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Writing - Matthew Somerville

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2026

Requesting wildcard SSL certificates via DNS with Symploriginal ↗
24 Jun 2026
Blocking an ASN (or similar)original ↗
24 May 2026
Classic FM Hall of Fame, past ten yearsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
Buying a Daytripper Family Plus ticketoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2026
2025 in revieworiginal ↗
3 Jan 2026

2025

A Twitter to voice botoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
Converting a 415 page PDF of Birmingham Secondary School Admissionsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2025
Playing Wonderland in 800x600original ↗
30 Aug 2025
In the Night Garden, epic versionoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
Bots finding adlegem.dracos.co.ukoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
A Scottish Grand Tour by public transportoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2025
Reading legislation.gov.uk on mobileoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
How, in 2025, to put music and podcasts on an MP3 playeroriginal ↗
31 Jul 2025

2024

Advent of Code 2024, day 7 - Perl walkthroughoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2024
Solving the 4D Sudoku cubeoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2024
Use-ing SVGs with inline style blocksoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2024
Adding view transitions to traintimes.org.ukoriginal ↗
16 May 2024
2023 in revieworiginal ↗
10 Jan 2024

2023

Searchable transcripts of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry hearingsoriginal ↗
15 May 2023
Using the CSS :has selector for conditional questionsoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2023

2022

List of vegetarian Walls ice creamsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2022
On the naming of stationsoriginal ↗
12 May 2022
My eInk dashboardoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2022

2021

A-puzzle-a-day solutions for Januaryoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2021

2020

Local lockdown lookuporiginal ↗
19 Dec 2020
Cross-border postcodesoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2020
Using Catlight with GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2020
The journey of my Wondermark bookoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2020
Looking at coronavirus.data.gov.ukoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2020
Perl weekly challenge 56original ↗
13 Apr 2020
Prague by trainoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2020
2019 in revieworiginal ↗
3 Jan 2020

2019

My ethical investment strategyoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2019
My Windows Subsystem for Linux setuporiginal ↗
6 Jul 2019
Travis status in my menu baroriginal ↗
11 May 2019
CSS end of page colouroriginal ↗
31 Jan 2019
Viagogo Please Wait pagesoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2019
CSS-only multiple choice quizzingoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2019

2017

traintimes.org.uk performance notesoriginal ↗
8 May 2017

2016

FixMyStreet 2.0 JavaScript performanceoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2016

2015

Photo upload and progressive enhancement for FixMyStreetoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2015
Using Django’s StreamingHTTPResponse for JSON & HTMLoriginal ↗
31 May 2015

2012

Bad Bank Holidaysoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2012

2011

Technical look at the new FixMyStreet mapsoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2011

2007

JavaScript international­isation, or why Rudolph is more than just a shiny noseoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2007
The myths of England’s “absurd laws”original ↗
7 Nov 2007

2005

List of vegetarian Mars productsoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2005