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  HTTP-String-Transport-Security typo

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  I continue to enjoy the `cat` command. 🐱

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  I find it so amusing that the future of programming is now apparently CLI apps with monospace fonts in a terminal

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  I never thought I'd be so happy to see a little drizzle. First rain in a month in London.

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  Canary Wharf is an appropriate location for The Hunger Games: On Stage

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  I’ve never seen so many colanders in Clapham Common #solareclipse

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  I drank some sake yesterday. Not too much. Just a little bottle. The dining room started swaying… Just a little earthquake, probably a 2 where we were in Hakone: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260821210756&lang=en

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  Why did I watch a video of gameplay of the “biggest computer game of the year” instead of playing it?

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  Yay, the latest version of Chi, a lightweight HTTP Go router, includes "feat(middleware): add text/markdown, text/csv, text/vtt to default compressible types". That means that apps that use it (like rclone) will automatically compress Markdown (so common these days) over the network. https://github.com/go-chi/chi/releases/tag/v5.3.2

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  I dug into the PrusaSlicer 3 beta. This now includes a plugin API, sandboxed via Lua. It's fairly limited right now: you can create objects, emboss text, and insert custom G-code. The API is documented as comments in https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/blob/master/src/slic3r-shared/src/Slic3r/App/Lua/ProjectApi.cpp #prusa

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  Whoops I just found a letter marked “do not ignore this letter”. I may have ignored it until now

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  The new phone isn’t orange?!?!

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  So today is "update iOS device and set Liquid Glass to more tinted" day

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  What if the 48 KB ZX Spectrum had more storage and bandwidth, but kept the low resolution and attribute colour clash? What would a movie look like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2q4MZmbRLw #zxspectrum

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  Slightly sidetracked exploring Atari ST SNDH music files. This is ICE! compressed 68000 machine code which calls the YM2149 sound chip. But the actual 68k often runs a virtual machine for the patterns and notes. Super impressive music for such a tiny file size #ym2149

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  Avenue Q is back in London! I had fun last night and learned that the internet is really really great

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  Web Performance advice changes over time: Web Performance Tuning by Patrick Killelea (1998) recommends pre-starting Java in Netscape, 68K emulation for the Macintosh, and whether to get an internal or external modem. High Performance Web Sites, by Steve Souders (2007) recommends CSS sprites, how to configure mod_gzip, and mentions CGI scripts. What advice will raise eyebrows in 2030? #webperf

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  I have a number of Markdown files, and recently I have realised that Obsidian is pretty good at viewing them, searching them and even treating them like a database Bases. (I know, I'm late to the party). What other Obsidian features should I be aware of? #obsidian

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  "The site is unusually friendly to markdown-native browsing agents"

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  It must be friday: Protocol "ttps" not supported

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  I kinda want to replace my old Synology NAS, but the hardware and drive prices are wild right now.

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  Now it’s warmer I’ve started cycling to work. Coincidentally, all my muscles now ache and I’m exhausted.

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  "Agreed, that is technically correct... but confusing"

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  At the moment all I seem to do is write compilers

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  The new stable version of rclone (a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage) is out, including a few of my contributions: https://rclone.org/changelog/#v1-74-0-2026-05-01 #rclone

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  This chart represents the temperature in my kitchen. There's a huge spike! Lava eruption maybe? Or the sun hitting at just the right angle through the window to warm the thermometer?

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  Maybe, just maybe, your static website doesn't need 12 MB of JavaScript

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  “I don’t accept human-authored code”

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  Oops accidentally in Chinatown for dumplings surrounded by lanterns, firecrackers going off and dancing lions. Sneaked in for tasty dim sum. Happy new year!

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  Remember when all our digital devices had headphone jacks? Now I have to worry about dongles and batteries instead, sigh.