Them: “Waterworld is crap, it’s just Mad Max on water”

Me: “that sounds awesome”

Often people need to know a document exists without knowing the content of that document.

For example, requesting access to that document.

There was a narrator from memory.

And the Google dudes too?

They’re all the same: billionaires.

90% of everything sucks.

Sturgeon’s law states that “ninety percent of everything is crap,” suggesting that most works in any field are of low quality. This observation was made by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon to highlight that low-quality content exists across all genres and areas of life.

Money bags McGee over here. I just fold the covers into a bunch ;-)

If you’re not driving a 0-0-2 steam locomotive are your even driving?

This seems like a skill that deserves to die. Adhesive pads, cups, tampons, etc. seem way better.

I’ve tried to read 19 century cursive journals and other historical documents. It’s impossible, and I’m old enough to have learned it at school.

There’s a reason engineers and technical disciplines used block/print letters.

Having grown up on the cusp of smoke free legislation in my country I remember what it’s like first hand.

It is sooOooOOoo much better now without smoking everywhere.

My 2025 (urgh, humble brag) car has a “12V port” that can deliver up to 180W. It also has one in the boot/trunk too.

We use it to power an air pump for inflating inflatable camping things.

This is the origin of “phreaking”. Tapping out the pulses (on the ‘hang up button’) on a rotary public payphone to make free calls.

Road networks in most cities in my country are like someone just dropped a pot of spaghetti. The oldest urban areas here are at most 150 years old too, so it’s not like we can blame the Romans.

If we’re going to gatekeep.

Then only those of us hand cranking the engine to start it model-T style can actually drive.

Both of those are common. If you’re thinking of using keys also read up on OAuth Client Credentials Flow, rather than reinvent the wheel.

mTLS is another way, where the client also sends a TLS certificate to the server so they both know each other are who they say they are.

Oh, I love NGE because it is 150% weird bullshit.

Get in the ball sack Shinji.

It would be, by far, the lesser weird bull shit from NGE.

Finally, someone who understands that serration is only used for bread.

XSLT and XPath are entirely underrated. They are seriously powerful tools.

While you can approximate XSLT with a heap of coffee and a JSON parser it’s harder to keep it declarative.

In my part of the world we get Trump’s social diarrhea for breakfast.