stephendnicholas
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B & Q & queue & queue
May 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
B & Q & queue & queue
The bin workers are outside, dragging around the wheelie bins, just as the thunderstorm has started, which is making me feel all kinds of disorientated
May 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The bin workers are outside, dragging around the wheelie bins, just as the thunderstorm has started, which is making me feel all kinds of disorientated
Imagining a system where when someone uses their phone without headphones, everyone in Bluetooth range gets a "Is this noise annoying you?" pop-up and more than x% saying yes auto-mutes them (and/or sends them to jail)
April 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Imagining a system where when someone uses their phone without headphones, everyone in Bluetooth range gets a "Is this noise annoying you?" pop-up and more than x% saying yes auto-mutes them (and/or sends them to jail)
Bank has decided after using my credit card abroad, in a new country, for the last week, now it's time to block it for fraud
Curious as to what kind of pattern analysis says "yes it makes sense he's suddenly on the other side of the Earth, as long as he doesn't spend too much or for too long..."?
Curious as to what kind of pattern analysis says "yes it makes sense he's suddenly on the other side of the Earth, as long as he doesn't spend too much or for too long..."?
April 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Bank has decided after using my credit card abroad, in a new country, for the last week, now it's time to block it for fraud
Curious as to what kind of pattern analysis says "yes it makes sense he's suddenly on the other side of the Earth, as long as he doesn't spend too much or for too long..."?
Curious as to what kind of pattern analysis says "yes it makes sense he's suddenly on the other side of the Earth, as long as he doesn't spend too much or for too long..."?
Sat in a hospital waiting room, waiting for someone else who's being seen, and still every time they come in to call a name I'm like "oh, my turn?"
March 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sat in a hospital waiting room, waiting for someone else who's being seen, and still every time they come in to call a name I'm like "oh, my turn?"
Appreciate I don't have much reach on here, but does anyone happen to have a recommendation for a good managed hosting provider for a medium size e-commerce site?
PHP, MySql, Dedicated IP, and Tech support required
PHP, MySql, Dedicated IP, and Tech support required
February 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Appreciate I don't have much reach on here, but does anyone happen to have a recommendation for a good managed hosting provider for a medium size e-commerce site?
PHP, MySql, Dedicated IP, and Tech support required
PHP, MySql, Dedicated IP, and Tech support required
"Quishing, a contraction of 'QR code' and 'Phishing', is a cyberattack that uses QR codes as a vector"
Nope, nope, nope
Let's put that term straight into the word bin, never to be used again please
Nope, nope, nope
Let's put that term straight into the word bin, never to be used again please
January 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"Quishing, a contraction of 'QR code' and 'Phishing', is a cyberattack that uses QR codes as a vector"
Nope, nope, nope
Let's put that term straight into the word bin, never to be used again please
Nope, nope, nope
Let's put that term straight into the word bin, never to be used again please
As the propaganda and denials seem to be starting already (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), just posting this here in case someone finds it useful...
January 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As the propaganda and denials seem to be starting already (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), just posting this here in case someone finds it useful...
Oh YouTube Premium, you decided to get greedy & greatly overestimated your value to me, so in the bin you go
Instead I'll funnel that money into supporting specific creators directly via Patreon, and deal with the ads, which are not that annoying tbh
Instead I'll funnel that money into supporting specific creators directly via Patreon, and deal with the ads, which are not that annoying tbh
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh YouTube Premium, you decided to get greedy & greatly overestimated your value to me, so in the bin you go
Instead I'll funnel that money into supporting specific creators directly via Patreon, and deal with the ads, which are not that annoying tbh
Instead I'll funnel that money into supporting specific creators directly via Patreon, and deal with the ads, which are not that annoying tbh
A real mixed-feeling situation when you accidentally DDOS yourself by sending out a mailer
On the plus side: Wow, I really nailed the content and click-through
On the down side: The engineering not so much
Not me this time, I'm keen to add (though I won't claim it hasn't happened in the past...)
On the plus side: Wow, I really nailed the content and click-through
On the down side: The engineering not so much
Not me this time, I'm keen to add (though I won't claim it hasn't happened in the past...)
December 31, 2024 at 11:00 AM
A real mixed-feeling situation when you accidentally DDOS yourself by sending out a mailer
On the plus side: Wow, I really nailed the content and click-through
On the down side: The engineering not so much
Not me this time, I'm keen to add (though I won't claim it hasn't happened in the past...)
On the plus side: Wow, I really nailed the content and click-through
On the down side: The engineering not so much
Not me this time, I'm keen to add (though I won't claim it hasn't happened in the past...)
