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Irony escapes Tim Farron. Again. And again. And again.
Commenting on the Conservatives’ decision to drop a manifesto and coalition agreement promise, Illiberal Liberal Democrat president, Tim Farron, said, “It sends a message to the electorate that ‘we don’t trust you. We think you might do things which we don’t like’ Perhaps, Tim, you might sit your parliamentary party down and beat then round…
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Stop breaking the internet!
That’s what I’m getting at the moment whilst trying to read an article from a feed I subscribe too. I use Feedly, as you may have guessed, which insists on hijacking the URLs from the feeds with it’s own redirects. I get no benefit from this, just the longer wait when, as has happened a…
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The joy of collaboration… and politics
As an open source developer I collaborate with other developers on projects. More so now I’m working with Code For The People (best WordPress agency in the world, obvs). Thanks to James Smith starting the OpenPolitics Manifesto I’ve thoroughly enjoyed applying that same collaborative spirit to a political endeavour. When you have something you want to…
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4 years and 2 months later… TheyWorkForYou plugin gets an update
Shocking it’s been so long really, but I’ve finally revived my TheyWorkForYou WordPress plugin. When I first released it, all the plugin did was supply a TheyWorkForYou widget. Nothing’s changed! That’s for good reason though… At the time, the latest version of WordPress was 2.8.6 and we’re now on 3.8.1 so a lot has changed!…
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Time to Fight Against a DRM’d Web – by Forking It
It’s disappointing and sad that inventor of the free and open web Tim Berners-Lee, has allowed the vested interests of Hollywood to influence the W3C, which is pushing ahead with implementing DRM in direct conflict with the web’s founding principles. Let’s hope that, as with XHTML, a fork of HTML will win out and destroy…
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New WordPress plugin: Change content based on device
When developing responsive WordPress themes I use a plugin called Mobble. It provides simple template tags to determine what device the site is being viewed on and change the layout accordingly. On some sites, I’ve created shortcodes to allow me to use some of those functions within the content itself but after doing some work…
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Google Wants To Drive Development Of Its Own Self-Driving Car
Google is able to seriously disrupt the car industry – fantastic! What’s most exciting about this is that a logical step for Google is to build hydrogen powered cars and advance that technology in the process, much more than car makers would like. Read Google Wants To Drive Development Of Its Own Self-Driving Car
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New GPS Receiver Offers Navigation Accurate To An Inch
An excellent example of crowd funding revolutionising technological advancement. No longer is new technology limited to those wealthy enough. Read New GPS Receiver Offers Navigation Accurate To An Inch
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Appeal Court declines to rule on right-to-die cases
The courts once again let the public down on right to die, saying the matter should be decided by Parliament. Of course, with Parliament including a bunch of unelected peers who can’t even manage to drag themselves out of the 18th century over equal marriage, it’s completely ridiculous to throw this issue, clearly supported by…