2018-06-26 (Tuesday)
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@dominickellyuk Keep calm dear!
Closest so far. I’m guessing the populations are projections for this year from 2017, but close enough for my purposes. twitter.com/hugovk/status/…
@johngoldin Thanks! https://t.co/thiePZdVQa itself has a CSV which includes the country codes too.
@hugovk Ah yes, thanks! I think I’d seen that page and not tried the CSV, or thought about how they tied the flags into it.
Anyone know where I can get a list of countries with up-to-date populations and ISO Alpha-2 codes? geonames.org/countries/ is good but is a few years old, judging by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…
Liked tweets
Pointing to this the next time we get a support request for a user of an old Internet Explorer. gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2018/06/26/cha…
@rachelcoldicutt Looks nice, but not all the user – a #betterinternetter to me would be a website that had working links (or showed all the text by default) when the JavaScript didn’t load, used HTTPS so I know the content hasn’t been altered, and wasn’t 1Mb in size on my 3G data plan...? :)