Oh great, Google have decided to kill off yet another thing that I found useful: Ski runs and lifts on Google maps
Yes, there is a cost to maintaining things, but that's also where your value comes from. Or did
And I think that's increasingly summing up Google for me these days: *Did* have value
Yes, there is a cost to maintaining things, but that's also where your value comes from. Or did
And I think that's increasingly summing up Google for me these days: *Did* have value
December 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Oh great, Google have decided to kill off yet another thing that I found useful: Ski runs and lifts on Google maps
Yes, there is a cost to maintaining things, but that's also where your value comes from. Or did
And I think that's increasingly summing up Google for me these days: *Did* have value
Yes, there is a cost to maintaining things, but that's also where your value comes from. Or did
And I think that's increasingly summing up Google for me these days: *Did* have value
I think the BBC might be trying to gaslight me
5 second ads for Gladiators every half an hour, but then the Gladiator in the listings actually being the movie with Russell Crowe
"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, you shall go on my first whistle"
5 second ads for Gladiators every half an hour, but then the Gladiator in the listings actually being the movie with Russell Crowe
"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, you shall go on my first whistle"
December 26, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I think the BBC might be trying to gaslight me
5 second ads for Gladiators every half an hour, but then the Gladiator in the listings actually being the movie with Russell Crowe
"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, you shall go on my first whistle"
5 second ads for Gladiators every half an hour, but then the Gladiator in the listings actually being the movie with Russell Crowe
"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, you shall go on my first whistle"
Wish I could find someone who loves me as much as IDEs love indexing
December 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Wish I could find someone who loves me as much as IDEs love indexing
I don't know if you're aware of this, but apparently there's not much time left before Xmas
At least that's what the 12 different promotional e-mails I received this morning tell me...
At least that's what the 12 different promotional e-mails I received this morning tell me...
December 17, 2024 at 9:05 AM
I don't know if you're aware of this, but apparently there's not much time left before Xmas
At least that's what the 12 different promotional e-mails I received this morning tell me...
At least that's what the 12 different promotional e-mails I received this morning tell me...
Doing some IntelliJ plugin development and it's amazing just how hard some things, that seem so simple, can be
Trying to keep "This was designed by smart people, doing their best, and with good reasons" in mind, but it's not always easy
(The error count is right there, why can't I just get it!?!?)
Trying to keep "This was designed by smart people, doing their best, and with good reasons" in mind, but it's not always easy
(The error count is right there, why can't I just get it!?!?)
December 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Doing some IntelliJ plugin development and it's amazing just how hard some things, that seem so simple, can be
Trying to keep "This was designed by smart people, doing their best, and with good reasons" in mind, but it's not always easy
(The error count is right there, why can't I just get it!?!?)
Trying to keep "This was designed by smart people, doing their best, and with good reasons" in mind, but it's not always easy
(The error count is right there, why can't I just get it!?!?)
I continue to be of the opinion that using a car horn should result in you getting a mild, but painful, short electric shock
December 12, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I continue to be of the opinion that using a car horn should result in you getting a mild, but painful, short electric shock
Cycled past the farmer's protest today. Bit of a mixed bag on the placards:
* Farmer's are important - Yep
* Climate always changes - Uh...
* We need to talk about Brexit - 100%
* Net zero = anti-farmer - Oh dear...
* End of family farms - Hmm...
* "Down with this sort of thing" - This person wins
* Farmer's are important - Yep
* Climate always changes - Uh...
* We need to talk about Brexit - 100%
* Net zero = anti-farmer - Oh dear...
* End of family farms - Hmm...
* "Down with this sort of thing" - This person wins
December 11, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Cycled past the farmer's protest today. Bit of a mixed bag on the placards:
* Farmer's are important - Yep
* Climate always changes - Uh...
* We need to talk about Brexit - 100%
* Net zero = anti-farmer - Oh dear...
* End of family farms - Hmm...
* "Down with this sort of thing" - This person wins
* Farmer's are important - Yep
* Climate always changes - Uh...
* We need to talk about Brexit - 100%
* Net zero = anti-farmer - Oh dear...
* End of family farms - Hmm...
* "Down with this sort of thing" - This person wins
Spent a bit of today completing the transfer of a few domains into Cloudflare, and then tidying the DNS records
Something I've been meaning to do for a while, so nice to tick that off, as well as finally getting to play with the service everyone else seems to be using. All nice and easy so far...
Something I've been meaning to do for a while, so nice to tick that off, as well as finally getting to play with the service everyone else seems to be using. All nice and easy so far...
December 7, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Spent a bit of today completing the transfer of a few domains into Cloudflare, and then tidying the DNS records
Something I've been meaning to do for a while, so nice to tick that off, as well as finally getting to play with the service everyone else seems to be using. All nice and easy so far...
Something I've been meaning to do for a while, so nice to tick that off, as well as finally getting to play with the service everyone else seems to be using. All nice and easy so far...
Reposted by stephendnicholas
I like when companies have somewhat silly names
It means I can do things like put "Expect call from Octopus man" in my calendar
It means I can do things like put "Expect call from Octopus man" in my calendar
November 26, 2024 at 11:57 AM
I like when companies have somewhat silly names
It means I can do things like put "Expect call from Octopus man" in my calendar
It means I can do things like put "Expect call from Octopus man" in my calendar
Reposted by stephendnicholas
this is literally what it feels like to have astigmatism
November 24, 2024 at 3:45 AM
this is literally what it feels like to have astigmatism
Had a lovely time at #bclxiii #barcamp #london today
Including an interesting talk by @alice.mosphere.at, which finally inspired me to get this account setup properly and make the move from that other place
Now to find some people to follow...
Including an interesting talk by @alice.mosphere.at, which finally inspired me to get this account setup properly and make the move from that other place
Now to find some people to follow...
November 23, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Had a lovely time at #bclxiii #barcamp #london today
Including an interesting talk by @alice.mosphere.at, which finally inspired me to get this account setup properly and make the move from that other place
Now to find some people to follow...
Including an interesting talk by @alice.mosphere.at, which finally inspired me to get this account setup properly and make the move from that other place
Now to find some people to follow...