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JonBaker, 1 day ago to random

GOOGLE 2004: Don’t be evil

GOOGLE 2024: Don’t be useful

tomw, 1 day ago to random

My readyState? 4.

tomw, 1 day ago to random

Hey

Imagine you want a symbol to mean "this is bad". But not an X, because it's about an election and an X is ambiguous (it could mean vote for this one).

What is that symbol?

dulvui, 1 day ago to CSS

If you ever wondered how to force clear the browser's cache of your css:
style_1.0.css
style_1.1.css
style_1.2.css
...

Simple but effective.

#css #webdev #cache

tomw, 2 days ago to random

Once again I have put an apology between the <noscript> tags

Sorry friends, I would have made this work without Javascript, but I didn't have time and at this point, seriously, most websites don't work for you, do they?

(That isn't what I wrote, I just said sorry)

tomw, 2 days ago to random

#ukpol

People are all about fact-checking their information until they see a 'poll' that has their favoured party ahead from Johnny's Polling & Wings Shack. Instant share

tomw, 4 days ago to random

Long story short, don't trust AI with your dog.

tomw, 5 days ago to random

Annoying #opendata #ukpol problem - UK postcodes are included in Code Point Open but Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded for stupid licensing reasons.

Is there any source of NI postcodes mapping them to the new constituency boundaries?

tomw, 14 days ago to random

GPT-4o? What even is this numbering scheme?

I'll wait for GPT-4: Golden.

tomw, 16 days ago to random

When making a speech/Youtube video/whatever, you don't have to say "without further ado". Just leave out all the ado. I don't need any ado.

tomw, 18 days ago to random

Someone needs to invent something worse than screens so that all the people who rabbit on about "screens" being bad will embrace them as "the wholesome alternative to (new bad thing)".

This is basically what has happened with kids' comics at this point.

tomw, 20 days ago to random

I just used jQuery in a new project and you know what, I don't even feel bad. I just needed to hide all the elements with one class and show all the elements with a different class. A one-liner in jQuery and not in anything else!

tomw, 25 days ago to random

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tomw, 26 days ago to random

Every security expert ever: "Do not use incrementing ID numbers"

Every Shopify-based shop: "Thanks for your order # 1201"

tomw, 27 days ago to random

If a few hundred simultaneous requests can bring down your website, don't moan about Mastodon instances for sending them. Fix your website.

This doesn't need to be a big job – for most servers it's a couple of config lines, plus for Wordpress or similar you'll likely need caching.

It will prepare you for the day when you publish something that gets a lot of (genuine) traffic.

This level of traffic is not a "distributed denial of service", it is a "small-to-medium-sized request for service".

tomw, 28 days ago to random

Stop releasing "new web browsers" that are just Chromium.

Stop releasing "new search engines" that are just Bing.

What a colossal waste of time.

Edent, 5 years ago to email

102KB ought to be enough for any email

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/05/102kb-ought-to-be-enough-for-any-email/

#bug #email #gmail #google

tomw, 2 days ago to random

Today I learned that the "DIZ" in "FILE_ID.DIZ" stands for "description in zip" – because it is a description text file inside a zip file.

I wondered about this at the time, but not enough to have gone looking for it since. Nice to have a loose end tied up.

tomw, 15 hours ago to random

I dunno guys, I tried touching grass but it was wet and I think there was some dirt on it

tomw, 5 hours ago to random

Wanted to use Google's link: operator, like

link:example.com

Anyway apparently they removed it? Years ago??