Beginning to prepare/test my costume for an upcoming murder mystery party, I glanced into the mirror and briefly didn’t recognise myself. Glasses can do so much to change your face shape!
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Hasbro Alignment Chart
Hasbro seem to be rolling up a new character. Maybe this’ll help them.
Things The Other Child Did Wrong That Lead To The Fight that I’ve heard so far today:
- Clapped too loudly
- Sang too loudly
- Sang too quietly
- Sang the wrong words
- Put their feet too close to the dog
- Ate the last grape
- Ate the wrong grape (!?)
- Finished brushing their teeth first
- Clapped too loudly, again
- Called somebody “buttocks”
- Said somebody had buttocks
- Expressed interest in going a different route to school
- Put shoes on in wrong order
Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) #spring83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it’s free if you want it:
https://github.com/Dan-Q/spring83-keygen
Unable to sleep, I found myself wondering whether anybody with a retro-hipster vibe had built a smart pocketwatch. All your smartwatch features, but in pocketwatch format.
Then I realised I was describing a mobile phone on a keychain.
Just when I thought I’d seen every conceivable XML data format with an approved MIME type (!) I discover @mamund‘s Maze+XML, a format for describing orthoganally-connected squares of a maze.
The output of this data anonymisation/scrambling script makes me feel seen. 🏳️🌈
Kids: We want porridge for breakfast.
Me: How do you want it?
Kids: Surprise us.
Presenting… oatmeal, honey and sultanas with a toasted marshmallow.
Was a 10th century speaker of Old Saxon a “Saxophone”? 🤔
After talking about impulse control, our “puppy school” OABT half-jokingly issued homework to photograph our dogs waiting patiently next to their initial, written in treats. #holdmybeer
Hey @VOXI_UK! There’s a security #vulnerability in your website. An attacker can (a) exfiltrate mobile numbers and (b) authenticate bypassing OTP.
Not sure who to talk to about ethical disclosure. Let me know?
Y100K
Reassuring to see that @Firefox’s datetime-local implementation is year 100,000 compliant. 😂 #Y100K
Almost nerdsniped myself when I discovered several #WordPress plugins that didn’t quite do what I needed. Considered writing an overarching one to “solve” the problem. Then I remembered @xkcd comic 927…
Time is an illusion. School drop-off time doubly so. #towelday
“Walking” the dog
Brought Demmy out on the school run for her first “walk”, this morning.