Jason R Briggs

The above picture was the view walking towards Pico de la Zarza, in Fuerteventura, on Tuesday.

The cloud was thick enough that you could barely see a few metres ahead of you (which is more than a little disturbing once you reach the top and you know there’s a fairly steep cliff on the other side...

Martin writes:

My son is working through your book.  He spotted a very minor error and I thought we would report it:  In Chapter 8 on Page 102, the code for the three classes is missing an extra newline between the Animal and Mammal class.  This can create some confusion when typing in the code...

I’ve just returned from a trip to New Zealand over Christmas - my first time back since before covid. While there, I was looking through an old handwritten recipe book, which my mother inherited from an aunt (or great aunt, I forget now), and on the back of one of the many recipe newspaper cuttings...

Following on from this post, for anyone who's interested in getting ActivityPub integrated on their static site, this is what I've needed to setup/build (some of this may indeed be redundant, but it 'evolved' over time, so easier just to leave alone than fix).

Some not-hugely-relevant backgrou...

I've been trying to integrate ActivityPub (basically Mastodon) into my static site with varying levels of success. The most difficult part is the inbox which is obviously not static - there are 3rd party services to help, like fed.brid.gy, but I had limited success with that unfortuately,...

After reading the experiences of a number of other folk also having issues with Microsoft Bing (and thereby DuckDuckGo) indexing -- particularly this comment on Hacker News, I've come to the conclusion it was my fault after all.

At some point last year, I redirected my older (mostly unused) doma...

This is a weird one. DDG has been my search engine of choice for a number of years, so I also used it as the search engine for this site (since it's statically generated). At some point over the last 3 (I think) months it stopped working - returning no results for any search criteria. Given Bing...