Month: September 2022

  • Is this shampoo?

    Mini-bottles in hotel bathrooms… Am I the only one who can’t read the writing on them? I mean the font size is tiny. You can’t read them. There’s just no way to tell which bottles are which. Shampoo? Conditioner? Body lotion? Moisturiser? Shower gel?…

  • Is this shampoo?

    Mini-bottles in hotel bathrooms… Am I the only one who can’t read the writing on them? I mean the font size is tiny. You can’t read them. There’s just no way to tell which bottles are which. Shampoo? Conditioner? Body lotion? Moisturiser? Shower gel?…

  • Setting the text selection in a browser: just use setBaseAndExtent

    The Selection API is confusing and weird. But, here’s what I’ve discovered: just use setBaseAndExtend, and when (rarely) needed, extend. Summary Every selection in a browser consists of: an “anchor” – the beginning, where you started dragging, and a “…

  • ARD & Winterfyleth at the Bread Shed

    ARDFollowing a nightmare which is parking in Manchester and getting a meal on a Saturday night without booking, we walked into the Bread Shed just as ARD were getting going, minus my vinyl and CDs for signing!. The masterpiece which is Take Up My Bones…

  • ARD & Winterfyleth at the Bread Shed

    ARDFollowing a nightmare which is parking in Manchester and getting a meal on a Saturday night without booking, we walked into the Bread Shed just as ARD were getting going, minus my vinyl and CDs for signing!. The masterpiece which is Take Up My Bones…

  • Visual Lint 8.0.10.355 has been released

    Visual Lint 8.0.10.355 has now been released. This is a maintenance update for Visual Lint 8.0, and includes the following changes: The VisualLintConsole command line parser now accepts spaces between the name and value of a command line switch. As …

  • Visual Lint 8.0.10.355 has been released

    Visual Lint 8.0.10.355 has now been released. This is a maintenance update for Visual Lint 8.0, and includes the following changes: The VisualLintConsole command line parser now accepts spaces between the name and value of a command line switch. As …

  • Tips for contenteditables

    I’ve been working a bit with contenteditable tags in my HTML, and learnt a couple of things, so here they are. Update: See also my demo of how to select text in various ways in a contenteditable. Why can’t I see the cursor inside an empty contenteditab…

  • Glory! Hammer!

    Glory! Hammer! Were fantastic! They played well and were lots of fun as you’d expect.  I mean who doesn’t like a gig to start with a cardboard cutout of Tom Jones and Delilah playing on the PA. The band were all dressed up – it must have been very…