"Why do all these migrants have expensive mobile phones?!?!?" A blog post from a decade ago which is, tragically, still relevant today.
Migrants and Mobiles – Terence Eden’s Blog
What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient? Work in progress, but I think I have the answer. 🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London. β˜€οΈ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year. πŸ”Œ We use the same amount of electricity per year. After crunching the numbers: πŸ”‹ Capturing all our solar excess needs a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery. #Solar #SolarPunk image
Seems like pretty reasonable pricing to me! image
You may not like it, but this is what peak open source projects look like. image
What happens if you ask men to shave their body hair as part of a university course in sexuality studies? πŸ“„.pdf A long read, but a fascinating one.
Oooh! My wardrobe finally counts as "vintage"! image
August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
GitHub
Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? Β· Issue #11523 Β· whatwg/html
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v...
 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
Chromium
 August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
GitHub
Remove mentions of XSLT from the HTML spec by mfreed7 Β· Pull Request #11563 Β· whatwg/html
This PR removes all mention of XSLT in the HTML spec. Closes #11523 At least two implementers are interested (and none opposed): Chromium - supp...
 Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.
Me: I'd like to buy a vegetarian sausage. Any recommendations? You: Have you considered raising your own pigs and learning how to butcher them? Me: Errr… no. That's nothing like what I want. Anyway, how hard is it to keep pigs? You: I don't know. I've never done it. But I found a forum post from 2014 which says its pretty easy. (This is a post about open source zealots.)