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Monday, 4 November 2019

Keep jQuery UI Dialog button text in HTML, not in JS initializers

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It's long irked me that the jQuery UI Dialog class expects one to specify what text appears on a Dialog's buttons in the options ini...
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Thursday, 7 July 2016

Server break-in attempts

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On my website I log all the HTTP request headers to a file, and today I noticed an interesting bit:     [HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR] => }__te...
Sunday, 19 June 2016

Xchat script for catching flash-in-the-pan users

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I've been trying to speak to someone on IRC who is only very sporadically online, and when they are, it's often for less than a minu...
Saturday, 11 June 2016

TIL: PNG images can specify an offset

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I'm working with a world map that I want to treat as consisting of 20x20 tiles. Because the image is 7964x3980, I need to add 8 pixels o...
Friday, 5 February 2016

Diffs without noise

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Over the last year or five I've been on a particular refactoring campaign in my gEDA fork. I'm trying to reduce the number of places...
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Sunday, 25 October 2015

How much do countries spend on education, per capita?

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During the recent #FeesMustFall campaign here in South Africa, I wanted to know how much we spend on education, per head, and to compare tha...
Friday, 17 July 2015

My phone is dead, but ADSL is (barely) up

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Three weeks ago I got burgled, and the bastards cut my phone line. My permanently temporary fix involved stripping the wire ends and twistin...
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