Month: July 2024
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Tidying WordPress's HTML
My blog theme runs Tidy on the HTML output to help standardise it and make it more human-readable. I thought I might be the only person to care about such things, but it turns out that Terence Eden does too, so I've open-sourced my approach.
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I might've stolen something from Costa. It was an accident, I swear!
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Shared Email Addresses
I've long mocked people who've opted to use email addresses that they share with their partner, or email addresses that are tied to their geographic location... but it turns out that I've been doing the same thing for years, albeit only with aliases.
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Blogging Like It's 1999
After looking at a 1999 screenshot of my blog, I was inspired to implement an alternate theme for my blog today, that brings back the feel of the Web of the last millenium. And you can try it!
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Where Should Visual Programming Go?
Niki has some great thoughts on the future of visual programming. I consider that maybe the IF community are already getting ahead of the curve.
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The Elegance of the ASCII Table
ASCII, a standard whose legacy defines to this day how most of the letters and numbers in your computer get encoded into ones and zeroes, is elegant and beautiful. Via lessons in computer history, punched tape, and typewriters, I'd love to share some of its logic with you.
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Good Food, Bad Authorisation
(BBC) Good Food has started adding "premium" content for which you have to install their app and pay for a subscription. Except the paywall they've put in place is so weak that I fell through it without even meaning to. It's a great - and relatively harmless - example of how front-end-first development is undermining the development of secure Web systems.
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Sleeping champagne-coloured French Bulldog, her tongue laying out on the cushion of her bed.
Derpy McBlepsleep, diligently guarding the front door just in case somebody comes by with treats.
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Write Websites
Enbies and gentlefolk of the class of ‘24: write websites. Sara Joy reinvented Baz Luhrmann reinventing Mary Schmich, adding an IndieWeb slant, and it's brilliant.
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Remind me, do I live in "United Kingdom" or "United Kingdom (the)"? 😂
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Dropdown select box for Country with options including "United Kingdom" and "United Kingdom (the)".
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SkiFreeeeeeee
Rob wants to play Solitaire, but I want to play SkiFree.
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Vmail via FreshRSS
It's been a while since I shared a recipe for enhancing your FreshRSS experience with some XPath Scraping, so I guess it's that time again! Today I'm fetching issues of Vmail, vole.wtf's community-driven newsletter.
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The Eyebrow Painter
Take a guess what kind of pottery the unknown ancient Greek decorator of plates known as "the Eyebrow Painter" made.
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Wrote note for GC9EXXX Church Micro 14129...Sutton
This checkin to GC9EXXX Church Micro 14129...Sutton reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. With thanks to Lydford Locators for their recent log, the hint has been improved.
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A Pressure Cooker for Tea
I'm told that black tea brewed at 90℃ is bad, but brewed at 100℃ is good. What if we built a specialised pressure cooker that released tea into superheated water at, say, 110℃? Could that be... even better?