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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 12/03/2026

5am start to get to Brighton by 9am for #WebDayOut. Not sure if using my mini eReader as a name badge is cool or sad🤔

Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 02/03/2026

Gave a GitHub, GitHub Copilot, VSCode demo to fellow Product Managers recently, wanted to cover Markdown files, so needed to cover the concept of Markup, I might have gone a little too deep.

Handwritten title ‘Early Markup’ above a photo of an ancient Egyptian wall relief showing painted hieroglyphs, birds, and symbolic figures in muted reds, greens, and golds. Some hieroglyphs are contained within a cartouche.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 27/12/2025

I now have a drone (my first), so all my future photos will probably be some variation on this one (which was taken over Church Lench, Evesham, UK)

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 23/12/2025

Apparently, the new Trump-class warship will use an AI based on Trump’s own personality. There’s only one possible problem…

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 22/11/2025

AI (Gemini) created (from a photo realistic image) Starfury from Babylon 5.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 05/11/2025

You can colourise using the Nano Banana model that's part of Gemini as well, it's probably its best feature (that no one mentions), couple examples here: onlyrss.org/posts/nano-b...

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Photo editing using Gemini

Examples of photo editing using the new Nano Banana model that's part of Google Gemini.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 26/10/2025

@deceptive.design Here's one for your "catalogue of deception/manipulation manual" etc. This is from a hotel check-in process. The marketing opt-out is hidden behind a "click here" link. And there was me believing that links were meant for navigation 🤔.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 02/05/2025

As an "older" brit, I remember when it was cheaper to buy my gadgets from the US… the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 is £489 ($650) in the UK. In the US, prior to April it was $519, it's now $799. Americans are soon to be one of the most heavily taxed peoples on the planet.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 29/04/2025

Trump only has one requirement when it comes to hiring people i.e. loyalty to Trump. Intelligence/knowledge are not only not required, I suspect they are actively discouraged.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 29/04/2025

I don't think she knows how money works.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 25/04/2025

Vibe-coded myself a "when should I go for my bike ride?" app. Written in Python, uses a weather API (visualcrossing), Google Gemini AI, and #Datawrapper (for charts). Only useful for people who live near my village though! onlyrss.org/apps/when-bi...

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When Bike? - Burghfield

A page designed to let cyclists (or walkers) who live in Burghfield, know the best times to go for a bike ride (or walk). It does this for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5-hour slots.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 14/04/2025

My TRMNL eink thing arrived!

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 12/04/2025

There's a nice little feature on the PostPark screenshots/mockups tool, you can get a GitHub commit history by just entering a GitHub username. From the nav: Templates > GitHub Contributions. postspark.app/github-contr... Here's mine:

I screenshot of a GitHub commit history, showing 5 calendar heatmaps, one per year.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 10/04/2025

Trump shocked to discover that China knows about big numbers as well. But all is well, Trump has now found out about numbers biggerer than 100, so now there's nothing the Chinese can do, Trump confident that the Chinese don't also know about numbers biggerer than 125.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 23/03/2025

My shower-thought for today

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 01/03/2025

And now I've removed 2 of the flexboxes😂

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 28/02/2025

I'm the one who over uses flexbox😂, I just asked the AI to visualise and annotate my code

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 28/02/2025

@kevinpowell.co I just dumped some HTML & CSS into Claude and asked it to sketch and annotate the layout. It output the following SVG, which (as a CSS novice) I think is kinda useful. Not sure how well it would work with more complex layouts.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 19/02/2025

Trump says Ukraine should have "done a deal" with Russia. Exactly the sort of comment I would expect from someone who conveniently developed "bone spurs" which excluded him from Vietnam. Should Europe have done a deal with Nazi Germany?

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 14/02/2025

These f#&king people. I swear to god, my irony meter just exploded.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 31/01/2025

Now this is something I can get behind. There's a lot of wisdom in Netflix's Castlevania.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 28/01/2025

In Chrome v133 (i.e. the next version) you can use `atrr()` in CSS to pass HTML attributes to CSS as values—not just strings. And then use them to define parameters such as lengths etc. In this example the bar lengths are in the HTML. No JavaScript was hurt during the creation of this bar chart 😆

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 21/01/2025

Americans wanted lower inflation, looks like they'll have to settle for a US flag on Mars. Seems logical to me 🤔.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 15/01/2025

Maybe ListenNotes does this?

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 13/01/2025

I also copied what Dave Rupert was doing, but, I tried to make the blog list items and page headers identical (my thinking is that both elements serve the same function i.e. do I need to read this?. Works ok on desktop, I still have some work to do on mobile to make them appear the same. onlyrss.org

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onlyRSS

Welcome to OnlyRSS.org, a blog I created so I had an excuse to learn CSS & HTML. You’ll find articles on CSS, Data Viz, Product Management, typography, gadgets, and whatever else I'm interested in and...

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 11/01/2025

Phone fingerprint sensor not working 100% of the time? Here's my tip (that's probably already obvious to most people). In setting, add more "fingers", but use the same finger each time. I went from a 80-90% success rate, to 100%.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 07/01/2025

@chriscoyier.net Thanks for including the whole of your articles in your RSS feed, it's very much appreciated. The company I work for uses software that blocks access to many blogs—including yours. But, the RSS feed (via Feedly) works fine 😉

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 03/01/2025

For fans of the Bobiverse series of books, book №5 (which has been available in audio form for a while) will be released in non-audio form on Jan 5th.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 19/12/2024

I only recently started watching Amazon Prime's Secret Level, and today I got to episode 4. As a “person of a certain age”, let's just say it was awesome to see an episode based on Unreal Tournament! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 18/12/2024

Costco have perfected the traditional UK Mince Pie. They replaced the pastry lid (which always cracked in the wrong place when biting down on it) with sponge. And have reduced the quantity of mince to about 5%. Oh… and it's also twice as big now :-)

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 16/12/2024

I've been using HTML/CSS/JS to create a visualisation that shows a year's worth of my walks (from Strava) in a GitHub style timeline heatmap. Here's what I have so far:

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 13/12/2024

I often end the day with about 50% charge remaining on my Pixel 6 Pro, so I've been waiting for the "Limit to 80%" feature to become available. I don't like having to buy a new phone when the only issue with the current phone is a degraded battery. Hopefully this will help.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 11/12/2024

The final episode of Arcane was beautiful & epic. That is all.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 11/12/2024

Modern CSS is awesome. Here's Logical Properties and Container Queries doing their thing (all inside a Web Component) codepen.io/dbssticky/pe...

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Responsive news-list-item Web Component compatible with different writing directions

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 11/12/2024

I'm trying to encourage people to take a daily walk by bringing back the old phrase "daily constitutional" (blog post coming soon), it's not going well.

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Mark Evans @onlyrss.org · 05/12/2024

I've created a "article share Web Component", it includes the option to open the native sharing menu (not on Firefox). Not ground breaking, but someone might find it useful. codepen.io/dbssticky/pe...

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Article share Web Component

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