2022–2026

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October 2026

1. 30 OctBook Review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ★★☆☆☆
2. 28 OctGadget Review: SoundPEATS CC3 Pro Bluetooth Headphones ★★★★⯪
3. 27 OctBook Review: You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] - Andrew Hankinson ★★★★☆
4. 26 OctTheatre Review: Opera UnTouched's "The Telephone" ★★★★★
5. 25 OctGadget Review: LiberNovo Omni - the USB-C powered office chair ★★★★⯪
6. 24 OctBook Review: Get Ahead of Being Dead by Evie King ★★★★☆
7. 23 OctMore phishing messages via Booking.com and Novotel
8. 22 OctGadget Review: Mokin 17 Port USB-C Tower ★★☆☆☆
9. 20 OctBook Review: Quackery - A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang ★★★⯪☆
10. 18 OctUna Watch TOTP - MFA on your wrist!
11. 17 OctBook Review: Are You *Really* The Doctor? by Matthew Hutchinson ★★★⯪☆
12. 16 OctBook Review: Africa Is Not A Country - Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin ★★★★⯪
13. 14 OctThe Internet of Very Cheap Things
14. 13 OctBook Review: The Thousand Deaths of Romeo and Juliet - Caroline Finch ★★★★★
15. 11 OctI paid people to try and follow my README
16. 10 OctSome quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub
17. 9 OctConcert Review: London Voices - Video Games Go Choral ★★★★☆
18. 8 OctTheatre Review: Hay Fever at Wyndham's Theatre ★★★★⯪
19. 6 OctUna Watch - SDK and Writing Your First App
20. 5 Oct[RSS Club] Changes to the RSS and Atom feeds
21. 4 OctMy Pitch for the New Season of Doctor Who
22. 2 OctGadget Review: Una Watch ★★★★☆

September 2026

1. 30 SepAre you a smartwatch "power user"?
2. 28 SepBook Review: Bobiverse Books 1-3 by Dennis E. Taylor ★★★☆☆
3. 27 SepGig Review: Public Service Broadcasting's Race For Space at Alexandra Palace ★★★★⯪
4. 26 SepNo errors, no warnings, no gods, no masters - HTML Purity is a Fetish
5. 24 SepSome thoughts on HTML's proposed previewsrc attribute
6. 22 SepAre LLMs still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks?
7. 20 SepBook Review: How to Build a Space Station by Jonathan Morrison ★★★⯪☆
8. 18 SepTheatre Review: The School for Wives - at Riverside Studios ★★★★★
9. 16 SepHow to get a DOI for your blog posts
10. 15 Sep[RSS Club] Sorry for breaking your feed readers!
11. 14 SepEsoteric HTML - ismap vs CSS
12. 13 SepThe expectations of privacy in driverless cars
13. 12 SepActivityPub - How to send an updated user profile to Mastodon and the Fediverse
14. 11 Sep[RSS Club] Sneak peek at new DOI functionality
15. 10 SepPut an AV test at the start of your slides
16. 8 SepActivityPub - Is it worth defending against replay attacks and message/signature time skew?
17. 6 SepThe purpose of DNS is to spread scams
18. 5 SepBook Review: The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu ★★★★☆
19. 3 SepA reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP
20. 1 SepBook Review: ActivityPub by Evan Prodromou ★★★★⯪

August 2026

1. 31 AugReview: Ruined Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream ★★★★☆
2. 30 AugActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!
3. 29 AugA simple "copy this code" button in JavaScript
4. 28 Aug"iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!"
5. 27 AugBook Review: The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon ★★★★☆
6. 26 AugGadget Review: Thermal Master P3 Macro Lens ★★★★⯪
7. 25 AugTheatre Review: Cats at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre ★★★★☆
8. 24 AugWhy do audience members choose specific shows at the Edinburgh Fringe?
9. 23 AugDeath to px, long live ch!
10. 21 AugBook Review: An Immense World - How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ★★★☆☆
11. 19 AugAsymmetric Agents
12. 17 AugAnd then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
13. 16 AugThoughts on visiting the Edinburgh Fringe as a newbie
14. 15 AugBook Review: Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth ★★★⯪☆
15. 14 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Target Audience ★★★★★
16. 14 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Stand-up Philosophy ★★★⯪☆
17. 14 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Waiting for Wonka ★★★⯪☆
18. 13 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas ★★★★⯪
19. 13 AugEdinburgh Fringe: The Musical Mystery Caller ★★★★★
20. 13 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Miscast Sondheim ★★☆☆☆
21. 13 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Hot Flush – A Bold, We’re Old(ish) Burlesque Show ★★★☆☆
22. 13 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Eleanor Morton: The Mermaid ★★★⯪☆
23. 13 AugBook Review: Coding Literacy by Annette Vee ★★⯪☆☆
24. 12 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody ★★★★☆
25. 12 AugEdinburgh Fringe - James Rowland: Team Viking ★★⯪☆☆
26. 12 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Garrett Millerick: We Tried it Your Way ★☆☆☆☆
27. 12 AugEdinburgh Fringe: When Vincent Met John ★★★★★
28. 11 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Justina Seselskaite: Settled ★★★★☆
29. 11 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Handel Nine German Arias ★★★⯪☆
30. 11 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Hamlet The Musical ★★☆☆☆
31. 11 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Afronauts ★★★★☆
32. 11 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Noted ★★★⯪☆
33. 11 AugGadget Review: Soundpeats UU2 POP Clip2 Earphones ★★★★⯪
34. 10 AugEdinburgh Fringe: 15 Minutes of Shame ★★★★⯪
35. 10 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Kat Ronson: Millennial Girl ★★★★☆
36. 10 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Michael Brunström: William Tell vs the Algorithm ★★★☆☆
37. 10 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother 2026 ★★★★★
38. 10 AugEdinburgh Fringe: Smut Slam ★★★☆☆
39. 9 AugEdinburgh Fringe - Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody! ★★★★★
40. 9 AugEdinburgh Fringe: 4 Aussies For Aussies - The Raging Bull ★★⯪☆☆
41. 9 AugAgainst Doomerism
42. 8 Aug[RSS Club] I got an NLnet grant!
43. 7 AugMetadata for AI Generated Outputs
44. 5 AugGadget Review: T2 Max plug-in Thermal Camera ★★★⯪☆
45. 4 AugGig Review: Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister at Margate Dreamland ★★★★★
46. 3 AugBook Review: The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker ★★★★☆
47. 1 AugGadget Review: HIKMICRO D02 Thermal Camera ★★★★★

July 2026

1. 30 JulAre political journalists always wrong?
2. 28 JulGoogle Calendar "Unable to launch event" - caused by missing DTSTAMP
3. 26 JulBook Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ★★⯪☆☆
4. 25 JulSome Quick Thoughts on EMF Camp 2026
5. 24 JulBook Review: Foreign Fruit - A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh ★⯪☆☆☆
6. 22 JulScattered thoughts on social geolocation
7. 20 JulPublic Transport - Don't Make Me Think!
8. 18 JulBook Review: A City on Mars - by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith ★★★★⯪
9. 16 JulGadget Review: Thermal Master DV2 - Infrared Birdwatching Scope ★★★★⯪
10. 14 JulI'm a USB-C Maximalist
11. 13 Jul[RSS Club] Half a million steps is about 10 marathons
12. 12 JulAnother Ridiculous Interrail Holiday - 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
13. 10 JulGame Review: Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime ★★★☆☆
14. 8 JulA bug which only affected left-handed users
15. 6 JulI'm just so bored of AI
16. 4 JulCombined 1D and 2D Barcodes
17. 2 JulThis blog is written in en-GB

June 2026

1. 30 JunBook Review: Fake Creativity by Blake Loch ★★★☆☆
2. 28 JunBook Review: The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer ★★☆☆☆
3. 26 JunReview: Gamrombo PS5 controller - including Linux set up ★★★★☆
4. 24 JunAuth0 PHP - manually authenticating JWT idTokens
5. 22 JunCybersecurity for the paranoid business traveller
6. 20 JunWhich Copyleft Licence is Suitable for an SVG?
7. 18 JunBook Review: The Great When by Alan Moore ★★★★☆
8. 16 JunTwo Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget
9. 15 Jun[RSS Club] What happens to old posts?
10. 14 JunDid Frank Sinatra really think "Something" was a Lennon/McCartney song?
11. 12 JunGadget Review: TP Link EH210 Ethernet Splitter (USB-C) ★★★★★
12. 10 JunBook Review: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio ★★★★★
13. 8 JunHow many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
14. 6 JunThere's still no point in gigabit broadband
15. 4 JunBook Review: Accessible Communications by Lisa Riemers and Matisse Hamel-Nelis ★★★★☆
16. 3 JunLondon Data Store Relaunch
17. 2 JunUsing FourSquare's API to post location checkins to social media

May 2026

1. 31 MayWho are the actors in the UK's 2015 passport?
2. 29 MayThe UK Government's Low Value Purchase System is a Waste of Time
3. 27 MayGadget Review: Chuwi Minibook X N150 + Linux ★★★★☆
4. 25 MayPHP - simple way to send HTTP headers before a script ends
5. 23 MayWhich age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?
6. 21 MayWhale Fall
7. 20 May[RSS Club] Let's meet up AFK
8. 19 MayBook Review: Terrible Worlds: Destinations by Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★
9. 17 MayGDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
10. 15 MayUK Government Kicks Out Palantir
11. 13 MayStupidly Simple SVG Sparklines
12. 11 MayFind blog posts with missing featured images - and missing alt text - without a plugin
13. 10 May[RSS Club] A Sneak Preview of Upcoming Posts
14. 9 MayBook Review: The Names by Florence Knapp ★★⯪☆☆
15. 7 MayI've found just the right paper for my Bottom Hole problem
16. 5 MayRSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google
17. 4 May[RSS Club] Where are you from?
18. 3 MayVertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code
19. 1 MayNHS Goes To War Against Open Source

April 2026

1. 29 AprLet's Get Digging!
2. 27 AprTheatre Review: Hadestown ★★★★★
3. 25 AprYou can parse an .env file as an .ini with PHP - but there's a catch
4. 24 AprDoes Mythos mean you need to shut down your Open Source repositories?
5. 23 AprSneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts
6. 22 Apr[RSS Club] How do you preserve an RSS feed?
7. 21 AprBetter TTS on Linux
8. 20 AprBook Review: Up - A scientist's guide to the magic above us by Dr Lucy Rogers ★★★★★
9. 19 AprReprojecting Dual Fisheye Videos to Equirectangular (LG 360)
10. 17 AprBook Review: How To Kill A Witch - A Guide For The Patriarchy by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi ★★★⯪☆
11. 16 AprRSS Club for WordPress
12. 15 AprWhy is it so hard to passively stalk my friends' locations?
13. 13 AprAndroid now stops you sharing your location in photos
14. 11 AprCheapest way to keep a UK mobile number using an eSIM
15. 10 Apr[RSS Club] Why do you use RSS rather than Atom?
16. 9 AprBook Review: Small Comfort by Ia Genberg ★★☆☆☆
17. 8 AprTheatre Review: Avenue Q ★★★★★
18. 7 AprDid WordPress VIP leak my phone number?
19. 6 Apr[RSS Club] Banana for scale
20. 5 AprSomeone at BrowserStack is Leaking Users' Email Address
21. 4 AprWelcome to RSS Club!
22. 3 AprBook Review: Superintelligence - Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom ★★★★⯪
23. 2 AprConcert Review: London Philharmonic - Pictures at an Exhibition ★★★★★
24. 1 AprRandom File Format

