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shawnhooper

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Long time web developer. #PHP, mainly #Laravel & #WordPress. I'm an advocate for an accessible & open web. Also learning more about engineering management, security, and privacy.

I'm a conference speaker, teacher, co-organizer of WordCamp Canada. I'm the Director of Engineering and Security @ Actionable.co

I live in #Ottawa, Canada (Unceeded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation)

Still sometimes do live event sound/lighting, retired Karaoke Host & Wedding DJ.

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shawnhooper, to random
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Tonight’s geeky interest: How pinball machines work.

Very cool.

https://youtu.be/ue-1JoJQaEg?si=TQtP0ojqbi8oV-wu

shawnhooper, to random
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Eww. Received a marketing email this morning from an outsourcing firm. Their pitch: The war in Ukraine is destabilizing the region. Move from your team members there to our team.

shawnhooper, to random
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RAIN!

:)

shawnhooper, to random
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Oh that lovely season where there's a nice cool breeze through the window, but I can't keep any paper on my desk without it flying away.

shawnhooper, to random
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Starting the Fallout TV show.

shawnhooper, to random
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Demolition footage of the truss on the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbssS4f100U

shawnhooper, to random
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My partner calls most of the videos I watch on YouTube "Book Reports for Adults" and.... they're not wrong. I can't get it out of my head now.

shawnhooper, to Theatre
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Let the month of year end dance recitals begin.

The calm before the storm.

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shawnhooper, to animals
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DJ Murray on the 1s and 2s.

shawnhooper, to retrocomputing
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I’ve seen many posts about the Apple II computer written Apple // or Apple ]

Why?

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shawnhooper, to random
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Quite the storm in Ottawa this evening. (Photo from FB)

shawnhooper, to random
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I can’t believe how pervasive Ring doorbells have become. (Never mind all the other brands out there.)

They’re everywhere.

I don’t like it.

shawnhooper, to opensource
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Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code


shawnhooper, to random
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Every time I'm forced to use Chrome, I find it so so slow compared to Firefox.

shawnhooper, to random
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I can't help but sigh, in 2024, when organizations still fail to prepare for an onslaught of traffic to their websites. It is, generally, avoidable, if you see it coming.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/05/toronto-public-library-crashes-free-cn-tower-passes/

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Website builder Squarespace is being taken private by U.K.-based private equity firm Permira in an all-cash deal that gives the company an enterprise valuation of $6.9 billion.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/permira-is-taking-squarespace-private-in-6-6-billion-deal/

shawnhooper, to Poutine
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When you drive by the cheese co-op, you stop at the cheese co-op.

shawnhooper, to Quebec
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Keep going outside every little while to look for the . Nothing much visible yet.

I’m in at the moment. Clear skies. Hoping I get to see something.

shawnhooper, to random
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Nirvana have paid tribute to Steve Albini by sharing the four-page letter he sent the band before agreeing to record their beloved final studio album, In Utero. Albini passed away at the age of 61.

https://consequence.net/2024/05/nirvana-steve-albini-tribute/

shawnhooper, to rant
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Dear conference hotel - A Bose sound bar is not a "professional sound system".

shawnhooper, to music
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Aww man, Steve Albini, audio engineer and owner of Electrical Audio died yesterday.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/steve-albini-dead-obit-1235017169/

Two of my favourite albums he was engineer for:

  • In Utero by Nirvana
  • Razorblade Suitcase by Bush X

shawnhooper, to random
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Tonight’s movie: Oppenheimer.

shawnhooper, to random
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“Expired domains that are purchased and repurposed with the intention of boosting the search ranking of low-quality content are now considered spam” 🎉
https://hachyderm.io/@allafarce/112389607235119289

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DropBox Sign (formerly HelloSign) says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dropbox-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-auth-secrets-from-esignature-service/

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I'll bookmark this project for the QR Code Generator alone!

https://deshittify.us/

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