Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Tips for Text-based Interviews
Dan shares a post by a coworker on making text-chat-based recruitment interviews work.
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Big List of Naughty Strings
# Reserved Strings
#
# Strings which may be used elsewhere in code
undefined
undef
null
NULL
...
then
constructor
\
\\
# Numeric Strings
#
# Strings which can be interpreted as numeric
0
1
1.00
$1.00
1/2
1E2
...
Max Woolf
Max has produced a list of "naughty strings": things you might try injecting into your systems along with any fuzz testing you're doing to check for common errors in escaping, processing, casting, … -
OpenAI-powered Linux shell uses AI to Do What You Mean
River implements an OpenAI-powered Linux terminal. Just tell it what you want, let it work out what commands are needed!
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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
Dan shares Blackle Mori's iceberg-diagram/list of computer science weirdness.
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Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
Dan shares a post by Matt about Wix's awful new advertising campaign, and adds his own summary.
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How to beat Skyrim without walking
ymfah's produced a Skyrim "walkthrough" video with a difference. The difference? No walking is involved.
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Polyam Lingo
Dr. Doe vlogged about polyamorous terminology and Dan learned a thing or two.
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Tribute to Peter Huntley
One of Dan's dad's former colleagues puts a video on YouTube about him on the ninth anniversary of his death, for some reason.
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The Varieties of Intimate Relationship
The Information Is Beautiful folks have made an infographic showing how different kinds of relationships relate to one another. It's a relationship-relationship diagram!
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Basilisk collection
Blackle Mori's "Basilisk collection" is an amazing piece of alternate history science fiction, presented in the style of a Wikipedia article. Dan explains why it's so good and encourages you to read it.
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Review for ProtonMail Encryption Status by Morgan Larosa
The first review for Dan's first Thunderbird plugin gives it... five stars! Hurrah!
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Coca-Cola company trials first paper bottle
Coca-Cola want a highly-recyclable new bottle, so they're experimenting with complex paper bottles. Rather than just using glass, which worked great for them for most of a century. Sigh.
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Octave Compass
Dan shares the "Octave Compass": an interactive visualisation of music keys.
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Loremen Podcast Simulator
Michael's latest experiment produces random believable folklore.
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Stumbling
Sharing a post by Lucy Belwood, Dan wishes more people used the open web more, Facebook/Twitter/Instagram etc. less.