https://bbingo.xyz Technical tips and changes made to the British Bingo game and related webpages en-gb https://bbingo.xyz/images/pwa/biliard-ball-seven-100.png https://bbingo.xyz 100 100 Bingo ball, number 7 https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#view-transitions-crashed-my-webpage https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#view-transitions-crashed-my-webpage Mon, 04 May 2026 22:31:09 GMT Short note about a 'view transition' crashing my game, how I tried to fix it, before the bug went away https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#ai-cant-do-tricky-changes https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#ai-cant-do-tricky-changes Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:30:14 GMT Short note about thinking that at least AI cannot do difficult changes to my game https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#leaving-in-old-code-commented-out https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#leaving-in-old-code-commented-out Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:55:32 GMT Short note about my habit of leaving in old code commented-out rather than looking in my source control system https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#hiding-svg-referenced-later https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#hiding-svg-referenced-later Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:30:01 GMT Short note about hiding an SVG that is later referenced in a 'use' tag https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#slightly-smaller-javascript-and-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#slightly-smaller-javascript-and-css Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:49:43 GMT Short note using a short local variable rather than 'this' in JavaScript, and using the shorter 'background' rather than 'background-color' in CSS https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bug-end-style-tag-inside-comment-in-stylesheet https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bug-end-style-tag-inside-comment-in-stylesheet Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:20:03 GMT Short note how if I have an end 'style' tag inside a comment in a stylesheet then Chrome thinks I am ending the styleheet https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#opacity-flattens-preserve-3d https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#opacity-flattens-preserve-3d Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:36:21 GMT Short note how animating opacity on an outer 'stage' changes the 'preserve-3d' of its children to 'flat' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#images-for-open-graph-tags https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#images-for-open-graph-tags Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:00:31 GMT Short note about providing and testing images for 'Open Graph' tags for Twitter and Facebook https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#css-position-fixed-bug https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#css-position-fixed-bug Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:25:04 GMT Short note about a bug where a 'div' with 'position: fixed' was hidden when I forgot to give a 'top' or 'left and other content filled the screen https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#url-encoding-svg https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#url-encoding-svg Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:41:24 GMT Short note about problems encoding an SVG for a data URL for a background image in HTML https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#settimeout-in-hidden-chrome-tab https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#settimeout-in-hidden-chrome-tab Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:59:03 GMT Short note about how 'setTimeout' still counts down the seconds in a hidden tab in Chrome https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bug-with-xlink-href-with-svg https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bug-with-xlink-href-with-svg Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:07:21 GMT Short note about where setting 'xlink:href' on a 'use' tag of an SVG in JavaScript does not override the plain 'href' in the HTML https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#add-svg-icons-near-buttons https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#add-svg-icons-near-buttons Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:46:44 GMT Short note about how putting small SVG's of animals near buttons draws the eye to the button and looks nice https://bbingo.xyz/n/ https://bbingo.xyz/n/#updated-in-2026 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:02:35 GMT I have added more women's first names to my page at 'bbingo.xyz/n' and added more idioms to my page at 'bbingo.xyz/i' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#minifying-svgs-myself https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#minifying-svgs-myself Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:45:09 GMT Short note about how I remove unused 'id' attributes from SVG's and other tags to minify SVG's https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#facebook-login-not-work https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#facebook-login-not-work Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:15:32 GMT Short note about Facebook logins no longer working with my hosting provider, Hostinger https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#payment-declined-for-web-hosting https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#payment-declined-for-web-hosting Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:14:05 GMT Short note about my debit card company declining to pay a renewal of my web hosting plan https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#falling-asleep-while-coding https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#falling-asleep-while-coding Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:00:30 GMT Short note about avoiding falling asleep while coding in the evening https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#setting-class-of-svg-element https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#setting-class-of-svg-element Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:02:12 GMT Short note about being unable to set the 'class' of an SVG element using the 'className' property in JavaScript