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I Broke Everything, Then I Fixed It
Eagle eyed (well, those with eyes; and those with screenreaders actually) readers will have noticed that the main page of Stuporcollider has been a bit broken recently.
My bad.
Do you want to know what was wrong? Really? Can you handle the complexity? Well strap yourself in, here we go!
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You see that? That’s ASCII character 34 (or 22 in hex. I heard you at the back), commonly known as the speech mark, quote mark or double dash (I work with strange people). Here’s a well formed link:
<a href="http://link.com">This is a link!</a>
and here’s what I wrote:
<a href="http://link.com>This is a broken link!</a>
Spot the gargantuan cockup? Took me an hour to find it. My apologies are boundless. See how I placate you with Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal?
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