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After playing with some web publishing tools in March, I spent a few hours in April teaching my 11-year-old daughter some HTML. She loved the idea of being able to publish her own words on the internet, and was delighted by the concept of nekoweb, not least because s...

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A quiet month for reading, mostly of the first two books in The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, who died recently. These are post-modern detective stories and really quite curious beasts, although well-...

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I use my local library a lot, and use the LibrariesWest app and website to do my browsing and make reservations. While website is "ok", the app is a travesty, and has been for years (my app review in 2016 started with "Works, after a fashion, but i...

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Back in March when I was working on my Wordpress-to-Zola exporter I'd written some PHP to generate a .zip file with my markdown site in it, but there was a problem. Although the file size was correct, opening it with Windows Explorer revealed that there were no files in it, but opening it with 7-zip showed that all the files were there as expected. Baffling!

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May saw books set in the future and the past. The Arc of a Scythe trilogy by Neal Shusterman, made up of Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll were an interesting look at a future where humanity has overcome death and instituted an organisation called Scythes whose role is to kill a fixed number of people per year in orde...

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Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent If you are taking "misleading" actions in order to make money you are unethical and if you don't fix things you need to be thrown into a firey pit. That's it. That's the post. That's also why it's so INCREDIBLY disappointing to see,

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I spent some time in April and May making a toy cross-platform desktop RSS reader which uses Yarr as its backend. It's called Yaffle. It looks like this on Windows: It's absolu...

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