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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 …] [...]
Chinwag Posts
What's next, a phone number starting with 555?
How do I have a credit card with an expiry date in 2030? That's not a real year. That's from a movie.
The eternal challenge of finding a way to explain to non technical people that yes, I'm in the IT team but I'm not "the IT guy".
Not that if your laptop just exploded in your hand I'm not going to try to help you, but for a lot of general issues I don't necessarily know a whole lot that might help, and I'm not just telling you to call a helpdesk number to brush you off.
Hey @sizzle I cancelled my account and unsubscribed a while ago, why have you started emailing me again?
Setting "marysu" as an alias for "sudo" because it's the command that turns you into the hero of the story.