I watched Spotswood on iView last night which somehow I’d never seen. It’s fun and largely stands the test of time.
What really trilled me was that a few scenes were filmed in the hood. In that movie way at the bottom of the hill they turned in to a completely different suburb but that doesn’t change the fact that a baby faced Ben Mendelsohn and Toni Collette rode a bike down a street near here.
We live near the freight bridge over the Maribyrnong River and you can always tell when an exciting train is coming through because there are bunch of youngs with high end cameras hanging around eagerly.
I don’t know what constitutes and exciting train, except maybe the steam engines that occasionally use the line, but the youngs have probably never got excited browser interoperability. Who am I to judge?
Now to the optometrist to find out how much worse my eyes have got in the last two years. I suspect a lot. Coincidentally, I think it was grand final day when I last had them checked.
I am still upset that the good cafe in a neighbouring suburb sold and became the bad cafe. The old barista spent months doing handover and they learnt nothing. NOTHING.
Not using the CSS cascade hastens the Antichrist.
— Peter Thiel, probably
I watched the Hamilton the Musical episode of Hard Quiz last night and all I can think is how much of a waste of a subject it was that the contestant didn’t make it to the final round.
I am tempted to write an NPM package that just bricks a machine whenever someone types a tilde, caret or the word latest.
Ha, the NYT endpoint for the Wordle solution is available prior to the start of the time period. No token/request hash needed.
Foolishly, I tested this in my browser for tomorrow (don’t worry, I would never…). Switching to curl HEAD requests, it looks like the solutions are available up until October 8.
ANZ’s history of fines: November 2017, February 2018, October 2020, October 2022, March 2023, September 2023, December 2023 and September 2025.
They’ve apologised and promised to improve their systems to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. I presume the system improvements are to better hide their actions from regulators.
People around my age used to have a lot more colour in their hair.