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I have nothing but good things to say about the author of that piece.

Pah, amateur. I made two at once. Well ok, my wife did most of it, but I was definitely a contributing maker.

Funny, isn't it. They ruin API access and overcharge for it, so everyone scrapes, and in trying to stop that they ruin the product for the users, without whom it's worth nothing. R…

I see you've played poundy, spoony before.

Thank, fixed.

> The author is British? What ho, old bean. Yes, I am.

That's amazing. I did consider suggesting replacing the semi-colon with "innit" at the end of each line, but it didn't really fit with the theme.

It's funny, I wrote it very much tongue-in-cheek of course, but as someone who grew up writing HTML and then CSS and using "color" all the time there's probably a little nugget of …

It's morning here, but thankyou all the same.

No, it's a joke. Source: I wrote it :)

Thanks for letting me know my site was down :)

Well, bugger.

If I ever get around to updating the article, this is going in :)

When I was learning my way around regexes, I found a cheat sheet helped. I made my own - you can download it free from here: https://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/reg…

I've been on both ends of 1:1s. For a manager, they seem great - a regular meeting, a chance for staff to talk about things. But they're not. They're window dressing. If you need t…

I made https://readability-score.com/ - a site for measuring the readability of text. It's been a bit of an accidental success, but it's proving to be a great project.

Cheatography is awesome, and the developer who built it is really cool and talented and handsome and me. :) Thanks for mentioning Cheatography. It's a bit of a labour of love, and …