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My name is Simon Elvery. I tell stories on the web.

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📸 Banshō zukan, Tōkyō :Kobayashi Bunshichi, Meiji 34 [1901], [Biodiversity Heritage Library](https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/51282428814/ )

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2026-08-23 01:26:43 UTC

[](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/22/young-people-buying-all-in-one-cd-players )>
> Arguably, the CD is the final revival available to young people – it’s the last format for music before the MP3 arrived in the early 2000s. However, Gunner suggests there may be a different object waiting in the wings: the USB stick.
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I will argue! This shows so much contempt for the best format there is: the [minidisc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc ).
amirite, @npub1m0e…mqsy?
[www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/22/young-people-buying-all-in-one-cd-players](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/22/young-people-buying-all-in-one-cd-players )

2026-08-13 20:47:20 UTC

[](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other )>
> “There’s evidence that for the first few weeks of using AI, [people] check things pretty carefully and then at a point they stop checking because they assume it will be right.”
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[www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other )

2026-08-05 00:20:16 UTC

[](https://www.accessibility.org.au/setting-up/ )There’s some really great accessibility research being done at work right now looking into how people experience [visually rich stories of the kind I work on](https://www.abc.net.au/news/interactives ). (Hopefully I can share it publicly when the time is right.)
It continues to surprise me that so few people who could benefit from them know about operating system level accessibility controls like reduce motion and colour modifications.
Supporting them should be standard practice (we work hard at this and there’s always more to do!), but it’s increasingly clear we can’t rely on the audience to use them and so also have an educational role to play.
[www.accessibility.org.au/setting-up/](https://www.accessibility.org.au/setting-up/ )

2026-04-02 00:55:19 UTC

[](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-02/the-artemis-ii-mission-to-the-moon/106300532 )Now that the launch is over, NASA’s live coverage of the mission is mostly boring as …
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> When a mission like Artemis II launches most of the excitement happens in the first few minutes.
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Get to the interesting bits way faster with this stunning visualisation.
Top notch development work by @npub1m0e…mqsy
[www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-02/the-artemis-ii-mission-to-the-moon/106300532](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-02/the-artemis-ii-mission-to-the-moon/106300532 )

2025-04-27 23:10:52 UTC

[](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/renewables-versus-nuclear-in-evolving-energy-grid/104800790 )I'm so impressed by this story and proud of the team that made it. It's a long read but worth your while.
The nuance and understanding of the subject matter demonstrated are impressive.
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> You’ve probably heard we’re at the point where sometimes we have too much renewable energy. But that’s not quite right. What we have at times is more renewable than can be accommodated by coal-fired plants.
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[www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/renewables-versus-nuclear-in-evolving-energy-grid/104800790](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/renewables-versus-nuclear-in-evolving-energy-grid/104800790 )

2024-12-17 05:57:30 UTC

[](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/how-encryption-works-explained/8732148 )Ever wondered how encrypted messaging apps keep your messages safe from interception?
I made an interactive explainer about it years ago and just noticed entropy had started to take is toll, so took a few minutes to bump things back into shape.
Hope you find it interesting/useful.
[www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/how-encryption-works-explained/8732148](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/how-encryption-works-explained/8732148 )

2024-12-12 04:04:13 UTC

[](https://elvery.net/drzax/iframe-background-colour-transparent-dark-mode/ )Thanking my past self for this little bit of #webdev wisdom.
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> the default canvas background colour is applied to <iframe>> documents (not the <iframe>> element, but the page being embedded) by browsers > *only when there is a colour scheme mismatch*> .
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[elvery.net/drzax/iframe-background-colour-transparent-dark-mode/](https://elvery.net/drzax/iframe-background-colour-transparent-dark-mode/ )