March 2026

1. 30 MarGig Review: Vitamin String Quartet at The Barbican ★★★★★
2. 28 MarOpenBenches hits 40k
3. 26 MarAdding human.json to WordPress
4. 24 MarBook Review: If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop ★★☆☆☆
5. 22 MarBored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts!
6. 20 MarI'm OK being left behind, thanks!
7. 18 MarFinding the right Bottom Hole paper
8. 16 MarSome updates to ActivityBot
9. 15 MarBook Review: Robots in Space - The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers by Dr Ezzy Pearson ★★★⯪☆
10. 14 MarHow Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
11. 13 MarAn odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari
12. 12 MarHistoric Energy Price Cap Data (FOI success!)
13. 11 MarGame Review: It Takes Two ★★★★★
14. 10 MarUnstructured Data and the Joy of having Something Else think for you
15. 9 MarBook Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm ★★★★★
16. 8 MarWhat's the source of Einstein's "citizen of the world" quip?
17. 7 MarBook Review: The Electronic Criminals by Robert Farr (1975) ★★★⯪☆
18. 6 MarFirmware Update for the Treedix TRX5-0816 Cable Tester
19. 5 MarBook Review: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang ★★★★⯪
20. 4 MarHow many hours do you need to work to afford a pint of beer?
21. 3 MarGame Review: Unravel Two ★★★⯪☆
22. 2 MarAdding "Log In With Mastodon" to Auth0
23. 1 MarBook Review: Under Fire - Black Britain in Wartime by Stephen Bourne ★★★★☆

February 2026

1. 28 Feb30 months to 3MWh - some more home battery stats
2. 27 FebBook Review: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell ★★☆☆☆
3. 26 FebThis time is different
4. 25 FebBook Review: Of Monsters and Mainframes - Barbara Truelove ★★★⯪☆
5. 24 FebAdding OpenStreetMap login to Auth0
6. 23 FebBook Review: A Geography of Time by Robert V. Levine ★★★☆☆
7. 22 FebHow close are we to a vision for 2010?
8. 21 FebOpenBenches at FOSDEM
9. 20 FebBook Review: Families And How To Survive Them by John Cleese and Robin Skynner ★★⯪☆☆
10. 19 FebAI is a NAND Maximiser
11. 18 FebBook Review: All Systems Red - The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells ★★⯪☆☆
12. 17 FebGadget Review: Epomaker Split 70 Mechanical Keyboard ★★★★⯪
13. 16 FebBook Review: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends - Nicole Perlroth ★⯪☆☆☆
14. 15 FebSocial Media Payments and Perverse Incentives
15. 14 FebBook Review: 20 Goto 10 - 10101001 facts about retro computers by Steven Goodwin ★★★★☆
16. 13 FebGadget Review: Topdon TS004 Thermal Monocular ★★★★⯪
17. 12 FebBook Review: On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle ★★★★★
18. 11 FebGadget Review: Epomaker TH87 ISO Mechanical Keyboard ★★★★⯪
19. 10 FebBook Review: Ashes To Admin - Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King ★★★★★
20. 9 FebGadget Review: Orico Power Strip (UK) ★★⯪☆☆
21. 8 FebBook Review: Me vs Brain - An Overthinker’s Guide to Life by Hayley Morris ★★★★☆
22. 7 FebReputation Scores for GitHub Accounts
23. 6 FebBook Review: Diversifying Open Source - An Open Standards Playbook for Inclusive and Equitable Tech Projects by Paloma Oliveira ★★★★☆
24. 5 FebGet all the reactions to your GitHub content using GraphQL
25. 4 FebBook Review: The Examiner - Janice Hallett ★★★★⯪
26. 3 FebThe cost of running OpenBenches.org
27. 2 FebBook Review: The Voyage of the Space Beagle by Alfred Elton Van Vogt ★★☆☆☆
28. 1 FebVanguard - The Government Project to get British Businesses to use the Internet

January 2026

1. 31 JanBook Review: With the End in Mind - Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix ★★★⯪☆
2. 30 JanTheatre Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy - Immersive Experience ★★★⯪☆
3. 29 JanBook Review: The Players Act 1 by Amy Sparkes ★★⯪☆☆
4. 28 JanAre there any open APIs left?
5. 27 JanBook Review: Doppelganger - A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein ★★★★☆
6. 26 JanDo savings accounts really lose money to inflation?
7. 25 JanBook Review: Human Rites by Juno Dawson ★★★☆☆
8. 24 JanInstalling and Updating Filezilla from a Zip File on Pop_OS / Ubuntu
9. 23 JanBook Review: Surely You Can't Be Serious - The True Story of Airplane! ★★⯪☆☆
10. 22 JanRemoving "/Subtype /Watermark" images from a PDF using Linux
11. 21 JanBook Review: Exterminate/Regenerate - The Story of Doctor Who by John Higgs ★★★★☆
12. 20 JanDiscovering My Talk
13. 19 JanBook Review: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk ★★★⯪☆
14. 18 JanBook Review: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim ★★★★★
15. 17 JanReview: Lander 23 by Punchdrunk ★★★⯪☆
16. 16 JanShould HTML's code blocks be translated?
17. 15 JanBook Review: Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills ★★★★☆
18. 14 JanResponsible Disclosure: Chimoney Android App and KYCaid
19. 13 JanBook Review: Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami ★★★★☆
20. 12 JanMaximally Semantic Structure for a Blog Post
21. 11 JanBook Review: The Real Shakespeare - Emilia Bassano Willoughby by Irene Coslet ★⯪☆☆☆
22. 10 JanWhy my NFC passport didn't work at Heathrow's eGates
23. 9 JanBook Review: Room 706 by Ellie Levenson ★★★★★
24. 7 JanRestaurant Review: The Smokaccia Laboratory - Phuket ★★★★★
25. 5 JanLooking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
26. 3 JanWhere is Bitcoin?
27. 1 Jan200 Years Ago - A Prediction of a Deadly Comet Impact

2025 234

December 2025

1. 30 DecA small collection of text-only websites
2. 28 DecExtracting Video from Motion Photos on Linux
3. 26 DecBook Review: The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer ★★★★☆
4. 24 DecFixing "Date/time not in ISO 8601 format" in Google Search Console
5. 22 DecBook Review: Code, Chips and Control - The Security Posture of Digital Isolation by Sal Kimmich ★★★⯪☆
6. 20 DecWhy do people leave comments on OpenBenches?
7. 18 DecBook Review: Pure Invention - How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt ★★★⯪☆
8. 16 DecAgentic AI is brilliant because I loath my family
9. 14 DecStop crawling my HTML you dickheads - use the API!
10. 12 DecBook Review: The Menopause by Deirdre Lundy ★★★★☆
11. 10 DecTravelling around Japan as a Vegetarian / Vegan
12. 8 DecBook Review: Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger ★★★★★
13. 6 DecAll the books I've read this year
14. 4 DecThe Web Runs On Tolerance
15. 2 DecResponsible Disclosure: Joiners, Movers, and Leavers in NHS BSA

November 2025

1. 30 NovA big list of things I disable in WordPress
2. 28 NovMy Wikipedia account is now old enough to vote
3. 27 NovThe Idiot Sandwich - On Embedding Alt Text
4. 25 NovGadget Review: SOUNDPEATS Clip1 Cuff Headphones ★★★★☆
5. 23 NovNow witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
6. 22 NovMagazine Review: DOCTYPE
7. 19 NovThe Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
8. 18 Nov2025 - A Year In Review
9. 17 NovOpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap
10. 15 NovGadget Review: Benfei USB-C Video Capture ★★★★★
11. 13 NovBook Review: Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann ★★★⯪☆
12. 11 NovBook Review: Strong Female Character by Fern Brady ★★☆☆☆
13. 9 NovBook Review: If there were no Shinkansen - Shuichiro Yamanouchi ★★★★☆
14. 7 NovReview: BENFEI Wireless USB C to HDMI ★★★★⯪
15. 5 NovBook Review: The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple ★★★★★
16. 3 NovPolitical Experiments
17. 1 NovBook Review: When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut ★★★★★

October 2025

1. 31 OctInfants practice spelling - ready for halloween
2. 30 OctGig Review: Meat Loaf by Candlelight ★★★★☆
3. 28 OctA Self-Hosted Favicon Proxy written in PHP
4. 26 OctMovie Review: The Story of the Weeping Camel ★★★★★
5. 25 OctAlpha launch - .well-known/avatar - feedback wanted
6. 23 OctBook Review: A Quest for God and Spices by Dean Cycon ★★☆☆☆
7. 21 OctGetting started with simple CSS View Transitions
8. 19 OctImproving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator
9. 17 OctWas my website mentioned in a GitHub issue?
10. 15 OctBook Review: The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple ★★★★☆
11. 13 OctEvery Theatre Show is "Immersive"
12. 11 OctQuick and dirty bar-charts using HTML's meter element
13. 9 OctBook Review: The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris ★★★⯪☆
14. 7 OctHow to *actually* test your readme
15. 5 OctYou did no fact checking, and I must scream
16. 3 OctGetting started with Mastodon's Quote Posts - technical implementation details for servers
17. 1 OctBook Review: Streaming Wars - How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment Forever by Charlotte Henry ★★☆☆☆

September 2025

1. 29 SepCan you use GDPR to Circumvent BlueSky's Adult Content Blocks?
2. 27 SepDrunk CSS
3. 25 SepBook Review: This Might Surprise You - A Breast Cancer Story by Hayley Gullen ★★★★★
4. 23 SepTargetting specific characters with CSS rules
5. 21 SepLLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks
6. 19 SepClass Warfare! Can I eliminate CSS classes from my HTML?
7. 17 SepTheatre Review: Interview (Understudy Performance) ★★★☆☆
8. 15 SepHow big a solar battery do I need to store *all* my home's electricity?
9. 13 SepBook Review: All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu ★★★★★
10. 11 SepReasonably accurate, privacy conscious, cookieless, visitor tracking for WordPress
11. 9 SepEvent Review: Doin' the Lambeth Walk (Oi!) ★★★⯪☆
12. 7 SepSome thoughts on personal git hosting
13. 5 SepBook Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact by Ryan North ★★★★★
14. 3 Sep40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant?
15. 1 SepA little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates

August 2025

1. 31 AugSome minor bugs in Proton's new Authenticator app
2. 30 AugIs it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe?
3. 28 AugBook Review: What Sheep Think about the Weather - Amelia Thomas ★★★☆☆
4. 26 AugSecurity Flaws in the WebMonetization Site
5. 24 AugBook Review: The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi (Old Man's War Book 7) ★★★⯪☆
6. 23 AugGig Review: Rainbow Girls at LVLS London ★★★★★
7. 22 AugWhat about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?
8. 21 AugTheatre Review - Show:Girls ★★★★☆
9. 20 AugTheatre Review: Sluts With Consoles ★★★★⯪
10. 18 AugPreventing NAPTR Spam
11. 16 AugBooks will soon be obsolete in school
12. 14 AugTheatre Review: Being Mr Wickham ★★★★★
13. 12 AugWould a Blockchain have prevented LIBOR fraud?
14. 10 AugTheatre Review: Girl from the North Country ★⯪☆☆☆
15. 9 AugTheatre Review: Storehouse - Truth Lies Here ★★★☆☆
16. 8 AugHow long does it take to upgrade an eBook?
17. 6 AugI bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C ★★★★☆
18. 4 AugReview: Data and Doctor Doom ★★★★★
19. 2 AugWhy don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?
20. 1 AugSecret Cinema - Grease

July 2025

1. 31 JulBook Review: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett ★★★★⯪
2. 30 JulWinners don't use ChatGPT
3. 29 JulI'm never going back to Matrix
4. 27 JulWhat is the "House of Commons Shield" Award?
5. 26 JulWould adding Brotli Compression help shrink ePubs?
6. 24 JulTheatre Review: Mrs Warren's Profession ★★★⯪☆
7. 22 JulInterrailing round Europe while Vegan / Vegetarian - with lots of photos
8. 20 Jul1KB JS Numbers Station
9. 19 JulThe Vegan Morality Police
10. 17 JulWe've got to stop sending files to each other
11. 16 JulQuick Swap Data SIM Shortcut on Android
12. 15 JulPetrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations
13. 13 JulIt is 1939 and you want to use public-key cryptography
14. 12 JulHowto: Connect IKEA's Trådfri Zigbee Bulbs to a Philips Hue Hub
15. 10 JulGadget Review: Thermal Imaging Camera - Topdon TC004 Mini ★★★⯪☆
16. 9 JulBook Review: The World After Amazon - Stories from Amazon Workers by Xenia Benivolski ★★★☆☆
17. 8 JulBook Review: Problems Have No Sex - Caroline Haslett (1949)
18. 7 JulGrinding down open source maintainers with AI
19. 6 JulGet the location of the ISS using DNS
20. 5 JulBook Review: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - Eva Jurczyk ★☆☆☆☆
21. 4 JulMaking My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts
22. 3 JulProcess Vs Prejudice
23. 2 JulBook Review: The World According to Cunk - An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting by Philomena Cunk ★★★★★
24. 1 JulAre Brother's Insecure Printers Illegal in the UK?

