I genuinely thought I was having a stroke trying to read this packaging.

Forget HTML! I've added a plaintext theme to my blog. Add ".txt" to the end of any URl to get an ultra-low bandwidth version. 📃.txt

You may not like it, but this is 100% syntactically valid HTML.

"The account number provided to Westpac had only 15 digits, not the intended 16, so Westpac added a zero to the suffice as per its usual protocols."

Auckland pensioner loses $158k after accidentally sending life savings to wrong account

An Auckland beneficiary who accidentally received $158,000 after an account transfer error allegedly went on a spending spree with the money, refus...

This is a brilliant blog post. What happens if you write to the address listed in the GPL?

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license

I was curious about the 51 Franklin Street address in the GPLv2 license notice so I wrote to them as they said

I reckon I can reduce the size of Mastodon's oEmbed SVG by over 50%.

GitHub

Reduce weight of oEmbed SVG. · Issue #34537 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch The SVG which is included with all oEmbeds is excessively complex. Some of the co-ordinates have 4 decimal points of precision. For an icon i...

Looking at the other SVGs in the repo, there's probably around a dozen more which could be significantly slimmed down.

I go to a lot of tech conferences. But what are other industry's conferences like? Do fizzy drinks conferences have seminars on the latest changes to bottle cap recycling rules? Do TV conferences have sessions on the holy wars between competing mastering standards? Do catering conferences spends hours on how to optimise your menu writing for maximum ROI? Do book conferences discuss fonts and typesetting that normal readers just won't notice? Are there any I can go to for free?

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Murder Your Employer - The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes” ★★⯪☆☆ What if the Discworld's Assassin's Guild existed in the real world? That's it. That's the plot. Go to a university where they'll teach you to be a better class of murderer. The first half is excellent. Chuckles… 👀 Read more:

Book Review: Murder Your Employer – The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #BookReview

Grrr. #WordPress's atom_enclosure() isn't supplying a MIME type, even thought the library has one.

🆕 blog! “You don't need an API key to archive Twitter Data” Apparently there's no need for IP laws any more, so here's a way to archive high-fidelity Twitter data without signing up for an expensive API key. This is perfect for academics wishing to preserve Tweets, journalists wanting to download evidence, or simply embedding content without leaking user data… 👀 Read more:

You don’t need an API key to archive Twitter Data – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #api #HowTo #twitter