A Little More Web Kipple
While pure Jekyll cannot do true random links to posts at page access, it is possible to insert a link to a random post at site compile time.
At it’s most basic, this can be done with the following liquid snippet which will select a random post from the ‘site.posts‘ collection and then insert that post’s title into the page. This can be expanded to extract other pieces of data from within the ‘post‘ object as you desire.
Continue reading “Getting a Random Post at Compile Time in Jekyll”It’s now been a month since I first (quietly) launched ‘Retro Computer Adverts | Your daily dose of retro computing adverts!‘ and, so far, it’s remained a fun little project.
Continue reading “Retro Computer Adverts – End of Month One”
Period Sites in Period Browsers has just thrown up another interesting little oddity – very early server stats from HM Treasury’s web server.
Continue reading “HM Treasury Web Server Statistics (1994 – 1997)”And so it came to pass that QEMU – a dependancy for ‘Period Sites in Period Browsers‘ – moved from version 9.0 to 10.0.
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
I’ve started to develop a fondness for these older computer adverts. This ‘Apple/Independence Day’ tie-in ad – from the dark days of 1996 when Apple was on the cusp of bankruptcy and Jobs was yet to return – feels comfortingly of that moment.
Continue reading “A Macintosh Independence Day”And here’s a rather nice pair of Doctor Who-themed adverts for the Prime Computer range of minicomputers. There are so fairly obvious hints that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward are phoning it in but the shoutout to their current – but brief – marriage is rather nice.
Imagemagick (available from all good package managers) has the ability to split a .pdf file into a set of numbered images via the following incantation…
convert -quality 100 -density 200 -colorspace sRGB <PathToPDF> -flatten <PathToOutputDirectory/>Page-%02d.jpeg…where, of course, ‘%02d’ represents the auto-numbering element of the incantation.
So apparently the firmware for a number of of the old PPC Macs had Easter Eggs embedded within them and, with the right combination of woo, you could get the firmware to spit these Easter Eggs out for you to view.