June 2025

1. 30 JunBook Review: The Left Hand of Dog - Si Clarke ★★☆☆☆
2. 29 JunContactless Payments with GrapheneOS
3. 28 JunBook Review: First Contact - The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens by Becky Ferreira ★★★★⯪
4. 27 JunReview: Octopus Home Mini - Real-Time Smart Meter Monitoring ★★☆☆☆
5. 26 JunBook Review: The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★☆
6. 25 JunTheatre Review: Just For One Day ★★★★⯪
7. 24 JunReading NFC Passport Chips in Linux
8. 23 JunAn annoying SVG animation bug in Chrome
9. 22 JunTheatre Review: Operation Mincemeat ★★★★☆
10. 21 JunBook Review: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman ★★★★★
11. 20 JunConvert Shotwell Photo Metadata to Digikam Metadata
12. 19 JunBook Review: If Only They Didn't Speak English - Notes From Trump's America by Jon Sopel ★★⯪☆☆
13. 18 JunWhy do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
14. 17 JunBook Review: Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent ★★★★⯪
15. 16 JunYour Password Algorithm Sucks
16. 15 JunBook Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Books - The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price ★★★★★
17. 14 JunMeeting my Fedifriends AFK
18. 13 JunBook Review: A History of the World in 47 Borders - The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge ★★★★⯪
19. 12 JunThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Midnight
20. 11 JunLarge Language Models and Pareidolia
21. 10 JunBook Review: The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals by Silvana Condemi ★★★☆☆
22. 9 JunGadget Review: Treedix USB Cable Tester ★★★★☆
23. 8 JunOpen Data Man - how open is too open?
24. 7 JunBook Review: Intimacy by Ita O'Brien ★★★☆☆
25. 6 Jun5,025 Km, 21 Journeys, and 10 Countries in 30 Days - An Interrailing Adventure
26. 5 JunWhat is a "Cyber Attack"?
27. 3 JunThe NHS shouldn't outsource its QR codes
28. 1 JunMobile Phones of Doctor Who - Season 15

May 2025

1. 31 MayWhat's up with this "Please add me on WhatsApp" robocall spam?
2. 29 MayBook Review: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark ★★★⯪☆
3. 27 MayWhatever happened to cheap eReaders?
4. 25 MayDecorative text within HTML
5. 23 MayBook Review: How to Land a Plane by Mark Vanhoenacker ★★★★☆
6. 21 MayBook Review: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed ★★★★★
7. 19 MayCan you meaningfully measure how environmentally friendly a website is?
8. 17 MayBook Review: Death Glitch - How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara Kneese ★★★★⯪
9. 15 MayBook Review: Protective Practices - A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business by Jessica Borge ★★★★☆
10. 13 MayBook Review: The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (Standard Ebooks version)
11. 11 MayBook Review: Learning to Think by Tracy King ★★★★★
12. 9 MayStop using preg_* on HTML and start using \Dom\HTMLDocument instead
13. 7 MayGadget Review: AsiceSound Bluetooth Earbuds S23 ★⯪☆☆☆
14. 5 MayGadget Review: DisplayPort to HDMI Showdown
15. 3 MayToo many overflows reporting Gmail spam
16. 1 MayGet alerted when your Kobo wishlist books drop in price

April 2025

1. 30 AprIs enhancement the same as manipulation?
2. 29 AprWho is responsible for missing money?
3. 27 AprHTML Oddities: Is a newline just another whitespace in attribute values?
4. 26 AprUsing Tempest Highlight with WordPress
5. 25 AprReverse Geocoding is Hard
6. 24 AprHTML Oddities: Does the order of attribute values matter?
7. 23 AprA small PHP update to GeSHi
8. 22 AprBook Review: It's Not That Radical - Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach ★★⯪☆☆
9. 21 AprBook Review: Murder Your Employer - The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes ★★⯪☆☆
10. 20 AprGadget Review: 6-Colour ePaper Name Badge ★★★★⯪
11. 19 AprIntroducing Pretty Print HTML for PHP 8.4
12. 18 AprIs this the smallest USB-C hub? ★★★★★
13. 17 AprThat's Not How A SIM Swap Attack Works
14. 16 AprGadget Review: Benfei SATA to USB-C Drive Enclosure ★★★★★
15. 15 AprGadget Review: Benfei USB-C to Ethernet Adapter ★★★★★
16. 14 AprYou don't need an API key to archive Twitter Data
17. 13 AprBook Review: Great Robots of History by Tim Major ★★★⯪☆
18. 12 AprGadget Review: Benfei Laptop Riser with Built-In USB-C Dock ★★★☆☆
19. 11 AprFobCam '25 - All my MFA tokens on one page
20. 10 AprBook Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu ★★★★☆
21. 4 AprBook Review: Fabulosa! - The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker ★★★★★
22. 2 AprAn opinionated HTML Serializer for PHP 8.4

March 2025

1. 31 MarPretty Print HTML using PHP 8.4's new HTML DOM
2. 30 MarGadget Review: Windfall Energy Saving Plug (Beta) ★★★★☆
3. 29 MarHow to prevent Payment Pointer fraud
4. 28 MarBook Review: The Wicked of the Earth by A. D. Bergin ★★★★★
5. 27 MarBook Review: The Little Book of Ikigai - The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life by Ken Mogi ★★☆☆☆
6. 26 MarCreate a Table of Contents based on HTML Heading Elements
7. 23 MarWhy do all my home appliances sound like R2-D2?
8. 22 MarWhat does a "Personal Net Zero" look like?
9. 21 MarHow to Dismantle Knowledge of an Atomic Bomb
10. 20 MarWhen Gaussian Splatting Meets 19th Century 3D Images
11. 18 MarReview: WiFi connected Air Conditioner ★★★★⯪
12. 16 MarExtracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub
13. 14 MarSome thoughts on LCP eBook DRM
14. 12 MarTer[ence|ry]
15. 10 MarBook Review: The Man In The Wall by KJ Lyttleton ★★★★☆
16. 9 MarA Recursive QR Code
17. 8 MarBook Review: Machine Readable Me by Zara Rahman ★★★★☆
18. 7 MarBook Review: Hive - Madders of Time Book One by D. L. Orton ★★☆☆☆
19. 6 MarReview: Ben Elton - Authentic Stupidity ★★★☆☆
20. 5 MarTheatre Review: Elektra ★★★⯪☆
21. 4 MarBook Review: Medieval Cats - Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore by Catherine Nappington ★⯪☆☆☆
22. 2 MarTowards a test-suite for TOTP codes
23. 1 MarUsing the Web Crypto API to Generate TOTP Codes in JavaScript Without 3rd Party Libraries

February 2025

1. 28 FebManyTag Colour eInk Badge SDK - Minimum Viable Example for Android
2. 27 FebTheatre Review: The Last Laugh ★★★★★
3. 26 FebChange the way dates are presented in WordPress's admin view
4. 25 FebBook Review: Web Accessibility Cookbook - Creating Inclusive Experiences by Manuel Matuzovic ★★★★★
5. 24 FebThe least secure TOTP code possible
6. 23 FebWhy are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?
7. 22 FebBook Review: In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust ⯪☆☆☆☆
8. 21 FebTheatre Review: Trash ★★★⯪☆
9. 20 FebBook Review: The Rituals of Dinner - The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser ★★★★⯪
10. 19 FebAutomatic Kobo and Kindle eBook Arbitrage
11. 18 FebTheatre Review: Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright ★★★★★
12. 17 FebSinging the TfL Blues
13. 12 FebSome esoteric versioning schemes (monotonic moronity)
14. 11 FebA small contribution to curl
15. 10 FebReview: Phantom Peak - JONACON London 2025 ★★★★★
16. 9 FebPresenting ActivityBot at FOSDEM
17. 8 Febendless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words?
18. 7 FebReview: Voviggol Finger Ring Presentation Clicker ★★★★⯪
19. 6 FebTalking Contact Tracing at FOSDEM
20. 5 FebFOSDEM - The Good Parts and the Not-So-Good Parts

January 2025

1. 24 JanBook Review: Queen B by Juno Dawson ★★★☆☆
2. 23 JanWhat's the point of a pub?
3. 22 JanBook Review: We Need New Stories - Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik ★★★★☆
4. 21 JanBook Review: The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett ★★★★☆
5. 20 JanGoogle has no faith in its ability to launch new products
6. 19 JanBook Review: The Great White Bard - How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper ★★★★☆
7. 18 JanBook Review: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh ★★★★☆
8. 17 JanBook Review: What If? 10th Anniversary Edition - Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe ★★★★☆
9. 16 JanBook Review: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck ★★★★★
10. 15 JanBook Review: Rules for Radicals- A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky ★★★★☆
11. 14 JanMinimum Viable Clustered-Marker Globe using OpenFreeMap and MapLibre GL
12. 13 JanDo you understand how fast computers are?
13. 12 JanIt is time to ban email
14. 11 JanReview: Pebblebee Clip Universal - and Android "Find My Device" Tracker ★★★⯪☆
15. 10 JanGadget Review: 350W Infrared Smart Mirror ★★★★⯪
16. 9 JanGraphing the connections between my blog posts
17. 8 JanReview: Roamless Travel eSIM ★★★★★

2024 327

December 2024

1. 30 DecMost people don't care about quality
2. 29 DecWhat's the best way to protect banking apps on Android?
3. 28 DecBook Review: The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley ★★★★★
4. 27 DecHow bad is link-rot on my blog?
5. 26 DecBook Review: A Cyborg Manifesto - Donna Haraway ★☆☆☆☆
6. 25 DecMobile Phones of Doctor Who - Joy To The World
7. 24 DecWeek Notes - #??? - Lost In Space
8. 23 DecBook Review: Git Commit Murder - Michael Warren Lucas ★★★☆☆
9. 22 DecThe art of the Pre-Show and Post-Show
10. 21 DecBook Review: Platformland by Richard Pope ★★★★★
11. 20 DecGig Review: Paul McCartney - Got Back ★★★★★
12. 19 DecFood Safety vs Online Safety
13. 18 DecSoft Launching my Next Big Project - Stopping
14. 17 DecBook Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye - John Scalzi ★★★★★
15. 16 DecIt is OK to use FoI for silly things sometimes
16. 15 DecBook Review: How Spies Think - 10 Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand ★★☆☆☆
17. 14 DecMastodon Now Sends Referer Headers! Hurrah!
18. 13 DecNew teeth, who this?
19. 12 DecOrder WordPress Posts by Most Comments
20. 11 DecIs WordPress.org GDPR compliant?
21. 10 DecAll the books I read this year
22. 9 DecAdd a custom icon to Auth0's Custom Social integrations
23. 8 DecCreating a generic "Log-in with Mastodon" service
24. 7 DecTheatre Review: The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary ★★★★★
25. 6 DecChange WordPress Fragment Links in RSS Feeds to be Permalinks
26. 5 DecGetting To Know You - BarCamp Bingo Generator
27. 4 DecHashtag Standards (part deux)
28. 3 DecExploring BlueSky's Domain Handles
29. 2 DecLong term technologies, waiting in the background
30. 1 DecA few thoughts on domain verification for social media

