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Making screensavers like it's 1995
I’m not sure why it never occurred to me before to use code to create pretty visual things. Probably because of a long-standing aversion to CSS which I can only blame the Myspace era for. …
• on: tech, clojure, clojurescript, quil, artcategories: geek-talk
Why Instagram's API sucks
I built a little React app to display images from my Instagram stream. Writing React was fun; anything that touched Instagram’s API was not. Now, after a few days of wrangling, I’ve just decided to sod the whole thing off and hack my own solution together. …
• on: tech, instagram, api, cors, jsonp, oauth2categories: geek-talk
How to get married in Demark, for couples living in Germany
Are you an Ausländer living in Germany? Have you met someone you like enough that you have agreed to marry them? Are you prepared for the mountains of paperwork involved? As we all know, the multi-headed hydra of German bureaucracy can be a daunting foe. But word on the streets (and on Toytown, and from the embassies) is that the simplest way to get yourselves hitched is to hop over to Denmark and get married there. Well, IT’S (MOSTLY) TRUE. …
• on: german-life, marriage, denmarkcategories: how-to
Hello Jekyll
I built this site because having had my nose stuck in Angular 1 for the last year or so, I wanted to do something different. Actually it was initially intended to be a React project, but this Jekyll is just making things too easy. And now I’ve got a collection of static pages which is pretty much exactly the opposite of a single page app. Ha. But it’s fun. …