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Jon Wood

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I’m building a thing in a framework that includes Tailwind for CSS and thought stay with it and see just how bad it is.

The official documentation recommends “use multiple cursor editing” as an approach to manage the vast amount of duplication everywhere. Someone actually sat down, wrote that, and recorded a little video to go with it.

They do concede that sometimes you might, shock, horror, write your own CSS class. This should be avoided though.

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Today in Dutch crime:
— There was a tax officer with legitimate access to a database of information on citizens, needed to do his job
— His lookups in the database increased an order of magnitude, often after work hours
— The people whose information he looked up were peculiarly likely to experience a mafia intimidation crime (such as fireworks-in-the-mail-slot) shortly afterwards

This is why thorough audit logs are such a crucial part of computer security. If your org handles sensitive personal information, you should be proactively looking for users with an unusually high number of accesses, or who are looking up celebrities, politicians or their own family and neighbors for no clear reason.

www.at5.nl/nieuws/235052/jim-b

Finally. FINALLY. Defeated one of my nemesis boulders this evening, one that is well within my abilities until the last two moves which I just could not get. I’ve been trying this one for about a month now, and tonight I spotted the move I’ve been missing which makes it all fall into place.

This is why I enjoy climbing as a hobby, it’s exercise, but also it’s defeating little puzzles with grades attached to them. Basically catnip for my brain.

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Result: disappointing.

Your call is important to us. But not important enough for us to hire enough staff that it will be answered anytime soon, don’t get too full of yourself.

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Once again woken up mad that we have made a world where the number one priority is that the money is happy

@Edent probably for the best.

My brother and I nerd sniped each other and now we’re plotting a YouTube series which is a combination of Jet Lag and GeoGuessr called DashCam which we’ll probably never make, but I reckon it would be a banger if we did.

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The BABY CHANGING STATION is where you can allocate ATTRIBUTE POINTS to raise your baby's ATTRIBUTES, and unlock SKILLS with SKILL POINTS. You can also replace your baby's EQUIPMENT.

Just saw the most egregious use of YouTube face in a thumbnail while browsing some Google Cloud documentation. Nobody needs to be doing that to themselves for a video entitled “Manage CAs with Terraform”, either I’m interested in that or I’m not, you’re not getting driveby views on that regardless of how excited you look about the prospect.

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Everything may be shite but this will make you happy, albeit briefly.

Promise.

I’ve managed to lose an AirTag. I can say for certain it’s somewhere in my bag telling me the battery is low, but I’ve checked all the pockets and I can’t find the thing to change its battery.

I’ve been setting up a curiously large amount of software for acquiring Linux ISOs the last couple of evenings. Think I’ve got it down now, it can automatically find ISOs of interest and then make them available via the ISO viewing software on my TV for ease of browsing.

I see OpenAI have invented Alexa Skills. Lots of copy in this documentation saying how they shouldn’t be used for ads, or promoting users to come back to your company’s app, while these will absolutely be used for ads and feature prompts to come back. developers.openai.com/apps-sdk

I introduced the boy to git today (with a UI in VS Code, I’m not a monster), leading to the wonderful question “shall I make a commitment” when a change seemed like it was done. Took me a minute to work out what he meant.

The boy dropped “I want to make a Peak mod” on me this morning. Our history with “I want you to make an X mod” is that we attempt it, everything is terribly documented, and after several hours of getting gradually more annoyed we both lose interest (generally I lose interest a bit after he does).

Shout out to the Peak/Unity games modding community for making it not hateful. He’s added actual code that does something already, even said he enjoyed the process!

I think I need to switch software I’m using for my Fedi instance. Does anyone have a reasonable reference on what needs to happen for followers to stay following me?

I’ve been reminded again of Swatch Internet Time, which has a (still online!) powerfully 90s web page including the mention of someone meeting their cyberfriend.

I think I’ll adopt cyberfriend, it’s better than “the people who live in my phone”, so hello cyberfriends!

www.swatch.com/en-en/internet-

@alice @alice_watson I think you owe the dog an apology for all those times they got the blame when it was Trump all along.

@floehopper @issyl0 I increasingly believe most people are cargo culting their git usage and don’t really understand what it’s for and how to use it. See also: commit histories riddled with “changed file.py”… yeah, I know, it’s right there in the diff. Why did you change it?

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Let's talk about mediocre hobbies. When we're very young it's easy to try anything and have fun doing so. Making funny sounds on a xylophone or drawing pictures with charcoal don't rely on the output for enjoyment.

Then we get older and the people who really excel at those skills make us feel like we're not good at things. Why draw as an adult if you're not able to get a face proportions correct?

Because it's still fun! I have a million hobbies. And my skill level is middling at most of them. Still fun! Still feels good to draw a dinosaur.

Today in needy companies: South Western Railway would like me to spend *10 minutes* answering a survey about a recent train journey. That would mean I’d spent longer answering a survey than I did on the journey itself, so I think I’ll decline.

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Salesperson: This car will seat six people without any issues.

Me: I don’t think I know six people without any issues.

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“We and our 937 partners”. Polyamory is really starting to get out of hand, even websites are at it.

In a recent episode of Star Trek: “Computer, discontinue radiation warnings until further notice”.

If they weren’t cowards the script writers would have unceremoniously ended the crew of the Enterprise three seasons later with everyone dying of surprise radiation poisoning because no one remembered to turn them back on.