I decided to spend a day updating my web sites to the latest software. In accordance with the laws of sofware enstimation, this took rather longer than I intended, but never mind that. Apart from upgrading the underlying operating system from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS, I also wanted to switch from FastCGI hosting my sites to uWSGI. Read more
I have started configuring my web sites to work with IPv6. Read more
I have been neglecting Kanbo while job-seeking and doing freelance jobs, but today I did one token update: I added a bookmarklet on the details page of a board that can be used as a shorthand to add a card to that board. Read more
It has taken only ten years but we now have SVG support as good as it was ten years ago using Adobe’s SVG Viewer plug-in in Netscape 4. I have decided it is about time I resurrected my 2002 project, the Alleged Tarot. Read more
When you buy an Andoid phone for the first time you want to set it up by entring your Gmail password. If you have set up two-factor authentication (also called 2-step verification) then you need a one-time application password to do this: your regular Gmail password will be rejected with a message suggesting wrongly that you have mistyped it. Having remembered this, you now want to find the page for minting a new application password. Now the usability nightmare begins. Read more