Kind: Replies
A reply to content typically on another site.
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Re: How I made...
Noah S shared how he used some PHP code to block specific badly-behaved bots from his website. I've got a few suggestions to help him make his block faster, easier-to-maintain, and more-thorough, either using PHP code or webserver configuration.
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Re: Please let me interact with your blog post!
Mike lists his preferred ways to interact with blog posts he sees in his feed reader. I look at where my blog satisfies his list, and also suggest a few other contact mechanisms that I, or others, might facilitate.
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Reply to: This blog is written in en-GB
Terence Eden's blog is (like mine!) unapologetically in en-GB. But maybe his particular cultural references need to be slightly more-specific still?
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Reply to: Deleting Systems You Don't Understand
Ibrahim Diallo shared his experience of deleting all his family PC's .ini files when he was 10, not knowing they were important, and compares it to what some developers do when they refactor-out something that seems insignificant. I reply with a story from early in my career...
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Is midnight in the middle of the night?
Niki wondered whether "midnight" is actually the middle of the night and discovered that it pretty much is. I explain that this is because he's in Berlin, which sits very close (only about 6 minutes out) from the solar UTC+1
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Reply to: Who knows that you blog?
David (of Forking Mad+) asked "who knows that you blog?". I join the increasing list of bloggers who've answered his question.
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Reply to: locked-open
Dave Winer asked "What's the opposite of locked-in? Locked-open. Mwhahaa." Which kicked me off on thinking about how we secure the open-source nature of software, standards, and concepts... and the ideas that land in each.
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Reply to: let's write a blog post about CSS
Dave's struggling to finish his blog post out CSS. I get the feeling... let me tell you about my blog post about pedestrian crossings.
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Reply to: I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad
Inspired by a mate whose dad recently died, Kev Quirk shared his own experience of his father's death, and a particular ritual of his reminded me of one of my own.
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Reply to: Sent to Coventry: Who is Princess Victor Duleep Singh?
In a longer article about the less-known Duleep Singh princesses, my friend Sundeep argued that it was inappropriate to describe Irene's death as her "committing suicide" because it implies criminality. One rabbithole of the laws of four countries later, I argue a (pointless) counterpoint.
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Reply to: how do you find things you want to blog about?
august asked me how I find things I want to blog about, and I answered... in the form of a blog post, of course!
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Reply to: I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
A reply to Terence Eden's post about not buying in to every cryptocurrency or AI fad, but being happy to 'wait and see'.
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Reply to: Rant about claims that LLMs will make you lose your programming skills
Sérgio Isidoro said:
Ok, I'm NOT an immediate fan of "vibe coding" and overusing LLMs in programming. I have a healthy amount of skepticism about the use of these tools, mostly related to the maintainability of the code, security, privacy, and a dozen other more factors.
But some arguments I've seen from developers … -
Reply to: Is Not Answering the Thing Now?
Marc Thiele asks whether people just don't reply to emails any more. I try to, but I write a response on behalf of everybody who, like me, has failed to do so in the past on account of the awkwardness of replying 'eventually' if you missed the chance to reply immediately.
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Reply to Vika, re: Content-Security-Policy
Vika shared her frustrations with Content-Security-Policy nonces when delivering pre-generated/cached content. I've had a similar fight, so I've written-up a few of the things I tried and what I learned as a result.