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• Sep 26, 2019, 12:15pm

  I believe Azure DevOps has achieved Peak Dialog Box here.

• Sep 18, 2019, 2:45pm

  My earbuds are in the shop, because the future is weird.

• Sep 16, 2019, 12:15pm

  The relaunched tilde.club mailing list is… can a massive group mail thread be “charming”?

• Sep 14, 2019, 3:01pm

  I am “I once blogged about philanthropic ways to wrangle a Gmail invitation” years old.

• Sep 6, 2019, 6:57pm

  A thought I’ve been running with lately: give the users better tools than you give yourself. Make the end-user UI so nice that you’d rather use it yourself than your site’s admin interface. An admin is just someone who can use those tools on anyone’s content.

• Apr 26, 2019

  Matching form posts in the Pretenders mock HTTP server

  I’ve used the Pretenders “Fake servers for testing” on a number of work and personal projects, with generally good results. But I’ve wished that it was easier to write tests against different HTML form post contents.

• Apr 18, 2019, 8:29pm

  I am unreasonably excited that we may spend the next week retooling our build system. There’s something wrong with me.

• Feb 9, 2019, 12:51pm

  “For the better part of two decades, I’ve been running [a web site]…” is such a bizarre thing to write. But I wrote it, along with a simple Flexbox-y way to build a responsive calendar.

  https://roub.net/blahg/2019/02/09/responsive-calendar-layout-with-flex-box/
• Feb 9, 2019

  Responsive calendar layout with flexbox

  For the better part of two decades, I’ve been running openmikes.org, a directory of open mikes¹, jam nights, etc. across the US and Canada. As with many hobby sites, especially of this vintage, it’s showing its age.

  1. “Um, actually, it’s ‘mic’”. Oh, thanks. You may be surprised to find this has come up before. ↩

• Feb 7, 2019, 4:46pm

  There’s regular family tech support, and then there’s the kind where you’re burning repair discs while looking for a spudger, mini drivers, and a variety of HDD-to-USB cables.

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