I don't know how I stumbled into this Sudoku video, but it's extremely relaxing.
Feb 9th: This is one of the most perfectly evil things I've seen in a while - edible fake silica gel pouches
I don't know how I stumbled into this Sudoku video, but it's extremely relaxing.
Jan 27th: 13,000 regular expressions seems like a great solution to this particular problem - how the Guardian built an automated style guide checker
If you want to make a PHP package available that works on versions of PHP from 5.3 to 8.0, testing is a giant pain. There are versions of phpunit that work for each, but none that works for all. Additionally, the basic class names changed at some point in the past. Getting all of this to run on Travis, including running code coverage (but only once for each build!) was a complex series of trials, but I finally figured out the correct .travis.yml incantation, along with a magic test wrapper for aliasing classes
Jan 18th: A blast from the past - Achievement Unlocked is a fun parody of achievements in modern games. The link for hints is broken, but the solutions can still be found here
Jan 18th: I've updated my 2020 reading list. In contrast to 2019, where I finished 116 books, I only completed 72 in 2020. This is largely due to the pandemic, no longer having a daily commute, but also not traveling around the world.
My favorites of the year:
Jan 5th: I created a couple of google maps helpers when I was working on personal projects a few years ago, but this tutorial on adding custom tooltips to overlay shapes was super useful.
Jan 5th: I can't remember who linked me to blocks, but it's pretty fun. The sound effects are... something else. Unfortunately it seems to sometimes lose your progress.
Bert was getting tired of tapping his yubikey, so rigged up a system to do it for him:
I showed this to someone and they said, “So.. you built a button that you press that will press a button? Why not just press the button?” which was a bit infuriating because they clearly missed the whole point. “Don’t you get it? This button BAD, but this button GOOD. Me want to press GOOD button.”
Sep 16th: This is a really fun write up of what you can do with someone's airline boarding card information, and a long journey to ensure responsible disclosure.
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