philsplace

philsplace, 4 months ago to random

Shit take of the year, so far… the product has a roughly 3 month wait time.

I dare say that there is no reason to market an item when demand outstrips supply.

philsplace, 3 months ago to random

I disagree with the idea of billionaires.

philsplace, 5 months ago to random

Today’s shirt #Perl

philsplace, 11 months ago to random

Funny name aside, (R)?ex is really cool if you need to do something on a lot of computers that have #Perl on them.

https://www.rexify.org/docs/guides/start_using__r__ex.html

philsplace, 7 months ago to random

WTF, Safari 17.1 is opening tabs in a new window.

Any tips on how to fix this?

philsplace, 4 months ago to random

Same, but the ‘80s

https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/111821072674330570

philsplace, 1 year ago to random

What a fucking waste of electricity Google has become.

philsplace, 11 months ago to random

Dear @ivory

Just wanted to let you know that this happens a LOT.

Tapping on the image won’t show it… but I can open the link in safari and then it will be viewable.

(And I am just going to pretend that opening that in a private window in safari didn’t somehow cache the image where it is viewable by an app. 🙈

But, that may be exactly what is happing.

The bug is that the image isn’t viewable initially.)

Blank image in a post. View the post in safari and the image is there. Come back to ivory and the image is now viewable.

philsplace, 5 months ago to random

QOTD: The beginning of the Reagan administration is a watershed moment in the economic history of the U.S.

—

Pretty much every fucked up thing about today can be traced back thru that event.

https://apple.news/AaLEbLGS-T5uGGEN1LNzxtg

philsplace, 5 months ago to random

I desperately want the ability to disable the top controls on the OG Homepods.

They are sitting directly on the floor on each side of the TV… and the cats occasionally touch the top causing all kinds of chaos.

Most recently early this morning while everyone was asleep.

philsplace, 5 months ago to random

As a web developer, this is the hill I will die on.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@philsplace/111726710467707914

philsplace, 3 months ago to random

Been programming the same languages for the last 20+ years and still have a hard time remembering which is ‘elsif’, ‘else if’ and ‘elseif’.

That is Perl, Javascript and SQL.

Every day* I mess one of them up.

*like just now

philsplace, 5 months ago to random

Do people really read this lame assed description and decide to watch the show based on that?

philsplace, 4 months ago to random

I’m so old I expect the default editor to be nano.

*This post brought to you by someone that had to pull up vi.txt from his notes folder because it was safer than opening another terminal and killing the job running vi on a production machine.

philsplace, 5 months ago to random

The absolute most important play info in my (Apple) Music account is the last played time.

I just listened to an entire album, 12 tracks.

Two of the tracks still show a last played time for the year 2021.

How, the fuck, do you not update the last played time 1 of 6 times?

philsplace, 3 months ago to random

This is like a walk down memory lane.

Gonna have to rewatch a lot of these…

https://www.slashfilm.com/1530371/90s-sci-fi-movies-awful-reviews-still-worth-watching/

philsplace, 2 months ago to random

My hot take: Nobody should use a programming language that you can’t debug by looking at a printed page of the code.

And, as far as I know… there is no way to tell the difference between tabs and spaces on a printed page. (by default)

IMHO, making an invisible character that you have to use so important to the language was a mistake.

Bython would be a HUGE improvement.
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112076070045646570

philsplace, 3 months ago to random

I didn’t realize there was an option to sitting while driving…

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-common-daytime-habit-among-older-adults-can-lead-to-dementia_uk_65df0a54e4b005b858324414?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

philsplace, 1 month ago to random

I’ve been doing this since the ‘90s.

Everyone gets a unique email address (and password).

I know about compromises at my bank and credit card companies* LOOOOONNNGGG before they admit it just by getting an email to the address only they have.

(The address I gave honda when financing my vehicle thru them started getting emails from other car manufacturers immediately after I paid off the loan… a good sign they sold it.)

*elsewhere too, but those are the most notable…
https://hackers.town/@RadicalEdward/112279986555140623

philsplace, 2 months ago to random

I… don’t think you understand how gravity works.

philsplace, 1 month ago to random

This only works if they can match the data to you. And, they most likely do that by matching the email address.

Number one reason to use a different email address for each account. And, hate to break it to you… using something like

username+somebs@gmail.com

Won’t cut it. That is easy to normalize to

username@gmail.com
https://milliways.social/@mcfly/112332061694272708

philsplace, 1 month ago to random

Mother nature: reminding us that winter is not over in Montana.

Video of the view out my office window. There is a bird feeder with a lone bird. There is also near white out conditions as large fluffy snow flakes fall. The video starts out normal speed then switches to slow-mo while the bird eats and the fat snow flakes fall.

philsplace, 1 month ago to random

Gotta say: I think the correct word is ‘shit’, not ‘slop’.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/08/slop

philsplace, 1 month ago to random

Dropping some Perl right in the middle of some Template::Toolkit code is the best thing about TT #imho

philsplace, 12 days ago to random

I’m calling a foul on the play: That is not sausage.

https://www.chowhound.com/1591213/sausage-brands-ingredients-quality/