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I’m still disappointed at how quickly Castle became the very thing it started off parodying. I should probably let it go.

I really, really, really wish that whoever named pull requests pull requests had named them merge requests instead.

It makes explaining both git and GitHub to a new users so much more complicated. While explaining the concept of git push and git pull the existence of pull requests makes things so needlessly confusing.

That thing when you go to steal someone’s code (open-source!!!) and you can’t help but form opinions about it and end up submitting a pull request.

I have a problem.

Three banking phishing scams this afternoon alone.

Reply ‘Y’ to activate the link or copy and paste the link in to your browser.

Committing 7,696 images totaling over 30MB to an SVN server with a 258ms ping time can take a while.

I’ve released a new WordPress plugin: Local Twemoji.

For sites running over a CDN, this provides a performance improvement by serving emoji fallback images from your own site.

The perf improvement is due to the way modern browsers cache shared CDN assets.

”Where’s the cheese?”

Qantas confirms cyber-attack exposed records of up to 6 million customers:

The data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

So it only contained everything required to obtain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

I am still amused at how angry people got when the Wordle was VIVID.

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