November 2024

1. 30 NovEight Characters In Search Of A Plot
2. 29 NovPyramid Song
3. 28 NovLa dernière bouchée
4. 27 NovMemeweavers
5. 26 NovThe AI Exorcist
6. 25 NovReview: Four-Colour eInk Name Badge (HSN371) - plus Linux and Android tips ★★★★☆
7. 24 NovSelf Hosting is an Unhelpful Term
8. 23 NovWhen did Star Wars Chapter 2 become Episode V?
9. 22 NovGhost Writers In The Sky
10. 21 NovTheatre Review: Macbeth - with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo ★★★★★
11. 20 NovTheatre Review: Immersive 1984 ★★★☆☆
12. 19 NovAn Easy Guide To BlueSky Verification
13. 18 Nov2024 - A Year In Review (special mid-life crisis edition)
14. 17 NovThe street finds its own use for the Internet of Things
15. 16 NovUnder Electric Candle Light
16. 15 NovSpelling Errors
17. 14 NovSet your domain name as your handle for a BlueSky bot which is bridged from the Fediverse
18. 13 NovTell me, what did you eat last night?
19. 12 NovWhen Doves Cry
20. 11 NovAnyway, the wind blows
21. 10 NovIntroducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots
22. 9 NovDown at the Bottom of the Garden
23. 8 NovAngels and Daemons
24. 7 NovRevenge of the Mutant Algorithms! No Time To Speak
25. 6 NovA simple and free way to post RSS feeds to Threads
26. 5 NovRevenge Of The Mutant Algorithms - The Guerilla Information Team
27. 4 NovRevenge of the Mutant Algorithms - Universal Soldier Bin
28. 3 NovRevenge Of The Mutant Algorithms - The Myth of the Fall of Icarus
29. 2 NovA Cheap and Lazy way to create Mastodon Bots using… BlueSky?!
30. 1 NovRevenge Of The Mutant Algorithms! Are Memories Made Of This?
31. 1 NovGadget Review: Swivel Based Recliner Lotus XC6/XR6 Chair

October 2024

1. 31 OctUsing phpList for a blog's newsletter
2. 30 OctIs this a bug in every Markdown (Extra) parser?
3. 29 OctHighly Predictable Interactions
4. 28 OctUsing a CSS cursor to show the external link's favicon
5. 27 OctReview: The Cheapest USB-C Headphones I Could Find ★★★★★
6. 26 OctAdventures with ultra-cheap ZigBee lightbulbs
7. 24 OctOpening Compact File Set (CFS) files in Linux
8. 23 OctTheatre Review: Coriolanus at the National Theatre ★★★⯪☆
9. 22 OctMovie Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person ★★★★★
10. 21 OctWordPress - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
11. 20 OctYou can use text-wrap: balance; on icons
12. 19 OctBook Review: The Appeal - Janice Hallett ★★★★★
13. 18 OctImport JetPack Statistics into Koko
14. 17 OctLiberate your daily statistics from JetPack
15. 16 OctTheatre Review: The Duchess [of Malfi] ★★★★★
16. 15 OctCollaborative discussions at an unconference
17. 14 OctBook Review: 4,000 Weeks - Oliver Burkeman ★★★★★
18. 13 OctRestaurant Review: 123V Vegan Sushi ★★★★★
19. 12 OctTending To My Digital Garden
20. 11 OctHow to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress
21. 10 OctIs IPA furigana a bad idea?
22. 9 OctDVD Review: Doctor Who and The Planet of The Spiders ★★★★☆
23. 8 OctThe Cleaner 🆚 Der Tatortreiniger - Series 3
24. 7 OctIs Android Unicode Yet?
25. 6 OctTheatre Review: The River - Jez Butterworth ★★★★⯪
26. 5 OctTheatre Review: The Lightest Element ★★★☆☆
27. 4 OctShould you enable TOTP *only* authentication?
28. 3 OctStyling links based on their destination
29. 2 OctGitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?

September 2024

1. 30 SepA decade later, has my mobile security advice changed?
2. 28 SepBook Review: Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang ★★★★★
3. 26 SepBook Review: How to Speak Whale - A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill ★★★★☆
4. 24 SepSocial Media Blocking Has Always Been A Lie
5. 22 SepPremium Bonds can still win prizes even *after* you've sold them!
6. 20 SepThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - The Four Doctors (1993)
7. 18 Sephttp:, ftp:, and ... dict:?
8. 16 SepTheatre Review: Big Finish *LIVE!* Doctor Who - The Stuff of Legend ★★★★☆
9. 14 SepNot everyone is as good at reading and writing as you are
10. 12 SepWhy does no-one discuss negative dynamic pricing?
11. 10 SepBook Review: The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson (Her Majesty's Royal Coven book 2) ★★★★⯪
12. 9 SepNo, ActivityPub votes aren't anonymous
13. 8 SepBook Review: Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson ★★★★☆
14. 7 SepYet another AI Racism example
15. 6 SepBook Review: Myself When Young (1938) ★★★★⯪
16. 5 SepHow much money do banks owe you if you're scammed?
17. 4 SepSome thoughts on the YubiKey EUCLEAK Vulnerability
18. 2 SepComparing Embeds from Short-Form Social Media Sites

August 2024

1. 31 AugWordPress - Display hook action priority in the dashboard
2. 29 AugInline CSS - The Link "Cheat"
3. 27 AugWhat programming language is in this <code> block?
4. 25 AugLiberate your Markdown posts from JetPack in WordPress
5. 24 AugReplace Twitter Embeds with Semantic HTML
6. 23 AugReview: FlexiSpot C7 Air Chair ★★★★★
7. 22 AugTheatre Review: A Night with Janis Joplin - The Musical ★★★★★
8. 21 AugBook Review: The Intergalactic Omniglot - Jenni Fleetwood (1988) ★★★★★
9. 19 AugReplacing Twitter Embeds With Images
10. 17 AugWorking around an old and buggy HTML Tidy in PHP
11. 15 AugIs "Dollar Cost Averaging" a Bad Idea?
12. 13 AugPsssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
13. 11 AugIs it OK to share 2FA secrets?
14. 9 AugBook Review: Somewhere To Be - Laurie Mather ★★★★⯪
15. 7 AugGame Review - World of Goo 2 for Linux ★★★★⯪
16. 5 AugThe Limits of Organic Growth for Startups and Social Networks
17. 3 AugBook Review: Lifehouse - Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield ★★★⯪☆
18. 1 AugRetropost: Politicians Aren't The Characters They Play On TV

July 2024

1. 31 Jul.ss TLD opening for direct registrations
2. 30 JulOne Year With A Solar Battery
3. 28 JulQR Code Hijacking Attempts Are Pretty Inept
4. 26 JulCorporate Blogging is Hard; Open a GitHub Issue Instead
5. 24 JulRemove unnecessary closing slash on get_the_post_thumbnail() in WordPress
6. 22 JulWalkie Talkie Review (ZX-808) ★★★⯪☆
7. 20 JulBook Review: Ithaca - Claire North ★★★★★
8. 18 JulCybersecurity and Shakespeare - a brief look at how technology can prevent tragedy
9. 17 JulNamed Alternates for WordPress
10. 16 JulWhy is it so hard to chat to people nearby?
11. 14 JulBook Review: The Pursuit of Purpose - Ken Banks ★★★★☆
12. 12 JulLLMs are good for coding because your documentation is shit
13. 10 JulDisable JavaScript on Specific Sites using Firefox for Android and uBlock Origin
14. 8 JulDMCA as a vector for pornographic spam?
15. 5 JulAn end to daily blogging
16. 4 JulCan time-travellers use TOTP codes?
17. 3 JulWe've received a letter about you
18. 2 JulHow random are TOTP codes?
19. 1 JulPassword Resets in an Age of MFA

June 2024

1. 30 JunThe complexity is the attraction - reflections on trying to use crypto
2. 29 JunThe Bite
3. 28 JunReview: dbrand skin for FrameWork laptop ★★★★⯪
4. 27 JunThe irony of TicketMaster's breach notification email
5. 26 JunBook Review: Dystopia X - A.E. Currie ★★★⯪☆
6. 25 JunWho can reply?
7. 24 JunTheatre Review: Swan Lake in-the-round ★★★★☆
8. 23 JunMobile Phones of Doctor Who - Season 14
9. 22 JunHow to cope with a broken HDMI port during a presentation
10. 21 Jun3D Printing My Teeth
11. 20 JunYou can outsource risk, but you can't outsource reputation
12. 19 JunDrawing PPM images on the Tildagon in MicroPython
13. 18 JunFalsehoods Programmers Believe About Weather
14. 17 JunSetting the time on the Tildagon
15. 16 JunDigital Litter Picking
16. 15 JunDisplaying a QR code in MicroPython on the Tildagon Badge
17. 14 JunThe Chancellor of the Exchequer doesn't understand Tax Law
18. 13 JunHack advertising regulations by forming a political party?
19. 12 JunVR Review: Moss 2 ★★★★☆
20. 11 JunReview: USB Battery Charger (EBL C9010N) ★★★☆☆
21. 10 JunMore thoughts on adding NFC to the Framework Laptop
22. 9 JunBook Review: The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder ★⯪☆☆☆
23. 8 JunReview: Framework 16 Laptop ★★★★⯪
24. 7 JunGetting lots of BIMI images using Python
25. 6 JunI don't understand the sacrifices people make for work
26. 5 JunEMF 2024 - A Quick Retrospective ★★★★★
27. 4 JunInfrared Infrastructure
28. 3 JunWindow screens in the UK ★★★⯪☆
29. 2 JunBook Review: Relic - Alan Dean Foster ★★★⯪☆
30. 1 JunMovie Review: Godzilla Minus One ★★★★☆

May 2024

1. 31 MayHere's what happened to *that* podium!
2. 30 MayThe DALEK World (1965)
3. 29 MayHDR on a Pioneer VSX-933
4. 28 MayThe question which could bring down the government
5. 27 MayIs it rude to make a profit from your friends?
6. 26 MayBook Review: Understanding Privacy - Heather Burns ★★★★★
7. 25 MayThe Telegraph is wrong about FIRE
8. 24 MayA security bug caused by… Dark Mode!
9. 23 MayGell-Mann Amnesia and Purdah
10. 22 MayForget Subtext - People Don't Even Get Surtext
11. 21 MayWhy do people focus on AI's failures?
12. 20 MayIt isn't who you know - it's who knows you
13. 19 MayAn adult gap year?
14. 18 MayBook Review: Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde ★★★★⯪
15. 17 MayAccents and eBooks
16. 16 May1,000 edits on OpenStreetMap
17. 15 MayWhen does Doctor Who meet historical figures who are alive today?
18. 14 MayBook Review: Fallen Idols - Alex von Tunzelmann ★★★★★
19. 13 MayOne MegaWattHour of Battery Power!
20. 12 MayUntappd to Mastodon - Updated!
21. 11 MayIt was twenty years ago today
22. 10 Maylink rel="alternate" type="text/plain"
23. 9 MayA completely plaintext WordPress Theme
24. 8 MayBook Review: The Doors of Opportunity ★★★★★
25. 7 MayPushing The Button
26. 6 MayInside the Plume SuperPods
27. 5 MayBook Review: The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel ★★★☆☆
28. 4 MayTheatre Review: Pippin - 50th Anniversary Concert ★★★★★
29. 3 MayBank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims
30. 2 MayTerence Eden’s Blog
31. 1 MayWordPress GeSHi Highlighting for Markdown

April 2024

1. 30 AprTheatre Review: Opening Night ★★★☆☆
2. 29 AprDo That After This
3. 28 AprBook Review - Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy ★⯪☆☆☆
4. 27 AprUniversal Basic Website
5. 26 AprTheatre Review: The Mind Mangler ★★★★★
6. 25 AprGadget Review: KAIWEETS KTI-W01 Thermal Imaging Camera ★★★★⯪
7. 24 AprBook Review - Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss ★★★⯪☆
8. 23 AprReview: WAVLINK DisplayLink - Dual HDMI/DisplayPort adapter ★★☆☆☆
9. 22 AprSoftware I Miss from Earlier Versions of Android
10. 21 AprTheatre Review: The Divine Mrs S ★★★★★
11. 20 AprWhere you can (and can't) use Emoji in PHP
12. 19 AprToilet Review! Better Bathrooms Smart Toilet Seat ★★★★⯪
13. 18 AprServer-Side Rendering of Embedded Markdown Code Snippets in WordPress
14. 17 AprI can't use my number pad for 2FA codes
15. 16 AprBook Review: The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas ★★★★⯪
16. 15 AprHardware I miss from my old Android phones
17. 14 AprUse CSS to boost the font size of emoji with no extra markup
18. 13 AprMovie Review: The Holdovers ★⯪☆☆☆
19. 12 AprReview: ACS ACR1251T-E2 USB Token NFC Reader II ★★★★☆
20. 11 AprReview: ACM1252U-Z2 NFC Reader Board ★★★★★
21. 10 AprWhy do Doctor Who companions leave?
22. 9 AprLazy way to cause SHA-256 collisions for lazy evaluators
23. 8 AprTheatre Review: Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon ★★★★★
24. 7 AprThe Fediverse of Things
25. 6 AprFixing broken suspend on Pop_OS
26. 5 AprInconsistency is a feature, not a bug
27. 4 AprTheatre Review: Buffy Revamped ★★★★★
28. 3 AprBeat Saber is gaming without the bullshit ★★★★★
29. 2 Apr3,000 blog posts!
30. 1 AprBook Review: How Big Things Get Done - Lessons From the World's Top Project Manager by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner ★★★★⯪

