1. whenc Dec 8, 2025 parent

   Out of an abundance of caution, I've deleted it. So there we are.
2. whenc Dec 8, 2025 parent

   ...
3. whenc Dec 8, 2025 parent

   It went un-noticed here, I think, but The Pragmatic Bookshelf recently fired most of its staff and are taking on no new books. In the email they sent to authors, they quoted a 40% YoY fall in non-fiction sales, industry-wide.
4. whenc Dec 6, 2025 parent

   And when they came back, they were blacklisted by order of the government:

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16287211

5. whenc Oct 13, 2025 parent

   You can do:

     cpdf -output-json in.pdf -o out.json
   

   (Modify out.json as liked)

     cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf
   

   (Disclaimer, I wrote it.)
6. 3 points Oct 13, 2025

   Landline and mobile networks down across UK

   0 comments whenc co.uk
7. whenc Oct 1, 2025 parent

   PDF annotations sit within the file.
8. whenc Jul 9, 2025 parent

   The last big RISC OS program written in BASIC and assembler. I published something through Cerilica called TextFX, also in BASIC and assembler.

   There was also Composition, by a chap from New Zealand. Multiple transparent layers of any size and position, and and interesting system-wide plugin system.

9. whenc May 13, 2025 parent

   Try with cpdf (disclaimer, wrote it):

     cpdf -output-json -output-json-parse-content-streams in.pdf -o out.json
   

   Then you can play around with the JSON, and turn it back to PDF with

     cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf
   

   No live back-and-forth though.
10. whenc May 5, 2025 parent

    "....financial precarity (his income through the 1970s averaged £7,600 a year)"

    £100000 in today's money in 1970. £35000 in today's money in 1979. Minimum wage today about £23000.

11. whenc Apr 3, 2025 parent

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_origin
12. whenc Mar 17, 2025 parent

    "Management is that for which there is no algorithm. If there's an algorithm, it's administration." (Maurice Wilkes, IIRC)
13. whenc Mar 14, 2025 parent

    Trains in operation:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_139

14. whenc Mar 4, 2025 parent

    I suspect they are confusing "total market capitalization of companies on stock exchange" with "financial industry".
15. whenc Jan 17, 2025 parent

    We come mentally of age when we discover that the great minds of the past, whom we have patronized, are not less intelligent than we are because they happen to be dead -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
16. whenc Dec 29, 2024 parent

    No, they don't. Whilst Switzerland is not in the EEA, it does have agreements with the EU which include FoM.
17. whenc Dec 29, 2024 parent

    Iceland already has freedom of movement (to live and work) due to its EEA membership; and it is only somewhat to do with Schengen, which is about passport free travel not living and working. You can have FoM without Schengen - e.g Romania until 1st Jan 2025.
18. whenc Dec 29, 2024 parent

    Iceland is not in the CFP.
19. whenc Dec 1, 2024 parent

    Pedantry: Cyprus is in the levant, and the UK has two sovereign areas there.
20. whenc Nov 10, 2024 parent

    This has now been remedied:

    https://pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/

21. whenc Aug 15, 2024 parent

    Here's one to look at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2980179.2982434
22. whenc May 26, 2024 parent

    I know it as a "toffee hammer".
23. whenc Feb 4, 2024 parent

    "We come mentally of age when we discover that the great minds of the past, whom we have patronized, are not less intelligent than we are because they happen to be dead."

    -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

24. whenc Nov 5, 2023 parent

    Sweden being a member of the customs union, the cars can be brought in via any other custom union state i.e the EEA plus Turkey.
25. 3 points Oct 9, 2023

    FastSpring phish

    2 comments whenc
26. whenc Feb 12, 2023 parent

    The days of 99p tickets on Megabus are gone, but booking ahead it's still just £6.88 from London to Manchester on Megabus. Mind you, Ryanair will fly you from London to Venice for £9.99.
27. whenc Feb 11, 2023 parent

    Miles is good fun. Also Manhattan to Montauk on local buses:

    https://youtu.be/fKQmp0spxhs

28. whenc Feb 9, 2023 parent

    You might find this interesting to add functionality to this website: it's a JavaScript version our commercial PDF tools, and can run entirely in the browser. It's AGPL, so you wouldn't need a commercial license for your use case, so long as you release your source, as you say you plan to in another comment:

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/coherentpdf

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