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tomw, 10 hours 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, 10 hours ago

Related: don't say someone "needs no introduction" unless that is literally the only thing you say by way of introduction.

designthinkingcomic, 3 days ago to random

I'm a terrible person.

tomw, 22 hours ago

@designthinkingcomic I'm seeing more and more of these, and even the DON'T RECYCLE ones. Seems to be connected to them using fancier printing on the package?

tomw, 1 day 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, 1 day ago

Luckily this is one of the times when I'm pretty sure Silicon Valley is on the case

kev, 4 days ago to random

I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.

https://kevquirk.com/i-stopped-mastodon-ddosing-me-i-think

tomw, 3 days ago

@kev Yep, a caching plugin fixes it as you discovered. I'm not familiar with your CMS but for the more common case of Wordpress, installing WP Super Cache (or similar) fixes the problem at a stroke.

tomw, 4 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, 4 days ago

(It seems like it would be easy in vanilla JS but you have to do some messy iteration as far as I can tell)

tomw, 4 days ago

Name a better API than

$('.myclass').hide();

(Which hides not just one element, but all with that class.)

I'll wait.

tomw, 4 days ago

Everyone turned against jQuery because it was a "big" dependency, which it kind of was... 10 years ago.

Nowadays people are importing 100x more JS without a second thought. jQuery is snappy compared to 'modern' websites.

datarama, 5 days ago to random

Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?

(Hetzner are villains now, and so are DigitalOcean I gather?)

tomw, 5 days ago

@datarama If you move web hosts every time a web host does something bad, you'll be moving web hosts every day

infobeautiful, 5 days ago to random

WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity.

From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

A diagonal line of ‘heat’ from bottom left to top right reveals people choosing double digits (2323, 6868 etc). A strong horizontal line at the 19 point shows people using their birth year as a PIN code (1971, 1998 etc). And a large amount of heat in the bottom left shows how people commonly use their birthdate in a MM/DD or DD/MM format. The most common code in the set is 1234.
The Top 20 most common 4 digit PIN numbers, as revealed by an analysis of data breaches, constitute 27% of all PIN numbers. They are 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313,8888,4321,2001,1010

tomw, 5 days ago

@infobeautiful This is why if you're ever trying to guess a padlock code, you should start at around 1950 and keep incrementing by 1

mrpjevans, 8 days ago to random

One for fellow software devs out there.

I thought 'Oh, a silly grammar cock-up that makes for a fun local news story'. Then I read the first line. I won't spoil the surprise but maybe make sure there's no-one close when you yell 'OH FOR FU...'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

tomw, 7 days ago

@mrpjevans St Mary€™s Walk, I know it well

tomw, 9 days ago to random

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

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

tomw, 9 days ago

I've also not followed this rule in the past because it is Too Annoying in most cases.

But I felt kind of bad about it. Clearly they don't, so whatever.

tomw, 9 days ago

@flakess True - unless they deliberately change the numbers sometimes, it does leak all-time total and rough rate

tomw, 9 days ago to random

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tomw, 9 days ago

fllw fr mr lf hcks

tomw, 9 days ago

@mahryekuh You got it! (The first one)

ifixcoinops, 10 days ago to random

🦆🐰🐺🐇🐭🐨🐴 we're all gonna visit 🐧's site at once to make a link preview
🦝 ooo, you shouldn't do that
🐧 I'm going to serve each of you six whole damn megabytes
🦝 ooo I've got another shouldn't just for you
🐧 maybe I should post about why is my site so slow
🦝 furtling for crumbs at the bottom of the Shouldn't Bag ooooo
🦊🦅🐗🐫 let's post about how none of this is actually a problem for anyone
🦝 turning the Shouldn't bag upside down and shaking it oh god hang on one at a time ONE at a TIME

tomw, 10 days ago

@ifixcoinops Going to borrow this post format for future use