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• 15 Jul 20260000

  What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?

  Two consecutive titles on the HN front page yesterday had a 6 in them. This means nothing. But it’s the sort of nothing that lodges in your brain until you...

• 13 Jul 20260000

  Links worth a look, week 28

  Retro game archives, MechCommander bug fixes, and a live train map

• 11 Jul 20261000

  The progress of progress bars

  I was waiting for Claude to answer a token-heavy question at work the other day, the little “Thinking…” label flickering into “Wibbling…” and then “Moseying…”, and I caught myself doing...

• 07 Jul 20263001

  How I'm using CSS View Transitions on this blog

  In the old days of the web, animating between pages meant faking it with jQuery. Then came pjax, which used pushState to swap in fetched content and fake a full...

• 06 Jul 20260000

  Links worth a look, week 27

  A WATaBoy JIT, a browser Atari ST emulator, and a DS css framework

• 03 Jul 20260000

  Why I'm using a low-profile keyboard (for now)

  For years I was firmly in the mechanical keyboard camp, and specifically a 60% person. No numpad, no function row, no arrow cluster, just the keys I actually used, in...

• 29 Jun 20260000

  Links worth a look, week 26

  HL2 in the browser, a Raspberry Pi camera, and chess roguelites

• 29 Jun 20261012

  Every Kickstarter project I've backed

  Between March 2011 and October 2021 I backed 19 Kickstarter projects, spending £386 and $565 across the lot. Here they all are, in order, with what became of each. March...

• 28 Jun 20261010

  How the five AIs actually did

  The Group Stage of the 2026 World Cup finished today, so it’s time to mark the homework. Back in the launch post five AI models, a deterministic lookup table, and...

• 25 Jun 20262020

  Enriching webmentions from third-party platforms

  I keep finding new gaps in my webmention implementation. Mentions coming in from Bluesky, Lemmy and Lobsters were showing up with no author at all, just a blank avatar and...

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