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A victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Expect sarcasm, dogs, puns, sport, beer, cycling, tech, pubs. Sometimes several of these at once.

so it goes.

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Fedizen since Jul, 2008

Here since May, 2023

Feb 29, 18:53

The TV shows I've found most re-watchable... Not always my favourites, they also need a re-watchable quality as well as being good. Wouldn't mind hearing what other people's go-to shows are for watching over and over.

https://trivial.observer/blog/2024/02/20240229/

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Jan 28, 09:12

Turns out the dog was reasonably well behaved on my pub crawl yesterday.
Fingers crossed that as she gets older she accepts her fate as a pub dog.

Resistance is futile.

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Aug 01, 2023

Thought I could use the open library covers API to retrieve book covers with an ISBN. Which, in theory, I can.

But the vast majority of what I've searched for so far have no cover, so it's kind of not worth it.

The data is editable, so I could contribute the covers myself... But the site gives zero guidance on what is acceptable.

Can I just download the cover from the authors website and upload it, because fair use... Or is that a no-no?

https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers

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Jul 23, 2023

well... I think I've fixed it. I've no idea why it was broken and no clue why the CSS I've changed has fixed it. Moreover, it's not exactly the fix I was looking for but it'll do.

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Jul 22, 2023

Ah, hubris.
It would seem that the code blocks, on the list page, knacker the content widths at certain resolutions.

And after trying to figure it out for 90 minutes, I'm still completely bemused by it.

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