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You can power wash this blog post
30 August 2026
💡Try! Power Washer
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Eye contact warnings
15 July 2026
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 .
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A World with No Secrets
07 January 2023
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.
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Removing Google Analytics
06 December 2020 – last updated 12 June 2021
“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:
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Pretty and random animated blog post images
21 November 2020 – last updated 15 July 2026
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?
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lol I made my own component framework
13 April 2020 – last updated 17 April 2020
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?
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Class getters vs methods in vanilla JS
06 April 2020
when debugging them
Using class getters is really easy with the help of TypeScript. Kinda makes me feel like I’m writing Ruby!
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iPadOS cursor on the web
03 April 2020
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?
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Double exposure random generator is back online!
23 September 2018
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.
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