The birds are certainly being very vocal this morning, no doubt because it's been a bright start. I was pleased to notice the great tit back on the feeder so it's good to know the pigeons haven't completely scared it off.
Based on current word count it looks like my project could be heading for around 25000 words. Not exactly book territory but not too shabby. There is the distinct possibility of that changing if I have to merge some later chapters but I'm just happy to be finally getting it all down.
It's only taken me six years to do something with this.
We've had a new visitor to the garden, a black-cap. It's slightly larger than the local robins, and has tussled with them for access to the bird-table.
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Colin Walker says:
It's always interesting to see the pecking orders. The dunnock has been the most flighty followed by the great tit. What's been most interesting is that the two collared doves have been chasing off the four pigeons despite a definite size discrepancy.
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I thought I would be able to simply repeat a database query and loop it five times to change the Daily RSS feed. Nope! No matter what I did the results appeared to be cached and all 5 days ended up with the same posts despite all the date variables being correctly changed.
I just did exactly the same thing as yesterday when trying to rebuild the Daily feed and it has now worked. No caching, etc. I'm confused. Happy but confused.
The Daily RSS feed now covers the last 5 days rather than just a day at a time.
Fonts are now self-hosted rather than relying on Google. Rather than trying to work out all the combinations manually I used the "google webfonts helper" app to download the relevant font files and set up the correct CSS.
Now I need to look at the icons coming from Font Awesome.
I've hit on a compromise for the icons – at least for now. The only "public-facing" icon is search so I have converted this to a pair of images (for light & dark modes) and only load Font Awesome if I am logged in. I'll get to the other icons as and when I feel like it but this is a reasonable compromise for the moment.
The only other external call is when using DuckDuckGo's favicon picker for the comments but I'm not so concerned about that as they have "designed the favicon service with privacy as the priority" and they don't log IP addresses used for these calls.
Update: plus, reliably picking out a favicon is a bit of a challenge.
I believe FontAwesome supplies svg versions for you to download and host yourself. Might make it easier to do the variations of light and dark as well as making sure they're super crisp.
We've had a new visitor to the garden, a black-cap. It's slightly larger than the local robins, and has tussled with them for access to the bird-table.
It's always interesting to see the pecking orders. The dunnock has been the most flighty followed by the great tit. What's been most interesting is that the two collared doves have been chasing off the four pigeons despite a definite size discrepancy.