IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API
How dodgy does your IP address look?
macOS defaults list
Lots of useful information about the macOS defaults command.
Penumbra - colour scheme
Penumbra is a mathematically balanced colour scheme constructed in a perceptually uniform colour space with base colours inspired by the shades of colour occurring in nature due to the light of the sun and the sky. It cleanly separates the perceptual properties of colours while optimally utilizing the available colour space of typical displays.
Card punch emulator
Fun little punch card generator site -- makes an image of a punch card.
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe - Divinations - Every
LinkedIn is the real hellsite of the Internet.
How to pronounce imgur.
There’s only one correct way!
Why the Apple logo has a bite out of it
I forgot where now, but the other day I saw something where someone stated as fact that the Apple logo was a homage to Turing. That didn't feel likely and... seems my gut was right.
Amazing OBS Recording Settings 1080p 60fps – ULTIMATE Beginner Guide
A guide to setting up OBS to record 1080p and 60fps.
Git from the Bottom Up
A tutorial/reference that covers a lot of detail about git.
The Documentation Triangle (or, why code isn't self documenting)
"My code speaks for itself" is the usual gate-keeper kind of nonsense trotted out by people who just can't be arsed to document their stuff but want to sound like they do it because they are so 1337. This blog post, in not very many words, gives a nice explanation as to why that's rather silly.
Ante
A low-level functional language, for exploring refinement types, lifetime inference, and algebraic effects.
New UUID Formats
Proposed new UUID formats.
Penicuik Tesco opening hours
Open plan offices are terrible for you
The evidence is overwhelming: open plan offices are absolutely terrible. For everyone. They make employees stressed, decrease team communication, and lower productivity. While there has been a lot of anecdotal evidence on this, recent studies have shown the real impact...
.plan
Online plan/finger site, which actually supports finger. Actually really rather neat.
How mindfulness can make you a darker person
Mindfulness can be a useful tool, and is rightly suggested as a tool in the toolbox of good mental health. But like all tools it can have its problems if not used correctly.
To quote form the start of the article:
"Mindfulness is thought to have multiple benefits – but it can also make you less likely to feel guilty about wrongdoing and derail your moral compass."
Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it (like on Linux) · mmazzarolo.com
BPD Loved Ones: What media do you use to cope?
Thread about music and stuff that people use to help cope with being a victim of a pwBPD.
Contact myself
The seething overbelly of reflexive pronoun-abusing, spam-driven recruitment. In other words: snarky breakdowns of stupid recruitment contacts.
How to reset AirPods, remove AirPods Apple ID - 9to5Mac
Quick tutorial on how to reset AidPods, including how to remove them from an account.
TV Technical Difficulties [With Download Links (MP3/MP4) | [COPYRIGHT FREE]
Handy video to drop into another video when there's "technical difficulties".
Translating slang and corporate-speak
Fun thread with some translations of slang, but also translations into corporate-speak too. Good chuckle here.
IDE for Interlisp and Common Lisp
Online IDE for Interlisp (and Common Lisp).
The Highway Code: 8 changes you need to know from 29 January 2022
Main changes to the highway code in the UK in early 2022.
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Handy collection of biology-related icons.
CloudpilotEmu: A PalmOS emulator for the web
A PalmOS emulator that can run in the browser; could be interesting if I ever want to try and play with any of my old Palm code again.
12ft.io - Remove paywalls
Tool to try and remove paywalls from news sites.
MELPA - Open Collective
It's now possible to donate to MELPA.
Why is LinkedIn so cringe
There's something about LinkedIn that makes it way more cringe (good word for it really) than any other social network I've ever used. But I've never been able to put my finger on what it is I don't like about it.
This comes close to covering it.
Fixing a Quest 2 that thinks it's in 2037, using SideQuest
By the looks of things update 37 has caused problems for some (including me) where the Quest decides it's in 2037. After that the Wi-Fi connection looks like it has limited Internet and few things that need a connection work well.
The fix, other than a factory reset, is to set the time by hand; which the Quest 2 won't let you do. So... SideQuest to the rescue!