Reverse pagination is a counter–intuitive strategy for attempting to make links immutable/cacheable and bookmark friendly across older pages. I searched for a visual explanation (difficult to explain concisely) and eventually arrived at an old article on paging apis. Reverse pagination has its gotchas, but then again pagination itself is one big gotcha.. :-) Well, it depends on the use case really.

Here’s a muse; linking to external sites is probably one of the harder parts of blogging. Pages can go 404 and you won’t know exactly why, urls change even though they’re supposed to be immutable.

To blog while having pointers to disparate sources requires checking for dead links, and verifying that content relevancy hasn’t changed. The solution is to either archive everything (hard) or to not link at all (easy). High mutability is one reason why people take pictures of online content — it just works.

It’s alive again. cbformat looks extremely useful — might just beat my current method of formatting code blocks in Markdown.

Following a bunch of blogs always resurfaces interesting stuff — here’s an entertaining article and video summary of modern rope climbing. Article is 2y old – must have updated recently. I like the humour.

Even though I know the risk of losing viewers by discussing math and physics…