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  1. ↪ Bruce Lawson: "Go .. try to find that missing closing tag on the div in your 100s of lines of HTML". https://medium.com/the-javascript-collection/html-wasnt-made-for-apps-59f870dfc075 Here: http://validator.w3.org/

    @brucel another handy trick is to view source in Firefox. Malformed HTML is red and bold, easy to see.

  2. That fuzzy feeling when people give you really, really high resolution graphics to work with.

    I forgot how much fun even the simplest video editing was.

  5. Got distracted trying to find somewhere to put smelly bananas, ended up cleaning the kitchen and arranging all my jars in order of colour, which, apparently, my panorama software cannot handle:

  6. The Heroku python client library is horribly out of date, and many simple things which should work don’t, throwing confusing errors. Here’s my version:

    # coding: utf-8

import requests

HEROKU_URL = 'https://api.heroku.com'


class Client():
    def __init__(self, api_key, heroku_url=None):
        self.heroku_url = HEROKU_URL if heroku_url is None else heroku_url
        self.session = requests.Session()
        self.session.headers.update({'Accept': 'application/vnd.heroku+json; version=3'})
        self.session.auth = ('', api_key)

    def get(self, path):
        r = self.session.get('%s/%s' % (self.heroku_url.rstrip('/'), path.lstrip('/')))
        r.raise_for_status()
        return r.json()

    def post(self, path, data=None):
        r = self.session.post('%s/%s' % (self.heroku_url.rstrip('/'), path.lstrip('/')), data=data)
        r.raise_for_status()
        return r.json()

    Add similar methods for DELETE if you find you require it. I haven’t yet, as the idea of programatically being able to delete apps is much more worrying than the ability to create them.

  9. Migrating a lot of my unorganised, unlinked text file notes and lyrics into a Smallest Federated Wiki, initially locally for experimentation and emphasis on offline use. Coming up with ideas for plugins I want to make:

    • ABC notation parser using abcjs for embedding both whole tunes and music fragments
    • Multi-paragraph text area for lyrics (currently using code sections, but they syntax highlight automatically which is irritating for non-code)
    • YouTube embedder (or more generic, e.g. it’d be great to have SoundCloud, vimeo etc support.
    • Local audio file uploads+embeds similar to images

  16. Email-related incident at work proves yet again that noreply@ email addresses harm your business. Always let people reply to a human, even if the email was sent by a robot.

  17. First time flyering a protest, discovered murphy’s law of flyering: the moment you encounter a cluster of people who enthusiastically want flyers is the moment they will all stick together, and you flail idiotically trying to separate them.

  19. "…yet my mind was not at rest, because nothing was acted, and thoughts ran into me, that words and writings were all nothing, and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing"

    - Gerrard Winstanley, "a Watch-Word to the City of London", 1649