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The Feb thread is still open, but as a New Zealander, it seems more correct to post in this one 
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What it says on the tin!
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Yeah, the threads opening/closing are all based on my advanced NZST capabilities, lol. Not sure why the other one didn’t close!
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Two posts this week!
You Don’t Need to Know Who Your Users Are - Relatively technical detail heavy but more people should be thinking about it.
Weekly Post #10 - this might be a habit now, maybe it’s sticking…
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I have published a new weekly recap post, featuring: Pokémon 30th anniversary, Scarlet Hollow Episode 5, Stardew Valley 10th anniversary, 32-Bit Cafe’s new project, and more!
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Fresh off the presses!
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The hashed email in the database idea is cool! But if users really care about not having their email breached, is there a way to prove to users that your site’s database schema is as described? You can open-source the backend, but then how do you prove that your site is actually running that code and not a patched version, etc.? By contrast, I can verify in the browser inspector that my password gets hashed before sending.
I recently had to dig up an email from ten years ago to retrieve some old account number and was pleasantly surprised that the HTML still rendered just fine (although not the hotlinked images…). It’s encouraging that the browser standards people have put so much thought into backwards compatibility that even quite stale websites (designed pre-2010) still work as they did. E.g. drudge report, wordreference.com, refdesk.com.
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Another month, another wrap-up post. Apparently I did loads of little bits and pieces to my site last month; I didn’t realise until I sat down to compile a list!
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For those here who might be interested:
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I really like this post! It brought up some memories for me about designing back in the day so I wrote up a bit of a response (more like an addendum) here:
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Really enjoyed this!
One other aspect of the longevity of websites is whether or not browsers will continue to support them as features deprecate. I had thought that one of the ideals of the web was that things should always be backwards compatible, but apparently Chrome knows better. I’m mad on behalf of the sites currently using XSLT, and on behalf of all the sites that could be using newer versions of XML if browsers had implemented it instead of favoring JavaScript frameworks.
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Same way you trust someone to have a password on their database I guess. At some point there has to be a reasonable point of trust, and if anyone was that bothered they’d use a disposable email of some variety, would they not?
I just wanted to say that I feel kind of burnt out irl and really uninspired to blog as a result (I either can’t think of how to word posts I want to write or have 0 ideas for posts) but I’m still lurking and reading people’s blogs! The same issue I’m having with blogging means I can’t always think of things to say in response to people’s posts but I love these threads.
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This bimonthly recap comes a little late to accommodate for a small tangent on chinese representation in the Netherlands. Other shenanigans include a 3 day trip in Antwerp and staring at an artwork for an hour as a school assignment.
…now to catch up on like 30 blogposts from other people since 2 weeks ago XD
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Oh wow, thank you for such a thoughtful response! I just tried looking at my site with no stylesheets and it’s semantically okay but the fontawesome icon svgs are way too massive by default 
but at least it looks nice in the terminal and with no js.
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The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include a deep dive into ASCII rendering, using BOINC to help with scientific research, and a story about a trademark that a large media corporation let lapse so a group of journalists took it over and brought back the media in a new form. I show off the latest cross stitch project I completed, I talk about what I’m up to in Everquest 2, I share a list of the archaeology/anthropology YouTube channels I watch and, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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Lab mice might be healthier and give better results if they didn’t … live in a lab
[Jonathan Frisby voice] Nooooo, you think??
(great post as usual)
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