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A pinch and a punch for the 275th of March.

Teenage boy writes some letters

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— ༄ carolina (@smackinpackin) November 24, 2020

Let me use spaces in my credit card and phone numbers, you bastards. Let me paste, you bastards. Let me open links my way, you bastards.

Query Monitor: Keeping developers’ swear jars empty(ish) since 2013.

I think about Brett Sutton’s first tweet occasionally. Environmental health ✅; food safety: does having to close restaurants count??; communicable disease ✅✅✅. But probably not what he had in mind.

Hi, I’m Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton. This is my first official tweet so I wanted to let you know what I’m keen to focus on – environmental health, food safety and communicable disease. I’ll promote new CHO alerts, so pls RT!

— Chief Health Officer, Victoria (@VictorianCHO) November 14, 2019

I am beginning to consider that maybe it was unwise to take my morning walk in this.

Alt text: weather satellite showing a large patch of rain centred on a location marker.

“Damn, I’ve busted my local server.”
“Oh, I forgot to boot it”

Every. Single. Day.

Never read your hero’s code.
Never read your code.
Never read code.
Never code.

Remember when you’d see a name trending on Twitter and ask yourself whether they’d died rather than what they said this time? It cost us some childhood heros on the way but I miss those days.

Remember, the inauguration isn’t until January. Until then the correct title is President Loser.