Terence Eden’s Blog
Some Quick Thoughts on EMF Camp 2026
Book Review: Foreign Fruit - A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh ★⯪☆☆☆
Scattered thoughts on social geolocation
Public Transport - Don't Make Me Think!
Book Review: A City on Mars - by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith ★★★★⯪
Gadget Review: Thermal Master DV2 - Infrared Birdwatching Scope ★★★★⯪
I'm a USB-C Maximalist
[RSS Club] Half a million steps is about 10 marathons
Another Ridiculous Interrail Holiday - 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
Game Review: Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime ★★★☆☆
A bug which only affected left-handed users
I'm just so bored of AI
Combined 1D and 2D Barcodes
This blog is written in en-GB
Book Review: Fake Creativity by Blake Loch ★★★☆☆
Book Review: The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer ★★☆☆☆
Review: Gamrombo PS5 controller - including Linux set up ★★★★☆
Auth0 PHP - manually authenticating JWT idTokens
Cybersecurity for the paranoid business traveller
Which Copyleft Licence is Suitable for an SVG?
Book Review: The Great When by Alan Moore ★★★★☆
Two Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget
[RSS Club] What happens to old posts?
Did Frank Sinatra really think "Something" was a Lennon/McCartney song?
Gadget Review: TP Link EH210 Ethernet Splitter (USB-C) ★★★★★
Book Review: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio ★★★★★
How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
There's still no point in gigabit broadband
Book Review: Accessible Communications by Lisa Riemers and Matisse Hamel-Nelis ★★★★★
London Data Store Relaunch
Using FourSquare's API to post location checkins to social media
Who are the actors in the UK's 2015 passport?
The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System is a Waste of Time
Gadget Review: Chuwi Minibook X N150 + Linux ★★★★☆
PHP - simple way to send HTTP headers before a script ends
Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?
Whale Fall
[RSS Club] Let's meet up AFK
Book Review: Terrible Worlds: Destinations by Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
Stupidly Simple SVG Sparklines
Find blog posts with missing featured images - and missing alt text - without a plugin
[RSS Club] A Sneak Preview of Upcoming Posts
Book Review: The Names by Florence Knapp ★★⯪☆☆
I've found just the right paper for my Bottom Hole problem
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google
[RSS Club] Where are you from?
Vertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
Let's Get Digging!
Theatre Review: Hadestown ★★★★★
You can parse an .env file as an .ini with PHP - but there's a catch
Does Mythos mean you need to shut down your Open Source repositories?
Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts
[RSS Club] How do you preserve an RSS feed?
Better TTS on Linux
Book Review: Up - A scientist's guide to the magic above us by Dr Lucy Rogers ★★★★★
Reprojecting Dual Fisheye Videos to Equirectangular (LG 360)
Book Review: How To Kill A Witch - A Guide For The Patriarchy by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi ★★★⯪☆
RSS Club for WordPress
Why is it so hard to passively stalk my friends' locations?
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
Cheapest way to keep a UK mobile number using an eSIM
[RSS Club] Why do you use RSS rather than Atom?
Book Review: Small Comfort by Ia Genberg ★★☆☆☆
Theatre Review: Avenue Q ★★★★★
Did WordPress VIP leak my phone number?
[RSS Club] Banana for scale
Someone at BrowserStack is Leaking Users' Email Address
Welcome to RSS Club!
Book Review: Superintelligence - Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom ★★★★⯪
Concert Review: London Philharmonic - Pictures at an Exhibition ★★★★★
Random File Format
Gig Review: Vitamin String Quartet at The Barbican ★★★★★
OpenBenches hits 40k
Adding human.json to WordPress
Book Review: If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop ★★☆☆☆
Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts!
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
Finding the right Bottom Hole paper
Some updates to ActivityBot
Book Review: Robots in Space - The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers by Dr Ezzy Pearson ★★★⯪☆
How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
An odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari
Historic Energy Price Cap Data (FOI success!)
Game Review: It Takes Two ★★★★★
Unstructured Data and the Joy of having Something Else think for you
Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm ★★★★★
What's the source of Einstein's "citizen of the world" quip?
Book Review: The Electronic Criminals by Robert Farr (1975) ★★★⯪☆
Firmware Update for the Treedix TRX5-0816 Cable Tester
Book Review: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang ★★★★⯪
How many hours do you need to work to afford a pint of beer?
Game Review: Unravel Two ★★★⯪☆
Adding "Log In With Mastodon" to Auth0
Book Review: Under Fire - Black Britain in Wartime by Stephen Bourne ★★★★☆
30 months to 3MWh - some more home battery stats
Book Review: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell ★★☆☆☆
This time is different
Book Review: Of Monsters and Mainframes - Barbara Truelove ★★★⯪☆
Adding OpenStreetMap login to Auth0
Book Review: A Geography of Time by Robert V. Levine ★★★☆☆
How close are we to a vision for 2010?
