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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
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. [...]

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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I'm going to have to mute a bunch of people who reply with serious advice, aren't I?

And yes I know about the replacement PCB project, thanks.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Hey fedi, I need a bit of advice!

If you're disposing of an old Google Home Mini is it sufficient to drive a stake through its heart, or do you need to bury it at a crossroads as well?

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Me: Why am I so tired at barely 10:30pm? I have things I want to do.

Also Me: You woke up at 5am today, remember?

Me: This is a perplexing puzzle.

Also Me: You were up around the same time yesterday too, and you were up late then as well.

Me: Someone call Mr Holmes, there is an unsolvable mystery afoot.

Also Me: I'm going to bed, you're on your own.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Not much else makes my brain curl up into a defensive ball quite like setting an option "disabled = true" in a configuration file.