Category: Miscellanea

Ever since bringing this website online, I’ve been on the lookout for a way to render ‘McAleely’ with a raised ‘c’ after the M. It was how I was taught to write my name, and I have been looking for ways to replicate it here. It seems the answer has been around since at least 2009, and is by using the css ‘top:’ property:

John M<span style="position: relative; font-size: 90%; top: -0.3em;">c</span>Aleely

That’s a bit involved, so I won’t be using it everywhere. There are at least some who think the usage is either archaic or for handwriting only.

Two small changes tonight:

• transmissionbegins.com no longer offers email service.
• I published the (historic) My Own TV Channel project on GitHub.

I faked up the commit dates to reflect 2008, when I wrote the code. I then relicensed My Own TV Channel with the MIT licence, since GitHub seemed better at rendering that than the BSD licence I was previously using.

I will allow the domain myowntvchannel.net to lapse when its current term expires, sometime in 2021.

It’s time for a new gig. At the end of last year, I accepted a new job at Spotify. Time passes, a global pandemic starts, and I started my new gig in March this year. I’m based in London (at home for now), and working on mobile apps for Spotify.

I’d like to thank everyone at Microsoft for a really rewarding return there. I had a lot of fun helping the SwiftKey team ship their keyboard. It was great to meet a lot of new people, and also to reacquaint with some old friends.