https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#draw-ellipses-with-border-radius https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#draw-ellipses-with-border-radius Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:33:09 GMT Short note about drawing ellipses and other curved shapes by giving two values to 'border-radius' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#old-copies-of-progressive-web-apps https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#old-copies-of-progressive-web-apps Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:01:34 GMT Short note about how an installed Progressive Web App may use old locations of images https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#one-person-projects https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#one-person-projects Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:42:09 GMT Short note about how many people lose interest in one-person software projects after a few years https://sourceforge.net/p/britbingo/news/2025/11/lastest-version-released-160/ https://sourceforge.net/p/britbingo/news/2025/11/lastest-version-released-160/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:38:19 GMT There is a new version with changes that I have made since the last release. This is on SourceForge in the 'coming-soon' folder of the 'for-developers' folder. This is also on GitHub at 'github.com/Bert-Beckwith/British-Bingo' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#document-relations https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#document-relations Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:01:35 GMT Short note about adding 'document relations' to my web pages and whether browsers or Google search uses them https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#mistaking-accessibility-styles-for-error https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#mistaking-accessibility-styles-for-error Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:15:33 GMT Short note about accidently turning on an accessibility stylesheet option https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#overriding-alert-to-write-to-console https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#overriding-alert-to-write-to-console Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:29:03 GMT Short note about defining my own global function 'alert' to writes to the console https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#selecting-adjacent-elements-on-hover https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#selecting-adjacent-elements-on-hover Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:01:51 GMT How to style elements adjacent to a element that I am hovering over, using the :has selector https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#animation-spacing-out-letters https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#animation-spacing-out-letters Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:54:21 GMT Short note about animating the 'letter-spacing' of a centred piece of text https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#commenting-out-commented-out-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#commenting-out-commented-out-css Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:21:09 GMT Short note about commenting out CSS with a comment inside https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#css-preserve-3d-stops-position-fixed https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#css-preserve-3d-stops-position-fixed Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:12:37 GMT Short note about how a CSS 'transform-style' of 'preserve-3d' on an HTML element stops 'position: fixed' from working https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#set-character-set-early https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#set-character-set-early Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:04:15 GMT Short note about specifying the 'character set' as soon as possible in my web pages https://bbingo.xyz/s2/ https://bbingo.xyz/stats2/#probabilities-of-line-as-excel-surface-chart Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:23:41 GMT I have added data for 45 to 50 players to the graphs of the probability of a certain number of balls being read out before a player has a 'line' or 'house. The graphs are not normal distributions. See 'bbingo.xyz/s2' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#online-html-minifiers https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#online-html-minifiers Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:32:05 GMT Short note about my experiences with four online tools that shrink HTML https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#inert-not-speed-up-animation https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#inert-not-speed-up-animation Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:01:34 GMT Short note about how the 'inert' HTML attribute does not make CSS animations as fast as 'view transitions' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#reflection-with-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#reflection-with-css Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:31:14 GMT Short note about doing a reflection with 'scale' rather than rotating https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#changing-before-and-after-elements-to-divs https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#changing-before-and-after-elements-to-divs Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:01:23 GMT Short note about changing ':before' and ':after' pseudo elements to 'div' elements so I can reference them by 'id' in JavaScript https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#replacing-bare-urls-in-link-text https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#replacing-bare-urls-in-link-text Sun, 03 Aug 2025 09:35:43 GMT Short note about replacing 'bare' URL's in link labels with unique descriptions https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#using-a-CSS-minifier https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#using-a-CSS-minifier Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:03:05 GMT Short note about my experience of using the 'CSSO' minifier https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#how-css-fish-animation-works https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#how-css-fish-animation-works Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:01:35 GMT Short