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Category: Links of Interest
Street Safety is Why My Kids Don’t Walk to School Alone
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Jumping on this article about childhood freedom, my wife and I discussed why my 9 and 7 year old don’t walk the 800m to school alone as we walked back home this morning. The only reason is the 4 lane road the have to cross. Sure the city put in lights and a button now,…
Want a Small Phone – Maybe the Jelly Star is for You
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I’m currently happily using an iPhone 13 Mini and have no desire to upgrade to any of the massive phones Apple currently has on offer. That means i’m on the look out for a small phone that runs Android. Today I heard about the Jelly Star which is a seriously tiny phone running Android 13.…
Saskatchewan had to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
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I think that when you need to override the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to pass legislation history is going to find that you’re on the wrong side of the issue. One of the things I do to support the LGBTQ+ community is to make sure I email the schools my children attend when…
Agreed – Your Talk Should Also be a Blog Post
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Jamie has a great short article to support the idea that your talk should also be a blog post. I also think that Twitter/X Thread should be blog posts because threads produce little value. Even on Mastodon, threads should be blog posts. Think of all the content you put on Twitter that is now in…
I Hate Client Side JS Crap
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This article cites React and how bad it is, but really I dislike all client side JS stuff that renders the DOM with JavaScript. Angular…ugh digging out of an old app that no longer builds and was always slow. As I’ve replaced it with PHP and standard HTML we’ve seen reliability go up and speed…
Framework Cyberdeck
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Stuff like this is why the Framework is so cool. I’m just using a normal laptop, but I could turn it into a cyberdeck if I was interested.
Software Defined Radio for Your Framework Laptop
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I love my Framework laptop and how inventive the community can be. Today I saw that there is a software defined radio module people are working on. I have no use for this, but I think it’s very cool.
CAPTCHA Sucks and it’s Not Accessible
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Over 13 years ago I first addressed my dislike of the CAPTCHA. Back then I said that I disliked CAPTCHA to combat spam because spam isn’t the users problem. They’re not getting a bunch of your form submissions sent to them. They don’t care about your problem. The bad part of CAPTCHA is that it…
Twitter Wasn’t Worth the Effort for Traffic
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I saw no measurable difference when I left Twitter in the traffic to my site and neither has NPR. I think that Twitter, and possibly all social media, has got an unearned inflated importance in how much benefit it actually brings in terms of traffic to a site. My top referrers over the last 30…
Was America’s Iraq War Justified?
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According to this video the answer is no. America wanted to invade Iraq to help secure oil assets and to prove that they were “big and strong” after 9/11. This supports my reading from The Shock Doctrine where America weaponizes natural disasters to push capitalist ideas on the public. While the US and Britain are…