Interesting Links for 15-02-2015

• 8 Things No Guy Over 25 Should Have In His Apartment
  (tags: age advice funny )
• New food scandal over peanuts is more serious than the horsemeat crisis
  (tags: food peanuts allergies )
• What Not to Wear After Age 50: The Final Say
  (tags: clothing advice aging )
• Why cutting benefits for people who refuse treatment is a terrible idea
  (tags: welfare mentalhealth conservatives )
• Can anyone tell me why elves have pointy ears?
  (tags: elves )
• Britain's favourite sex positions have finally been revealed
  (tags: sex uk viaJennieRigg )
• What happens when both sides pray for victory?
  (tags: prayer religion funny )
• What's it like when Zeus owes you a favour?
  (tags: comic religion greece myths )
• New report finds that the low-fat governmental advice from the 1970s had no evidence behind it.
  (tags: diet government fat science )
• 24 Place Names You’ve Probably Been Mispronouncing Your Whole Life
  (tags: geography language )
• The pleasure and pain of 50 shades
  (tags: writing fantasy kink )
• A response to Peter Tatchell on “Free Speech” vs “Freedom from Criticism”
  (tags: freespeech criticism society LGBT )

I've been working on my link poster

Three years ago (I think), miss_s_b asked me if I could make my link poster work with Pinterest.

I took a look at the way I'd designed it, and came to the sad conclusion that while it could support a range of inputs and outputs, it really was a bit of a hack, and what it wouldn't do was support multiple inputs going to a single output - i.e. Delicious+Pinterest -> Dreamwidth.

At which point I started a redesign, put the whole thing together again from scratch, with proper data design, etc.

I also used the time to learn more about writing front ends using Javascript, using AJAX to avoid page loads, etc.

And I got married.

And Julie got cancer.

And work's been quite busy.

And frankly, I spent a lot of time being avoidant, and not having the energy/enthusiasm to work on it very much.

However! As of ten minutes ago, I got it working. Not _nice_ - it's still pretty ugly, the forms don't have validation, and there are around twenty different issues that need to be fixed before I let other people use it properly.

But it's working well enough that I've switched over to using it myself. And at midday tomorrow, with any luck, a post will appear on my journal from the new poster, rather than the old one.

All of which I've written _purely_ to jinx myself. Because what are the odds of it all working first time? You can look forward to garbled, upside-down, text appearing on my journal tomorrow, and me scrambling to fix it and get a normal link post out. Probably :->