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[Note] The chair guardian 🔗

I guess it’s sweet that the dog has decided that I’m not to leave my home office without her noticing. But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair [...]

[Repost] Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme 🔗

With thanks to Mark Palko for sharing: this seems like a spot-on observation of Musk's career. Wouldn't it be nice if the world's first trillionaire a [...]

[Repost] Ad Infinitum 🔗

An excellent article by Matthias Ott describes Google's promised AI-first search experience, which dispenses with search results entirely and just use [...]

[Repost] New social media restrictions 🔗

Despite being parody, diamond geezer's new age-gating - which e.g. asks for personal information but, obviously, doesn't actually block access to the [...]

[Note] Sleepy Legs [RSS Exclusive!] 🔗

This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks [...]

[Note] Tango Two 🔗

Making another attempt at learning to tango, this time at a more-beginner, more-local class. It’s still super hard but he makes me question whether I [...]

[Article] My Polyamory is Boring 🔗

A conversation with another openly-polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don't write about our relationship structure more-often. In my [...]

[Note] Remembering the 90s Web 🔗

This morning I had a lovely meeting with Andreas Marakis, who's researching the sociological impact of the Web of the 1990s on people who experienced [...]

[Reply] Is midnight in the middle of the night? 🔗

Niki wondered whether "midnight" is actually the middle of the night and discovered that it pretty much is. I explain that this is because he's in Ber [...]

[Repost] I want my friends to have blogs too 🔗

Daniel loves blogs and loves blogging, but wishes that more of the people in his 'real life' blogged too. I get it, Daniel! [...]

[Repost] AI is not a person 🔗

And it's important to remember that. Chris Ferdinandi has some direct words, and I expand upon them. [...]

[Article] I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys 🔗

Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these [...]

[Note] F-Day plus 115 🔗

115 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift p [...]

[Article] So Unbelievable it Sounds Like you Googled It 🔗

DeGoogling is so... 2010s. Let's make the 2020s the decade where we redefine Google as a verb. In the age of AI-first search, "to Google" now ought to [...]

[Note] Yodawg 🔗

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm." [...]

[Article] F-Day plus 113 🔗

It's been 113 days since my house flooded and it's almost time for repair work to start! But first, I've got some repair work of my own to do: to a de [...]

[Note] The improvement to code quality that drops the coverage metric 40%! 🔗

Working with an old codebase today, I moved a method from one file to another. CI was happy. Then I realised the method didn’t have any automated test [...]

[Note] The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act [contains spoilers] [RSS Exclusive!] 🔗

This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks [...]

[Note] Optional AUP 🔗

Got to say, it’s very sporting of AWS to make compliance with their terms of service and acceptable use policy optional. [...]

[Repost] Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 🔗

Meta decided to replace a lot of their tech support with a chatbot. Which meant giving that chatbot the power to manipulate data. Which meant, to the [...]

[Note] Sending a test email from WordPress/ClassicPress using WP-CLI 🔗

Note to self: ignore all the search results that say to install a plugin. The absolute fastest way to send a test email from a WordPress/ClassicPress [...]

[Article] The “ChangeNames.co.uk” Scam 🔗

Today, somebody who's running a scammy personal information collection campaign hidden beneath the veneer of a buggy free deed poll service that compe [...]

[Article] Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis 🔗

Did you know that there's a simple formula you can use to convert from an ISO two-letter country code to the emoji of the flag of that country. I've m [...]

[Note] Ground White Pepper 🔗

There are many things I don’t like about the kitchen in the Chicory House where we’re living medium-term following our house flood. But I like the fac [...]

[Note] Twenty Inches 🔗

I let the elder kid choose her lunch. She chose a pizza so huge that each slice is larger than her entire face. Needless to say, she needed a little h [...]

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