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Colin Douch

@colindou.ch

107 followers 46 following 115 posts

Formerly Techleading #o11y at Cloudflare, now attempting to touch computers as little as possible 💖💜💙🏳️‍🌈

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 04/06/2026

Happy Pride Month!

A ballatro screenshot of a straight with a warning "Hand will not score. Due to Pride Month Straights are banned until July 1st"

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 26/04/2026

New Zealand is on the forefront of end of the night drunk food innovation

An advert for a "kebab pie" from Abrakebabra in Wellington, New Zealand

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 31/03/2026

My ESTA is expiring, so the US government deemed fit to remind me that "travelling to the US has never been easier", and like, are you sure about that?

An image from my esta reminder email that says:

Traveling to the U.S. has never been easier.
DOWNLOAD THE FREE ESTA mobile app

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 23/03/2026

With the sun out, I've been getting back into doing actually tangible things, like exorcising the demons from my house before building the new garden gate

Me holding up the cross bar of a gate ala the exorcist

The nearly completed gate frame, with crossbar successfully lap jointed into place

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 24/01/2026

Always fun to travel Europe and still find home, even if all they have is Tui

A business card for "The Kiwi", a New Zealander run bar in Amsterdam serving the worst New Zealand beer

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 09/12/2025

Mandatory reading that should be included in the UK citizenship pack

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 17/11/2025

In Nuremburg again for OSMC, and making my yearly pilgrimage to have a bit of a taste of home on this side of the world.

A flat white, on a wooden plate with a Kiwi burned into it

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 04/03/2025

It's pppppppp-pancake day!

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 27/02/2025

An OpenAI status page going from "we're experiencing an elevated level of API errors" to "We've spotted that something has gone wrong"

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 10/02/2025

Had a blood test, and the NHS gives me two options to increase my HDL cholesterol. Anyone wanna go for a drink?

Screenshot from the NHS website indicating that I can either exercise, or consume a moderate amount of alcohol to improve my cholesterol

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 06/03/2024

Tired: hash(salt + password) Wired: Whatever crypt(3) does 😬

The giant algorithm that crypt(3) uses to hash passwords

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 04/03/2024

*taps the sign*

A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 26/01/2024

Very true random padlock, very true.

A padlock that says "API -- Security Matters"

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 05/01/2024

Anyone know who S. W. White, M. R. Speers, and J. A. Baker were? Apparently they were representing VIM, 12 years before VIM (the text editor) was created. Also, no one from emacs was invited apparently

VIM: S. W. White M. R. Speers (alternate) J. A. Baker (alternate)

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 03/01/2024

The problem with rabbit holes: "Let's build a shell" My evening:

ANSI: additional controls for use with american national standard code for information interchange

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 30/12/2023

I have found what I believe to be the single best painting of a Koala ever created

Painting of a chad Koala with a weirdly chiseled jawline

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Colin Douch @colindou.ch · 01/07/2023

Visiting one of my favourite places in the world this weekend. The Kaweka Ranges in NZ, with natural hot springs in the middle of the forest

A river in the middle of the New Zealand forest

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