Welshman, software developer & climber 🏴💻🧗♂️
UK
Joined March 2007
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Just switched a project over to use @useblacksmith for our GitHub actions, pretty nice speed improvement
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For a long time, @HermesEngine was exclusive to #Android. Now it’s finally available on #iOS as well 🥳
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This resonates with me quite a lot. But instead of second guessing the modern web, I never was convinced of this in the first place. Still guilty of trying to force the shiny new toys onto some applications. macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa…
After many years I got an invite to tilde.club, it has reminded me of the joy of directly editing an index.html file.
Slight epilepsy warning, it's rather flashy (as well as pointless/naff/pretentious): tilde.club/~alun/
Woo, new record! Only took a month for me to run out of disk space since my last fresh install of macOS (The culprit: 30GB of dangling Docker images).
Could Apple not come up with a slightly nicer URL, maybe one with less "apple"s, for enabling single sign in on the web? developer.apple.com/document…
TIL there's a HTML attribute "hidden", as in `<header hidden>`, not quite clear on the use case but looks useful for toggling content without CSS (e.g. `document.querySelector('header').hidden = false`)
Had a great weekend climbing cliffs in Pembrokeshire. End of this route featured a moderate amount of swearing bit.ly/2VgYnCO
This, is a Joshua tree.
They’re quite weird, and technically plants 🌱
Thankfully I didn’t see any remaining signs of the vandalism that took place earlier in the year.
#joshuatree #plants bit.ly/2XhO92q
