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The original spec for cookies was GDPR compliant—and anticipated the advertising-driven disasterscape we live in today.

(Via Tony Finch's link log)
- The original cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant. Baekdal Media
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
- cookies
- GDPR
- privacy
Letterform Archive is a museum of typography and type design in San Francisco and now has an online archive.

(Via The Online Archive Is Now Open to All via Brand New: Letterform Archive Online)
- Home
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
I am beginning to think that configurable web sites are a terrible idea. Here is an old article ranting about the hugely complicated web frameworks created so that sites may be built ‘without writing a single line of code’.
- Without Writing a Single Line of Code 8 August 2009
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
- Drupal
- programming
Visiting a factory that recycles lithium-ion batteries, which turns out to be both simple and complicated.
- Can electric vehicle batteries be recycled? | Fully Charged Before the lockdown, Helen Czerski went to Wendeburg in Germany to see if it really is possible to recycle the materials in vehicle batteries. In this fascin...
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
- battery
- energy
- Fully Charged
- Germany
- recycling
- video
- YouTube
A quick introduction to the logic programming language Prolog.
- A Concise Introduction To Prolog
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
- programming language
- Prolog
How to read RSS in 2020. The RSS format has been around for decades and is stil alive for those who want ti use it.

(Via Laura Kalbag on Twitter)
- How to read RSS in 2020 I’ve been working on a starter blog for people to use with Site.js. We want this blog to have easy-to-use, accessible and rights-respecting defaults so it’s simple to just get blogging. One of defaults is RSS feeds. But what if you’ve not come across RSS before? What are the benefits of RSS and how can you get subscribing?
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. Each app is installed in its own virtualenv and the commands added to a directory you put on your path.
- pipx
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
Using GitHub Actions to updatge the README of a repository of short tips & tricks articles.

(Via Simon Willison on Twitter)
- Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
Filling in government forms online is stressful enough without your input being rejected because they want you to write your credit-card info or postcode in a weird format that is convenient to them but weird for you. Turns out I wrote about this five years ago already.
- Generosity when Accepting Postcodes 12 August 2015
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.

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