OpenBenches at FOSDEM
Book Review: Families And How To Survive Them by John Cleese and Robin Skynner ★★⯪☆☆
AI is a NAND Maximiser
Book Review: All Systems Red - The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells ★★⯪☆☆
Gadget Review: Epomaker Split 70 Mechanical Keyboard ★★★★⯪
Book Review: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends - Nicole Perlroth ★⯪☆☆☆
Social Media Payments and Perverse Incentives
Book Review: 20 Goto 10 - 10101001 facts about retro computers by Steven Goodwin ★★★★☆
Gadget Review: Topdon TS004 Thermal Monocular ★★★★⯪
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle ★★★★★
Gadget Review: Epomaker TH87 ISO Mechanical Keyboard ★★★★⯪
Book Review: Ashes To Admin - Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King ★★★★★
Gadget Review: Orico Power Strip (UK) ★★⯪☆☆
Book Review: Me vs Brain - An Overthinker’s Guide to Life by Hayley Morris ★★★★☆
Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts
Book Review: Diversifying Open Source - An Open Standards Playbook for Inclusive and Equitable Tech Projects by Paloma Oliveira ★★★★☆
Get all the reactions to your GitHub content using GraphQL
Book Review: The Examiner - Janice Hallett ★★★★⯪
The cost of running OpenBenches.org
Book Review: The Voyage of the Space Beagle by Alfred Elton Van Vogt ★★☆☆☆
Vanguard - The Government Project to get British Businesses to use the Internet
Book Review: With the End in Mind - Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix ★★★⯪☆
Theatre Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy - Immersive Experience ★★★⯪☆
Book Review: The Players Act 1 by Amy Sparkes ★★⯪☆☆
Are there any open APIs left?
Book Review: Doppelganger - A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein ★★★★☆
Do savings accounts really lose money to inflation?
Book Review: Human Rites by Juno Dawson ★★★☆☆
Installing and Updating Filezilla from a Zip File on Pop_OS / Ubuntu
Book Review: Surely You Can't Be Serious - The True Story of Airplane! ★★⯪☆☆
Removing "/Subtype /Watermark" images from a PDF using Linux
Book Review: Exterminate/Regenerate - The Story of Doctor Who by John Higgs ★★★★☆
Discovering My Talk
Book Review: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk ★★★⯪☆
Book Review: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim ★★★★★
Review: Lander 23 by Punchdrunk ★★★⯪☆
Should HTML's code blocks be translated?
Book Review: Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills ★★★★☆
Responsible Disclosure: Chimoney Android App and KYCaid
Book Review: Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami ★★★★☆
Maximally Semantic Structure for a Blog Post
Book Review: The Real Shakespeare - Emilia Bassano Willoughby by Irene Coslet ★⯪☆☆☆
Why my NFC passport didn't work at Heathrow's eGates
Book Review: Room 706 by Ellie Levenson ★★★★★
Restaurant Review: The Smokaccia Laboratory - Phuket ★★★★★
Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
Where is Bitcoin?
200 Years Ago - A Prediction of a Deadly Comet Impact
A small collection of text-only websites
Extracting Video from Motion Photos on Linux
Book Review: The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer ★★★★☆
Fixing "Date/time not in ISO 8601 format" in Google Search Console
Book Review: Code, Chips and Control - The Security Posture of Digital Isolation by Sal Kimmich
Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?
Book Review: Pure Invention - How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt ★★★⯪☆
Agentic AI is brilliant because I loath my family
Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads - use the API!
Book Review: The Menopause by Deirdre Lundy ★★★★☆
Travelling around Japan as a Vegetarian / Vegan
Book Review: Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger ★★★★★
All the books I've read this year
The Web Runs On Tolerance
Responsible Disclosure: Joiners, Movers, and Leavers in NHS BSA
A big list of things I disable in WordPress
My Wikipedia account is now old enough to vote
The Idiot Sandwich - On Embedding Alt Text
Gadget Review: SOUNDPEATS Clip1 Cuff Headphones ★★★★☆
Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
Magazine Review: DOCTYPE
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
2025 - A Year In Review
OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap
Gadget Review: Benfei USB-C Video Capture ★★★★★
Book Review: Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann ★★★⯪☆
Book Review: Strong Female Character by Fern Brady ★★☆☆☆
Book Review: If there were no Shinkansen - Shuichiro Yamanouchi ★★★★☆
Review: BENFEI Wireless USB C to HDMI ★★★★⯪
Book Review: The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple ★★★★★
Political Experiments
Book Review: When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut ★★★★★
Gig Review: Meat Loaf by Candlelight ★★★★☆
A Self-Hosted Favicon Proxy written in PHP
Movie Review: The Story of the Weeping Camel ★★★★★
Alpha launch - .well-known/avatar - feedback wanted
Book Review: A Quest for God and Spices by Dean Cycon ★★☆☆☆
Getting started with simple CSS View Transitions
Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator
Was my website mentioned in a GitHub issue?
Book Review: The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple ★★★★☆
Every Theatre Show is "Immersive"
Quick and dirty bar-charts using HTML's meter element
Book Review: The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris ★★★⯪☆
How to *actually* test your readme
You did no fact checking, and I must scream
Getting started with Mastodon's Quote Posts - technical implementation details for servers
Book Review: Streaming Wars - How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment Forever by Charlotte Henry ★★☆☆☆
Can you use GDPR to Circumvent BlueSky's Adult Content Blocks?
Drunk CSS
Book Review: This Might Surprise You - A Breast Cancer Story by Hayley Gullen ★★★★★
Targetting specific characters with CSS rules
LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks
Class Warfare! Can I eliminate CSS classes from my HTML?
Theatre Review: Interview (Understudy Performance) ★★★☆☆
How big a solar battery do I need to store *all* my home's electricity?
Book Review: All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu ★★★★★
Reasonably accurate, privacy conscious, cookieless, visitor tracking for WordPress
Event Review: Doin' the Lambeth Walk (Oi!) ★★★⯪☆
Some thoughts on personal git hosting
Book Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact by Ryan North ★★★★★
40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant?
A little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates
Some minor bugs in Proton's new Authenticator app
Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe?
Book Review: What Sheep Think about the Weather - Amelia Thomas ★★★☆☆