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Finding out how to write

16 April, 2024 - 409 words

Posting to a statically-generated site is theoretically easy - it's just a file on your desktop after all.

But whilst the words are easy, it's also easy to mess up the metadata, and wouldn't it be nicer to get it right in one shot? After all, the ideal for writing on your blog is hit the keyboard with your fingers until your point is made and hit "send".

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Web publishing for yourself

17 March, 2024 - 504 words
“This paper lays out a unified framework of the ergodic animage, the rule-based and interaction driven part of visual representation in video games” I do sometimes wonder if other people browse the web in the same way that I do. I was followi...

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Responsive websites are easy

13 July, 2012 - 275 words
There is a list being kept of HE websites which are using responsive design techniques to change how their pages appear based on the size of the screen loading them. I think that this is a waste of time. Making websites reflow, and changing the design a bit (top nav becomes a dropdown etc.) based on screen size is easy. ...

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Running a CMS on Atom

31 January, 2006 - 239 words
At work I have the need to very quickly design and roll out an insanely basic CMS for a website. There is no official workflow, all content will be in XHTML, people need to be able to create new documents, and load, edit and save existing documents, with some degree of metadata surrounding it. I’m currently pretty convinced that my editor will be

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