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  • Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) Spring '83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it's free if you want it:

    https://github.com/Dan-Q/spring83-keygen

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 18 November, 2022
  • Unable to sleep, I found myself wondering whether anybody with a retro-hipster vibe had built a smart pocketwatch. All your smartwatch features, but in pocketwatch format.


    Then I realised I was describing a mobile phone on a keychain.

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    • posted 8 November, 2022
  • Just when I thought I'd seen every conceivable XML data format with an approved MIME type (!) I discover @mamund's Maze+XML, a format for describing orthoganally-connected squares of a maze.

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    • 7 comments
    • posted 7 November, 2022
  • Screenshot of log output, reading: finding 'sexuality', shuffling 'value'.

    The output of this data anonymisation/scrambling script makes me feel seen. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

    Read more - about 1 minutes (12 words)

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    • posted 9 October, 2022
  • Two bowls of porridge with sultanas, each topped with a jumbo marshmallow (one pink, one white) being toasted by a blowtorch (mostly off-camera).

    Kids: We want porridge for breakfast.
    Me: How do you want it?
    Kids: Surprise us.
    Presenting... oatmeal, honey and sultanas with a toasted marshmallow.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 6 October, 2022
  • Was a 10th century speaker of Old Saxon a "Saxophone"? ๐Ÿค”

    Read more - about 1 minutes (10 words)

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    • posted 26 September, 2022
  • Image representing post: Note #20304

    After talking about impulse control, our "puppy school" OABT half-jokingly issued homework to photograph our dogs waiting patiently next to their initial, written in treats. #holdmybeer

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 17 July, 2022
  • Hey @VOXI_UK! There's a security #vulnerability in your website. An attacker can (a) exfiltrate mobile numbers and (b) authenticate bypassing OTP.
    Not sure who to talk to about ethical disclosure. Let me know?

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 8 June, 2022
  • Image representing post: Y100K

    Y100K

    Reassuring to see that @Firefox's datetime-local implementation is year 100,000 compliant. #Y100K

    Read more - about 1 minutes (12 words)

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    • posted 6 June, 2022
  • Adapted version of XKCD comic #927. Titled: How WP plugins proliferate (see: authentication, crossposting, galleries, etc.). Situation: there are 14 competing WordPress plugins. Engineers in conversation agree that 14 is ridiculous and commit to developing a unified plugin that covers everybody's use cases. Result: there are now 15 competing WordPress plugins.

    Almost nerdsniped myself when I discovered several #WordPress plugins that didn't quite do what I needed. Considered writing an overarching one to "solve" the problem. Then I remembered @xkcd comic 927...

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 26 May, 2022
  • Dan with a towel.

    Time is an illusion. School drop-off time doubly so. #towelday

    Read more - about 1 minutes (10 words)

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 25 May, 2022
  • Dan carrying French Bulldog 'Demmy' in a dog carrier bag, with a sunny meadow behind them.

    "Walking" the dog

    Brought Demmy out on the school run for her first "walk", this morning.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (13 words)

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 12 May, 2022
  • The kenburns-bottom CSS effect selected using Animista.

    I know what it means, but my inner child still sniggers every time I see @CSSAnimista's effect "kenburns-bottom".

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 9 February, 2022
  • Every time I log in to HackerOne my brain pronounces it to rhyme with "pepperoni". That's normal, right?

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    • posted 4 February, 2022
  • @robertalanwatts thanks for your Gandi Catch-All Email Forwarding Workaround (https://robsblog.robertwatts.com/2020/02/25/gandi-catchall-email-address-work-around/); very helpful!

    Read more - about 1 minutes (16 words)

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    • posted 31 January, 2022

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