2020-06-09 (Tuesday)
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Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.
Looks nice. (via @simonw)
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@dracos Yeah, I meant that that code seems more terrible today - it probably, hopefully, would be easier to do the same thing better now :)
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@dracos Everything in there around touch and device detection is probably even more terrible today than it was when I wrote it.
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@dracos Aha! Thanks. I hadn't got round to looking into it and feared all that very old JavaScript. I will poke it with that tip in the next couple of days.
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@dracos Oops, thank you! Must have been like that for a long, long time. Will fix.
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@minor9th Yeah, that was fun. It's been gone for a long time.
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@Carl_Rasmus That's lovely to hear, thank you!
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A big tip of the hat to @guardian, @gdndevelopers for their free (to non-profits) OpenPlatform API that makes the site possible. open-platform.theguardian.com
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It's exactly ten years since I made my "Today's Guardian" website! It's still working (unless, I think, you're using Android Chrome or Kindle?) with just a few improvements along the way. One day of news, no distractions, finishable, like a newspaper. guardian.gyford.com twitter.com/todaysguardian…
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OH! I just realised it's exactly ten years since the site launched! Entirely coincidental. 🎂🎈📰
The iPad launched two months earlier and newspapers had yet to use this kind of format for their news apps. They still haven't on the web.
gyford.com/phil/writing/2…
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@philgyford Hey, it's wonderful! Thanks, I'll use it!
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@philgyford That makes me very, very happy Phil
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@philgyford We’re still showing this to design students at AHO as a great example of rearranging data/ content creating new usage
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@philgyford It is a fantastic idea and execution. I still use it on my older iPod touch models to read the Guardian. :-)