All posts tagged "wtf-am-i-doing"
Digging in to Pingback and Webmention
The other day I found out what a “Pingback” was, after I saw a bunch of them at the bottom of a widely-cited blog post. So I set about digging in to all that.
Embedded web content without all that JavaScript cruft
In an earlier blog post I wanted to embed some diagrams. Really I wanted SVG for clean scaling between devices, but I don’t have that format as an output option.
What I've learned so far about CSS, SVG, Liquid, and Jekyll
From the point of view of knowing almost nothing about how any web techology works, here’s a bunch of stuff I had to pick up to draw a picture in a GitHub-powered blog.
Machine innervation
Looking at the faults my espresso machine develops over time, I’ve often wondered if fault detection and error messages could be better. It’s probably safe to assume that the cost of including sensors for all possible faults and developing code to check and understand all those sensors is prohibitive and unreliable, so I’ve wondered about a different approach.
All posts tagged "handwaving"