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• 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.

  ¯\(ツ)/¯

• 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.

• Jan 31, 2019, 8:59am

  Is there any interpretation under which an “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” warning from Google isn’t their fault?

• Jan 14, 2019

  Blogging from Drafts

  Creating a micropost, and publishing it, from a draft. No GitHub app required.
• Jan 12, 2019, 3:00pm

  Testing out the @draftsapp Credential object. A very handy thing, as it turns out…

• Dec 26, 2018, 12:20pm

  Texting my brothers via Siri, I start a sentence with “I like that idea…”. The Echo in the room hears “Alexa” and responds out loud. Now my text reads “I like that idea, hanging out over there sorry, I don’t know that one.” The Future is forever in beta.

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