Category Archives: Dev
business as usual during alterations
I’m remodelling the site theme again: innsmouth is becoming a sort of step-child theme of twentyten, the new WordPress 3.0 default. Some features are going to look a little strange while I chase down the more specialised stylings (many of … more…
HTML 5, further still
Ooo-okay then: there’s good news, and there’s, well, there’s Internet Explorer. First the good news – I have located an honest-to-goodness (if “highly experimental”) HTML5 validator, and after whacking a few niggly bits, we are now officially valid HTML 5 … more…
HTML 5 upgrade, further
I just took a look at the page through the peculiar perspective of a slightly elderly PC running WinXP. I had realised that Windows’ screen rendering is harsh and approximate, but I was faintly amused to note that the single … more…
HTML 5 upgrade
Screenshot, before this was posted. Obviously. Right, so I’ve rewritten the theme files for the blog, migrating to HTML 5 conventions. The result, by the way, is much leaner code: the total weight of the new version is down from … more…
Tab Mix Plus
Further to my recent tweet, it turns out that Firefox never actually had an “open in foreground tab” contextual menu item to call its own. I’d forgotten (if I ever knew) that the feature was owed to the Tab Mix … more…
aside: the feed(s)
A couple of days ago I changed the main RSS feed for enthusiasm from summary to full text. I’m now seeing a plug-in which will offer a choice of feeds, which sounds like it might be a good thing to … more…
links for 2007-10-24: wordpress hackery, Deadnauts
scompt.com ยป Adding custom columns to the WordPress manage posts screen Tutorial for adding columns to post management page in WordPress admin (tags: wordpress, dev, plugin) Deadnauts, by Ted Kosmatka A great short story of space travel, though not the … more…
Gravatars, OpenID
Prompted by Automattic’s absorption of Gravatar, and consequently Matt’s implementation of Gravatars on his blog, I’ve incorporated the code to display gravatars on this blog here. You will find the relevant code to do similarly (if you’re running WordPress) here. … more…
links for 2007-09-29: Ridley Scott, USB guitar, Go
Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined Most interesting Blade Runner -related interview I’ve seen in a good long while. (tags: scifi movies design urban-environment future) How to Build a USB Guitar detailed and well-documented … more…