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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]
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Purchasing yet another broken device because it shares many parts with a broken device I already have is perfectly normal, what is sunk cost fallacy?
Mike's comprehensive guide on how to reuse usernames of departed staff members in your organisation's IT systems:
1. Don't.
The train door buttons really need to blink red instead of green at the metro stations when the door is going to open automatically.
Couple of times now someone has shoved past me a bit in a panic because I'm not pushing the button when it blinks and they think I'm just oblivious or something
May the Fourth and Prosper, everyone!