note about how reflected CSS triangles make up a fish animation https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#violating-flickrs-terms-of-service https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#violating-flickrs-terms-of-service Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:35:05 GMT Short note about now I violated Flickr's terms of service by having non-photographic content https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#thoughts-on-minifiying-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#thoughts-on-minifiying-css Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:10:45 GMT Short note about using online minifiers and sed scripts to shrink CSS https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#making-demo-video https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#making-demo-video Mon, 19 May 2025 10:24:10 GMT Short note about making a demo video of my game on Windows10 https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#view-transitions-tips https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#view-transitions-tips Mon, 12 May 2025 09:03:51 GMT Tips from adding 'view transitions' to my JavaScript game https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#ai-rival-our-brains https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#ai-rival-our-brains Thu, 01 May 2025 11:32:09 GMT Short note about how reading about how our brains work made me wonder if AI will ever replicate our brains https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#short-names-for-built-in-functions https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#short-names-for-built-in-functions Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:21:17 GMT Short note about adding short aliases for frequently used built-in functions, when 'minifying' my game https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#running-minifiers-twice https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#running-minifiers-twice Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:34:02 GMT Short note about running minifiers several times to get a futther reduction in size https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#using-jsmin-to-remove-commented-out-code https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#using-jsmin-to-remove-commented-out-code Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:09:38 GMT Short note about using Douglas Crockford's 'JSMin' minifier to quickly remove the JavaScript code that I leave commented-out as I make changes https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#coding-in-small-steps-is-boring https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#coding-in-small-steps-is-boring Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:53:03 GMT Short note about how breaking down coding into small steps can make coding boring https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#problem-with-mobile-testing-tool https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#problem-with-mobile-testing-tool Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:04:22 GMT Short note about my game looking strange when I tested it on mobile phones run by 'appetize.io' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#minifying-page-containing-pre-tags https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#minifying-page-containing-pre-tags Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:21:09 GMT Short note about how 'pre' tags make minifying HTML harder https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#add-screenshots-for-install-pwa https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#add-screenshots-for-install-pwa Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:31:12 GMT Short note about adding screenshots to the manifests of my webpages that are Progressive Web Apps https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#Removing-abbr-tags-and-links https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#Removing-abbr-tags-and-links Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:09:43 GMT Short note about removing 'abbr' tags and links that are not needed and which interrupt the flow of the reader https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#smooth-scrolling https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#smooth-scrolling Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:27:18 GMT Short note about adding 'smooth scrolling' to my web-pages which have internal links https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#layout-shifts-with-google-fonts https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#layout-shifts-with-google-fonts Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:15:07 GMT Short note getting 'layout shifts' with Google Fonts because my webserver is too slow https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#adding-blog-to-blogarama https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#adding-blog-to-blogarama Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:43:21 GMT Short note about how I thought I had got 'blogarama.com' to index my blog https://bbingo.xyz/i/ https://bbingo.xyz/i/#updated-in-2025 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:12:04 GMT I have added more idioms to my page at 'bbingo.xyz/i'. There are idioms for 'wow', 'relax', 'eccentric', 'get ready' and 'join in' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#first-put-hash-before-rm-rf https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#first-put-hash-before-rm-rf Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:02:32 GMT Short note about first commenting out a 'rm -rf' command that runs as user 'root' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bug-from-using-old-version-of-chrome-lighthouse https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bug-from-using-old-version-of-chrome-lighthouse Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:33:01 GMT Short note about warnings from Chrome's Lighthouse turning out to be bugs from using an old version of Chrome on Windows7 https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#css-codepen-ico https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#css-codepen-ico Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:16:52 GMT Short note about adapting a 'codepen' icon made with CSS using the 'clip-path' property https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#cp-pr-not-cp-a-for-backup