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I was bought a new computer
Twelve years ago I wrote about getting a new computer and now I have another new one. I didn't buy this one, though; it was a fiftieth birthday present from my parents. And I'm really rather pleased...
View ArticleCalculating a rolling average without keeping all the numbers around
OK, if you know anything about maths you will read this and shake your head in dismay because it's just obvious and why did I even need to think about it? But... I was quite pleased to think this...
View ArticleUsing 11ty's WebC to separate web components out into separate files
For a thing I'm building I'm using web components to give me a convenient way to bundle up functionality of different bits of a web page into separate units. I'm not doing anything particularly clever...
View Articlefifty
fifty.that can't be right.1 fifty years ago was the war.no big long writeup this time of musings on a year passing like I normally do. I think I did most of that earlier in the month. ↩
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Flipping the cube: 2025 is over
You know that optical illusion with a wireframe cube? Where you can't tell which way around it is, but if you concentrate a bit you can make the cube "flip" from being oriented one way to being...
View ArticleMaking a Discord activity with PHP
Another post in what is slowly becoming a series, after describing how to make a Discord bot with PHP; today we're looking at how to make a Discord activity the same way.An activity is simpler than a...
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A (limited) defence of footnotes
So, Jake Archibald wrote that we should "give footnotes the boot", and... I do not wholly agree. So, here are some arguments against, or at least perpendicular to. Whether this is in grateful thanks of...
View ArticleServing streaming video that adapts to bandwidth from your own website
Recently, I was involved in an event where a video was shown, and the event was filmed. It would be nice to put the video of the event up somewhere so other people who weren't there could watch it....
View ArticleUse RSS to read newsletters
Everyone's got a newsletter these days (like everyone's got a podcast). In general, I think this is OK: instead of going through a middleman publisher, have a direct connection from you to the people...
View ArticleBlog Questions Challenge
The latest thing circulating around people still blogging is the Blog Questions Challenge; Jon did it (and asked if I was) and so have Jeremy and Ethan and a bunch of others, so clearly it is time I...
View ArticleForty Nine
The sum of the digits of the square of 49 (2401) is the square root of 49.49 is the first square where the digits are squares. In this case, 4 and 9 are square numbers. It seems that 49 is an age of...
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My Keys
I have a problematic relationship with keys.Well, that's not true. I have a problematic relationship with key rings. For some reason, my pockets are a violently hostile environment for things I put in...
View ArticleTwo Plumbers
In a land far away, there were two brothers, two plumbers. To preserve their anonymity, we'll call them... Mario and Luigi. Their mother, a kind and friendly woman, and their father, a man with (by the...
View ArticleOn iOS, Home Screen web apps are part of your iCloud Backup
Recently I have been most baffled by how on my iPhone, my iCloud backup was over 5GB (and therefore would not back up into the free space that I have) despite how I had turned off most of the apps that...
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The CMA wants your comments on web apps
Here's the tl;dr: if you make web apps in or for the UK, the CMA, the UK tech regulator, want to hear from you about their proposals before August 29th 2024, which is only a week away. Read their list...
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Family Fortunes board generator
I nerd-sniped myself.Internet: I am disappointed that you have not provided me with one of those meme-maker websites for a Family Fortunes board. Now I will have to make one.— Stuart Langridge (@sil)...
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OED second edition CD-ROM under Wine
I recently discovered that there's an old software edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (the second edition) on archive.org for download. Not sure how legal this is, mind, but I thought it would be...
View ArticleThe Pastry Box Project archaeology
Many years ago (2012!) I was invited to be part of "The Pastry Box Project", which described itself thus:Each year, The Pastry Box Project gathers 30 people who are each influential in their field and...
View ArticleThe Matrix has you, part 2
I’ve recently switched back from vscode to Sublime Text, which means that after all the time I spent training my fingers to type “code somefile.txt” instead of “subl somefile.txt” I now need to undo...
View ArticleSomewhere between silver and tin
There’s a YouTube channel called Clickspring, run by an Australian bloke called Chris who is a machinist: a mechanical engineer with a lathe and a mill and all manner of little tools. I am not a...
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