Red sky at night...

...sheppard's delight!

Looking over the Alzette valley from Helmdange onto Keispelt.

Treasure hunt in Luxembourg

A couple of photos of Luxembourg city at it's best in the lovely spring sun.

Looking over the Abbeye Neumunster and Alzette river in the Grund in Luxembourg City

Looking on to the Red Bridge (also known as Pont Grande-Duchesse Charlotte) over Pfaffenthal and linking the city centre with the European Quarter in Kirchberg

The value of accessibility

Jeremy Keith recently blogged about the great usability of the UKs Covid vaccination online booking process. Having recently renewed my UK passport online I can only second this. The UKs test and trace system perhaps wasn't world beating. But their Government Digital Service most defintely is!

JavaScript for the ages

Thanks to a post by Jeremy Keith, I came across this post by Remy Sharp on the changing web and framework fatigue.

NearlyFreeSpeech.Net

This site is hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I've been using them since 2006 and I couldn't recommend their service highly enough. They are essentially a pay as you go service, where you pay for what you use. This makes them incredibly cheap for low use sites like mine. This site costs me less than $1 a month in hosting charges.

Privacy - how GDPR is meant to work

Finally a company that has got rid of all non-essential cookies and therefore does not need to annoy it's users with annoying privacy popups, often purposefully designed to confuse you into choosing the least private option. Well done to GitHub for removing all non-essential cookies and getting rid of privacy popups.

Eleventy, webmentions and my new site

It's finally done. I migrated my site from WordPress to a static site generated by eleventy. I've also managed to get webmentions working of a sort. Many thanks for all the great help available on the internet. I list here some sites I found especially helpful, but of course there are many others who gave me a nudge in the right direction.

Introducing the ROBIN Stack

Following this idea I saw on Chris Ferdinandi's site, of defining our stacks using our name, I present you the ROBIN stack:

Welcome Back

Welcome to the fourth redesign of my personal website. I've been working on my own personal website since about 1998. In that time it has had four designs, which roughly follow the evolution of the web.

Sites I have helped produce

Angie

Christmas Day, 2020

Five coping strategies

Here's a nice post on coping strategies: https://thepilcrow.net/five-coping-strategies-backed-by-science/

Power

Those who want power do not deserve it.
And those who deserve power do not want it.

J.K.Rowling, ~2000 AD

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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Plato, ~400 BC

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Nothing new under the sun...

Equality, Equity, Fairness

Two images I like which illustrate beautifully fairness, equality and equity.

Equality and Equity

Fair and Equal

Dissecting the WAD, part 10

This is a 10 parts series examining the WAD. In this final part of the series we look at articles 11 to 15 of the directive.