Tag: geeky
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Gemini and Spartan without a browser
Half a dozen different ways of downloading content from Gemini (and Spartan) servers from the command-line using everyday tools.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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WCEU23 - Day 2
Today was the first second full day of WordPress Europe 2023 in Athens. It was... busy. And intense.
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WCEU23 - Day 1
My first "full" day at WordCamp Europe 2023 was busy and intense, but I loved networking and learning about WordPress history and security and what's worth knowing about design and typography.
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Breakups as HTTP Response Codes
408: Request Timeout = "You keep saying you'll propose, but you never do", and 18 other HTTP response codes expressed as relationship breakdowns.
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Oxford Geek Nights #52
Oxford Geek Night returned this week after an incredibly-long hiatus, and it was amazing.
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
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Making an RSS feed of YOURLS shortlinks
After switching his personal shortlinks from S.2 to YOURLS, Dan dusts off his XSLT experience to make himself an RSS feed of his shortlinks!
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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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Despite the fact that it's existed for 11 years, TIL about globstar in Bash. Set shopt -s globstar and ** globs become fully recursive, making that bulk transcode operation much simpler. 🤯
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HTML Movies
HTML tags which share their names with (often terrible) films.
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Cheating Hangman
Dan implements "Cheating Hangman", perhaps the cruellest hangman game you'll ever play.
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css-only-chat/README.md at master · kkuchta/css-only-chat · GitHub
Of all the things I've seen hacked-together with just HTML and CSS on the client-side, I never thought I'd I'd see a "push"-capable live chat app...
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A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
Why do so many startups fail? / Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? / Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? / Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives?
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Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex
How to guides
How to encrypt/decrypt with Enigma
We'll start with a step-by-step guide to decrypting a known message. You can see the result of these steps in CyberChef here. Let's say that our message is as follows:
XTSYN WAEUG EZALY NRQIM AMLZX MFUOD AWXLY LZCUZ QOQBQ JLCPK NDDRW F
And that we've been told …