scratched tallies on the prison wall
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 with it. First, let's have a look. Of the three things I'm most pleased with, the first is the look of it, which is all down to the case. Case FRACTAL TERRA Mini ITX Case (JADE) Processor (CPU) AMD…
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 through, so I thought I'd write it down in case anybody else finds it useful. So. Your job is to calculate the average of a set of numbers. This is not hard: the average value 1 is the sum of the numbers…
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 here with web components; there's no shadow DOM here, the components aren't redistributable or particularly reusable anywhere else, and aren't required. They're simply a useful way to group "what…
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 . ↩
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 oriented another? So you look at that cube (it's called a Necker cube when you're viewing it as an optical illusion) and with a bit of concentration you can change how you perceive it, from pointing in one…
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 bot; Discord activities are basically a web page which loads in an iframe, and can do what it likes in there. You're supposed to use them for games and the like, but I suspect that it might be…
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 or cold-eyed revenge about him making me drink a limoncello and Red Bull last week can remain a mystery. Commentary about footnotes on the web tends to boil down into two categories: that they're…
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. Obvious answer: upload it to YouTube. However, the video that was shown at the event is Copyrighted Media Content and therefore is disallowed by YouTube and the copyright holder; it's not demonetised…
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 who want to read what you say, so that that audience can't be taken away from you. On the other hand, I don't actually like newsletters. I don't really like giving my email address to random people 1…
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 should get on board, fractionally late as ever. 1 Why did you start blogging in the first place? Some other people I admired were doing it. I think the person I was most influenced by to start doing…