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Your Code Is Not Yours(healthydev.substack.com)
2 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
In the UK these ate known by the wonderful term "Crinkle crankle wall"
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by fredley 3y ago
Better if they're the CEO in my experience. Then it trickles down the whole org.
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by fredley 3y ago
In a word, populists. This is part of a stance of being 'tough on crime'. Whether or not the bill succeeds or fails isn't really important, what's important is that they can trumpet how tough on crime they are. If it fai
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by fredley 3y ago
WordPress was where I got my start, a while ago now. From poking around with PHP files, to building my own things, to Django, and on. It would have been inconceivable back then (mid noughties) that the whole thing could be done client side.
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The Long Linguistic Journey to 'Dagnabbit'(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
Only started recently, and finding it very hard to press publish! Lots of ideas but putting them out there goes against the grain for me. https://healthydev.substack.com/
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Growth as a Software Engineer(healthydev.substack.com)
2 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
The traffic can be that bad where I am too.
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by fredley 3y ago
This articulates a feeling that I've had for a long time. I struggle to buy gifts, which probably does me no favours socially, for this reason. I can't help but feel the burden I'm giving to someone else. Christmas is hell.
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by fredley 3y ago
Sky as in Sky Bet? https://skybet.com/
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by fredley 3y ago
Privatising utilities like this (and electricity etc.) has never made any sense to me. It all happened in the UK well before I was old enough to understand that sort of thing. I have grown up very aware of the failings of privatising public
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by fredley 3y ago
11k. I visit a few times a day, for the last 12 years. I rarely comment or post, and ~10% of my karma is from one front page post, and likewise the rest of it is heavily skewed towards a few popular posts / comments.
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by fredley 3y ago
Thanks for your feedback. It's taken me forever to publish this - it's the first thing I've written online. To do so required clearing some major emotional hurdles! I definitely plan to delve more into the emotional attachmen
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Programming Is a Creative Activity(healthydev.substack.com)
3 points by fredley 3y ago|2 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
As a Brit, my favourite is the annoucements in the Chalk Farm tube station lifts, specifically. It is a very old fashioned accent indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUI3EwR8DM
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by fredley 3y ago
Not OSS but Photopea is an embarrassment to GIMP.
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by fredley 3y ago
Mad to me that this hasn't been resolved after _years_, despite it seeming (naïvely) to be quite a simple fix? I worked around it once—I can't remember how now—and got Inkscape running without lag on my Mac, but it introduced anot
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MS Paint IDE(ms-paint-i.de)
2 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 4y ago
If you're that worried, strip open a small section of any USB-A cable and cut the data lines, and fix back up with tape.
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by fredley 4y ago
Like these? https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable $100 a pop.
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by fredley 4y ago
Like I said, good enough for cooking!
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by fredley 4y ago
I'm reasonably sure they're not identically accurate any more, but good enough for the kitchen. The kg was initially defined by the mass of the water, but as the kg has been redefined it's drifted a tiny bit.
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by fredley 4y ago
These games exist to lower the cost of cleaning. By motivating you to piss accurately, you spill less, meaning cleaning is quicker and can be done less frequently.
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by fredley 4y ago
Congrats Marius, and everyone else at CM!
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by fredley 4y ago
I would argue that not eating fish is not the solution. We can eat fish that are farmed or fished sustainably with minimal and sustainable environmental impact. A World exists where that is all fish. However without regulation, fish will be
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by fredley 4y ago
Individual action alone cannot stem climate change and mass plastic pollution. All the cheapest food is packaged in single-use plastic. All the cheapest clothes and toys are made of plastic. One simply cannot opt out of this system without
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by fredley 4y ago
I have a playdate. This would be even easier when there's a crank for harvesting power!
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by fredley 4y ago
I am going this way too. I recently tried to onboard a few contractors with limited python experience. It took several deep sessions to work out why they couldn't get an environment set up. After 10+ years I've never come across t
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by fredley 4y ago
Legend has it that when he was director of music at Eton College, a postcard was delivered to Ralph Alwood from China simply addressed: "Ralph, Eton"

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