rikroots

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   by rikroots 6y ago

   As a former civil servant I've been lumbered with the meeting secretary role on countless occasions. The following thoughts may-or-may-not help others. 1. Train your chairperson. The meeting chair is usually an important person. Everyo
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   Why have I posted this link? I am the first to admit that I'm not very good at promoting my Javascript library to fellow developers. However I believe my work has merit. This library meets a real - and for the most part unaddressed web
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   Show HN: Scrawl-canvas JavaScript library – demonstrations page(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)

   1 points by rikroots 6y ago|1 comments
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   1. Find good friends; keep good friends. You'll probably only find a handful of these throughout your life. Good friends help validate your existence and make life worth living. They will surprise you. They may turn out to be a lot old
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   1. Deputy Director posts are the bottom rung in the Senior Civil Service. Any SCS post is, by definition, senior. The SCS accounts for 1% of the entire Civil Service head count[1]. 2. Why mention the pay rate? Civil Service jobs have never
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   Word processing software. I remember my first job as a lowly admin assistant in the Civil Service where my job was to manage with the team's post, file lots of pieces of paper, and deal with the Divisional Typing Pool ruled by the fear
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   Agreed. I tested two of my personal websites[1][2]. The one with the text-heavy poetry scored 38% with a "meh" comment. The one with the gratuitously oversized banner image got 72% with a "oh yeah!" comment. It does have
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   I googled "why do octopuses die so young" and came up with this article: https://www.sciencealert.com/mother-octopus-senescence-death... > The maturation of the reproductive organs appears to be driven by secre
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   by rikroots 6y ago

   The following is the eBook publishing pipework I use. 1. Smashwords[1]. They've been around for a long while now, and the publishing system isn't as snazzy as KDP. You input a Word file (.doc, not .docx) and - assuming their &quot
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    [complaint] The title of this post is misleading. The article is a 100% promotional for a paid-for solution promising to make websites fully accessible.
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    A few years back I got very excited by the advances in electronic paper displays. I still live in hope that one day I will be able to buy a roll of e-paper (at a reasonably cheap price), hang it on the wall, add a receiver and watch TV on i
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I don't know the answer to that. But if the Dropbox guys are looking for feedback then it was this nag message which finally made me empty everything out of Dropbox and move it elsewhere. Even after emptying, the site continued to nag
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    The Plain English Campaign offer some free guides on their website: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/free-guides.html
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    Show HN: Animating text along a path does not need to be difficult(codepen.io)

    1 points by rikroots 6y ago|0 comments
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    Reduce, Reuse, Refurbish, Recycle, Composting, Energy from waste, Incineration, Landfill - that was the basics of the Waste Hierarchy when I worked on the Waste Strategy for England back in the late 1990s. I don't know if the order has
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I want to add Kate Bush to this list. She's always seemed fearless to me, both in her exploration of music and in her visual interpretation and performance of that music. Kate Bush homepage - http://www.katebush.com/hom
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    > This underlines my point, accessibility for the blind is something from the past. These days, nobody cares about us anymore. I care. And I'm trying to do something about it - making HTML5 <canvas> elements more accessible to
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I think the "How it looks?" example code given on the linked page is going to fail? The import statement should read: `import { Stage, Layer, Rect, Circle } from 'react-konva';` ... ?
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I'm posting this link not to show off my "awesome JS library" (TM pending), but rather to invite people to check out the lessons and - if they have time - offer me feedback on how useful they are. I find it difficult to judge
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    Learn how to develop canvas scenes using Scrawl-canvas JavaScript library(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)

    1 points by rikroots 6y ago|1 comments
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    IntersectionObserver is something I've come to rely on - allows me to start/stop canvas element animations so they only play when the canvas is visible in the viewport - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    > It's almost like watching an Englishman and a Frenchman hotly debating which language is uniquely better suited to writing poetry -- all the while ignoring that equally brilliant poetry has been written in both languages. I think
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    There was a good thread on HN a couple of weeks back concerning the benefits of idleness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128366
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I agree with the above points (except Foxx - that looked too scary, so I pretended it didn't exist so I have no opinion on how good/useful it could be). Getting the database up-and-running on my local machine was pretty painless a
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I met another faulty transport planning algorithm 30 years ago. Background: my first job in the UK Civil Service was as an admin assistant (I did the filing) in the Highways Contracts division, Dept of Transport. My team's job was to l
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    > They are artificially dividing an open market by making some PC games exclusive to their store. This sounds suspiciously like Amazon's KDP Select[1]: Q. What does it mean to publish exclusively on Kindle? A. When you choose to enr
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    Many thanks! I've joined the discord and will have a go at setting up a Rapier-driven demo in a canvas element this weekend.
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    A few months back I tried - and failed - to write a basic 2d physics engine for my JS canvas library. Before then, I tried to use existing JS physics engines with the library ... but none of them integrated nicely; the closest I got to maki
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I don't write much on my blogs nowadays, but that's mainly because I lack inspiration. For the past few years my 'blogging' has mostly been long rambling rant-thoughts about obscure stuff on Facebook: it gives my friends
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    by rikroots 6y ago

    I read your FAQ: > Can I get a refund? > Because we don’t sell physical products that can be returned, we can’t give you a refund either. Also in your Terms: > 05. Cancelations Or Returns > No returns on downloaded or emailed fo