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James
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Aspiring wizard, occasional jester.
Full stack web geek, extra pickles, extra onion.
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Pirates: arr
Pirates with an MBA: ARR
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Happy 24th Birthday Wayback Machine!

On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.

The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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View Transitions are enabled by default in Firefox Nightly, so they're on their way to stable. Give it a test with your current transitions, and give me a shout if anything doesn't look right.
August 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Pool on the roof must have a leak
Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
August 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The truth about all the time spent solving leetcode problems.
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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maturity is about realising that we have to reskeet the hyundai grandeur ev retro concept every single time we see it in order to dream it into existence
November 5, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation brand identity design by Burton Kramer Assoc. Ltd. A symbol-logo was designed along with a visual identity program for the corporation. Scanned from World Trademarks and Logotypes, Takenobu Igarashi, 1983 www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/wo... #burtonkramer #cbc
June 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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it is a supreme irony that where we were not willing to invest in better devex for ourselves, we're readily willing to do so for robots because they won't tolerate this shit.
June 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Don't turn PHP into Java wiki.php.net/rfc/short-an...
May 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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SCOOP
As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy regulations.
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens
As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy...
drugdatadecoded.ca
May 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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tech bro is short for technically broken
April 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Love native support for vertical tabs in @firefox.com but still waiting for the option for pinned tabs to appear as regular tab (stuck to the top of sidebar), not just the fav icon.
April 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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It's not enough to be right, you also have to be cool, or else you're just annoying
November 14, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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We live in a time where Israel is using AI systems to optimize when to bomb families to death called 'Where's Daddy'. Where Hayao Miyazaki's entire art style became a snapchat filter for promoting imperial war crimes.

Black Mirror is the optimistic version
April 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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You're never more fucked than when your keyboard is lit up but Numlock won't turn on.
April 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn
March 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM