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.
Attending the “Defend Your Websites with a WAF! Open-Source Web Application Firewall Projects from OWASP” session.
I finally got around to adding a dark mode to my website. I guess I should have done this a while ago. Apologies for blinding any dark mode users.
Setting off for OggCamp 2024. I've been looking forward to this weekend for a while. Please come and say hello if you see me hanging around.
I was asked to find a bunch of spooky sound effects for a charity Haunted Walk event at work. I figured it would be much better to have an app for that, so I created a creepy SFX soundboard as a PWA. It's kind of silly, but it was fun to work on. I used the Dracula theme, which is not just for Halloween!
After more than a week of using/testing Vivaldi browser, I've moved back to using Firefox. I really enjoyed using Vivaldi, it's a great browser with lots of settings/features that other browsers don't offer (without extensions/add-ons). It's good to know that if Firefox ever dies, I can switch to using Vivaldi and be happy.
Also, a good thing to come out of using Vivaldi, it forced me to edit my personal Firefox extensions to work with both Firefox and Vivaldi/Chrome.
Working on a single-page application. It's not something I would normally do and I didn't start it as a SPA, it just kind of happened. The application may never be published, but I had a free Saturday afternoon and it was kind of fun to hack on.
I have spent today mostly writing Sass/CSS. Maybe it's just me, but it takes me a while to mentally switch to working with front-end stuff; even more so when I've mostly been working on back-end stuff. I find there is much more freedom to experiment and play on the front-end, and this can take time, which makes me feel like I am going slow. I guess I need to remind myself that it is OK to take my time.
I've added my website to a webring. It feels like I've stepped back in time! IndieWeb Webring: xn--sr8hvo.ws
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