Tag Archives: web
Pay To Post
Facebook is to introduce a new feature that will allow you to pay to “promote” your posts above those of your friends’ other friends. Dan is reminded of Hashcash. Continue reading
On This Day In 2004
On this day in 2004, Dan finally handed in his dissertation on the subject of Three Rings. Since then, Three Rings has become the de facto standard for University Nightlines, and has also become the most popular rota management system for Samaritans branches and a variety of other helpline charities, too. Continue reading
Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers. Continue reading
Moving Things Around With CSS Transitions
The “pop-up head” in the top-left hand corner of the page is powered entirely by CSS: no Javascript is used at all. Dan explains how. Continue reading
A New Look
Dan redesigns the theme for scatmania.org, returning to sans-serif fonts and shades of blue… plus a few modern CSS features that he’d wanted to play with… Continue reading
8-Bit Google Maps
Google Maps have started providing an “8-Bit Edition”, with retro-RPG-style map graphics, Dan observes. Continue reading
On This Day In 2011
As part of the On This Day series, Dan looks back over the last year that he’s been running FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, a service that makes it easy and painless for British citizens to change their name (and have that name legally-recognised) Continue reading
Goodbye Reader
After Google apply an ugly-as-sin new style and break some of his favourite features, Dan finally gives up on Google Reader and sets himself up on Tiny Tiny RSS instead. Continue reading
The Back Button
After reading about Torsion Pendulum Clocks on Wikipedia, Dan asks the immortal question of any Wikipedia-surfer: “how did I get here?” It’s time… for the Back Button! Continue reading
On This Day In 2003
Today is the ninth birthday of Dan’s blog on scatmania.org. Okay, okay, so he’s actually been blogging in some form or another for almost four years longer than this, but it’s still cool, however you look at it. Continue reading
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