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A spot of immersive storytelling
Yesterday marked the launch of one of New Internationalist's first multimedia immersive long-form pieces, Smoke and Mirrors. Cooking smoke is responsible for a staggering amount of deaths in the world — more than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined. Not only that, the need for wood c …
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Servant: REST APIs as types
In recent months, have been slowly working my way through Brian P. Hogan’s 57 Exercises for Programmers in Haskell in my lunch breaks and on bus journeys. You can see the github repo if you’re interested.As I work my way through the exercises, I have been trying to use idiomatic Hask …
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How we pronounce WWW in English: a detailed but unscientific survey
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard the interviewee talking about his website as double u, double u whatever dot com, which is a linguistic trait I have noticed happening more in recent years. It set me thinking about how we pronounce the WWW in web addresses, so I spent a day off …
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A day at IP Expo 2014
I recently attended the first day of IP Expo 2014, mostly because of the co-hosted Cyber security event that was happening concurrently, but also to see Tim Berners-Lee talk. And to browse the stalls a bit.The last time I was anywhere near London’s Excel centre, where the event takes place, …
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Browser tabs are not a do-list
Today, something of a rant. Or at least a reminder to myself not to do something that I do all too often. You see, I keep tabs open in my browser. Sometimes for weeks on end. Why, I don’t know, at least on a rational level. Whenever I try to close a tab, I get an overpowering sense of panic. …
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Finding Twitter follower count with YQL instead of the Twitter API
Earlier today, a TwitRSS.me user, @pur_wie asked me if there was a way to get follower counts from Twitter.@ciderpunx Thanks for twitRSS.me. It works great in getting tweet texts.Is it possible to get the count,num of followers/followees?— Pur (@pur_wie) June 7, 2014Depending on your …
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Using modsecurity with RBLs to mitigate comment spam
Recent weeks have brought a pile of new comment spam on this site. I’ve explored a few ways of mitigating the amount of crap I receive, and hpoefully wasting some spammer bandwidth. This includes various lookups that are built into the code that runs the site, dodgy posts get timed out for a …
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semalt: Marketing by analytic vanity
I’ll let you in to a secret. I sometimes look at the analytics on this site. I anonymize the last octet of the address of course, using the piwik plugin. One of the things I look at is the referrers that are sending me traffic. In December and January I was seeing an improbably amount of traf …
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Beta site launched! Help me make it better.
Exciting news! My my beta site is live on the interwebs now. You can even read this article on beta.charlieharvey.org.uk. I decided to launch an incomplete version with bits missing and imcomplete in the hope of getting some feedback from the internets (i.e. you ;-) ). _H_Changing webhosts_ …
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Oh shit! I started getting a million requests a month for a CGI script
Ages ago I made a little form that made it easier to get your twitter feed as an RSS. It just called the Twitter API and it was slightly useful for a few people, which was great. However, Twitter killed their old API and broke various things I’d made that pulled RSS feeds of user streams. …
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Muffet: A Perl Web Spider
Muffet is a web spider written in Perl and Moose that I've put up on github, under GPL.
The problem that I was trying to solve was to spider …
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