https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#cp-pr-not-cp-a-for-backup Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:54:08 GMT Short note about having problems using 'cp -a' with symbolic links when copying from Linux to a FAT file system on a memory stick https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#problems-loading-pages-with-hosting-provider https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#problems-loading-pages-with-hosting-provider Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:31:22 GMT Short note about temporary problems with my cheap hosting provider when loading pages and transferring files with FTP https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#cannot-install-progressive-web-app-with-firefox https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#cannot-install-progressive-web-app-with-firefox Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:02:11 GMT Short note about Firefox not supporting a standalone Progressive Web App https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#javaScript-game-too-big-for-free-web-hosting https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#javaScript-game-too-big-for-free-web-hosting Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:17:18 GMT Short note about the limits on the size of a web page on free web-hosting sites https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#view-source-of-large-javascript-game https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#view-source-of-large-javascript-game Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:27:08 GMT Short note about using Firefox to get around a problem with viewing the source pf my big JavaScript game in Chrome https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#removing-whitespace-in-javascript-strings-used-for-dynamic-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#removing-whitespace-in-javascript-strings-used-for-dynamic-css Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:17:38 GMT Short note about removing extra whitespace in JavaScript strings used for dynamic CSS. The whitespace is left behind by minimisers such as UglifyJS https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#download-sites-not-update-my-game https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#download-sites-not-update-my-game Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:07:08 GMT Short note about two download sites not updating their entries for my game after I released a new version https://github.com/Bert-Beckwith/British-Bingo#latest-source https://github.com/Bert-Beckwith/British-Bingo#latest-source Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:34:09 GMT I now put the source code of my game on Github as I complete changes.that I make since the last release. This source code is also on SourceForge in the 'coming-soon' folder of the 'for-developers' folder https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#howto-rss-icon-in-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#howto-rss-icon-in-css Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:43:00 GMT Short note about how an RSS icon can be made with CSS https://bbingo.xyz/s2 https://bbingo.xyz/s2/#probabilities-of-line-as-excel-surface-chart Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:17:03 GMT I have collected more data about the frequency distributions of how many balls are read out before a player has a 'line' or 'house'. I have run my game a lot for 41 to 45 players. See the second parts of sections 1.3 and 1.4 of 'bbingo.xyz/s2' https://bbingo.xyz/c2 https://bbingo.xyz/c2/#added-accordians Sat, 7 Sep 2024 09:27:05 GMT I have added 'accordians' to the page showing the full change history of the 'British Bingo' game. See 'bbingo.xyz/c2' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#chrome-bug-if-div-in-anchor-tag https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#chrome-bug-if-div-in-anchor-tag Fri, 6 Sep 2024 11:03:00 GMT Short note about Chrome behaving strangely when a 'div' is inside an anchor ('a') tag https://bbingo.xyz https://bbingo.xyz/#added-ogg-sounds-to-online-game Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:17:00 GMT I have added sounds in the free 'Ogg' format to the online game at 'bbingo.xyz'. There used to be patents for the 'MP3' sound format https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#encoding-hash-in-svg-in-data-url-in-css https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#encoding-hash-in-svg-in-data-url-in-css Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:02:00 GMT Short note about changing a '#' to '%23' in an SVG in a 'data' URL of a 'background-image' property in CSS https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#marking-up-code-examples https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#marking-up-code-examples Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:27:00 GMT Short note about putting code examples in 'pre' tags https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#pwa-icons-transparent-background https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#pwa-icons-transparent-background Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:17:00 GMT Short note about giving transparent backgrounds to icons mentioned in the Progressive Web App's manifest file, despite Google's advice https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#disable-chrome-network-cache-to-see-changes https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#disable-chrome-network-cache-to-see-changes Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:11:00 GMT Short note about how sometimes if I want to see changes I have made to my website in Chrome, then I have to click 'Disable cache' in the 'Network' tab of the 'Developer tools' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#rcs-id-marker-is-useful https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#rcs-id-marker-is-useful Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:02:00 GMT Short note about how an RCS 'identification marker' helped me find the version of the source file that I had 'minimised' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#speed-up-rainbow-text https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#speed-up-rainbow-text Wed, 22 May 2024 10:09:00 GMT How I speed up the colouring of each letter of a piece of text to look like a rainnbow is passing through https://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/files/#version-153 Mon, 20 May 2024 11:33:00 GMT There is a new version (1.53) of 'British