Author Archives: Chris

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On digital hygiene

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This is largely inspired by a post from Neil Brown on why “NSFW” is an outdated term and should be retired. I came to a slightly different conclusion, which I’d like to lay out here. While it’s true that the definition of “work” is different for everyone and what’s safe for one workplace isn’t necessarily…

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TrueNAS Scale dashboard

Let’s talk about backups.

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There are two kinds of people: those who have lost data, and those who will. I’m one of those who have lost data, so I’m going to take a moment to tell you how I go about avoiding that. What’s brought this on, you might ask? Blame Mike. We were just talking about data loss…

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Pornhub homepage showing age gate warning

Today the Online Safety Act went into full force in the UK

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Websites are being forced to gate content behind age verification to pander to the “won’t somebody think of the children” lobby.

The legislation makes no distinction between social media giants like Facebook and Instagram and small not-for-profit sites. If a bad actor in your tiny hobby site uses it to direct message porn to a minor, you could face a fine of £18 million for something you could not predict or prevent. Continue reading…

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Conversation on Mastodon. Joe Crawford: go make a web page Me: YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD

Joe Crawford is not my real dad

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That’s an inside joke, my parentage isn’t seriously in question. He is however a fella who delights in knocking together fascinating little CSS experiments, like this replication of tractor feed printer paper. He’s also on the fediverse, as all the best people are. If you too delight in doing fun things with CSS, you should…

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Hebog typography

Poking at my <kbd>

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I’ve had a really productive day working on the typography for a client’s site, and along the way I found myself giving the much-overlooked <kbd> element a bit of a spruce-up. Not that the client will likely be using the element much, but the thought struck me I hadn’t really done anything much to style…

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