aaronwatts@dev

aaronwatts@dev

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XSL Templates

I only found out about XSLT a year ago or so, when I was looking for a way to style my RSS feeds. I thought it was brilliant, and I set up some XSL templates for my feeds and sitemap. Not very long after, Chromium announced that it would be deprecating the technology.

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I got the Argon One Up

As soon as I heard that there was a laptop shell being developed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, I went to the Kickstarter page and made my pledge. I've seen a few rug pulls on Kickstarter, but I've been using Argon's cases for my Raspberry Pi's and I trust their work and them as company, so I had no concerns there.

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Simple Fix Complicated Execution

I worked out a simple solution to truncate my list of topics using only CSS. It's the only part of my website that really relies on JavaScript. It's wouldn't really be a heavy load for a script to run, but I didn't want to iterate over elements and individually hide them by applying a class to elements one at a time. It seemed like an unnecessary amount of computation, and I thought there was a lighter way to do it.

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ARIA compliant filter search

I've managed to find some time to spend at my computer recently, after all the festivities and flu. I decided I would continue working on the accessibility and ARIA compliance on my main website. Next on the list was the filter search that I use on my index pages.

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My break was extended

2026 has been slow getting started for me. I was just about done with Christmas and New Year celebrations, ready to get back to life's usual flow, but then I got a damned flu.

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