Jan 2nd: A lovely dive into the least popular content on Wikipedia
Jan 2nd: The story of the creation of the Tesco Clubcard, the first supermarket loyalty program, built in a time when the technology to do it didn't really exist.
Nov 8th: It’s really incredible what’s now possible with pure CSS.
Oct 26th: I haven't tried building anything real in it yet, but as a 90s web developer, HTMX really appeals to me
If you use mod_rewrite and you've started getting random errors in your logs that look like "rewritten query string contains control characters or spaces", it's because of a security patch that breaks using backrefs as query params if they contain spaces (and certain other special characters). For example:
RewriteRule ^foo/([^/]+)$ foo.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
This will still work for foo/bar but break for foo/bar%3Abaz. You need to add the B flag as follows:
RewriteRule ^foo/([^/]+)$ foo.php?page=$1 [L,QSA,B]
I've updated my 2022 reading list with all the 112 books I read in the year.
Highlights were Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin and A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine.
Aug 19th: Some generous soul has re-traced a bunch of the Apple emoji to provide much higher res versions of them for use in presentations.
A convergence of two of my interests: Tuble is a Worlde-style game where you guess Tube Stations.
Mar 29th: UK children's TV show Rainbow has a very memorable theme song, but the original has many verses