Ed Gargan

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation More than 30 jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. They house a quarter of the prison population. Here we explore how 19th century design is contributing to a 21st century crisis

A visual investigation of Victorian prisons and how their design still shapes the lives of incarcerated people www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

First results coming in now on our German election tracker:
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple indepen...

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored
#FreeJavaScript

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Doesn't look like that solves it, just gave it a go, thanks though!

A screenshot of the article in the original post, with the browser's developer tools open. One of the square figures in the article's main graphic is highlighted, with a popup showing the square's width and height as 35.99px, while the developer tools window shows its width and height as 36.

Question for any web SVG experts: browser scaling causes these `height=36` and `width=36` squares as 35.99px, causing slight clipping. Besides `overflow: visible` on the SVG, is there a cleaner fix?

Both houses and a supreme court supermajority: how Trump’s power compares historically Trump’s second term will be marked by a rare level of influence in Congress and the highest court

My piece on Trump and the supreme court just went live 🥳, slowly learning how to do the journalism side of this job!

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Yep the christmas special and series finale (!!) just aired, I loved it!

#gavinandstacey didn't need to do me like that with the photo freeze frame ending 🥲

Perfect finale, genuine.

I'm all over Astro already, it's such a good framework! Can't wait to start using their image optimisation features too, they look magical.

Why did I ever think Notion would be a sensible CMS for my blog? I need to stop getting so excited about free APIs in the tools I use. Time to bin the hundreds of lines of Notion-to-HTML code and rewrite my posts in MDX, as God intended.

Wow @deno.land is such a breath of fresh air. Goodbye boilerplate templates, goodbye Vite config, goodbye `nodemon ts-node/register tsc --watch blah blah blah` 🌞

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

a man in a plaid shirt is opening a filing cabinet in an office . Alt: A man opening a magic super-long filing cabinet, a clip from Bruce Almighty

I'm trying to learn mapshaper today and boy is this thing DENSE

US election 2024 results live: Donald Trump wins presidency, defeating Kamala Harris Follow the latest results from across the US as Trump wins several states critical to electoral success

Well at least our trackers didn't catch fire (significantly). Here's the one I worked on by the way - first byline!!

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About to begin my shift helping our US election tracker pages pull through the night! It's lovely that everyone's setting fireworks off for us 🥰