Look at many early DVD releases, and you’ll see interactive menus touted as a selling point. Coming from VHS (or LaserDisc), which had no menus to speak of, this was a genuine improvement. That isn’t to say all DVD s had interactive menus, however. Many of the earliest releases just entered straight into their content, and the same is true of some cheaper releases. However, once DVD became widespr

The speaker rider of Declan Chidlow, identifying my expectations when speaking and presenting at events such as conferences and meet-ups. Technical requirements, expectations for conduct, event handling, and diversity in speakers, and accomodations I expect as a speaker myself. A rider is a term used by performers and production teams for a document listing demands and requests for their performan

Statistics and data from my time playing Team Fortress 2. Everything that I can easily extract from the API, including my play activity as various classes, in various modes. Kills, damage inflicted, score, and other details with some light commentary where appropriate. Team Fortress 2 is a great game. It is also a deeply unserious one. I’m not sure how much value can be extracted from the gameplay

The ebbs and flows of the web have gotten us to where we stand today. We simply wouldn’t have the web we do without the journey it has taken us to get here. However, some of the steps it has taken to get here have been interesting to say the least. CSS is how we style things on the web, but since its inception it has been made, on occasion, to wear a few more hats. It has taken on odd roles and pi

A document outlining and explaining my general structure for HTML pages to use. A slim general markup template that applies to almost all HTML documents on the web and forgoes anything unnecessary. It is a general framework to build upon for individual sites. When HTML was first created, a document could be very simple indeed. A valid document could look like this: < TITLE > HTML document </ TITLE

With ever-changing devices, browsers, operating systems, form factors, specifications, personal preferences, tooling, and corporate interests, the web is in a constant state of flux. As a result, so is the HTML we write. For every line of the HTML specification itself that has changed since the language’s inception, there are many more bits of HTML that have seen what I’ll call ‘environmental’ cha

Statistics and data from my playing of the video games in the Halo series. My data extracted from Halo Waypoint combined with some light analysis. Covering the games in the Master Chief Collection and Halo Infinite. Kills, deaths, and how they all happened. I am not what one would call the greatest player of Halo to ever grace this planet. If you can believe it, I am rather mediocre. I have moment

The history and details of an obscure Minecraft version that was exclusively available on the Raspberry Pi. Based on the mobile Pocket Edition for phones but with some unique functionality. Namely, a native API for interacting with the game. Primarily created to serve as an educational tool. Minecraft: Pi Edition is a modified port of the game Minecraft to the Raspberry Pi, a hobbyist single-board

An in-depth history of the Stoat chat platform. From its precursor Riot, through to all the additions and changes the platform has seen and received as it has grown. Details from when it was once Revolt to the change into Stoat and details of all the bumps and successes along the way. In 2019 three students in their mid-teens – Paul Makles (Insert), Rene Vinter (Nizune) , and Martin Löffler (Fatal

Love for the beauty of the AT Protocol and the older web principles it revitalises with open, public data. The opportunity for integrations and automations as seen of the web from roughly the mid-2000s through to the mid-2010s. Web3, the ‘era’ of the web supposedly ushering in blockchain technologies and other such fluff, has undoubtedly been a bust. Perhaps not for the bank accounts of manipulato