Vale.Rocks
Declan Chidlow
Long-form writings spanning an assortment of topics, though oft technical in nature.
July 2026
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All posts (80)
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 wishlist. This page documents what I’d love to see added to the standards or...
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, though not completely useless. It can still run a range of software designed for it...
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 for the most fledgeling of information fetching, but as the ’90s progressed and...
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 the web for a casual audience lacking technical expertise, though as time...
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 methods send data provided by a user to a device, while output methods send...
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 superpowered information superhighway is being established. Soon we will all be surfing...
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 this is futile. For somebody with a mental disorder, this will likely not sway...
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 noting is that the primary demographic I found myself helping was the elderly....
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 ‘crashes randomly and other odd behaviors’, but what has one got to lose from giving...
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 much marketing influence and buzzwords as artificial intelligence, it isn’t...
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