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→ full stack cosplay account
→ web app black thumb
→ perpetual writer's block
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sometimes I send captchas to my friends to prove they are human and only believe that they are if they complain about it rather than solve it
a visual-based captcha with instruction "Click the image matching an object shown in the example image", with several images containing a guitar and a hedgehog and another wild, colorful image full of overlayed thumbnails of ladybugs and a hedgehog
December 14, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Nice, no more squatting handle needed when changing your handle to a custom domain; bsky.social/about/blog/4...
Text from Bluesky custom domain page: "Update as of December 12, 2024: If you change your default Bluesky username (with the .bsky.social suffix) to a website URL, your old .bsky.social username will be reserved for you. You no longer need to create a second account to reserve your most recent .bsky.social username. For every account, only your most recent .bsky.social username is reserved for you, and this reservation does not expire."
December 14, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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sigh
Screenshot from the npm cli GitHub repo: Is "npm" an acronym for "Node Package Manager"? Contrary to popular belief, npm is not in fact an acronym for "Node Package Manager"; It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym" (if the project was named "ninaa", then it would be an acronym). The precursor to npm was actually a bash utility named "pm", which was the shortform name of "pkgmakeinst" - a bash function that installed various things on various platforms. If npm were to ever have been considered an acronym, it would be as "node pm" or, potentially "new pm".
December 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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I have failed you all but most especially myself
screenshot of a dashboard showing metrics like certificate expiration, disk space usage percentages, and other host metrics
December 8, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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equifax additional pro rata payments just dropped. but if you register to receive it on myprepaidcenter.com you get shuttled to a form with these name restrictions.. numbers but no apostrophe? unterminated quotes? curly bracket? did someone manually re-type their bad regex?
tooltip from myprepaidcenter.com says "First and last names can only include ([a-zA-z0-9-.}+)?" and should not exceed 21 characters."
December 4, 2024 at 4:41 PM