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Happy 45th Anniversary, mum and dad
You’re supposed to send cards to wish someone a happy anniversary. Well, today, my mum and dad have been married for 45 years (!), so I sent them some cards. Specifically, five playing cards, with...
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And Everything
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” Everybody looked at Alice.“I”m not a mile high,” said Alice.“You are,” said the King.“Nearly two miles high,” added the...
View ArticleSorry Henry
I think I found a bug in a Henry Dudeney book.Dudeney was a really famous puzzle creator in Victorian/Edwardian times. For Americans: Sam Loyd was sort of an American knock-off of Dudeney, except that...
View ArticleCollecting user data while protecting user privacy
Lots of companies want to collect data about their users. This is a good thing, generally; being data-driven is important, and it’s jolly hard to know where best to focus your efforts if you don’t know...
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Squares and prettier graphs
The Futility Closet people recently posted “A Square Circle“, in which they showed:49² + 73² = 7730 77² + 30² = 6829 68² + 29² = 5465 54² + 65² = 7141 71² + 41² = 6722 67² + 22² = 4973 which is a nice...
View ArticleTelegram notifications for Jenkins builds
It’s nice to get updates from your CI system when things build. It’s even nicer to do it without having to run any servers to do it. Here’s how I send build notifications to a Telegram bot from...
View ArticleI wrote a Web Component
I’ve been meaning to play with Web Components for a little while now. After I saw Ben Nadel create a Twitter tweet progress indicator with Angular and Lucas Leandro did the same with Vue.js I thought,...
View ArticleOwnTracks and a map
Every year we do a bit of a pub crawl in Birmingham between Christmas and New Year; a chance to get away from the turkey risotto, and hang out with people and talk about techie things after a few days...
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Happy 45th Anniversary, mum and dad
You’re supposed to send cards to wish someone a happy anniversary. Well, today, my mum and dad have been married for 45 years (!), so I sent them some cards. Specifically, five playing cards, with...
View ArticleAnd Everything
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” Everybody looked at Alice.“I”m not a mile high,” said Alice.“You are,” said the King.“Nearly two miles high,” added the...
View ArticleSorry Henry
I think I found a bug in a Henry Dudeney book.Dudeney was a really famous puzzle creator in Victorian/Edwardian times. For Americans: Sam Loyd was sort of an American knock-off of Dudeney, except that...
View ArticleCollecting user data while protecting user privacy
Lots of companies want to collect data about their users. This is a good thing, generally; being data-driven is important, and it’s jolly hard to know where best to focus your efforts if you don’t know...
View ArticleSquares and prettier graphs
The Futility Closet people recently posted “A Square Circle“, in which they showed:49² + 73² = 7730 77² + 30² = 6829 68² + 29² = 5465 54² + 65² = 7141 71² + 41² = 6722 67² + 22² = 4973 which is a nice...
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FOSS Talk Live 2018
Saturday 9th June 2018 marked FOSS Talk Live 2018, an evening of Linux UK podcasts on stage at The Harrison pub near Kings Cross, London. It’s in its third year now, and each year has improved on the...
View ArticleLittle community conferences
This last weekend I was at FOSS Talk Live 2018. It was fun. And it led me into various thoughts of how I’d like there to be more of this sort of fun in and around the tech community, and how my...
View ArticleEU Copyright Reform: a letter to my MEP, Siôn Simon, about Article 13
Dear Siôn,Thank you for your comments on Twitter welcoming my feedback on the EU’s proposed copyright reform. I’d like to discuss in particular Article 13, “Use of protected content by information...
View ArticleInside out
Recently the question of whether browsers should have a View Source function has reared its head again. Chris Coyier says no, as do Tom Dale and Christian Heilmann. Jonathan Snook says yes they...
View ArticleIf you can do it with CSS do it with CSS
I read Twitter with Tweetdeck. And I use the excellent Better Tweetdeck to improve my Tweetdeck experience. And I had an idea.You see, emoji, much as they’re the way we communicate now, they’re...
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LOWREZJAM 2018
As in 2016, I entered the 2018 LOWREZJAM on itch.io, a game jam where you have to build a game which runs in a 64x64 pixel square. So, really small — the Game Boy was 160x144, or about six times as...
View ArticleEmoji Silhouettes with CSS, a second approach
Every now and again it’s useful to display single-colour emoji on a web page; all the colours in those little emoji symbols are nice and all, but it does occasionally make your formal document look a...
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