Avoiding the Consequences of Dumb Laws with Tailscale
More and more sites are implementing privacy-invading age checks or just completely blocking the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act. Protecting kids from some content online is certainly a noble goal, but the asinine guidance from Ofcom, threats of absolutely disproportionate fines, and the stupidly broad categories of content have resulted in companies just giving up or going through a tick-box e...
Further Adventures in Music Organisation
I wrote before about how I’d dropped Spotify in favour of locally stored music, but things have advanced a bit since. I had a few issues: Tauon would occasionally manage to lose its database and along with it all my carefully constructed playlists and song ratings, and the experience on my phone was not very fun. I had to manually sync the music by plugging my phone in to the computer, and s...
Blogging and the Imaginary Quality Bar
Recently I realised that I’ve developed a self-imposed quality bar for blog posts. They need to be a certain length, and have a certain substance to them. They need to be generally useful in some way I can’t quite define, to some imagined future audience. They need to have images to break up the page, and opengraph data for when they’re linked to on social media. But… maybe the...