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My Amazon search for "coffee grounds whacker" has correctly identified the term I didn't know "knock box"
January 30, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Want to be a member of my team. I have a role open for a 12 month fixed term contract Platform Engineer/Ops Engineer/DevOps Engineer/SysAdmin (Or whatever we are calling ourselves this month).

https://www.dxw.com/jobs/operations-engineer-12-month-ftc/

I am mostly looking for someone who can […]
Original post on mastodon.me.uk
mastodon.me.uk
January 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Bloody macOS 26 installed itself whilst I was having lunch
January 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Say hello to the 29th URL scheme #curl supports MQTTS://

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/19418
mqtt: initial support for MQTTS by bagder · Pull Request #19418 · curl/curl
test cases documentation
github.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Freezer blasts out heat in the hope that the water heater can use it, water heater blasts out cold so the freezer doesn't have to work so hard, separated by a sparse handful of metres but they can't move, only send each other love letters and indirect acts of care and service, while their […]
Original post on retro.social
retro.social
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@baer/115907047321400677

I recently saw some wag label all scroll-focused time-eating phone use as "eye cigarettes” and it's stuck that way in my head now.
masto.nyc
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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If you say Yourself three times in a row, Yourself appears #TheTraitors
January 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
More work on clearing out a comms cabinet we’ve inherited at the new office. Look at these two bad boys…

https://business.bt.com/help/article/phone-line-and-services/isdn2e/getting-started-with-isdn2-2e/

So we could have rocked with 128k bonded!
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Super Mario 64 SEVENTY STARS SEVENTY PLAYERS RELAY will be starting in a few minutes. https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

#gamesdonequick #agdq2026 #mario #mario64 #nintendo
GamesDoneQuick - Twitch
AGDQ 2026 Pre-Show benefiting Prevent Cancer Foundation !donate !schedule
www.twitch.tv
January 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c

It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday."

It […]

[Original post on friend.camp]
January 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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I have walked the circles of JavaScript dependency hell. I watched the developers solve each problem, only to create the next. Come, I will show you what I have seen.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/05/the-nine-levels-of-javascript-dependency-hell.html
The Nine Levels of JavaScript Dependency Hell
I have walked the circles of JavaScript dependency hell. I watched the developers solve each problem, only to create the next. Come, I will show you what I have seen. ### 1. Limbo No package manager. Copy-paste jQuery into your project. Download tarballs. Vendor everything. _Solution:_ npm makes publishing trivial. ### 2. Lust Frictionless publishing. One-line packages, is-odd, left-pad. Why write four lines when you can import? _Solution:_ Embrace it. Automatic transitive resolution. ### 3. Gluttony I put the gluttons in freezing mud, pelted by rain. Here, they drown in node_modules. One import becomes 1,400 packages. Heaviest objects in the universe. _Solution:_ Better dependency resolution. ### 4. Wrath Version conflicts. A needs lodash@3, B needs lodash@4. Resolver errors, build failures. _Solution:_ Allow multiple versions simultaneously. ### 5. Greed The automation treadmill. Ecosystem moves so fast you need bots to keep up. semantic-release to automate publishing, Dependabot and Renovate to automate consuming. Hundreds of PRs per week. Merging without reading. Running to stand still. _Solution:_ Let tools handle it. Yarn promises better performance and determinism. ### 6. Heresy The schisms. Yarn, pnpm, Bun. Four lockfile formats, four CLIs. Community splits, the problems just moved. _Solution:_ At least everyone still uses the same registry. Centralize trust there. ### 7. Fraud I put the flatterers in excrement. npm audit does the same. Security theater screaming about dev dependencies. CVE fatigue. Everyone clicks dismiss. _Solution:_ Trust the pipeline. Many eyes make bugs shallow. ### 8. Violence Worms. Not just trojans but self-propagating attacks through the dependency graph. Compromise one maintainer, spread to thousands of downstream packages automatically. The spice must flow. _Solution:_ Trusted publishing. OIDC tokens. Let GitHub Actions handle it. ### 9. Treachery The machines. AI agents that `npm install` without reading. LLMs hallucinating package names that don’t exist, until a squatter registers them because Claude keeps asking. Prompt injection in README files. `postinstall` scripts running unsupervised. The dependency graph isn’t just the attack surface now. It’s the context window. At the bottom, Satan runs `npm install` forever. The agents have joined him.
nesbitt.io
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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2025 camera roll itemized receipt using object detection, depth estimation, and good old fashioned EXIF data for the shutter speed
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Blimey #uksnow 5/10 BN44

Properly settled on the roads too!
January 5, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
JFC I have not allocated enough doom scrolling budget for January
January 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Turnip is obsessed with getting into our loft - we let him have a roam around while we were putting the Xmas decorations away. Look at his pleased little face!
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Help me fediverse: I vaguely remember a website offering various simple services, with the defining feature that everything it provides is accessed exclusively over ssh (except the website itself documenting how to access the services). I think it was made by some small entity that, on the […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
😺 You do realise it’s nearly time for dinner…

👨 Yep! Just about an hour to go!

😺 …
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Turnip has been no help at all with present wrapping #catsofmastodon
December 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Noooooo…. #whamageddon by my own Alexa 🫡
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Today was mostly me experimenting with unusual network topologies…

If I patch this to this, then that to that, then _that_ can reach that and then the router can see out of the window…
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Goodnight, sweet prince…
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Last two days at work until Jan 5th start tomorrow 💪
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM