Found this interesting piece of #dataviz from my GCSE Geography project whilst digging through site archives whilst trying to fix some dead URLs:
Apart from the obvious flaw of hard-to-read text, and the more subtle distortion of the results due to them being overlaid onto a contoured 3D landscape, it’s actually not that bad.
en.riff.is is an excellent example of why device testing is an important part of responsive design (try using it at iPad screen size)
#wikipedia article of the week: List of fictional railway stations
#TIL throwdough.com exists and that it’s the official dough of the American pizza team and that there’s an American pizza team and that they have practise dough #food #baking #pizza
“But of course, that is an exceptionally clever chicken… and very experienced with electrical devices of all sorts”
Why not to make assumptions about where your site visitors come from send #js to do a hyperlink’s job:
(That link didn’t work, obv)
@anna_debenham I publish microformats2 with classic mf fallback. Also consume lots of microformats data and built some tools to help others do the same:
Lots and lots of chocolate in the office today, courtesy of Brian Suda and borgamynd.com
@w03_ what’s this one about?
@julien51 WATCH OUT! They’re trying to trick you by putting the comma in the wrong place — it’s actually only $93,000,000 :)
Discuss adding #microformats to @duckduckgo special result pages here: duck.co/topic/add-microformats-to-results
Unfortunately page has a JS error on FF Nightly :(
#TIL about Esquivalience, a Fictitious Entry. More proof that #copyright law is bad for consumers, driving organisations to compromise the integrity of their publications.
How to emulate standard #php front-controller behaviour of routing static assets statically, otherwise calling index.php using the PHP 5.4 built-in server:
// file: index.php
// Route static assets from CLI server
if (PHP_SAPI === 'cli-server') {
if (file_exists(__DIR__ . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) and !is_dir(__DIR__ . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
return false;
}
}
// do usual front-controller stuff
Achievement Unlocked: Functional PHP by passing an anonymous function as an argument to itself
This honest and frankly terrifying short film about the side effects of 3D printing has changed the way I think about the future:
#TIL Nicola Pellow (author of the first line mode browser) was from, or at least lived in, Okehampton, Devon (WWW/People -- Pellow)
@github any chance you could add #microformats2 h-entry and #indieweb comment markup to issue pages?
Want to easily send webmentions from the command line, or from bash/python scripts? @vrypan made a neat little package to do just that: github.com/vrypan/webmention-tools
pip install webmentiontools
webmention-tools urlinfo http://waterpigs.co.uk/1000
webmention-tools send source target
Testing POSSE of issue comments to Github
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