March 2024

1. 31 MarWhat isn't realtime?
2. 30 MarThoughts on building an NFC reader for the Framework laptop
3. 29 MarViewing my CT Scan in 3D using Linux
4. 28 MarBook Review: The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz ★★★⯪☆
5. 27 MarFifteen MegaWatt Hours from Sunshine - Four Years with Solar Panels in London
6. 26 MarReceive push notifications from your rice cooker
7. 25 MarRestaurant Review: No Catch - Vegan Fish and Chips ★★★★⯪
8. 24 MarThere's nothing you can do to prevent a SIM-swap attack
9. 23 MarA personal WordPress MonoRepo for my themes and plugins
10. 22 MarSolved! "Access Point Name settings are not available for this user"
11. 21 MarCaboom! Comment Anywhere, Bring Onto Own Media
12. 20 MarWhat the UK Government gets wrong about QR codes
13. 19 MarThe tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth
14. 18 MarTheatre Review: Murder Trial Tonight II - Aldwych Theatre ★★☆☆☆
15. 17 Mar.well-known/avatar
16. 16 MarReview: Ross Noble's Jibber Jabber Jamboree ★★★★★
17. 15 MarHow updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon
18. 14 MarI made a mistake in verifying HTTP Message Signatures
19. 13 MarNotes on installing GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8 Pro - some bugs &amp; oddities
20. 12 MarMovie Review: Poor Things ★★★★★
21. 11 MarCan you trust ProtonApps.com?
22. 10 MarOpenBenches on the Volunteer Technologist Podcast
23. 9 MarThe Force is Irrelevant in Star Wars
24. 8 MarVirgin Media preparing to offer symmetrical upload speeds?
25. 7 MarCheapest Possible eSIM in the UK
26. 6 MarM🞵A🞵S🞵H - De-Specialised Edition
27. 5 MarReview: Bill Bailey - Thoughtifier at the O2 ★★★★⯪
28. 4 MarO2 UK's Weird MSISDN Lookup API
29. 3 MarUpdates to ActivityPub in a single PHP file
30. 2 MarYou can't photocopy this blogpost (abusing EURion in CSS)
31. 1 MarMovie Review: M*A*S*H ★★☆☆☆

February 2024

1. 29 FebGig Review: The Leo Green Orchestra perform The Rolling Stones at the London Palladium ★★★★☆
2. 28 FebFILE/DINK/DWZ/3+1 - a personal financial quadrumvirate
3. 27 FebA simple(ish) guide to verifying HTTP Message Signatures in PHP
4. 26 FebHTTP Signature Infinite Loop?
5. 25 FebReview: Matter-enabled Energy Monitoring Smart Plugs - Meross 315 ★★★★★
6. 24 FebReview: An NFC reader/writer with USB-C - ACR1252U-MF ★★★★⯪
7. 23 FebGiving the finger to MFA - a review of the Z1 Encrypter Ring from Cybernetic ★★★★☆
8. 22 FebBook Review: We Are Bellingcat - Eliot Higgins ★★★⯪☆
9. 21 FebIt's a process; not a product
10. 20 FebMinority Governments and the Boundary Commission
11. 19 FebDrinking Champagne with the Secretary of State
12. 18 FebActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File
13. 17 FebInternationalise The Fediverse
14. 16 FebAre we 'appy about change?
15. 15 Feb"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid that computation is too carbon intensive."
16. 14 FebHOWTO: Sort BitWarden Passwords by Date
17. 13 FebVR Game Review: Moss ★★★★☆
18. 12 FebBook Review: Julia - Sandra Newman ★★★★★
19. 11 FebThere should only ever be one way to express yourself
20. 10 FebForget Technocrats - Let's Get Some Realitycrats
21. 9 FebActually, I *do* want IoT kitchen gadgets
22. 8 FebThe Seven Levels of Open Source
23. 7 FebVR Game Review: Labyrinth deLux – A Crusoe Quest ★★★★⯪
24. 6 FebMovie Review: Oppenheimer ★★⯪☆☆
25. 5 FebSafelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing
26. 4 FebBook Review - How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole ★★★⯪☆
27. 3 FebA (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP
28. 2 FebBook Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde ★★★★☆
29. 1 FebBook Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins ★★★★★

January 2024

1. 31 JanBook Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★★
2. 30 JanDark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet ★★★⯪☆
3. 29 JanEnvelopes and GDPR
4. 28 JanVR Game Review: Get The Heck Out ★★★★⯪
5. 27 JanRebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap
6. 26 JanBook Review: Babel - R. F. Kuang ★★★★★
7. 25 JanWhat's the incentive to tell the truth on surveys?
8. 24 JanBook Review: Refuse to Choose! A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love - Barbara Sher ★★☆☆☆
9. 23 JanThe (theoretical) risks of open sourcing (imaginary) Government LLMs
10. 22 JanA small text rendering bug in legal judgements
11. 21 JanLessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
12. 20 JanReview: Iiyama 28 inch 4K Vertical Monitor ★★★★⯪
13. 19 JanReview: Another USB-C Hub from Mokin - 14-in-1 ★★★★☆
14. 18 JanNo, Oscar Wilde did not say "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness"
15. 17 JanGadget Review: Mokin USB-C to USB-C &amp; USB-C &amp; USB-C &amp; USB-C &amp; USB-C ★★★★⯪
16. 16 JanTheatre Review: Alan Cumming is not acting his age ★★★★★
17. 15 JanGadget Review: USB-C AA Batteries ★★★★☆
18. 14 JanWe pay 12p / kWh for electricity - thanks to a smart tariff and battery
19. 13 JanCompressing Text into Images
20. 12 JanMovie Review: Looop Lapeta / লুপ লাপেটা ★★★★⯪
21. 11 JanGadget Review: Vehhe Ionic Shower Head ★★★★☆
22. 10 JanMy 4th day at DHSC
23. 9 JanBook Review: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane ★★★⯪☆
24. 8 JanWhy are there no viable nuclear power plants for the home?
25. 7 JanVR Game Review: Vader Immortal ★★☆☆☆
26. 6 JanBook Review: The Spare Man - Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★☆☆
27. 5 JanWhat's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image?
28. 4 JanThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
29. 3 JanA quick look inside the HSTS file
30. 2 JanReductive Thinking and the Unfairness of Spotify Payments
31. 1 JanMovie Review: If You Were The Last ★★★★⯪

2023 365

December 2023

1. 31 DecTech Predictions for 2024
2. 30 DecBook Review: Hokey Pokey - Kate Mascarenhas ★★★★★
3. 29 DecA library of all my book reviews
4. 28 DecBook Review: Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy - Volume 4 ★★⯪☆☆
5. 27 DecBook Review: Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants - Britain's First Female Crime Syndicate by Brian McDonald ★★★★☆
6. 26 DecBook Review: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser ★★★★⯪
7. 25 DecElectricity That's Too Cheap To Meter
8. 24 DecBook Review: Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★⯪☆
9. 23 DecBook Review: Hamlet, Prince of Robots by M. Darusha Wehm ★★★★⯪
10. 22 DecBook Review: The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya ★★★★☆
11. 21 DecBook Review: The Modern Bestiary - A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures by Joanna Bagniewska ★★★★★
12. 20 DecThe Joy and The Pity of making your own stuff
13. 19 DecBook Review: A Woman of No Importance - Sonia Purnell ★★★★★
14. 18 DecUSB-C Cures Mosquito Bites! ★★★★★
15. 17 DecBook Review - Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction From Ukraine &amp; The Diaspora ★★★★★
16. 16 DecThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - 60th Anniversary Specials
17. 15 DecYou can print posters of your own artwork and no one can stop you!
18. 14 DecBook Review: "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" by Stewart Brand ★★★★★
19. 13 DecA list of incredible BlockChain innovations which I would like funding for please
20. 12 DecUsing date-based CSS to make old web pages *look* old
21. 11 Dec30,000 Crowd-Sourced Memorial Benches!
22. 10 DecGig Review: Scary Pockets at the Troxy ★★★★★
23. 9 DecReflections on completing NaNoWriMo
24. 8 Dec2023 - A Retrospective
25. 7 DecTfL are blocking rooted devices from accessing maps - how to fix
26. 6 DecBook Review: Bournville - Jonathan Coe ★⯪☆☆☆
27. 5 DeceInk Display for Octopus's Agile Energy Tariff
28. 4 DecGadget Review: FIFINE Ampligame A8 USB-C Gaming Microphone ★★★★⯪
29. 3 DecWhy are there no PowerLine Smart Plugs?
30. 2 DecEvery Book I Read This Year
31. 1 DecYou can now buy my South Up, Aotearoa Centred, Equal-Earth Projection Map

November 2023

1. 30 NovChapter 30 - Music Of The Spheres
2. 29 NovChapter 29 - There Is Life On Mars
3. 28 NovChapter 28 - A Kiss From A Nose
4. 27 NovChapter 27 - I've Got A Cellar Full Of Sunshine
5. 26 NovChapter 26 - It's Raining Women
6. 25 NovChapter 25 - Honey Don't Shoot
7. 24 NovChapter 24 - I'd Like To Teach The World To Eat
8. 23 NovChapter 23 - WannaBee
9. 22 NovChapter 22 - Lena The Tattoo'd Lady
10. 21 NovChapter 21 - Well you should fear Polythene PAM
11. 20 NovChapter 20 - Because we've told you before; you can't do that
12. 19 NovChapter 19 - Tetrachromatic Graffiti
13. 18 NovChapter 18 - Nobody Did It Better
14. 17 NovChapter 17 - Who Wants To Lie Forever?
15. 16 NovChapter 16 - Here Comes The Sun God
16. 15 NovChapter 15 - Diamonds in the Soles of His Feet
17. 14 NovChapter 14 - Wednesday I'm In Love
18. 13 NovChapter 13 - Paperclip Waiter
19. 12 NovChapter 12 - They Call My Name
20. 11 NovChapter 11 - For My Eyes Only
21. 10 NovChapter 10 - The Men Who Stole The World
22. 9 NovChapter 9 - They Are The Passengers
23. 8 NovChapter 8 - One Pill Makes You Larger
24. 7 NovChapter 7. Within you, not without you
25. 6 NovChapter 6 - Every A, Every B
26. 5 NovChapter 5. The Picture Looks Better With You
27. 4 NovChapter 4. Bees, they don't fear the reaper
28. 3 NovChapter 3: They Are The Egg Men
29. 2 NovChapter 2: Every Breath You Take, Every Drop You Make
30. 1 NovNaNoWriMo - An Introduction and Chapter 1: There Are Nine Million Autonomous Bicycles In Beijing

