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My hobby is waiting for client side rendering to comple

These voter ID laws the Morrison govt have proposed are truly reprehensible.

Not only will they suppress votes, the people who have had their votes suppressed will then be fined for failing to vote.

All this for an imaginary problem of fraud which the AEC says doesn’t exist.

It’s bad enough that flying in-and-out of the country is fine if you’re one of the biggest arseholes in showbiz wanting to perform a self indulgent monologue in a TV studio but a normie returning home to reduce their risk during a pandemic is somehow forbidden.

Having pulped most Australians’ passports, I will really lose my shit if a vaccination exemption is made for tennis players. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/australian-open-tennis-vaccination-policy-not-yet-settled/100564984

What advice were you given early in your career that you’ve ignored, sometimes for the better, sometime for your detriment? Mine’s to never write a CMS.

MagSafe connectors seem like a really good idea in case someone trips on a power cable. I’m surprised no one’s thought of them before.

The Internet is conspiring to tempt me to shout at this cloud. Don’t make me post a thread, Internet, I will do it. It’s hard being right all the time.

For a bug I am working on, debug tools are triggering the observer effect thus resolving the bug. I will never complain about a simple timezone or caching issue again.

Turns out telling office types complaining about working from home on LinkedIn they’re self entitled and lucky to be earning an income does not drive engagement. Maybe I should have included a graphic: ? if you need to learn your privilege.

Would it be a sign of too much time spent alone in lockdown to give your cat the nickname Bird and to subsequently put bird seed on your shopping list to indicate cat food?

This is, of course, a hypothetical. A hypothetical I am asking for a friend.