Total Recall Arnie's Nose Bug made in metal with working light Schwarzenegger "terminator" Movie Prop Replica
I don't need this, but I need this.
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Email is Easy
For decades now I've been annoyed by systems that validate email addresses, badly. This is useful to help illustrate how people often get the idea of a "valid" email address wrong.
Repomix
While the tool is aimed at repos, more generally a tool for taking a ton of different files and turning them into a single source that can be thrown at some sort of learning system so you can ask questions of it.
Why I prefer human-readable file formats
In praise of human-readable (and hopefully writable too) file formats.
Map that breaks down religions within different areas of the UK
Essentially a political map of the UK, that also shows the main religious colour of each area. I'm actually kind of surprised by some of the results.
Reddit App not refreshing on iPhone : r/ProtonVPN
Recently I had a need to finally use a VPN (no, not for that reason -- it was the opposite; I wasn't in the UK and needed to appear to be) and so gave Proton a spin. When using it I noticed that while the Reddit app worked, sometimes, it wouldn't update stories for hours.
Seems this isn't uncommon.
Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language | Hacker News
Hacker news does Cucumber. Hot takes.
Reading QR codes without a computer!
Interesting page that details how a QR code works and how, if you needed to, you could read it manually.
Drum Field Archers
I'm tempted to get back into field archery after around 3 decades of not doinng it. Here's one local group...
ismail-yilmaz/Bobcat: A powerful yet user-friendly cross-platform terminal emulator.
Yet another terminal emulator.
Content Security Policy - OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
Useful information on content security policy.
PostSpark - GitHub Contributions Chart Generator
Yet another GitHub contribution graph generator thing. Looks nice.
Frame of preference
The way that settings were done on the various Mac operating systems, down the ages.
Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music Issues (All)
Back in my teens I was really into this magazine. For some reason it popped into my head the other day and I went looking online to see if there was any mention of it. This is what I found.
React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It
React has never felt quite right to me, but I've never been able to put my finger on why. This article does a good job of gettinng a similar feel to what I feel.
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Saved because it's of past interest to past me in a remote way.
Lisp Logical Pathnames
A short and useful introduction to logical pathnames in Common Lisp.
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (with Carl Sagan)
The absolute classic from my childhood.
Dozens of pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes
Sure correlation is not causation but sometimes it's hard not to think it is.
Project ECCO by Elliot Davis
RPGs aren't quite my thing, especially not "physical" ones; but this looks and sounds interesting.
JK Rowling called The National 'anti-woman' – here's my response
The National's response to JKR's nonsense.
“Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes
An interesting article on what should and shouldn't be mocked when writing tests.
The Line of Death
The most important part of the web browser UI is...
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
"As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This is why it’s important to dig deeper and try to detect subtler signals."
Hurkle
Rules for a simple game that I think might make for a fun terminal-based game.
How I take work notes as a developer
I'm a big fan of keeping notes as I work, as I develop software. I like to /try/ and take a lab notebook approach where possible. But, to this day, I've not really settled on the "one right approach".
Here's someone else's approach...
Common Lisp Strong Typing Example
As the title says: examples of strong typing in Common Lisp.
AI Hallucination Cases Database
AI will enslave us all eventually...
What is TSDoc? | TSDoc
A proposed standard for "docstrings" for TypeScript. Well, not docstrings in the Lisp/Python sense, but comments that can be used to document an API in place and allow for the generation of documentation from them.
Does employee happiness create value for firm performance?
Obviously the causation can’t be explained here, but there is unsurprisingly a correlation between employee happiness and company performance.
The question then becomes: does a company with happy employees perform better, or do better-performing companies treat their workers better?