Bingo' on SourceForge. This has more animations and supports 'dark mode'. Play it online at 'bbingo.xyz' https://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/files/#release-candidate-153 Sun, 5 May 2024 09:21:00 GMT I have put a 'release candidate' for version 1.53 of British Bingo on SourceForge in the files area. You can play it online at 'bbingo.xyz/rc'. This is likely to be the next version. I have shrunk (minimised) the second 'beta', mainly by using UglifyJS https://bbingo.xyz/cr/ https://bbingo.xyz/cr/#added-accordian Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:07:00 GMT I have added an 'accordian' to my 'credits' page at 'bbingo.xyz/cr'. The later sections are now hidden at the start https://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/files/#second-beta-153 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:03:00 GMT I have put another early version (beta) of the next release of British Bingo on SourceForge in the files area as 'bbingo-beta2.html'. You can play it online at 'bbingo.xyz/b' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#howto-css-firework-animation https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#howto-css-firework-animation Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:01:00 GMT Short note about how Yusuke Nakaya makes a firework animation by moving up together lots of small pieces and then sending them off in random directions https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#good-css-animations https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#good-css-animations Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:03:00 GMT Short note about the CSS animations by Yusuke Nakaya on 'codepen' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bang-important https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#bang-important Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:03:00 GMT Short note about why I used '!important' in CSS for the first time https://bbingo.xyz/i/ https://bbingo.xyz/i/#summary-details-accordian Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:07:00 GMT I have changed the 'idioms' page to use 'summary' and 'details' tags to make the accordian. Using an accordian reduces the size of the page when first shown. This reduces the time it takes to load the page https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#plain-references-to-functions-lose-context https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#plain-references-to-functions-lose-context Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:07:00 GMT Short note about how taking a reference to a function of a class object sometimes loses the context https://bbingo.xyz/t2/ https://bbingo.xyz/t2/#added-accordian Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:02:00 GMT I have added an accordian to my full 'JavaScript tips' page, 'bbingo.xyz/t2'. I used 'details' and 'summary' tags. Each tip now has a header and is an 'article' tag. This page has over 10 years of tips, with over 1000 tips in total https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#darken-svg https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#darken-svg Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:04:00 GMT Short note about making an SVG darker using an SVG filter https://bbingo.xyz/s2/ https://bbingo.xyz/s2/#collected-data-for-41-players Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:09:00 GMT I have found the average of how many numbers are read out before a player has a 'line' or 'house, when there are 41 players. I simulated over 130,000 games. My game is biased as it only creates 'nice' looking boards. See 'bbingo.xyz/s2' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#hold-nerve-with-free-webhosting https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#hold-nerve-with-free-webhosting Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:02:00 GMT Article about about my free-hosted website being down https://bbingo.xyz/n/ https://bbingo.xyz/n/#without-animations Sun, 03 Dec 2023 11:07:00 GMT I have split the 'names' page so that there is a simpler page for mobiles that does not have any animations. See 'bbingo.xyz/n' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#appetize-io-test-for-tablets-phone https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#appetize-io-test-for-tablets-phone Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:02:00 GMT Short note about testing on simulated tablets and phones with the free trial version of the tools at the 'appetize.io' website https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#delay-no-op-service-worker https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#delay-no-op-service-worker Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:08:00 GMT Short note about delaying starting a no-op Progressive Web App (PWA) service worker rathen than removing it as Chrome suggests https://bbingo.xyz/cr/ https://bbingo.xyz/cr/#added-css-icon-credits Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:07:00 GMT I have added credits for the icons made using just CSS and HTML. Most of the icons come from 'css.gg'. See 'bbingo.xyz/cr' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#eslint-instead-of-jshint https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#eslint-instead-of-jshint Sun, 19 Nov 2023 09:06:00 GMT Short note about switching from using JSHint to ESLint to find mistakes in my code https://bbingo.xyz/i/ https://bbingo.xyz/i/#added-accordian Sun, 12 Nov 2023 09:01:00 GMT I have added an 'accordian' to my 'idioms' page at 'bbingo.xyz/i'. The later sections are now hidden at the start https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#style-in-noscript https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#style-in-noscript Sun, 05 Nov 2023 12:05:00 GMT Short note about adding a 'style' tag inside a 'noscript' tag to hide a 'loading' animation when JavaScript is disabled https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#smart-dumb-artificial-intelligence-book https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#smart-dumb-artificial-intelligence-book Sun, 29 Oct 2023 11:24:00 GMT Short review of a book that predicts a mild AI 'winter' https://bbingo.xyz/i2/ https://bbingo.xyz/i2/#updated-idioms-in-2023 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:11:00 GMT I have added over 500 idioms to my 'idioms' pages at 'bbingo.xyz/i' and 'bbingo.xyz/i2' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#calc-in-translate