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Note #18069

Can you tell me how to get in touch with your technical/security team @firstdirecthelp? Apparently my report about a vulnerability in your website contains characters that aren’t “valid” for your sucky feedback form… but it doesn’t say which ones.

Best Before

Thanks, supermarket bagels, for expressing exactly how I was feeing when I reached the kitchen this morning:

Look at Banner, Dan!

First thing I saw when I came downstairs this morning:

Totally a banner especially for my birthday, today, and not a repurposed decoration from Annabel’s yesterday.

Context for the oblivious:

**

Despite the fact that it’s existed for 11 years, TIL about globstar in Bash. Set shopt -s globstar and ** globs become fully recursive, making that bulk transcode operation much simpler. 🤯

Recursively repackaging .mkvs as .mp4s

A note for my own reference. If you want to repackage a lot of .mkv files as .mp4, without transcoding, here’s a one-liner:

for f in **/*.mkv; do echo "$f"; ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel panic -i "$f" -c copy "${f%.mkv}.mp4"; rm "$f"; done

Note #17929

Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer.
If only there were a way to do it during lockdown?
Oh wait, there is: danq.me/homa-night/homa-night-2

Note #17871

Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It’s a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed…

Just kidding. It doesn’t have a feed! (Yet?)

Note #17836

With thanks to @wasdkeyboards, my new #keyboard can show some #Pride. 🏳️‍🌈

Note #17583

Needed new UPS batteries.
Almost bought from @insight_uk but they require registration to checkout.
Purchased from @SourceUPSLtd instead.
Moral: having no “guest checkout” costs you business.

Note #17552

I’m unlikely to get a graduation ceremony like last time (on account of social distancing and whatnot), but I get a certificate to acknowledge my most-recent qualification.

Dan’s Office (360° Panoramic)

This week, some colleagues at Automattic and I are sharing pictures of our workspaces. So I made a 360° panoramic with interactive “info points” (apologies for work-specific jargon). Would you like to see it?