I think that 24/7 news is a modern-day scourge, and one of its corollaries in the UK is the overdue prominence given to US news. I use the BBC News website when I'm trying to find out what's going on, but I'd prefer that the coverage was of countries within three thousand miles. I used Copilot to help me bash together an extension for both Chrome and Firefox which simply removes U...

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In Google Docs you can "protect" a doc so that it can't be printed, shared or have text copied. For everyone except the author this is quite annoying, and so this is one way you can copy text out of a protected document if you are sent one. These instructions are for a desktop version of Chrome. Firefox will also work, but I haven't tried any of this on mobile. Load y...

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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 incredibly slow and unintuitive.").…

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mdtable-pretty-printer is a plugin for Inkdrop which tidies markdown tables in your notes. This is the first plugin I’ve written for Inkdrop, and was an interesting experience. Plugins are written in JavaScript, which I don’t write a lot of, and follow React-based patterns which I’m...

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You’d think that having missed the previous two weeks of weeknotes, I’d have a lot to add. This is not true – it was Easter half term and so we were taking it easy, and this included dropping the weeknote schedule. I am reading The Manningtree Witches about the witch hunts and trials of th...

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It’s been a few years since I last used .net so I thought I’d give it a go. It was slightly more eventful 30 minutes than I’d have liked, so I thought I’d write it up. I started by trying to install Visual Studio, but half an hour later it was still under 50% done, and since I only wanted to be writing scripts rather than applications, I started looking for some smaller getting started g...

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It used to be the case that I pored over Mozilla (and later Firefox) release notes. But I stopped sometime in 2004, around the point when I accepted that XUL development was too hard to be doing in my spare time and yes, Firefox was clearly better than IE at just about everything. This means that I now miss all the cool announcements

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Back in November, Tiago Silveira updated the JavaScript Textile implementation that powers my Textile Greasemonkey script, but I just hadn’t got around to rolling in his changes, so he’s done the sensible thing, and ro...

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ETech 2006 has kicked off and of the presentations I’ve looked at so far today, two have stood out in particular: Simon Willison’s A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript should be compulsory reading for every single person doing JavaScript as part of their job. It covers almost every aspect of the language I can think of, and doe...

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In 2003 I wrote some really bad JavaScript to convert an OPML document into an HTML list. Everything old is new again.

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