October 2023

1. 31 OctSeven Years On Mastodon
2. 30 OctAn open(ish) redirect on Mastodon
3. 29 OctBook Review: The Twilight of the British Empire - British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 by Chikara Hashimoto ★★⯪☆☆
4. 28 OctGadget Review: Plugable USB-C Voltage &amp; Amperage Meter (240W) ★★★★★
5. 27 OctBook Review: Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
6. 26 OctCSS only colour-scheme selector - no JS required
7. 25 OctLaziest Possible Dark-Mode Toggle - Using :has() and invert()
8. 24 OctConverting MoneyDashboard's export file to a CSV - for Firefly III and others
9. 23 OctNew Outlook doesn't unhide your taskbar - two quick fixes
10. 22 OctFree Open Banking API using Nordigen / GoCardless
11. 21 OctPublish Confirmation For WordPress Classic (2023)
12. 20 OctFind WordPress featured images with no alt text
13. 19 OctFirefox might remember old 2FA logins
14. 18 OctFind the URl causing your WordPress Error
15. 17 OctAuth0 - Adding Twitter Screen Names to a User with Actions
16. 16 OctReview: Runner Diver2 Bone Conduction Swimming Headphones ★★★★☆
17. 15 OctDisplaying internal linkbacks on WordPress
18. 14 OctMaking a better audio shortcode for WordPress
19. 13 OctHiding malicious commands in copy-and-pasted text
20. 12 OctShould Android's Dark Mode Invert Contact Photos?
21. 11 OctBook Review: The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll ★★★★★
22. 10 OctUse WP CLI to find all blog posts without a featured image - two methods
23. 9 OctRewriting WordPress's JetPack Related Posts Shortcode
24. 8 OctAI isn't a drill, and your users don't want holes
25. 7 OctHow to Find the Meaning of Lineage Android's Status Bar Icons
26. 6 OctYou can't paste enter into a Linux terminal
27. 5 OctWanted! A USB-C OTG single button keyboard
28. 4 OctWhy is there no OpenBanking API for personal use?
29. 3 OctImproving the WordPress Comments Form with Client-Side Validation
30. 2 OctIt has never been cheaper to commit a crime
31. 1 OctThe minimal-div minimal-span philosophy of this blog

September 2023

1. 30 SepThe Cleaner 🆚 Der Tatortreiniger
2. 29 SepBook Review: Time Squared - Lesley Krueger ★★★☆☆
3. 28 SepWho said "Brits think 100 miles is a long distance - Americans think 100 years is a long time"?
4. 27 SepHow to check something isn't an email address?
5. 26 SepHow far did my post go on the Fediverse?
6. 25 SepA love letter to electric power tools
7. 24 SepBook Review: The Variable Man and other stories - Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
8. 23 SepBook Review: Hacking Capitalism - Modeling, Humans, Computers, and Money by Kris Nóva ★★★★☆
9. 22 SepGoogle Books - search results confuse reviewers with authors
10. 21 SepBetter Bluetooth Sound Quality on Microsoft Teams in Windows 11
11. 20 SepHow to use the new <search> element with WordPress
12. 19 SepWhy is it so hard to watch foreign TV in the streaming era?
13. 18 SepFalse Friends - HTML Elements which are also Top Level Domains
14. 17 SepBook Review: The Internet Con - How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow ★★★★⯪
15. 16 SepThis blog is now on the Fediverse!
16. 15 SepUsing Selenium &amp; Chrome to automatically download Blob files
17. 14 SepGetting WordPress / JetPack Subscriber Counts via the API... the hard way
18. 13 SepI think "Law 3.0" is OK, actually
19. 12 SepI think I kind of hate lazy loading
20. 11 SepWhat if civilisation *doesn't* collapse?
21. 10 SepWho reads my blog?
22. 9 SepLet's close all the ticket counters
23. 8 SepWeek Notes - "Someone tell me what the hell is going on here?"
24. 7 SepUsing disposable phone numbers for better security
25. 6 SepAutomatically deleting WordPress comments using a theme
26. 5 SepShould the WordPress scheduler use datetime-local?
27. 4 SepCan the iPhone do that yet?
28. 3 SepWhat will the Web be like in 20 years?
29. 2 SepWeWork - how did anyone fall for this bullshit?
30. 1 SepOne month with a solar battery - real statistics

August 2023

1. 31 AugChubbyCable USB-C Review ★★★★☆
2. 30 AugOn The Fediverse, No One Knows You're A Liar
3. 29 AugBook Review: Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★★★⯪
4. 28 AugSome thoughts on Mastodon search
5. 27 AugMosh supports .ssh/config
6. 26 AugInterview in Colors Magazine #75 - Cease Fear
7. 25 AugAll phones are foldable. But some are foldable only once.
8. 24 AugReview: ZyberVR Meta Quest 2 Recharge Station ★★★★⯪
9. 23 AugThe Digital Covid Test That Nearly Was
10. 22 AugBook Review: The Naked Civil Servant - Quentin Crisp ★★★★★
11. 21 AugAdd Swipe Gestures to Firefox on Wayland in Pop_OS
12. 20 AugUsing *over* 100% of our solar battery capacity in one day!
13. 19 AugLet's build a website using XML!
14. 18 AugMy Underkill Home Network
15. 17 AugIntroducing Open Ideas
16. 16 AugFixing clock drift on the Watchy
17. 15 AugMSc Managed
18. 14 AugBook Review: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus ★★★★☆
19. 13 AugBook Review: Kill It With Fire - Manage Ageing Computer Systems by Marianne Bellotti ★★★★★
20. 12 AugRestaurant Review: Chef's Table at The Savoy
21. 11 AugWeeknotes: fin. (So what did I accomplish?)
22. 10 AugShould your phone be a webserver?
23. 9 AugSometimes gzip beats Brotli
24. 8 AugReview: EgoFit Walker Pro - an under-desk treadmill ★★★★⯪
25. 7 AugNurses should spend less time helping patients and more time ordering bandages
26. 6 AugSolar Battery Statistics - Day One
27. 5 AugReview: Moixa 4.8kWh Solar Battery
28. 4 AugImporting IntenseDebate Comment XML into Commentics
29. 3 AugBook Review: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight ★★★★☆
30. 2 AugGadget Review: Mokin USB-C Docking Station (+ Linux information) ★★★★★
31. 1 AugI don't think you need to be civil to puppy-smashers

July 2023

1. 31 JulThe Future of the Web is VNC
2. 30 JulTheatre Review: Sh!t Faced Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing ★★★☆☆
3. 29 JulShakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio
4. 28 JulShould you embed alt text inside image metadata?
5. 27 JulBig Numbers Are Difficult To Contextualise
6. 26 JulTheatre Review: Shakespeare in the Garden's Romeo and Juliet
7. 25 JulBryan Adams lied to you
8. 24 JulBook Review: Design Justice - Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock ★★★⯪☆
9. 23 JulPlease don't give away your Twitter API keys to Cloudinary
10. 22 JulLet's track footballers' heart rates!!
11. 21 JulThat's not my printer! Accidentally finding unsecured HP printers in the wild
12. 20 JulKeeping a side project alive with t-shirts and cash
13. 19 JulFediverse Account Portability And Blocking
14. 18 JulThis link is only available by keyboard navigation
15. 17 JulWhy you should attend the University of Luck
16. 16 JulDiscord is not Documentation
17. 15 JulThe Pull Request Hack is Fucking Magic
18. 14 JulGig Review: The Who Hits Back! ★★★★★
19. 13 JulA whimsical fuzzy clock
20. 12 JulBuild your own "On This Day" page for WordPress
21. 11 JulA weird (trap?) artefact in Google Maps
22. 10 JulFruit Of The Poisonous LLaMA?
23. 9 JulHow to make the Watchy vibrate
24. 8 JulAn eInk, Wrist-Mounted, TOTP Generator
25. 7 JulStupidly Small eInk Font
26. 6 JulCombining 3 transport APIs for one info screen
27. 5 JulTheatre Review: Accidental Death of an Anarchist ★★★★★
28. 4 JulSarcasm Detection and Cultural Hegemony
29. 3 JulBook Review: Pleased! A short story anthology in celebration of The Beatles' Please Please Me album's 60th anniversary ★★⯪☆☆
30. 2 JulBook Review: Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation by Dennis Tenen ★★★★☆
31. 1 JulWays in which Royal Mail could save its business

June 2023

1. 30 JunReview: Watchy - an eInk watch full of interesting compromises ★★★⯪☆
2. 29 JunWhat obvious thing are we missing? And can AI help?
3. 28 JunHow easy should we make it to do things we don't want people to do?
4. 27 JunTrespass?
5. 26 JunAddressing the Overlooked Non-Micropsychiatric Uses for Thiotimoline
6. 25 JunBook Review: Engraved on the Eye - Saladin Ahmed ★★★★☆
7. 24 JunStyle your WordPress Atom feed
8. 23 JunLinkedIn supports Schema‎.org metadata
9. 22 JunWho wrote "The call was short the shock severe"?
10. 21 Jun12,000 comments
11. 20 JunYour phone is probably a CDO
12. 19 JunReview: AntiSpam Bee WordPress Plugin ★★★★☆
13. 18 JunFederation is pretty cool, but kinda confusing, and maybe a little scary
14. 17 JunOn the usability of number pads
15. 16 JunTheatre Review: Bleak Expectations ★★★★☆
16. 15 JunBook Review: "The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems" by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow ★★★☆☆
17. 14 JunJust use QWERTY!
18. 13 JunBook Review: Starter Villain - John Scalzi ★★★★⯪
19. 12 JunYes, you can run the Apple Music app natively on your Amazon FireStick
20. 11 JunWhat's the origin of the phrase "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon"?
21. 10 JunWhy I'm using "Mx" as a title
22. 9 JunDo open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus?
23. 8 JunCan this device make a phone call?
24. 7 JunCan you follow your own getting started guide?
25. 6 JunGoogle Alerts told me I'm dead...
26. 5 JunWhy did Usenet fail?
27. 4 JunWhy doesn't Alexa know that homonyms aren't homophones?
28. 3 JunMovie Review: Straight 8 2023 ★★★★★
29. 2 JunReview: InfiRay Thermal P2 Pro USB-C Camera for Android ★★★★⯪
30. 1 JunSelectively Compressed Images - A Hybrid Format

May 2023

1. 31 MayBook Review: Invisible Planets - Ken Liu ★★★★☆
2. 30 MayM*A*S*H - War Is Heaven
3. 29 MayAnti-Suffragette Postcards
4. 28 MayThe limits of General Purpose Computation
5. 27 MayRewriting OpenBenches in Symfony
6. 26 MayTheatre Review: Idiots Assemble - Spitting Image The Musical ★★★☆☆
7. 25 MayThat costs the same as five nurses!
8. 24 MayGardening &amp; Time Travel with Google Earth
9. 23 MayReview: Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare's Globe ★★★★★
10. 22 MayGetting Auth0 user information on non-firewall Symfony pages
11. 21 MayHow do you stop people accessing data they shouldn't?
12. 20 MayDoes AI mean we don't need the Semantic Web?
13. 19 MayResponsible Disclosure: arXiv - redirect on login
14. 18 MayFonts with threatening auras
15. 17 MayReview: Rachel Bloom "Death, Let Me Do My Special" ★★★★★
16. 16 MayWhat's the best thing you've ever won in a competition?
17. 15 MayThe limits of CSS styling select options
18. 14 MayReview: GreenChef / HelloFresh meal boxes ★★★⯪☆
19. 13 MayThe new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
20. 12 MayReview: Christina Bianco In Divine Company at The Chocolate Factory ★★★★★
21. 11 MayDoctrine - difference between bindValue() and setParameter() on prepared statements
22. 10 MaySymfony - multiple paths to the same route within a controller
23. 9 MayI'm quoted in this Verge article about AMP
24. 8 MayMiss Yamaguchi's Perpetual Beansprout
25. 7 MayReplacing the keyboard on the Clevo N151CU / Lafité IV / System76 Darter Pro / Entroware Proteus
26. 6 MayLet's (not) share our VR headsets
27. 5 MayBook Review: Inventing Temperature - Hasok Chang ★★☆☆☆
28. 4 MayThere's too much Star Wars
29. 3 MayHow can I have a side hustle when I don't want to pay for anything?
30. 2 MayFixing a weird issue with Symfony's Cache
31. 1 MayDoctrine - how to use LIKE with dbal prepared statements

