Turns out it is quite easy to do! (ably assisted by Alex Parsons)

Trillion dollar company, yet this is still how they display information that clearly had the space to appear in the main window

split.traintimes.org.uk now has current prices! Birmingham, for the day, same ticket flexibilities, to: • Bristol for £64.90, not £147.80: split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/BRI/y/08:00 • Oxford for £36.40, not £99.40: split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/OXF/y/08:0… • London for £83, not £188.80: split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/EUS/y/07:25

Here is fixmystreet.com – firstly with JavaScript that loaded (slippy map, we like JS!), and then when it didn’t load (as I went into a tunnel). The pan, zoom, aerial toggle, etc all still work. The map tiles are server-side image maps for reporting. It is possible :)

“we hope you join us in moving forward into new and innovative ways for navigating web and app experiences” – no! Be old and boring! Don’t break the web! It’s a list of redirects! It’s the least you could possibly do! If I can keep 20 year old URIs still working, so can you!

Google Maps just off its head nowadays

Pretty sure this is ITC Bradley Hand, designed in 1995 by Richard Bradley.

Not only is this dreadful, taking us back years in security terms, I remain of the belief that this is unsolvable; this isn’t incremental improvement, this is just how they work. But no, they’ll just add instructions, piling bad on top of bad like the UK’s rail ticketing system.

This reduces my DerekGuy-number to 2, as I know the person in this photo. Goes well with my Bacon number of 3 ;-)

Saw this, saw that the official website was a list of questions (gov.uk/hmrc-internal-…), and knocked up this equivalent web form version :) dracos.co.uk/made/hmrc-fur-…

There’s nothing I like more than a new feature that makes the page take visibly longer to load, in order to load something that’s the same as what it has already loaded further down. You may find tenbluelinks.org useful.

The current @pizzaexpress kids’ wordsearch is missing one of the words (we assume there’s a typo, as there’s an ENNY). My emotion is… sadness.

Microsoft Photos decided it couldn’t open some JPEGs synced with iCloud from mum’s account and deleted them even though they opened on her phone and then synced and they’re just gone and that’s photos of her grandchildren and why is tech so bad and they just push more crap on top

“requires tooling to be productive and competitive” – really? Odd, as I find so much awful JS development out there due to the tooling… x.com/dracos/status/… or infrequently.org/2024/08/object… And even good packages don’t realise what the tooling is doing eg github.com/alphagov/acces…

Yes! National Hurricane Center can join my map club - another option is to use input type=image with map tiles, and some server side trigonometry, to get the latitude and longitude of a non-JS map click :)

Reader, it was not well answered: “The National Security and Investment (NSI) Act 2021 does not define "critical national infrastructure".” — theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024… I guess the question would be “Would the government issue a call-in notice under the NSI Act 2021?”

This is the example they chose to show, and it tells you to make a 4"x4.5" panel out of sandpaper?

The AI nonsense now being pushed more on here can’t tell the difference between the two Tom Hollands, trebles all round.