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Timezones and histograms

Developers are notoriously bad at handling dates and times. If it wasn't DNS, there's a good chance it was timezones. Much of the trouble comes from not understanding or playing close enough attention to the differences between absolute time and civil time.

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1. Map and filter in a single step
   • javascript
   • code-library
2. ActivityPub on a (mostly) static website
3. Hacking together a comment system for my (mostly) static site
4. Cobbling together a private machine-transcription and editing tool
   • journalism
5. A deliberately slow publishing system
6. Triggering Netlify builds from Airtable for free
7. A review of TinaCMS
8. Getting ordinal number suffixes in javascript
   • javascript
   • code-library
9. How should I manage my data library?
   • data
   • journalism
10. Git scraping demo for Hacks/Hackers Brisbane
    • data
11. Brave search added to WDYS?
    • wdys
12. What colour is that iframe?
    • css
    • html
13. Rounding to the nearest multiple of a number
    • javascript
    • code-library
14. Exposing child component state in Svelte
    • code-library
    • javascript

• abc.net.au ⦿ Warnings after cassowary attack in Cardwell backyard puts elderly man in hospital

  Is it time to lose another war?

• abc.net.au ⦿ Boyne Burnett Inland Rail Trail extends tourism season, revitalises towns

  I'm a huge fan of rail trails, but just imagine if you could, uh, catch a train to all these lovely little towns!

• theverge.com ⦿ We ran the wrong headline about Trump firing the FTC commissioners

  Pretty high quality mea culpa here. I find myself regularly in agreement with criticisms of news media reporting and headlines in particular, but it’s not straight forward and this does a great job of laying out why.

  There is a related question about news media’s responsibility to advocate for democracy.

• arstechnica.com ⦿ Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges - Ars Technica

  Brother: 'we have joined the dark side' HP: 'hold my beer'

• blog.andymatuschak.org ⦿ Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets

  This is a really well thought out set of mechanisms to support creating new habits. I’ve returned to it a few times over the years and each time was about to go start building it until:

  So far, I’ve successfully restrained myself from building my own tool. That’s a dangerous yak to shave!

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Sometimes I like to go on side quests. These are some of them.

1. What do you suggest?

   An adventure through the vagaries of search engine suggestions.

2. Wiki Edits

   A Mastodon bot posting anonymous edits to the English language Wikipedia originating from Australian government networks. Just for fun I also built an experiment to watch Wikipedia edits in real time.

3. Hacks/Hackers Brisbane

   I help organise the Brisbane chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an event series where people get together to discuss the intersection of storytelling and technology.

4. Transcobble

   Do you need a completely private transcription tool where the audio or video never leaves your computer? That's why I built this and it's completely free.

1. Every Second Thursday

   There's something delightful about a standing arrangement. A time and a place you know by heart and a confidence in what will be waiting each time you arrive.

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2. #DataLife

   A project for ABC News looking at the amount and types of data my iPhone and MacBook share about me behind the scenes.

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3. Automating XKCD-style narrative charts

   Telling the story of a political scandal using narrative charts inspired by XKCD.

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4. Sculpture at the Queensland Art Gallery

   Something from the archives.

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