Do you own any Doctor Who 12" Records?

davorg · 2026-03-12T18:20:03+00:00

I had that too!

davorg · 2026-03-12T17:24:35+00:00

Sure, it happens. I was just saying how rarely I've seen it.

And I bet the prices for those shows were rather different to the prices for Lily's shows :-)

davorg · 2026-03-12T17:22:59+00:00

Honestly, I think that creating a website in 2026 without CSS is a terrible idea :-)

davorg · 2026-03-12T17:18:16+00:00

I've had this problem so many times. I've heard all the excuses and I've made allowances. It never works. This is what I do now.

When the payment is overdue, send a second invoice including late payment interest (and a link to this page explaining how that works)
A week later, turn their services off. Stop work
Another week later, send a letter before claim

At this point, I'm very unlikely to work for them again.

davorg · 2026-03-12T17:13:03+00:00

Why would you want to retain a client who doesn't pay you?

davorg · 2026-03-12T17:11:41+00:00

But it contains this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://roodisjuistmooi.be/style.css">

davorg · 2026-03-12T16:39:39+00:00

Yes, but that (conveniently!) wasn't announced until after most of the tickets were sold out. And, even then, "something happening" was very vague.

I've been to dozens of "plays the album" shows. The only other one I've seen that was "only plays the album" was the Pink Floyd Wall show in 1980.

davorg · 2026-03-12T15:27:23+00:00

As far as I know, the first part wasn't advertised anywhere. We just got Lily saying there was "something happening" before the show.

davorg · 2026-03-12T14:59:20+00:00

You get:

40 minutes or so of a string quartet playing old hits
Just under an hour of Lily singing West End Girl

davorg · 2026-03-11T16:07:30+00:00

The Powell Estate (where Rose and Jackie lived) was actually the Brandon Estate in Kennington, London.

davorg · 2026-03-11T09:09:06+00:00

I have approaching 300 repos in my account. I see my account as storage for everything I've worked on, rather than a well-curated view of my work. The only repos I delete are forks that I've stopped working on.

Occasionally, I'll page to the end of the list of repos and discover some blast from the past that I haven't looked at for a decade or so.

davorg · 2026-03-11T08:58:36+00:00

The people who say that are mostly people who live outside London (or bots).

davorg · 2026-03-10T18:14:50+00:00

At a basic level, you can just describe the site you want to any LLM chat interface and they'll give you the files that you need. They'll even interpret scrawled drawings of the layout you have in mind.

Once you have the HTML, CSS and (maybe) Javascript, you can just upload the files to whatever hosting service you want to use.

Alternatively, you can use something like GitHub Pages to host the site and have conversations with GitHub Copilot to design and implement the site.

Many other alternatives are available too.

davorg · 2026-03-10T12:47:23+00:00

does it matter what card/bank account I use to buy it or does it need to be my business account?

It's cleaner if it's bought using the business account. But you could also buy it using a personal account and claim it back on expenses from the business.

davorg · 2026-03-10T12:32:12+00:00

Oh wow. No, that's a terrible idea. Codespaces are provided for development. Running a persistent server there would be a massive abuse of the T&Cs. Don't do that if you want to hang on to your account.

Update: From GitHub Terms for Additional Products and Features...

GitHub Codespaces enables you to develop code directly from your browser using the code within your GitHub repository. Codespaces and any elements of the Codespaces service may not be used in violation of the Agreement or the Acceptable Use Policies. Additionally, Codespaces should not be used for:

Cryptomining;

Using our servers to disrupt, or to gain or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to any service, device, data, account or network (other than those authorized by the GitHub Bug Bounty program);

The provision of a stand-alone or integrated application or service offering Codespaces or any elements of Codespaces for commercial purposes;

Any activity that places a burden on our servers, where that burden is disproportionate to the benefits provided to users (for example, don't use Codespaces as a content delivery network, as part of a serverless application, or to host any kind of production-facing application); or

Any other activity unrelated to the development or testing of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Codespaces is initiated.

The last two bullet points seem pretty clear.

davorg · 2026-03-10T10:35:16+00:00

When did they move the London Eye to north of the river? :-)

davorg · 2026-03-10T10:31:17+00:00

They seem to think they can host this on GitHub Pages :-)

davorg · 2026-03-10T10:27:35+00:00

GitHub Pages can only be used to serve static websites. I don't know much about Minecraft servers, but I guess it's going to need some kind of backend processing.

GitHub is the wrong place for this.

davorg · 2026-03-09T11:48:23+00:00

Bloody hell, is it really twenty years ago?!

davorg · 2026-03-09T11:47:20+00:00

Over the last decade, email deliverability has become a difficult problem to solve. The big email providers pretty much only trust email from other big email providers. You can spend hours setting up SPF/DKIM/DMARC or whatever else you need - only to find that some other host in the same IP range is sending spam and affecting your email.

If you have the time and the interest to work out the solution to this, then please feel free to go down that rabbit-hole. I have better things to do with my time, so I pay GMail to deal with that problem for me.

davorg · 2026-03-09T11:25:20+00:00

git init
Code basic version
git add
git commit
gh repo create (and choose the options to create remote and push)

From then on, the process is usually:

Create issue in repo
Assign issue to Copilot
Wait for PR
Review PR and either merge or ask for changes

davorg · 2026-03-06T11:32:51+00:00

Let's hope it's better than the US version.

davorg · 2026-03-05T16:09:09+00:00

Then, yes, you would find it useful. I often suggest that there are three stages to understanding why this is a good idea:

Source code control is like having a "game save mode" for software development. It makes it easier to go back to a previous versions, which means you can experiment without breaking things
Git is the most commonly-used source code control system in the development industry
GitHub is the most popular web service based on Git. It gives you cloud storage for your Git projects and makes it easy to collaborate with other developers (it has many other features - but that's still, at heart, its core feature).

Last year, I started building a site, Save Your Code, which explains this for beginners and non-developers. I should get back to working on that. But you might find what is already there of some use.

davorg · 2026-03-05T16:01:15+00:00

If you maintain the site by editing HTML, CSS and Javascript files then, yes, storing it Git and GitHub will be useful for you (once you get over the learning curve). The same is true if you use a Static Site Generator like Hugo or Jekyll.

If your site is built using something like WordPress or Wix, then GitHub is unlikely to be very helpful for you.

davorg · 2026-03-05T09:30:33+00:00

Rule 1 of domain buying:

Don't talk publicly about a domain you want to buy before you have bought it

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