April 2023

1. 30 AprRejected Sci-Fi Ramblings from my MSc
2. 29 AprI got a DOI from arXiv for my MSc!
3. 28 AprResponsive Yearly Calendar with Flexbox
4. 27 AprSo, farewell then COVID-19 App
5. 26 AprWhy aren't there more visual programming languages? (An ode to DRAKON)
6. 25 AprSilence Isn't Consent
7. 24 AprUsing Pandoc to format a Dissertation from Markdown to HTML, PDF, and ePub
8. 23 AprBook Review: It's Not About the Burqa - Mariam Khan ★★★⯪☆
9. 22 AprGetting Jabbed With EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE!
10. 21 AprHow do you decentralise emergency alerts?
11. 20 AprSetting exa's preferences for a better ls
12. 19 AprBook Review: Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey ★★☆☆☆
13. 18 AprYes, but what sort of disbelief do you have?
14. 17 Aprwget is much faster than scp or rsync
15. 16 AprZFS - how to use a file as a ZIL
16. 15 AprMovie Review: One Cut Of The Dead ★★★★★
17. 14 AprStop treating eBooks like paper books
18. 13 AprNextCloud Client Command Line
19. 12 AprBuilding a new Microserver
20. 11 AprMSc Dissertation: Exploring the visualisation of hierarchical cybersecurity data within the Metaverse
21. 10 Apr3 years of domestic solar stats in the UK
22. 9 AprBook Review: The Constant Sinner - Mae West ★★★★★
23. 8 AprAre there any modern closed-source programming languages?
24. 7 AprSIP on Android - Sipgate and Linphone
25. 6 AprMSc - completed!
26. 5 AprHelp Wanted! Testing Better Markdown Footnotes
27. 4 AprSome thoughts on "Hacking the Cis-tem"
28. 3 AprBook Review: Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them - Tom Phillips &amp; Jonn Elledge ★★★★★
29. 2 AprBook Review: The Reincarnated Giant - Mingwei Song ★★★☆☆
30. 1 AprBook Review: Radicalized - Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆

March 2023

1. 31 MarBook Review: "You Are Not Expected to Understand This" How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World - Torie Bosch ★★★★⯪
2. 30 MarBook Review: Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful - Arwen Elys Dayton ★★★★★
3. 29 MarBook Review: Shakespeare in Jest - Indira Ghose ★★⯪☆☆
4. 28 MarInterview: Open source is good for AI but, is AI good for open source?
5. 27 MarReddit is Dropping AMP
6. 26 MarRaster. Vector. Generative.
7. 25 MarBook Review: Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey ★★★☆☆
8. 24 MarBook Review: The Prodigal Tongue - Lynne Murphy ★★★★★
9. 23 MarBook Review: Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories - Qntm ★★★★☆
10. 22 MarBook Review: The Premonitions Bureau - Sam Knight ★★★★★
11. 21 MarBook Review: Denizen 43 - A. E. Currie ★★★★☆
12. 20 MarBook Review: Portraits of Childfree Wealth - Jay Zigmont ★★★★☆
13. 19 MarWho can tell you what to do with your money?
14. 18 MarBook Review: Consider the Platypus - Maggie Ryan Sandford ★★★⯪☆
15. 17 MarI'm quoted in the "Infosys Digital Radar 2023"
16. 16 MarA quick guide to getting Mozilla VPN working on a headless Linux server
17. 15 MarUnicode Roman Numerals and Screen Readers
18. 14 MarHow to write a L7 Apprenticeship Portfolio
19. 13 MarHow to generate a Base32 TOTP secret string on a Mac
20. 12 MarZero Interfaces
21. 11 MarHappy 2nd Birthday to this Bitwarden bug!
22. 10 MarThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - behind the scenes of The Poisoned Sky
23. 9 MarDidn't your mother ever tell you to share your toys?
24. 8 MarTelling Women What To Do
25. 7 MarTouring TNMOC with a living legend
26. 6 MarOffline Digital Currency Transactions
27. 5 MarAdventures in home automation - Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 2
28. 4 MarUnethical Arbitrage
29. 3 MarBook Review: Adventures in Space - New Short Stories by Chinese &amp; English Science Fiction Writers ★★★☆☆
30. 2 MarPosting Untappd Checkins to Mastodon (and other services)
31. 1 MarQuestions asked at an End Point Assessment Professional Discussion

February 2023

1. 28 FebWhy are video games so expensive these days?
2. 27 FebResponsible Disclosure: Abandoned Buckets and Billing Emails
3. 26 FebHow much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?
4. 25 FebHow to style your alt text
5. 24 FebPeople only want their technology to do three things
6. 23 FebSignal's new(ish) URI Scheme
7. 22 FebNecroposting - blogging from before you started blogging
8. 21 FebPage numbers aren't the answer
9. 20 FebHow to password protect a static HTML page with no JS
10. 19 FebShakespeare's Missing Smile
11. 18 FebNever use a URL shortening service - even if you own it
12. 17 FebThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - behind the scenes In the Forest of the Night
13. 16 FebDemonstrating a LLM using children
14. 15 FebMovie Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent ★★★⯪☆
15. 14 FebWhat doesn't work in LineageOS 20
16. 13 FebBook Review: The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Loudon ★★★☆☆
17. 12 FebPlaying with Midjourney - art for non-artists
18. 11 FebReverse Engineering the .IRG infrared thermal imaging format - help needed
19. 10 FebGet Chartered!
20. 9 FebThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - The Motherlode of Props
21. 8 FebRestaurant Review: Gauthier Soho ★★★★⯪
22. 7 FebGadget Review - X-Sense Wireless Interlinked Heat Alarm XH02-W ★★★★☆
23. 6 FebRegular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard - and that's not a good thing
24. 5 FebA practical example of the social construct of race
25. 4 FebGadget Review: Topdon TC004 Infrared Camera ★★★★⯪
26. 3 FebThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Bonus Pyramid at the End of the World. And a sneak peek...
27. 2 FebWhy don't we just eat grass?
28. 1 FebCan this new probiotic reduce lactose intolerance? ★★★★⯪

January 2023

1. 31 JanBook Review: Pod - Laline Paull ★★★★☆
2. 30 JanMovie Review: Don't Worry Darling ★★★★★
3. 29 JanRestaurant Review: 3D Printed Redefine Meat @ Unity Diner ★★★★★
4. 28 JanThe absurdity of technocracy
5. 27 JanBook Review: 12 Bytes - How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way We Live and Love by Jeanette Winterson ★★⯪☆☆
6. 26 JanUnicode operators for semantically correct programming
7. 25 JanOpenBenches at GeoMob London
8. 24 JanHow I became the #1 mapper in New Zealand
9. 23 JanBook Review: If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable - Mikko Hyppönen ★★★☆☆
10. 22 JanAdding restaurant review metadata to WordPress
11. 21 JanRestaurant Review: Kusa Japanese Vegan - Bukit Bintang ★★★★★
12. 20 JanBook Review: Theory of Bastards - Audrey Schulman ★★★★★
13. 19 JanBook Review: Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro ★★☆☆☆
14. 18 JanLessons learned from a power-cut
15. 17 JanBook Review: Mirrorshades The Cyberpunk Anthology ★★★⯪☆
16. 16 JanThe IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking them.
17. 15 JanHOWTO: Fix Calibre's broken window borders in Flatpak / Wayland
18. 14 JanBook Review: Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ★★★★☆
19. 13 JanBook Review: Empireland - How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera ★★★★⯪
20. 12 JanBook Review: More Zeros and Ones - Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand by Anna Pendergrast &amp; Kelly Pendergrast ★★★★☆
21. 11 JanBook Review: There Is Nothing for You Here - Fiona Hill ★★★★☆
22. 10 JanBook Review: The Really Good Idea Test - Julia Shalet ★★★★★
23. 9 JanRestaurant Review: Rani Vilas Restaurant Batu Caves ★★★★★
24. 8 JanBook Review: Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon - Martin Popoff ★★★⯪☆
25. 7 JanMovie Review: Bros ★★★★⯪
26. 6 JanMovie Review: Whina ★★★★⯪
27. 5 JanMovie Review: See How They Run ★★★★★
28. 4 JanKonami Code Domain Name
29. 3 JanPoorly folded letters lead to exposure of medical data
30. 2 JanResponsible Disclosure: XSS in Codeberg Pages
31. 1 JanFragile Technologists

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December 2022

1. 31 DecWhat's an acceptable number of failures?
2. 30 DecWhat would a decentralised Uber look like?
3. 29 DecTech Predictions for 2023
4. 28 DecBook Review: Rising Tide (Lauren Fraser mysteries Book 2) - Jennifer Palgrave ★★★★☆
5. 27 DecNaming things is hard - DNS for the Federated Web
6. 26 DecGadget Review: Meta Quest 2 replacement headstrap ★★★★⯪
7. 25 DecSo, this is Christmas?
8. 24 DecZeno's Paradox and Why Modern Technology is Rubbish
9. 23 DecEarly forms of Interactive TV
10. 22 DecHow Blockbuster was superior to Netflix
11. 21 DecOffline Messaging Apps Using Bluetooth
12. 20 DecThe Life Script - a play for algorithms
13. 19 DecBook Review: Reality Is Broken - Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal ★★★⯪☆
14. 18 DecYOU DON'T NEED HTML!
15. 17 DecMovie Review: Clerks Ⅲ ★★★★★
16. 16 DecGadget Review: A USB-C powered Cattle Prod ★★★★★
17. 15 DecGame Review: Red Matter 2 for VR ★★★★⯪
18. 14 DecI'm the new Chair of the BCS Open Source Specialist Group
19. 13 DecYou can have user accounts without needing to manage user accounts
20. 12 DecSnowflake IDs in Mastodon (and Unique IDs in the Fediverse more generally)
21. 11 DecHow much decentralisation is too much?
22. 10 DecYou can't screenshot or right click this image
23. 9 Dec"He's more machine now than mannequin" - repairing Darth Vader with a Micro:bit
24. 8 DecGadget Review: Tefal ActiFry Genius+ Air Fryer ★★★★⯪
25. 7 DecEverything is simple, until you're an expert
26. 6 DecHow do I revoke a FIDO / WebAuthN token from every service?
27. 5 DecOpenAI and the limits of mechanical poetry
28. 4 DecSome more silly Punycode domain names
29. 3 DecThe ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
30. 2 DecA Quick Guide to Filters on Mastodon
31. 1 DecData Becomes Her

November 2022

1. 30 NovOther pixel-level meta data you could put in an image format
2. 29 NovWebMentions, Privacy, and DDoS - Oh My!
3. 28 NovIllegal Hashes
4. 27 NovA small bug in Canada's eTA emails
5. 26 NovStarting Up Vs Staying On
6. 25 NovIs it cheating to use spell check?
7. 24 NovThe BBC's 15 Web Principles - 15 years later
8. 23 NovZotero citations in Markdown - publishing to ePub or PDF
9. 22 NovWhat is the user need for cryptocurrency?
10. 21 NovSomeone turned my game into a comic!
11. 20 NovExperiments with domestic load shedding in the UK
12. 19 NovAll the books I read this year
13. 18 Nov2022 - a year in review
14. 17 NovGetting Started with Mastodon's Conversations API
15. 16 NovBook Review: "A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided" by Dr Amanda Foreman ★★★★⯪
16. 15 NovTwitter's archive doesn't have alt text - but Mastodon's does!
17. 14 NovHow to search Mastodon by date &amp; time
18. 13 NovBook Review: The Bees - Laline Paull ★★★★★
19. 12 NovBook Review: Gnomon - Nick Harkaway ★★☆☆☆
20. 11 NovWhatsApp Web for Android - a reasonable compromise?
21. 10 NovBetter sharing of WordPress posts to Mastodon
22. 9 NovAlgorithm Induced Alcoholism
23. 8 NovCheers is Hell
24. 7 NovJob leaving rituals in the WFH era
25. 6 NovIs Open Graph Protocol dead?
26. 5 NovBook Review: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir ★★★★⯪
27. 4 NovNot Quite Emoji Domain Names
28. 3 NovBook Review: The Language Hoax - John H. McWhorter ★★★☆☆
29. 2 NovWoohoo! WordPress accepted my accessibility PR
30. 1 NovI've reached a local maxima in my career

