jasoncartwright

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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
LPL is superb. He inspired me to get a lock pick kit and a few simple padlocks - a cheap and fun hobby during COVID lockdowns.
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Any VPS you fancy that fits the price/performance/location/support you want, then point Coolify/Dokploy/whatever at it. I did just this using Coolify, Mythic Beasts running Django & Postgres the other month from
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Very much enjoy this guy flexing his setup his always interesting articles
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Google boasts 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month(the-decoder.com)
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Political posts are often squashed from the homepage quite quickly (and for good reason)
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Have we passed peak social media?(ft.com)
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JLR: Stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes(theguardian.com)
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
I recently, for pretty much the first time ever in 30 years of running websites, had to blanket ban crawlers. I now whitelist a few, but the rest (and all other non-UK visitors) have to pass a Cloudflare challenge [1]. AI crawlers were down
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Privately-Owned Rail Cars(amtrak.com)
197 points by jasoncartwright 1y ago|318 comments
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
In the UK we call this Trigger's Broom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
I enjoy the idea that when programming before AI I wasn't 'merely a machine operator'
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The Sound of Jeopardy [video](youtube.com)
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Web scraping - creating semi-structured data from a wide variety of horrific HTML soups. Absolutely do swap out models sometimes, but Gemini 2.0 Flash is the right price/performance mix for me right now. Will test Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Pirate seaborne internet has been tried. "A Navy officer is demoted after sneaking a satellite dish onto a warship to get the internet" https://apnews.com/article/navy-illegal-wireless-internet-53... https:&
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Post suggests the underlying problem is the metadata takes too long to put in the HTML? A few tags? Really? This kind of problem, and the vendor lock-in, is completely unimaginable for any web framework I can think of. Bizarre.
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
https://archive.ph/glCE5
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Tangential! I bought a 210L water butt to collect rainwater to water plants a while back. It cost £110 to my door with the all installation parts. Out of interest I looked up that the cost to fill it with pristine London tap water would be
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Communities can 'adopt' them for £1. Other uses include libraries or food bank donation points. https://business.bt.com/public-sector/street-hubs/adopt-a-ki...
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Corpdle – Wordle for S&P 500 companies(corpdle.com)
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"I vibe coded and shipped an app in three days. It got hacked. Twice."(threadreaderapp.com)
84 points by jasoncartwright 1y ago|57 comments
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Might want to consider upgrading that VPS for a couple of days
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
Ah man, Access. Got a website to over 1m users/month with a dead simple Access DB and ASPv3. Back when a million users was a million users.
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
The heavy Mac UX compliance is the reason why I enjoy using Postico for 99% of straightforward Postgres tasks
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
I made this to get around pages being cached at CDN level, but still needing to get live data... https://github.com/jasoncartwright/clientsideinclude
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by jasoncartwright 1y ago
If you've got some spare bandwidth & storage then seeding some of the torrents here is a cheap and fun way of helping Wikipedia out. I've served around 20TB of these dumps in the past year. https://meta.wikimedia.or
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"Django now runs on Cloudflare Workers with D1 as the database"(twitter.com)
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NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat(cbsnews.com)
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"3D Printing My Way Out of a Minor Annoyance" [video](youtube.com)
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Browser market "is holding back innovation in the UK"(gov.uk)
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by jasoncartwright 2y ago
Ecosia have been going a while, and I don't want to be that guy 'just asking questions', but... Is there some sort of independent verification of the trees being planted and their impact? I wonder if there is a study into the

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