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Pinch me but don’t punch me

30 days have September, April June and November. All the rest have 31, and i know we just came out of 31 days of July but for some reason it didn’t feel like 31 to me. I think that’s because i was doing a loooot of thinking and <insert word that means trying to moderate and modulate self when commenting on llm code comments so my actual comment is understood not taken as “hEnRy iS jUsT anTi-Ai”>.

There is no life in getting answers from machines

Today I read a poem by Joanne Atkins-Potts called “PLEASE USE AI”: https://joatkinspotts.substack.com/p/please-use-ai

Word poison is bad for people

“Communication is important! My life is being ruined by LLMs!”

I’m sooooooooooo glad I’ve learnt about these

Since I’ve joined Tech.LGBT I’ve come to learn about various content warnings. One such warning that I hadn’t realised I wasn’t giving for my own website was for eye contact - I had a giant selfie photo in my posts list! I’ve since fixed that: see git commit here .

First TravisCI, now CircleCI

Well, shit. CircleCI was breached. Or was it only “accessed”? They haven’t confirmed a breach yet, but I’m sure we’ll all know once they know, I’m confident of that at least.

Totally low pressure and achievable

1. Do those things you want to do!
2. Don’t be anxious.
3. Don’t have ADHD.

“Please disable JavaScript to view this site” – Heydon Pickering

I’ve been following the glory that is Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks) moving their WHOLE SITE into a <noscript> element and showing users a very simple message:

but now I’m not using them any more :(

I recently made a small change to my blog list page by showing images in the list, to provide a clearer identifier for posts you may have already read. But not every post has an image, so what could I show for a default? Ooh, how about a random gradient?

why did I do this (oh yeah because of the pandemic)

This website is a playground for me, so I decided to rewrite my Blog Admin code to use Web Components. It worked, and I liked it! 🎉 But then I didn’t: writing HTML in JavaScript strings isn’t great. Why can’t we have both HTML and JavaScript defined in the same file and encapsulated separate from the rendered page?

And it is amazing

But I don’t know if Markdown works in the subtitle 🤔

when debugging them

Using class getters is really easy with the help of TypeScript. Kinda makes me feel like I’m writing Ruby!

just because it’s fun!

Are Apple good at designing UIs (User Interfaces)? Should a touch device only be a touch device? Or is it time for more precision and control that doesn’t cost over £100 and isn’t a pencil?

1,118 songs, 83 hrs 48 mins

A month or two ago, I decided to embark on listening to every song in my ⭐️starred⭐️ playlist from most recent to the very first.

This weekend, the lovely and amazing Garrett put together an IndieWeb camp for two days, for free, in Oxford! He posted about it here: Day 1, and Day 2.

That’s right, it’s back!

I’ve replaced https://lorempixel.com with https://picsum.photos, which serves with CORS headers so the browser will let us play with and display the images through JavaScript.