October 2022

1. 24 OctThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - 2022 Specials
2. 22 OctWhy can't Twitter stop the "Twoo Fun / Ask For Me" spam?
3. 21 OctMSc: "So, You Have to Write a Literature Review" ★★★★★
4. 16 OctHOWTO: Remove the Blubrry PowerPress "New!" Banner
5. 15 OctHackday - Group Solar Forecasts
6. 11 OctTwo Anniversaries on One Day
7. 8 OctTheatre Review: Beatles Evolver 62 ★★★★⯪
8. 2 OctBlog To Speech

September 2022

1. 23 SepGame Review: Red Matter VR for Oculus ★★★★⯪
2. 20 SepBook Review: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers ★★★★⯪
3. 16 SepYou can't make secure payments in the Metaverse
4. 15 SepHave I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point (or is modern tech just a bit rubbish)?
5. 13 SepSome new HTTP verbs
6. 11 SepRunning a Shortest Splitline Algorithm on the UK - and other mapping adventures
7. 9 SepWhat's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?
8. 7 SepWould you go to the Job Centre or DMV in the Metaverse?
9. 6 SepMeta Quest 2 - Refurb Exchange Experience - how to fix "Unable to Connect to Your Headset"
10. 5 Sep"Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc"
11. 3 SepMy shop will gladly accept a competitor's discount coupons
12. 1 SepMSc Assignment 6 - Professional Practise 2 - Blockchain

August 2022

1. 30 AugWhat's the most malicious thing you can do with an injected HTML heading element?
2. 29 AugYou can't smile in the Metaverse
3. 28 AugI'm only vegan for the money
4. 26 AugAn update to the Atkinson Hyperlegible font
5. 24 AugBook Review: Mother of Invention - How Good Ideas Get Ignored in a World Built for Men by Katrine Marçal ★★★★⯪
6. 22 AugWhat's a better bug-bounty reward than money?
7. 20 AugWho is the author "JC Shakespeare"?
8. 18 AugWhat's the optimal length for a 2FA code?
9. 16 AugSolar Panels - payback period during a time of rising energy costs
10. 14 AugHow To Write A Cover Letter For A Job
11. 13 AugReview: Meta Quest 2 - first impressions ★★★☆☆
12. 12 AugBook Review: Binti - Nnedi Okorafor ★★★★⯪
13. 10 AugResponsible Disclosure: XSS in Macmillan's Website
14. 6 AugThe point of a dashboard isn't to use a dashboard
15. 5 AugBook Review: Animal, Vegetable, Criminal - Mary Roach ★★★☆☆
16. 3 AugBook Review: The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ★★★★★
17. 2 AugGame Review: Stray (PS4) ★★★☆☆
18. 1 AugDNS Esoterica: BIMI - SVG in DNS TXT WTF?!

July 2022

1. 31 JulTheatre Review: &amp; Juliet ★★★★★
2. 30 JulResponsible Disclosure: An Exam Board Touting Dodgy PDFs
3. 27 JulReview: Kaico Xbox HMDI Cable + Optical ★★★★☆
4. 25 JulThe (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral
5. 23 JulBook Review: Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City - William J. Mitchell ★★★★⯪
6. 22 JulFitting 1 dimensional data into 2 dimensional space
7. 21 JulFailing at reporting Android bugs
8. 19 JulSolar Efficiency and High Temperature
9. 17 JulOriginal Xbox to HDMI
10. 16 JulWhy we can't have an air source heat pump
11. 14 JulDNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland
12. 12 JulSimultaneous Translation in HTML
13. 10 JulWhy is there no Semantic Ontology of Sentiment in Academic Citations?
14. 8 JulA quick (and silly) way to create generative avatars
15. 7 JulHow does Shamir's Secret Sharing deal with the Murder on the Orient Express Problem?
16. 6 JulChatting Solar Panels at EMF Camp
17. 4 Jul(Nearly) An XSS in Star Wars .com
18. 3 JulSaay What?
19. 1 JulMovie Review: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande ★★★★★

June 2022

1. 28 JunBook Review - Sex: Lessons From History by Fern Riddell ★★★⯪☆
2. 26 JunBook Review: Illegal Alien - Robert Sawyer ★★★★⯪
3. 24 JunThe Modern World
4. 22 JunHTML Ruby and Bidirectional Text
5. 20 JunBook Review: Shakespeare and Immigration - Espinosa &amp; Ruiter ★★★☆☆
6. 18 JunWhy does Alexa speak to me in German?
7. 17 JunCreate a "Share To Mastodon" Button for WordPress
8. 16 JunBook Review: When HARLIE was One ★★★★☆
9. 15 JunWhat is the "Servant Economy"?
10. 14 JunBook Review: An Unnatural Life by Erin K Wagner ★★☆☆☆
11. 12 JunGoogle's AI Doesn't Understand Restaurant Menus
12. 11 JunMovie Review - Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers ★★★★★
13. 10 JunBook Review: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆
14. 9 JunCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 17: Open Research Problems in Blockchain
15. 8 JunBook Review: Rhetoric of InSecurity; The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts - Victoria Baines ★★★★⯪
16. 7 JunI've locked myself out of my digital life
17. 5 JunCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 16: Blockchain as a Service
18. 4 JunPaper Prototype CSS
19. 3 JunCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 15: Security in Blockchain

May 2022

1. 31 MayGadget Review: Yet another WiFi enabled smoke alarm ★★★★☆
2. 30 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 14: Scalable Blockchain
3. 26 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 13: Blockchain Project Implementation
4. 24 MayBook Review: The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson ★★★⯪☆
5. 22 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 12: IOT
6. 20 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 11: Industry Use Cases
7. 19 MayDesigning for non-rectangular browser windows
8. 18 MayMSc Assignment 5 - Professional Practise 1 - Machine Learning in Python
9. 17 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 10: Impact on Industry
10. 16 MayDifferent ways to do separators in horizontal text
11. 15 MayLiberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM
12. 13 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 09: Al and Blockchain
13. 11 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 08: Decentralised Apps (Dapps)
14. 10 MayStrange Encoding Errors in TOTP QR Codes
15. 9 MayCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 07: Ethereum
16. 8 MayWhy is there no formal specification for otpauth URls?
17. 7 MayMy 2022 predictions from 2012
18. 4 MayHow should user comments be marked up in HTML5?
19. 2 MayMovie Review: Dave Made A Maze ★★★★⯪

April 2022

1. 30 AprWhere are the articles asking why men don't want to have children?
2. 29 AprBitwarden's new username generator is brilliant
3. 28 AprSemantic Comments for WordPress
4. 26 AprBook Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ★★★★★
5. 24 AprCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 06: Open Source Business Blockchain Frameworks
6. 23 AprTheatre Review: Cabaret at the KitKat Club ★★★★★
7. 22 AprSuccess at 2D Printing a Bookcase Mosaic!
8. 20 AprFailed attempt at 2D printing a bookcase
9. 18 AprThe Inevitability of Connecting Everything
10. 16 AprCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 05: Sustainable Blockchain
11. 14 AprBook Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division ★★★★★
12. 12 AprMovie Review: The Bubble ★★★★⯪
13. 10 AprBook Review: The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar ★★★★⯪
14. 8 AprThis Bench Does Not Exist
15. 6 AprMovie Review: Cyrano ★★⯪☆☆
16. 5 AprBook Review: Conundra (Panopticon Book 2) - A.E. Currie ★★★★☆
17. 4 AprThere's no way to report spam on Google Drive
18. 3 AprBook Review: The Programmer's Brain - What every programmer needs to know about cognition by Felienne Hermans ★★★★★
19. 2 AprReview: HP's smallest laser printer - M140w + Linux set up ★★★⯪☆

March 2022

1. 27 MarBook Review: Warez - The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy by Martin Paul Eve ★★★⯪☆
2. 23 MarTowards a Taxonomy of Twitter Tropes
3. 22 MarEight MegaWatt Hours, baby!
4. 21 MarInside a smart Infrared heater
5. 19 MarGadget Review: ASAKUKI Essential Oil Diffuser - with WiFi! ★★★★☆
6. 18 MarCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 04: Bitcoin
7. 16 MarBook Review: The Uplift War - David Brin (Uplift Trilogy Book 3) ★★★★⯪
8. 14 MarMy Ⅳᵗʰ Blood Donation
9. 12 MarCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 03: Blockchain Mining
10. 10 MarExperiments with Far Infrared Heating ★★★★☆
11. 9 MarThe return of the "armchair auditor"
12. 7 MarMovie Review: West Side Story (2021) ★★★★★
13. 6 MarWhat's the risk from fake Yubikeys?
14. 4 MarGadget Review: X-Sense wireless interlinked smoke alarms ★★★★⯪
15. 2 MarHow would you avoid getting "Jobfished"?

February 2022

1. 28 FebTheatre Review: Magic Goes Wrong
2. 27 FebBook Review: Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy E. Denning ★★★★⯪
3. 25 FebWhat does it mean to run your own servers?
4. 23 FebBook Review: Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons ★★★★★
5. 20 FebBook Review: Ira Aldridge - The African Roscius by Bernth Lindfors ★★★⯪☆
6. 18 FebWhere are the U2F Rings?
7. 17 FebGuide to flashing OpenWRT on a Wavlink Quantum D6 - with screenshots
8. 16 FebWhat's the lowest positive integer for which there are no Google search results?
9. 15 FebThe existential terror of LinkedIn
10. 14 FebBook Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi ★★★★★
11. 13 FebMSc Assignment 4 - Open Professional Practise - Cyber Security
12. 12 FebBook Review: Startide Rising (Uplift Trilogy 2) ★★★★⯪
13. 11 FebBook Review: Die With Zero ★★★★☆
14. 10 FebReboot and launch an Android app via ADB
15. 9 FebMovie Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth ★★★★★
16. 8 FebReview: X-Sense Home Security Kit + LoRaWAN ★★★★★
17. 7 FebTheatre Review: Doctor Who - Time Fracture ★★★★⯪
18. 6 FebWeeknotes: One Week In
19. 5 FebMindustry - Scrap To Everything Schematic
20. 4 FebPeople Don't Want To Run Their Own Bank
21. 3 FebBook Review: Doctor Who The Vault ★★★★⯪
22. 2 FebVideo Calls For Customer Service
23. 1 FebDrones Vs Telegraphs

January 2022

1. 31 JanRegeneration: You were expecting someone else?
2. 30 JanReview: USB Foot Pedals - FS3_P ★★★★☆
3. 29 JanIs it faster to read or to listen?
4. 28 JanEdit this blog post!
5. 27 JanDVD Review: The E-Space Trilogy ★★★★☆
6. 26 JanGadget Review: Eufy Video Doorbell ★★★★⯪
7. 25 JanBook Review: Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor ★★★★⯪
8. 24 JanPractical Machine Learning with Python
9. 23 JanHow to migrate Google For Your Domain to normal Gmail
10. 22 JanUse Python to get alerted when an Amazon wishlist item drops in price
11. 21 JanHow do artists get paid?
12. 20 JanNFTs means the future value of art is zero
13. 19 JanMovie Review: Nomadland ★★★★⯪
14. 18 JanCheck if your code is cited in academic works
15. 17 JanI was told that QR codes would never succeed because no one could make money from them
16. 16 JanMovie Review: The Matrix Ⅳ - The Recursive Matrification ★★★★☆
17. 15 JanAlexa Standard English
18. 13 JanMovie Review: Eternals ★⯪☆☆☆
19. 12 JanCertified Blockchain Professional - Module 02: Crypto Assets
20. 11 JanMovie Review: The Green Knight ★★★★★
21. 10 JanEmoji Tetris Pieces
22. 9 JanAn algorithm to write an assignment
23. 8 JanMovie Review: Don't Look Up ★★★★☆
24. 7 JanIn praise of slowness
25. 6 JanTransferable Bank Accounts
26. 5 JanShould you use Let's Encrypt for internal hostnames?
27. 4 JanDVD review: Doctor Who - Shada ★★★★⯪
28. 3 JanBook Review: The Empyrean by Katherine Franklin ★★★★☆
29. 2 JanA novel method of faster than light communication
30. 1 JanDVD Review: Delta and the Bannermen ★★☆☆☆