A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a web developer who wanted a silly animation for his custom 404 error page. philipnewborough.co.uk/demos/canvas...
I've been playing around with converting a website's database from MariaDB to SQLite. SQLite is consistently 100 - 200ms faster when performing search queries on a table with ~100,000 rows using DataTables and PHP. There doesn't appear to be any noticeable speed difference querying individual rows. Also, I'm not sure if I'm being a bit heavy handed with it, but I've managed to corrupt the SQLite db numerous times, which is concerning.
Roughly 2 weeks ago, I changed my GNOME desktop to use Dark Style so that I could test some prefers-color-scheme CSS styles. I've not changed it back since.
Converting a website's back-end to use SQLite, it's currently using MariaDB. I'm interested to see if there will be any performance improvements. The largest table has ~250k rows, so it's not big data, but it's also not insignificant.
Just upgraded to Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.1) from 29.0.8. The upgrade was super quick and everything seems to working just fine.
I see a lot more negative comments about AI than positive in my social feeds. I obviously choose my friends wisely.
Installed Oh My SVG from Flathub. Does a good job at cleaning SVG files for embedding in HTML.
TIL Vivaldi for iOS has configurable content blocking that allows you to import and use your own block lists. Nifty.
Giving Vivaldi a try on iOS. The built in ad blocker is nice. Settings synced from desktop, including custom search engines, which is also nice. I can’t seem to set a custom new tab page, but the customisable start page is ok.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but it is far easier to set a custom new tab page and create a custom search engine in Firefox on iOS than it is in Firefox on my Linux desktop. This does not seem right.
I’ve had a really great experience at OggCamp this weekend. Lots of fantastic talks and people. It’s been good to catch-up with some old friends, and make some new ones. Big thanks to the sponsors, organisers and crew.
Next OggCamp session, “Fighting Ens**ttification with ActivityPub”.
Next OggCamp session, “TuxJam 🎤 live recording”.
Next OggCamp session, “People First, Pixels Second - Rethinking Digital Inclusivity”.
OggCamp day 2, first session, “Wrestling a Giant C++ desktop app into your browser”.
Next OggCamp session, “Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate on Hacker Public Radio”.
Next OggCamp session, “Build a social media platform in 20 minutes using ActivityPub”.
Next OggCamp session “The 3D printer that took a decade to tune”.
OggCamp lightening talks covered ADHD, HTML text adventures, public speaking, parenting and building B2B SAS products, a Library in a container (Manchester Library of Things), and infosec karaoke 🤣
Attending the OggCamp lightening talks session.
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