Since getting my smartphone, I’ve seen the horror of the mobile web — not the boiled-down, large print version of the web customized for mobile devices with small screens, but the regular web shrunk down to render in tiny fonts on small screens. This is what happens when site designers don’t update their HTML and …
Category Archives: Software
Substandard Compliance
The erosion of academic writing continues: “Several media queries can be combined in a media query list. A comma-separated list of media queries. If one or more of the media queries in the comma-separated list are true, the whole list is true, and otherwise false.” Source: W3C Media Queries Come on, World Wide Web Consortium, …
The Last of FM
I dunno, but I think I’m done with Last.fm. It was neat, I guess, but after five years, I’ve determined that it’s just not useful to my life. Essentially, supported music players could be connected to your Last.fm profile and every song play is tracked (it’s called “scrobbling”). Ostensibly, it was a way to discover …
Handprints and Horses
I think I need a new project. Should probably ditch Drupal on my music site. It’s nice, but shitty on a shared webhost environment. Too heavy. Maybe go back to static HTML files, like in the stone age. Fastest way to see cave paintings. Drupal, see, it’s like going to the cave and asking the …
Fix Your FitBit Sync Service
A month ago, I purchased a FitBit Zip to replace the pedometer I’ve been carrying for a few years. The old one didn’t have the ability to upload activity logs, which is a feature I liked about the Zip. I installed the sync software onto my Windows 7 laptop, plugged in the USB BlueTooth dongle …