Unhappy about SPA frameworks
I’ve been looking at single-page-app frameworks and not keen on any of them. The list at http://todomvc.com/ has a bunch, and I think I’ve rejected them all — I concede that some of these reasons are...
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Disputing a BS YouTube copyright claim
This morning I woke up to an email from YouTube saying that some music company had claimed I used their music without a licence in one of my videos, and so I would no longer be able to monetise that...
View ArticleIt also checks its JavaScript
This site does make (fairly heavy) use of JavaScript. It attempts to do it in a transparent and generally nice way, so as to not impede the progress of non-JavaScript aware browsers, or people who...
View ArticleA review of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves
On Bad Voltage we review things: normally technology products, but occasionally other stuff that we like. In the most recent show I reviewed Neal Stephenson’s recently-released book Seveneves, and I...
View ArticleAvailability
Some very interesting discussions happened at Edgeconf 5, including a detailed breakout session on making your web apps work for everyone which was well run by Lyza Danger Gardner. We talked about...
View ArticleFooling the natives
“It’s not death if you refuse it.” — The CrowOver the last two weeks I have, inadvertently, conducted a very enlightening experiment on myself. I don’t think it’s repeatable or replicable — like gods...
View ArticleUsing the content hub on Ubuntu
On an Ubuntu phone, apps are1 isolated from one another; each app has its own little folder where its files go, and no other app can intrude. This, obviously, requires some way to exchange files...
View ArticleThe platform is just another library
I’ve been listening to Jake and Paul‘s new HTTP203 audio podcast1 and in the middle of it, a weird thing happened. They were talking about moment.js, an excellent date parsing and formatting library...
View ArticleThe Blue Moods of Spain
Walked away, released, from all my crimes — SpainI didn’t really understand music until I went to university. Oh, I’d listen to songs, and I’d like them, but the idea that one might be wedded to a...
View ArticleNo UI is some UI
Tony Aubé writes interestingly about how No UI is the New UI:Out of all the possible forms of input, digital text is the most direct one. Text is constant, it doesn’t carry all the ambiguous...
View ArticleTitan, the toughest cable ever
I was rather decently sent a Titan charging cable by the people at Fusechicken, and I reviewed it for the upcoming episode of Bad Voltage. I thought my review could also gain itself a home here:I’ve...
View ArticleSCaLE 14x plans
In a week and a half I am flying out to Pasadena to the SCALE14x conference. I will be there from the evening of Wed 20th Jan 2016 to Sun 24th Jan 2016.SCALE is a tremendous conference, as I have...
View ArticleBook review: Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson
There’s been a lot of talk over the years and especially recently about progressive enhancement: building things for the Web that work, that are available to all, whether that’s people in a bad...
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Managing my books
I read a lot of books, and these days quite a few of them are ebooks. I keep a list of books I’ve read, and I try to review a reasonable proportion of those when I get time. Jono Lange asked how I...
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What I Did On My Holidays, or, Pouring Out A Forty
Before we begin, thank you. Thank you, all, thank you, thank you…Dr Hook, The MillionaireThis has been a busy few weeks. Culminating in me becoming forty years of age, of which more later.I went to the...
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Android apps and sensitive permissions
In the last two days, I’ve installed two Android apps (names redacted because it’s not their fault!) which, on install, have popped up a custom notification saying that the app “requests Sensitive...
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Lost in the Maze
So, as part of my month-long birthday celebration, Niamh and I went to Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant for sushi.We were, honestly, a bit worried at first; we’d bought it as a “Red Letter Days”...
View ArticleMothering
So, my fortieth Mothering Sunday. Although I don’t remember the first few. We don’t always agree, my mum and I. We might argue about politics (she’s quite a lot more right wing than me, mainly from...
View ArticleReasons to not like ads
Bruce linked to Kagan MacTane’s list of “reasons to use ad-blockers”, and I thought it was pretty good. I’ve been describing people who want to use an ad-blocker really as falling into four categories;...
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Managing my books
I read a lot of books, and these days quite a few of them are ebooks. I keep a list of books I’ve read, and I try to review a reasonable proportion of those when I get time. Jono Lange asked how I...
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