@astrid @gsuberland just run strings over it, it’s the only way to be sure.
Pro tip: when ordering a takeaway on the phone don’t stand in your open window while loudly reading out your card details. I’m not going to use my neighbours card to order something for myself, but I totally could.
I am once again demanding an “it’s ok, nothing to worry about” message on the outside of HMRC envelopes which contain good/neutral news.
I had somehow entirely missed Eurovision is tomorrow until right now, presumably because I no longer use Twitter which would historically alert me to it months in advance with the constant stream of takes.
Next time round I'm going to call up every supplier who spams EMF suggesting they can replace [thing] for us just to see how confused they are by the requirements. "Yes phone supplier, support for dial-up networking is crucial, as is fax to ActivityPub."
Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂
Every autumn, the larch pines turn orange, and the smiley face stands out.
it's not an underpowered, headless, single-board computer, it's a ...
The average festival does not result in thousands of lines of code in the preceding month. Electromagnetic Field was an outlier and should not have been counted.
Someone just walked into this pub with a child and a ukulele. As far as I’m concerned that should be grounds for getting instantly barred.
*tap tap*
Is this thing on?
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Please donate to my kickstarter raising money to send a list of adjectives that can be used instead of “insane” to YouTubers.
The problem with replying to emails is that shortly afterwards there are more emails to reply to.
Today in the week that keeps on giving, the washing machine is broken. I think it’s filling up with water but it then refuses to spin, I’d kind of been hoping for a quiet morning rather than one in which I crack open a washing machine.
Full stack engineer: when you're routinely baffled how anything works at all, regardless of where in the computer
One day I’ll learn that it takes me at least 20 minutes to get up off the sofa and go to bed when I decide it’s time to go to bed. Today was not that day, so I’m once again going to bed later than planned.
Getting married and makiing sure to clarify some soup together on our first night.
It's important to conssométe the relationship.
I hope this email finds you no matter where you're hiding.
You can tell new hardware to test for work has arrived because suddenly my desk is a mess, and there's an extension cable running across the floor so I can flash the thing from one of the Linux boxes in my network cupboard.
Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—