Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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The Day my Phone Number contained my TOTP
Once, I saw a six-digit sequential sequence of my phone number appear in an 'authenticator app' TOTP code. What are the odds? Incredibly rare. And yet, given long enough, inevitable. Here's how I put it...
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Dynamic Sorting in Pure CSS
Did you know that you can make a list of items "sortable" client-side with just one selector and one property of CSS per sort-criteria, and have a fully-fledged ordering system without an iota of JavaScript? Let me show you how!
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F-Day plus 266
It's been 266 days since we were flooded out of our home, and progress on repairs still seems to be glacial. It's still unclear if we'll be back by Christmas as delays and excuses continue to stack up. But the most-tragic thing is that working-around this temporary arrangement has become our everyday routine.
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Fragments
Photographic fragments from the last six weeks of my camera roll, presented without context, inspired by Eric Foltin.
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/domains - a /slashpage for people who buy too many domain names
I buy too many domain names. So to help keep track of them... and to let the world see how bad my purchasing problem has gotten... I've come up with the "/domains" /slashpage. Perhaps you want one, too?
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We Played Hide & Seek across Greater London
The rest of the family and I spent a long weekend playing Jet Lag's "Hide & Seek" across Greater London. Here's how that went, and what we learned about playing the game (and, in particular, playing it with preteen children!).
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Ascending
Sometimes it's just time to go up the wooden hill... during Weird Web October! Let's roll some shapes...
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Incognito (Weird Web October)
In another Weird Web October contribution, I'd like to introduce you to Incognito Mode for Wikipedia. Yes, it's stupid.
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Dem Bones! (Weird Web October)
The hand bone's connected to the cellphone. The cellphone's connected to the website. The website's connected to the puppet. Now shake 'dem skeleton bones!
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/pfp - a /slashpage for profile picture history
/pfp is a /slashpage standard intended to showcase a timeline of 'profile pictures' you've used to represent yourself online over the years. I've added one, now, and man do I look young in some of those photos!
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Origami (Weird Web October)
A (well-folded) love letter to the Weird World Wide Web: my entry for day 14 of Weird Web October is "Origami". Go play with virtual paper!
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Webpage Copy-Protection is Impossible (and that's great!)
A friend of mine was inconvenienced by an over-eager bit of Web copy-protection JavaScript this week, and it reminded me that more-than-ever, these scripts are both harmful (to legitimate users) and pointless (ineffective at preventing downloading).
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What Argentine Tango is like...
A series of metaphors about what tango feels like, to me. Like improvising music. Like spinning tops. Like an flock of birds. Or something like that.
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Halifax Leaked My Financial Information... (Again)
For the second time in two years, Halifax wrote to me about my credit card... but sent the letter to entirely the wrong person, leaking my personal financial information.
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Move the mouse across the screen (Weird Web October)
This year, I'm (slightly) participating in Weird Web October. For today's theme, 'skeuomorphism', I implemented a mouse curser... (not a typo)