I’ve decided to go with مذكرات طالب الجزء الاول (Diary Of A Wimpy Kid) and have ordered both the translation and an English edition. As far as I know, they have never been edited for being a little too racist or misogynistic.
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I’m trying to find a print edition of Roald Dahl’s العملاق الطيب or ذكاء ثعلب (The BFG or Fantastic Mr Fox, Arabic translations), probably the latter due to the babblement of made up words in the BFG. I’d settle for an e-book though.
It’s not easy to shop in a language you don’t understand in an alphabet you can’t recognise. I’ve tried Goodreads for some links and while some of them go to translations, it tends to be a random language rather than the one you are looking at.
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We’ve been watching The League of Gentlemen recently but last night we didn’t feel like watching a horremdy (like a dramedy but for horror). We needed nice, simple and a lot of heart.
Scrubs was perfect: we watched the first three episodes of season one and it was so nice. We’ve got DVDs of the first three series so get the original music too.
I think Bill Lawrence has got a bright future.
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SMS from “Coinbase” (yes, scare quotes) “Your login code is 123456. Wasn’t you? Reach us at 1800 SCAM.” I’ve never seen that approach before.
With all these scams, the money laundering and the well known price manipulation you’d almost think that operating in the crypto market was somehow a dodgy thing for dodgy people.
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It’s started: Bluesky have asked me to verify my age through Kids Web Services. They have a very smart looking web site.
Their privacy policy seems fine, I guess but includes that well worn line “we may modify this Privacy Policy at any time.” I understand that line is basically the privacy policy version of E&OE but what’s not clear is how they want me to verify my age.
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A question about CSS sub-grid, is it possible to do without
div.can-i-do-without-thisin this example?Hashtag peter learns css again after somehow becoming a backend developer over the course of the last ten years
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Wow, have I forgotten a lot of CSS over the last ten years.
I’m trying to remember to use logical properties, even though my site is only ever going to appear in English.
It seems odd that a shorthand equivalent of
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I know I am an old silly but were I running a bank and transitioning people to a new system, I’d:
- provide the exact name of the new app
- provide the new access details before rather than after the transition
- only do so after internet banking was available via the internet
I guess this is why I am not a product manager at a bank.
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The EBU allowing Israel to compete in next year’s Eurovision is so weak. I hope SBS joins the broadcasters pulling out in protest of the genocide.
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I think the quickest fix I saw pushed through was boring a hole in the paywall for Covid related articles, from memory that took less that 24 hours after the first case was discovered in Australia.
It had nothing to do with my team but I think at first it was a bit of a kludge:
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When I was at Farifax, I once whinged so much about ending up on smh.com.au via links on theage.com.au that we got a fix through the system in about a week just so I’d shut up about it.
People were actually very good about it. Once I pointed out that “I’ve subscribed to the Age, why would I try to log in to the SMH after hitting the paywall?” everyone was sold fairly quickly. It probably helped that it was peak 2020 at the time. News was pretty important to Victorians at the time.
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The ABC News website insists on showing me the Today in NSW section even though I’ve got all the things set to Melbourne. The sidebar shows local news correctly but not the main feed.
I hit the CDN endpoint ae9.equinix-mel.netarch.akamai.com so there are multiple ways for the national broadcaster to detect I am, maybe, possibly, not in NSW.
They can be such a Sydney media outlet sometimes, across the board.
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Having a milestone birthday this week has got me thinking about the last ten years.
Buying a home has got to be a highlight, that it was the place we’d been renting for ten years beforehand is gravy. We knew its sins going in but also that we loved living here in good ol’ 3011.
A lot of professional achievements. From memory, I had the first functional commit on the CMS re-platforming for Fairfax but if not, it was one of the first five or six. I sometimes worry that that will be the biggest project I ever work on but I thought I’d worked on big projects ten years ago so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These days I make regular decisions that effect a “try not to think about it” number of websites. But I also get to help other developers contribute code to these same sites. Often is the people who have been showing up for years, but sometimes it’s a new contributor who then becomes a regular contributor and, finally, an old hand.
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Me: Oh good, I slept through another major internet outage.
…arriving at my desk…
Internet: fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
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AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to.
Last time they played Melbourne, they were at Docklands Stadium. As a concert stadium it has a nasty habit of letting all the sound go straight up out of the venue.
We were living in North Melbourne at the time and the wind was just right for sending a perfect mix in to our living room.
We threw open all the doors and just listened to the concert for about an hour or two. At the end of the show there was a huge guitar solo: we looked at each other and said “that crowd is going fucking wild right now, right?” “Yep”.
I miss that flat in North Melbourne for many reasons, acca dacca being one of them.
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I’m a little sad that the Peekaboo Bug page no longer resolves (it redirects to the site’s home page). The content isn’t lost, it’s just another reason to be thankful to the Web Archive.
Youngs, don’t worry about it… but ask an old why you’d prefix a CSS property with an underscore or an asterisk if you want to be entertained some time.
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Alternative headline: Liberal cabinet agrees to lose more seats to Teal independents.
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As a democracy nerd, I’m enjoying Annabel Crabb’s Civic Duty on iView.
The first episode was basically a love letter to the independence of the AEC, describing them as beige as a term of endearment. It made me want to gift one to America. No division of a population will be perfect but it’s really nice not have gerrymandering as just a thing we live with.
Not since the days of Joh, anyway.
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I remember being in tears of laughter when the Daily Show went all Simpsons Rake Theory with the phrase “Dick Cheney shot a 78-year-old man in the face”.
In their corporate wisdom Paramount have deleted it from the internet.
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I like getting bots to do things, even when there will be no long term time savings. As I find ways to improve a process, I can just do it once and actually forget about it.
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I’ve added the plugin check action to my WordPress plugin template repo now that security reports are created for each plugin update.
I’ve used the most basic configuration and will customise it based on each plugin’s needs.
