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The Carillon playing, the Cadbury factory smelling of Flake, the sun shining, spanakopita at Kafenion – it’s concert day! As mentioned on Radio 3 this morning, 7.30pm, St Francis’, Bournville....
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9yo wanted a new song on their playlist. After much random picking, and many noes, two were chosen.Beat Of My Drum by Nicola Roberts, and In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
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The two images on https://dracos.co.uk/ that use srcset/sizes don’t work as I’d expect – at e.g. max desktop width, the postbox picture is 228px, but it always loads the 320px one, not the 240px one....
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On the plus side, my website’s front page is now pretty good on PageSpeed after some optimising, but wondering if this would help a tiny bit more...
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Ah, it was because everything is too high-density nowadays and it’s trying to download “giant” images even though I wouldn’t really care. Meh, it’s fine as it is.
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No, /you’ve/ just spent too long updating the London Overground map on Wikipedia to use the new colours
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Ooh, National Rail have brought back the “view alternate services” when there’s a cancelled train, and so https://traintimes.org.uk now has it back too :)
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Here’s a video showing my site loading, versus the official site (which had a complete relaunch a couple of months ago) – run from the US with an emulated Motorola G over 4G.Here’s the WebPageTest...
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Great how the report a problem form works /really well/ (the GIF doesn’t show that the menu flashed open each time, then instantly closed again), and when you pick Other, doesn’t ask you for any more...
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Ooh Timber & Steel has finally had a release: https://open.spotify.com/track/4dYUfEfUtZVsEQZ4VvKd9x
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Someone occasionally sends a spam email to a freenet email address that forwards to a gmail address, using an address of mine as the Return-Path (not the From). It fails DKIM/SPF/DMARC, gmail refuses...
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Once a day, something is sending an email with a @mail-redirect.cmp.livemail.co.uk envelope and a @dracos.co.uk From to a Google email address. I only know this because of the DMARC failure report I...
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Made https://pto.traintimes.org.uk work a lot better on mobile by moving an h1 and replacing the old positioning with a simper smaller CSS grid 🥅
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Got a couple of bug reports that https://split.traintimes.org.uk/ was erroring. The error log showed the stop data wasn’t present, and I then realised they also weren’t showing on...
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I can change or cancel a standing order myself as much as I like, I can only cancel a direct debit. It’s easier to cancel and set up a new DD than try and change one!
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Even worse, a couple of charities have moved to recurring card payments, which have all the downsides of DD (I have no control over changing them), *plus* all the downsides of card payments (I have no...
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