Daniel F. Dickinson

Bing chat fails to reason about who owns Princes and Madmen blog (me) and outright lies and claims that “Princes and Madmen” is a book written by Matthew Weiner.

Since I forgot to mention it before: I am a recipient of a 2023 O’Reilly DEIJ scholarship.. I am also very close to official tests of my knowledge. And no, technology really doesn’t change that much.

A quick change of the contact form backend turns into learning more about Markdown and Hugo, not to mention using a new provider.

Some updates on my training and paid work opportunities. (They’ve come through!). Maybe even a little bit too much at once.

A recent storm in which lightning struck rather close to my residence, and fried various bits of networking equipment, caused a whole different type of migratory nerding.

In code, choosing spaces over tabs creates accessibility barriers. The developer ‘Holy Wars’ ignore this, so this article explains the issue.

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in a long time: “I have been up to tech!”. I’ve created and update quite a few projects.

This is true despite the fact that I am moving my websites (including this one) away from OVHcloud and/or self-hosting, and am making a shift to using Microsoft 365. Some will never believe that nor accept what I have to say about it, but for me it’s the right decision.

If my feed was showing me what ’engaged’ me why did I get fed up and leave? There are several parts to the answer, but an important piece is that Facebook’s algorithm is largely an uncontrolled ‘positive feedback loop’.

We need mandatory third party security and privacy audits to matter as much to directors and shareholders as financial audits.