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A few days ago Wordle made me realise that inbox/sent is inconsistent and it should be either inbox/outbox or sent/received.

Thanks New York Times, this is going to bother me for the rest of my life.

I’d love to know how big a spike iView is getting as Australian nerds rewatch Blink.

There’s something very important to realise about the USA denying entry for the thought crime of criticising Trump.

It’s not a problem for the next few years or entering the USA.

There will be a turn back flag on your passport making it difficult to cross ANY border for the rest of your life.

I’m one of those people who can’t give up on a book part way through unless it’s really, really bad. This decade’s book is The Bourne Identity at about a third of the way through.

It’s really, really, realllllly bad.

It didn’t have the name at the time but all the examples of insecure code in this talk were Vibe coded. When I included the instruction to securely process form data, I got the suggestion // your code here.

Shook Ones, Part 2 includes what sounds very much like the Slack DM notification sound throughout the song. Very distracting.

Mr Bump is the new Pam the Bird.

I’m about to start slow cooking a lamb roast (Nagi/RecipeTin Eats, of course) so am preparing for an afternoon of stomach rumblings as it makes the house smell amazing.

When I start manufacturing computers, I’m going improve floating point calculations by offloading them to a Casio computer watch. https://3v4l.org/q89Es

We’re only two episodes in but Am I Being Unreasonable? on SBS On Demand is great. None of the characters are remotely likeable, not even the nine year-old.