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SMS Verification

I’ve received an email today from Barclaycard with the following:

“From time to time, to make sure it’s you who’s using your Barclaycard online, we’ll send you a text with a verification code for you to use on the Verified by Visa screen that’ll pop up on your payment page.”

The proprietary nature of mobile phones with the hardware specifications and the software being closed off from inspection or audit and considered to be trade secrets make my phone and my tablet the least trusted devices I own and use.

Updated Blog Theme

I’ve taken a go at updating the theme for my blog. Previously I’d been using a theme that was a hacked up version of a theme from the Hugo themes directory. I tried to look just now for the theme I’d based it on, but can’t seem to find it.

In the new theme I’m aiming for accessibility and some machine readableness. Accessibility really comes down to making sure you’ve separated content from presentation so that it can be easily converted into other mediums automatically. For machine readableness, I’ve been exploring XFN, RDF (Dublin Core, FOAF, Open Graph) and, of course, Atom.

Webpage Load Times

gordonjcp ╡ irl: jesus christ, scale your fucking images

My last post about the adventure to the Donmouth Local Nature Reserve turned out to have a total page size of 69.2MB. Oops.

I’m new to using Ghost as a blogging platform, and in the past blogging platforms have scaled images for me. It turns out that Ghost does not do this. There is currently an open issue on GitHub discussing this but I don’t think this feature will be appearing at any point soon.

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