I finally got a MIDI controller! No more reliance on my stylophone for synth controls.

Tips for #indieweb baby naming: check domain/short domain/twitter account availability

Reading da Vinci http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/9/0/29904/ - seems he really had it in for poets!

Argh, coming up with a solid file upload backend that will scale to indefinite file types is tricky #indieweb

TheOnion.com devs have clearly never heard of progressive enhancement - their ‘5 page per day max’ limit only works with javascript turned on.

I was much impressed to see xkcd’s wonderful April Fools Joke this year. You are served with a different comic depending on:

• Location (USA State/Country)
• Browser
• Network (E.G. Corporate/Military, School Networks)

And god o

I figured out the reason my gurdy is taking so long to build: I make a mockup of it every five minutes http://flic.kr/p/bK5zyR

Flook have to be one of the best folk bands I’ve ever heard. I wish I had been able to see them live

??? the marquee tag has JS methods?! Was it not bad enough already?

Protip: Put a piece of paper/card over your graphics tablet to get that gritty paper feel

I’ve recently started using these styles for adding automargins (margic = magic + margin) to floated items:

.floatLeft.margic { margin-right: 1em; }
.floatRight.margic { margin-left: 1em; }

This looks almost awesome enough to make me switch to FF for web dev stuff: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/07/tilt-visualize-your-web-page-in-3d/

Most irritated @technorati - apparently my blog isn’t a blog, and there’s no way of appealing. I posted an otherwise meaningless verification post for that? Not impressed.

I’ve now accumulated a few posts about my site, so I’ve made a meta tag to store them.

JScript has conditional comments too. Is use of this advisable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment

What on earth do spam twitter accounts hope to gain from following me?!

Decided to use OpenPhoto for #indieweb photos. F1R5T P05T http://barnaby.openphoto.me/p/1

Most unhelpful ‘how it works’ page ever: https://browserid.org/about

@scrunchup I keep on losing web design work on the premise that I don’t do it for free — any advice on how to fix this?

The more I read about HTML tables, the more I feel using them for layout wasn’t doing them justice :|