My local grocery store has started to sell its own-brand plant-based burgers. I really want to try them, but I’ll have to wait until I’m on an “off keto” cycle, as they’re relatively high in carbs. It’s amazing and encouraging how quickly the newer plant-based “meat alternatives” are becoming mainstream.
After work I’m going to try my hand at making some mini keto cheesecake bites. I ❤️ cheesecake.
Some of the trees across from my office window look like they’re being blown horizontal by the wind, which is going to make the walking part of my trip to the dentist fun.
YouTube’s iOS app keeps showing me this same advert for a repugnant right-wing “political” group every time I open the app, despite me taking all of the possible steps to ask for it not to be shown:
- Blocked the source page in YouTube
- Repeatedly said I don’t want to see the ad
- Given feedback that the the ad is repetitive/inappropriate/not relevant on multiple occasions (it falls into all 3 categories IMO). It would be great if there was also an option to report as “misleading,” but alas…
I’m really at a loss as to what else I can do to stop having this shoved down my throat whenever I use the app. Thankfully ads don’t get shown in the tvOS app timeline, yet, so it’s limited to my phone – but I’m sure I read somewhere recently they’re already testing some changes around showing ad units in the TV app.
This advert is pretty mild, even if it is scaremongering and misleading, but the next one YouTube decides I must see might not be.
The (metal) Sisters of Battle range has gone to “Last Chance to Buy” on the Games Workshop website. After 22 years it’s the end of an era! I’m pretty sure I have everything I need, but maybe one or two more wouldn’t hurt… 🤔
Roll on the new, revamped, fully-plastic range in November!
This evening has mainly been waylaid by a migraine and neck pain. Normal service shall (should) resume tomorrow.
I’m starting to pull together a theme based on the changes I was thinking about a few days ago. It’s nothing “earth-shattering” or revolutionary, but it fits where my mindset is right now.
I need to think carefully about how I handle Post Kinds, like Bookmarks and Likes… these have had such divergent ways of formatting over the years that there’s probably no one-size-fits-all approach I can take. So far I’ve managed to keep everything IndieWeb-compatible too, with h-feed, h-entry, h-card, and other building-block microformats working more-or-less as they do now (as far as I’ve tested with X-Ray, Parse This, Indiewebify, etc).
Layout is being handled by Flexbox for the moment. This article has continued to be invaluable. I could/should switch to CSS Grid for the final version, but I haven’t yet. So far only the content has been worked on. I still need to figure out the header/footer/secondary information.
If I can get a good run at things, I should have the theme finished some time in November. October is unlikely, as my evenings are fully-booked until at least the 19th.
My partner made some “keto chocolate brownies” that have no sugar or flour and the like in them. Despite what you’d think, they were actually pretty good – the moisture and density were on point. The flavour was of very strong cocoa, verging on that of 90% chocolate, so they’re not going to be to everyone’s taste. My partner didn’t like the results, but I did, so I guess that means more for me! 😁
Ericlaw has a nice write up about the history of the XSS filter. Unfortunately it doesn’t help me fix my ongoing woes (which I’m nearly convinced must be a false-positive), but it does give a few insights and context to the feature.
The new tenants in the office opposite ours have been building a single IKEA shelving unit for the last 3 hours. I considered offering my help as I’ve put together so many of them I can put together most standard IKEA units inside of an hour. But they seemed to be getting a bit heated, so I won’t poke the bear.
I’m working on a legacy app which still needs to support IE11. There’s one screen (a search window in a pop-up) which intermittently triggers the XSS filter, depending on values in the URL — despite everything being encoded properly. When this happens the entire screen is prevented from drawing. It’s driving me mad, and to top it off, once it triggers it starts triggering on values which didn’t previously cause the XSS filter to fire.
Edit to add: turning off the XSS filter by setting the header is not allowed.
I see we’re in the part of the year where I scramble to find suitable days to use up the last of my Annual Leave…
Apparently it’s “Cyber Security Awareness Month.” To keep things simple, my top tips would be:
- Use a password manager. (I ❤️ 1Password)
- Turn on Two-Factor Authentication everywhere you can.
Apologies if you got/get a webmention from my dev site – I just refreshed it with some more recent content, so I could see how things were looking with a wider variety of posts.