The Facebook API is more feature filled than @twitterapi, but WAY slower.

Fun day with poisonous chemicals! Potassium Dichromate is particularly cool — extremely orange.

Coding, coding, coding with the @twitterapi

Deliberating over #indieweb backend database structure. I’m getting there, slowly.

The Galaxy Note ads: a mix of hideous apple user bashing and clever appeals to ‘content producers’

Good post today. Machine heads, viola pegs, an ipad usb thing and web project payment. The machine heads were delivered in a cat food box - a little unorthodox.

Good grief, stainless steel is difficult to tap. How do people make anything out of it?

Hello, Facebook users!

Something I learnt just now: HTML <ins> and <del> have datetime attrs for keeping track of changes.

This is handy as I’ve been wondering about those for a while. Interestingly they have a cite attr too (to a URL describing changes made) w

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; }