David Yates
@dyates.bsky.social
A post about textual lines of varying lengths. davidyat.es/2026/01/04/d...
Dash it all
Most computer keyboards have a character key that produces this symbol: -. This is a hyphen, used to join compound modifiers, compound numbers (fifty-seven) and for certain nouns (father-in-law, break...
davidyat.es
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
A post about textual lines of varying lengths. davidyat.es/2026/01/04/d...
My BSides Joburg 2025 talk, Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner, is now available on Youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46F...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46F...
Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner - David Yates | BSides Joburg 2025
YouTube video by BSides Joburg
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August 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My BSides Joburg 2025 talk, Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner, is now available on Youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46F...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46F...
A review of RL Stine's Red Rain, in the style of Blogger Beware. davidyat.es/2025/06/27/r...
Review: Red Rain
As I am incapable of entering a used bookstore without purchasing something, I recently picked up a second-hand copy of RL Stine’s 2012 novel Red Rain. Stine is better known for the Goosebumps series ...
davidyat.es
June 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A review of RL Stine's Red Rain, in the style of Blogger Beware. davidyat.es/2025/06/27/r...
The way people use the web has evolved. To reflect this, we're shutting down the app you used to save stuff you wanted to read later, but will continue spamming you with stuff you don't want to read ever.
May 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The way people use the web has evolved. To reflect this, we're shutting down the app you used to save stuff you wanted to read later, but will continue spamming you with stuff you don't want to read ever.
Playing with gpt4o's new image generation. davidyat.es/2025/03/30/p...
Adventures in pixel space
I ended my last post about AI image generation on the following note:
davidyat.es
March 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Playing with gpt4o's new image generation. davidyat.es/2025/03/30/p...
Days 11 to 15 of Advent of Code 2024 davidyat.es/2025/01/11/a...
Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15
Advent of Code is a yearly programming event. For the 2024 edition, I decided to complete each challenge in a different language. After trying a lot of different language paradigms over the last two ...
davidyat.es
January 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Days 11 to 15 of Advent of Code 2024 davidyat.es/2025/01/11/a...
Days six to ten of Advent of Code 2024. davidyat.es/2024/12/23/a...
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
In the first part of this series, I starting writing solutions for the 2024 Advent of Code (AoC) challenges, each in a different language. To recap, Advent of Code is a yearly programming event. On ea...
davidyat.es
December 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Days six to ten of Advent of Code 2024. davidyat.es/2024/12/23/a...
The first five days of Advent of Code 2024. davidyat.es/2024/12/16/a...
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
Advent of Code (AoC) is a yearly programming event. On each day of the advent leading up Christmas, a new challenge is released. Each challenge consists of a problem description and an input file. Cha...
davidyat.es
December 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The first five days of Advent of Code 2024. davidyat.es/2024/12/16/a...
#AdventOfCode Day 1 Part 1 solution in Inform 7.
December 3, 2024 at 6:06 PM
#AdventOfCode Day 1 Part 1 solution in Inform 7.
Doing interesting things with Markdown render hooks in Hugo: a series
1. Various kinds of blockquotes:
davidyat.es/2024/10/06/d...
#gohugo
1. Various kinds of blockquotes:
davidyat.es/2024/10/06/d...
#gohugo
Deprecating shortcodes with render hooks
When I moved this blog to Hugo, one of the features that most impressed me was shortcodes. These are little snippets that can be used to add complex formatting and content to posts without having to u...
davidyat.es
October 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Doing interesting things with Markdown render hooks in Hugo: a series
1. Various kinds of blockquotes:
davidyat.es/2024/10/06/d...
#gohugo
1. Various kinds of blockquotes:
davidyat.es/2024/10/06/d...
#gohugo
A review of the Jeff Bezos biopic davidyat.es/2024/09/21/r...
Review: Bezos
Recently, I found myself scrolling through a catalogue of in-flight films when the name Bezos caught my eye.
davidyat.es
September 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
A review of the Jeff Bezos biopic davidyat.es/2024/09/21/r...
Ending a piece of writing with a conclusion is fast becoming a ChatGPT tell.
July 11, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Ending a piece of writing with a conclusion is fast becoming a ChatGPT tell.
Until we see other AT protocol sites or Threads unveils the promised Mastodon integrations, these sites are just Twitter clones. www.piratewires.com/p/interview-...
An Interview With Jack Dorsey
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending
www.piratewires.com
May 10, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Until we see other AT protocol sites or Threads unveils the promised Mastodon integrations, these sites are just Twitter clones. www.piratewires.com/p/interview-...
"Thanks to artificial intelligence, you can now chat with historical figures."
May 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM
"Thanks to artificial intelligence, you can now chat with historical figures."
Ten year blogging retrospective. davidyat.es/2024/04/07/t...
Year X
I published this blog’s first post on 7 April 2014.1 It’s mostly about the different tech stacks I considered and discarded before setting up the initial iteration of the blog on a pre-1.
davidyat.es
April 7, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Ten year blogging retrospective. davidyat.es/2024/04/07/t...
Complaints about Substack's reading interfaces davidyat.es/2024/03/29/s...
The many (bad) interfaces of Substack
Substack is platform for creating email newsletters that people pay money to read.
davidyat.es
March 29, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Complaints about Substack's reading interfaces davidyat.es/2024/03/29/s...
The Bluesky logo is an example of this.
Please, enough with the dead butterflies! - Emily S. Damstra
We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more
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March 4, 2024 at 8:10 AM
The Bluesky logo is an example of this.
Notes on print stylesheets and using HTML & CSS to produce PDFs. davidyat.es/2024/02/17/p...
Print stylesheets
If you’re reading this on a device with a keyboard, press Ctrl+P now.
davidyat.es
February 17, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Notes on print stylesheets and using HTML & CSS to produce PDFs. davidyat.es/2024/02/17/p...
Adventures in latent space: Generating images with Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 3. davidyat.es/2023/10/19/l...
Adventures in latent space
I first wrote about Stable Diffusion last August, shortly after its initial public release, when Stability AI transformed LLM-based image generation from a black-box gimmick behind a paywall into some...
davidyat.es
October 19, 2023 at 8:13 PM
Adventures in latent space: Generating images with Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 3. davidyat.es/2023/10/19/l...
A review of The Excavation of Hob's Barrow https://davidyat.es/2023/08/11/review-hobs-barrow/
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow is a British folk horror point-and-click adventure game from Cloak and Dagger, published by Wadjet Eye.
davidyat.es
August 11, 2023 at 12:16 PM
A review of The Excavation of Hob's Barrow https://davidyat.es/2023/08/11/review-hobs-barrow/
"Get thee behind me, Satan."
August 11, 2023 at 9:21 AM
"Get thee behind me, Satan."
An old sci-fi miniseries and the internet fiction it most resembles. https://davidyat.es/2023/08/06/review-the-lost-room/
Review: The Lost Room
The Lost Room is a television miniseries that ran on the Sci-Fi Channel in late 2006 to low ratings and mixed reviews.
davidyat.es
August 6, 2023 at 6:12 PM
An old sci-fi miniseries and the internet fiction it most resembles. https://davidyat.es/2023/08/06/review-the-lost-room/