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Monthly Archives: May 2026

WikiFlix updates

Thursday, May 14, 2026

WikiFlix is one of my tools that got some press when it started, but had stalled a bit due to lack of development. Thanks to recent developments, I was able to pay some attention to it again. First, there are a lot of invisible changes to the code itself, moving the front-end to refactored ES6 […]

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A little controversy

Thursday, May 7, 2026

This is going to be controversial, so I would ask you to reserve judgement until the end of this post (with the average internet crowd, such an appeal would be pointless, but people who read this blog are usually familiar with the NPOV concept, so I have hope). I have been writing code for over […]

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Tools United

Friday, May 1, 2026

Some of my tools are JavaScript scripts on Wikidata. They are added by users on their commons.js page and run in their web browser when browsing Wikidata. I have about a dozen of them, of various ages. Some of them I had updated four years ago, and put a “shared library” sort-of-thing in place. One […]

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