China's highspeed train. Hard work but had…

  • 10:23

    That feeling when the web service you’re pulling data from changes their encoding, doesn’t do any testing nor informs you of the changes 🤦

  • 20:38

    Finally getting the hang of #webmentions. Managed to successfully poll and retrieve responses for scottmallinson.com and landsremote.co.

  • 21:50

    The only emails I seem to receive from Apple are either invoices or to sell me a new product. As someone who has invested a lot of 💰 in Apple products, would it hurt to send the occasional email offering advice on how I can get the most out of my purchases?!

  • 14:59

    There are definitely worse ways to spend your Saturday morning/lunch. Devouring excellent food at The Commune Social in Shanghai.

  • 20:00

    Excited to see Bill Bailey in Shanghai!! #internationalcomedyfestival

  • 20:17

    Trying to get my head around microblogging, #IndieWeb, WebMentions, valid RSS feeds, and a #POSSE strategy.

  • 21:42

    New toy. For work, of course! #raspberrypi

  • 11:43

    We haven’t quite managed the 50km of the Ninghai Trail we intended to do, but we’re happy with the 35km or so we’ve covered. Resting our feet before catching our train later.

  • 09:29

    Yesterday we managed between 18 and 21km on the Ninghai Trail (distance varies between GPS watches). Attempting to do another long stint today. Had a cold night camping with a colder one to come.