https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#calc-in-translate Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:04:00 GMT Short note about how to work around not being able to use the 'calc' function in the 'translate' property in CSS https://bbingo.xyz/s2/ https://bbingo.xyz/s2/#updated-detailed-graphs-for-35-to-40-players Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:01:00 GMT I have added data for 35 to 40 players to the graphs of the probability of a certain number of balls being read out before a player has a 'line' or 'house. The graphs are not normal distributions. See 'bbingo.xyz/s2' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#animating-checkboxes-and-radios https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#animating-checkboxes-and-radios Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:02:00 GMT Article about making checkboxes and radio buttons rotate when they are clicked https://bbingo.xyz/n/ https://bbingo.xyz/n/#updated-the-list-of-names Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:03:00 GMT I have added 450 new names to my page of female first names ('bbingo.xyz/n') making 18419 in total, such as Nqobile, Vinette and Amidala. Some come from Miss World and netball teams. This is my most popular page in Google's search https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#google-chose-full-page-as-canonical-not-cut-down https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#google-chose-full-page-as-canonical-not-cut-down Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:01:00 GMT Article about how Google's search set a 'full' page to be 'canonical' rather than the 'cut-down' version I had made for mobiles https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#good-css-switch https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#good-css-switch Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:03:00 GMT Article about a good CSS switch that looks like a light switch. Also describes how pure-CSS switches work https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#leading-zero-means-integer-is-in-octal https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#leading-zero-means-integer-is-in-octal Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:01:00 GMT Short note about how a leading zero can mean an integer is in octal in JavaScript https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#move-noscript-tag-to-body https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#move-noscript-tag-to-body Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:03:00 GMT Article about how the W3C HTML validator pointed out that my 'noscript' tag contained 'div' tags that do not belong inside a 'head' tag https://bbingo.xyz/n/ https://bbingo.xyz/n/#styled-switch-differently Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:01:00 GMT I have given a different look to another switch in the settings of the 'names' page at 'bbingo.xyz/n' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#ids-conflict-if-SVGs-optimized-and-inlined https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#ids-conflict-if-SVGs-optimized-and-inlined Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:05:00 GMT Article about how the online SVG optimizer, 'svgomg', shortens id's to the same letters which conflict if the SVG's are inlined https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#no-click-action-on-scaled-down-button https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#no-click-action-on-scaled-down-button Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:00:00 GMT Article about how scaling down the size of a button on the 'active' state means the JavaScript action does not fire on the outer parts of the button https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#have-to-create-label-with-javascript https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#have-to-create-label-with-javascript Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT Article about how I have to create 'label' tags with JavaScript to pass the W3 HTML validator https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#outline-option-in-html-validator https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#outline-option-in-html-validator Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:00:00 GMT Article about how I found a bug in my webpage with the 'outline' option of the W3C HTML validator https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#unusual-css-switch https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#unusual-css-switch Wed, 9 Aug 2023 14:00:00 GMT Article about a pure-CSS switch that does not use the 'for' attribute of the label to set the 'input' element https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#finding-not-utf8-characters https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#finding-not-utf8-characters Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:00:00 GMT Article about how I found some characters that were not UTF8 in my webpages using Perl https://bbingo.xyz/s2/ https://bbingo.xyz/s2/#update-data-38-players Sun, 6 Aug 2023 12:34:26 GMT I have collected fresh data for how many numbers need to be read out before a player has a 'line' or 'house', when there are 38 players. See 'bbingo.xyz/newstats.csv' and 'bbingo.xyz/s2' https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#eight-value-border-radius https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#eight-value-border-radius Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:42:00 GMT Article about how 'border-radius' in CSS can have different horizontal and vertical values separated by a slash https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#url-fragment-not-work https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#url-fragment-not-work Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:40:00 GMT Article about how some missing closing and opening tags stopped URL fraagments from working https://bbingo.xyz/c/ https://bbingo.xyz/c/#optimise-for-mobiles Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:42:40 GMT I have made the 'changes' page quicker and better for mobiles. See 'bingo.xyz/c'. There is a link to another page with all the changes and the animations https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#image-metadata https://bbingo.xyz/techtips/#image-metadata Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:55:08 GMT Article about how adding more metadata for my images did not improve how the images appear in Google's search