Vale.Rocks
Vale.Rocks
Declan Chidlow
Long-form writings spanning an assortment of topics, though oft technical in nature.
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Head-mounted virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality devices have received many browsers over the years. Fundamentally, these browsers present a different user experience to browsers on other devices. They’re a very...
The web platform is a wonderful thing. A collection of standards and implementations that power the ever-wondrous World Wide Web – HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, SVG, WebAssembly, HTTP, etc. However, it can always be better. As such, here is my...
The Oculus Go was Oculus’ (now Meta) first attempt at a standalone virtual reality headset. Indeed, it was one of the first commercial attempts at a standalone VR headset entirely. By contemporary standards, it is extremely obsolete,...
From the moment the technology arrived to allow personal digital assistants (PDAs)1 a connection to the internet, people started connecting them to the internet, as is the natural order of things. Initially their connections were just...
Video game consoles have a long history with web browsers. From the advent of the World Wide Web, consoles have been trying to get online. Browsers on video game consoles were initially very much an attempt to provide a cheap gateway to...
There are a great number of tools and devices out there designed to improve computer use for people with disabilities or even make computer use possible at all. We can consider them in two broad categories, input and output. Input...
The internet is on the horizon. It is happening. This internet is a technology that is going to change the world, alongside the World Wide Web. It is going to be huge. Knowledge beyond measure. The world will be not as we know. A...
I’ve written previously about subdermal implants. As a result, I receive the occasional concerning message from people thinking they’re being tracked or the likes. Small, discreet, implantable chips do not exist. Important I fear writing...
I’ve done a lot of tech support, previously operating a tech support business which had me helping all varieties of people, both at their homes and remotely. Here is an attempt to catalogue some of the tips and tricks I picked up. Worth...
Seeing a listing for a MacBook at the price of $25 AUD triggers a certain thought in the demented mind of a creature such as myself. Sure, the listing title might open with ‘FOR PARTS’ and the description might have the cursed words...
Tune into any discussion of the technologies widely referred to as ‘artificial intelligence’, and you’ll find that terminology is all over the place. Language is forever fluid and evolving, and with a field as quickly moving and with as...
This site, along with many other sites I’ve built since becoming familiar with the project in late 2024, is built with Web Origami. It has quickly become my favourite way to build static websites and work with and transform data. The...
It’s not uncommon for games to be localised, especially when moving between the Eastern and Western worlds. Of course there is the case of differing languages, but there are also many more innocuous elements that can become lost in...
The internet known within China is a very different internet to the one known by the world at large. It is censored, regulated and structured quite differently. It is controlled and managed, rather than organic and sprawling. From the...
Hu Yaobang was a pro-reform member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Joining in the 1930s, he was promoted to General Secretary of the Secretariat in 1980 and proceeded to move up the ranks. In 1981 he became the highest ranking role...