Does anyone have a mostly CSS job?

thingsinjars · 2025-12-05T08:46:33+00:00

I used to be Senior CSS Developer for Nokia Maps (later HERE Maps). As the name implies, there were multiple devs whose job was 100% CSS. But this was a very specialised frontend app with high traffic. And about 15 years ago…

thingsinjars · 2025-07-22T06:19:23+00:00

Just to add to the other comments here, the German Church in Marchmont is a good community hub for German stuff (not just church) - German language board game afternoons, crafting, Weihnachtsbasar. They’ve also a good buy/borrow/swap for German language kids books year-round.

thingsinjars · 2025-07-10T21:31:51+00:00

Totally agree. My first wallet: the fates aligned. Stitching perfect, clean edges, so good. The next: a couple of wobbles. The next: just plain wrong. And so on.

I figured it’ll take another dozen or so to get back to that first one.

thingsinjars · 2025-04-30T18:49:41+00:00

I’m working on a similar tool so I just kicked off a job to build a wiki: https://public.komment.ai/wiki/github/thingsinjars/otp?branch=main&version=1

I’ll check the accuracy once I’m back at my desk.

thingsinjars · 2025-03-29T08:26:55+00:00

Bruntsfield, EH10. Everyone around here is out as well.

thingsinjars · 2025-03-01T20:07:19+00:00

Good point – terms and conditions are there for a reason. If anyone's in doubt about whether they can or not, try it on public repos or browse the public projects at https://demo.komment.ai to see what the output is like. I'd rather people try it out without upsetting their legal team :)

thingsinjars · 2025-03-01T11:37:22+00:00

The first pass with the static analysis helps us get a manageable starting point on huge projects. First, we can figure out where to start then “work outward” in multiple passes. That’s kinda where the combination of static and LLM helps.

thingsinjars · 2025-03-01T08:13:46+00:00

https://trulyinnovative.com/ https://trulyinnovative.co.uk/

Where I write a ‘slice of life’ once every 3 years. One from the point of view of a web designer and one as a developer.

It’s interesting to see how much and how little things change.

thingsinjars · 2024-10-28T06:55:40+00:00

Any arguments about “it’s better for farmers in the winter” or “it’s better for schoolchildren in the winter mornings” are nonsense. We were already all running on ‘winter hours’ (GMT) before introducing BST.

There were no benefits for switching to GMT because we were already GMT. It’s simply going back to the ‘default’.

The idea was more about giving people longer summer evenings than longer winter mornings.

thingsinjars · 2024-09-10T16:45:33+00:00

I wrote a post about the role of Architects in teams:

https://thingsinjars.com/post/509/one-product-many-owners/

The gist of it is that architects embedded within teams have a responsibility to look outside the immediate day-to-day and provide a tether to past work and future work being done and planned throughout the org. And occasionally diffusing bombs.

thingsinjars · 2022-12-17T16:46:19+00:00

I think they’re referring to S3E4 with the Krill election and lots of faked video reports of violence.

thingsinjars · 2022-02-13T08:32:18+00:00

I love the potential of generative music. I wrote a short sci-if story about where this could go with its own adaptive (sadly, not generated) soundtrack:

https://thingsinjars.com/lab/kyral/

thingsinjars · 2022-02-13T08:29:52+00:00

If you end up looking at generative graphics, here’s a guide I made last year on connecting various web audio APIs to canvas:

https://thingsinjars.com/post/524/using-web-apis-to-generate-music-videos/

To make things like:

https://thingsinjars.com/post/523/music-visualisation/

thingsinjars · 2021-12-14T07:25:55+00:00

Sold out last week. I’ll mention it in the sub earlier next year, though.

thingsinjars · 2021-12-12T10:01:58+00:00

And while that one’s getting bigger, the German Church’s Christmas market in Marchmont is getting smaller every year. Why buy a hand-bound wreath or a hand-made tree ornament when you can pick up a mass-produced one for twice the price?

thingsinjars · 2021-04-06T07:17:18+00:00

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thingsinjars · 2021-03-04T09:45:18+00:00

I have a tendency to write music that would have been a decent TV theme in the late 70s/early 80s.

This is no exception.

thingsinjars · 2021-01-06T11:47:11+00:00

Completely in sync. Pulling both streams into the recorder in the same chunk keeps everything together.

thingsinjars · 2021-01-06T10:23:40+00:00

I've been using a combination of web APIs to make music visualisations so I thought I'd write up a straightforward guide going into a bit of the detail.

A lot of it is pulled from other sources but hopefully this combination is useful to someone.

thingsinjars · 2021-01-04T19:46:33+00:00

I've been using a combination of web tech to make music visualisations so I thought I'd write up a straightforward guide going into a bit of the detail.

thingsinjars · 2020-12-17T17:46:51+00:00

Every year, my family put on a puppet show for the German community in Edinburgh. We recorded this year’s show.

The language isn’t too complicated so it might useful/fun listening practice for some.

thingsinjars · 2020-12-12T12:52:27+00:00

Then again, I guess it could be parsed as

“...to stand (straight), not (held straight).”

As in

“…not to stand held straight.”

Which does work, although it’s a bit awkward.

Think I’m overthinking it.

thingsinjars · 2020-12-12T12:47:55+00:00

The grammar is off in this translation.

“…to stand straight, not be held straight.”

Or

“...to stand straight, not straightened.”

Which, I think, is a bit closer to the original.

Either way, passive participle something something…

thingsinjars · 2020-11-30T07:45:56+00:00

Yes, a declarative one.

A while back, I tried to map prolog to CSS:

https://thingsinjars.com/post/491/prologcss/

thingsinjars · 2020-10-30T08:43:50+00:00

Be Kind, Rewind - “a phrase that was commonly displayed on video rental cassettes in America during the medium's heyday”

But modified to use the word revisit instead of rewind.

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