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Tom Hazledine

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Alternatives to cosine similarity

How does cosine similarity work?

How do you test the quality of search results?

What even is a week? (dates are hard)

Subsetting my font files reduced their size by more than 60%

Stacked Sparklines web component

Known Pleasures: SVG line art

RSS is Awesome

So long, and thanks for all the Sass

Mapping LLM embeddings in three dimensions

Publishing on npm is weird

TomBot2000: automatically finding related posts using LLMs

Improving SVG chart interactivity with Voronoi diagrams

What if minesweeper kept getting harder?

Adding client side search to a static site

Oblique Strategies via npx

Improving my Wordle opening words using simple node scripts

Humility in software development

Podcasting: what gear do you need?

Line graphs with React and D3.js

Learning (and doing) in public

Falling back in love with music

The year of writing

RSS in 2021 (yes, it's still a thing)

Building a delay effect with the Web Audio API

Dark mode: hard mode

Quirks mode

Riding the modular wave

Lots of things. No theme.

Late of this parish

Music. Music? Music!

Way more writing than you signed up for

Dress smart, hear the echo, and ask great questions

Chaos, productivity, and more chaos

Maximal, minimal, optimal

Getting wet, getting loud, getting better

Podcast or not? You decide

Cracking, hacking, and phishing

Soundscapes, a grounding, and a year in isolation

Podcasts for Nerds

Tannoys, Tragic Pitches, and Business Traction

Spiraling out of control? Open up the Bullet Journal again

Prescience, new beginnings, and modern linguistics

Installing acoustic panels

CSS Naked Day

Twitter Cards with Nunjucks and 11ty

The things I use

Static site generators: Hugo vs Jekyll vs Gatsby vs 11ty

Rugby prediction: retrospective

Algorithmically predicting the results of the 2019 Rugby World Cup

Using world ranking to predict the results of the 2019 Rugby World Cup pool stages

Writing well is essential. Try your best to get good at it

You can now install Picobel using NPM

Recommended Listening: my favourite podcasts

Introducing Picobel.js - an audio player you can style with css

I changed my site's font to Comic Sans as an April Fool. It was a disaster.

Living with Alexa: the problems with "voice" as an interface

What is a decibel, anyway?

Inline SVG icon sprites are (still) not scary.

Getting to grips with SVG markup

Bullet Journal Revisited

Well-written HTML doesn't need any styling. Except that it does.

n-minute read: calculating an average reading speed

You are only as good as your README

Don't turn your problem into your users' problem

Which do you choose: native app or web app?

Notes from ThingMonk: Day Two

Notes from ThingMonk: Day One

Why doesn’t everyone have an Internet Fridge?

Getting started with inline SVG icons

Inspirational Web People

Fullpage screenshots in Firefox

Futura for the win

Simple is hard

A bullet-journal workflow