Terence Eden
I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques.
But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to.
Today he tried again.
So, you know, calibrate for the average person.
Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman”
★★⯪☆☆
To call this derivative is an understatement. But that's what this genre demands; rehash all your favourite media properties into something new. It's the literary equivalent of having your Transformers™ fight your He-Man© toys.
The plot, such as it is, features the Vogon Constructor Fleet destroying Ea…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/book-review-dungeon-crawler-carl-by-matt-dinniman/
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#BookReview
Terence Eden
Hey #UK friends. Do you get annoyed by fireworks? Do your pets find them distressing? Do you think anyone should be able to buy them?
The UK Government is running a consultation and want your views.
(Please don't reply to me. This isn't my consultation. Click the link and fill in the survey.)
Terence Eden
Having a drink with my new bestie!
(Brilliant seeing so many kids run away from it in mock fear 😁)
#EMFcamp
Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “I'm a USB-C Maximalist”
My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets.
It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for rapid charging of my phone and laptop. Two other USB-C…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/
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#technology #travel #usb-c
Terence Eden
1f3a:1000 is a valid USB identifier.
1f3a::1000 is a valid IPv6 address.
Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “I'm just so bored of AI”
I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is.
Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-just-so-bored-of-ai/
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#AI #rant
Terence Eden
Are there any *non* screen properties exposed in #CSS?
I know JS can see radio connection type, battery level, number of cameras etc.
CSS only seem to have screen related things - aspect ratio, prefers motion, dark mode, etc.
Am I wrong? Are there things about the browser which aren't directly relayed to the screen that you can determine in CSS?
Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “This blog is written in en-GB”
Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known.
Here's the thing. No.
All my blog posts start with a simple declaration:
<!doctype html>
<html…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/this-blog-is-written-in-en-gb/
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#blogging #English #language
Terence Eden
@Gargron Bug report - T-Shirt get sodden after 10 minutes of intense rain. Plz fix ASAP.
Terence Eden
Not sure if Mastodon will play a 360⁰ video - but here's a snippet of me and @summerbeth getting caught in the #München storm.
Terence Eden
So far, about 20 minutes of continual thunder in #München.
Spent about 15 minutes of it walking back to our hotel - utterly sodden. Which is both a relief and utterly terrifying 😂
Terence Eden
This tram in Oslo is undergoing a firmware update!
Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “Stupidly Simple SVG Sparklines”
A sparkline is a little line-graph with no axes or other unnecessary details. They're useful for getting quick understanding of what the data is showing.
They're also really easy to create programmatically.
This uses the SVG "polyline" which takes a list of x,y co-ordinate pairs. But can you spot the small problem?
<svg…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/stupidly-simple-svg-sparklines/
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#svg #tutorial
Terence Eden
Long shot - are there any Frank Sinatra fans on the Fediverse?
I'm looking for a specific track from his 1981 concerts at Carnegie Hall.
Does anyone have a copy of this record https://setaim.netmoon.shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=540104
Or a bootleg of the 9th of September concert?
Terence Eden
For fans of entirely spurious numbers, the UNIX timestamp is about to hit 17777777.
Hold on to your butts!
Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.
Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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#government #nhs #OpenSource #politics
Terence Eden
This is the reason I wish Mastodon supported geotagged posts.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/how-do-you-decentralise-emergency-alerts/
Terence Eden
This is perfectly valid PHP.
If your programming language doesn't support emoji, it is going to be left behind.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/where-you-can-and-cant-use-emoji-in-php/
Terence Eden
Trying out a new design & layout for https://openbenches.org/ but I hate the colour scheme I've chosen.
Can anyone suggest a palette which looks clean, modern, and is accessible?
Any and all suggestions welcome.
Longer hair than you.Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.Open Standards / Source / Data geek.Known as @Edent on most social platforms.Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!
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