Tag: funny
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Higher/Lower Datepicker
Can Dan make an even-worse "date of birth" field than those spinner ones?
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Mow-Rio Kart
Dan's ride-on lawnmower is less cool the one in this video, which plays Mario Kart.
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Using every car parking space in a supermarket car park
Dan shares Gareth Wild's achievement of using every bay in his local supermarket's car park.
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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
$1.00
1/2
1E2
...
Max Woolf
Max has produced a list of "naughty strings": things you might try injecting into your systems along with any fuzz testing you're doing to check for common errors in escaping, processing, casting, … -
The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
Dan shares Blackle Mori's iceberg-diagram/list of computer science weirdness.
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How to beat Skyrim without walking
ymfah's produced a Skyrim "walkthrough" video with a difference. The difference? No walking is involved.
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I'm On Fire
In 2020 at @automattic my team, Alpha, forked into teams Fuel and Fire. But it took 'til now for me to notice that our internal systems use something like the string "${jobTitle} on ${teamName}". Which leads to THIS excellent title.
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Best Before
On his 40th birthday, Dan gets trolled by his breakfast.
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COVID Ipsum
Using random text generator tool perchance, Dan produces a COVID conspiracy theory themed lorem ipsum text generator.
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Endpoint Encabulator
Dan shares his latest digital project, the Endpoint Encabulator, with an explanatory video.
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To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Ethan Zuckerman writes a note to the next occupant of his office in MIT, outlining the quirks of the room and what he knows of its history.
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7 things we know about the nun reading 'Boys' Life' in 'Airplane!'
Remember the scene from Airplane with the boy reading "Nuns' Life" magazine? You'll certainly never forget it after you read this...
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My 1:1 with the Queen
Martin Beeby shares a recording of his recent 1:1 performance review with Her Majesty The Queen.
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With #lockdown guidance as it stands, only six of the seven dwarfs can meet together in the park?
The seventh dwarf won't be Happy.
In fact, he'll be Grumpy.
Which is a problem, because that means one of the six is Sneezy. -
Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app
Dan comments on and summarises a news story that's got it all: screen scraping, pizza, venture capital, loophole exploitation, pizza, tech startups, and pizza.