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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's like she never went away. God help us all.

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

'The Russian military sucks' is quite the understatement. 😬

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Cut out the middle men. Vote Binny.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 04/09/2025

why does "you've read your last free article" sound so threatening

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I learnt about fictional crocodiles on TikTok.

Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

You had that one prepped, I'll wager.

Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm excited about seeing the latest in animatronics at the White House later.

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Sade: Huge Alligator Everyone: no, that's not the words Sade: Huge... Alligator Everyone: no, are you feeling ok? Sade: Huge Alligator! Huge Alligator: chomp chomp chomp chomp

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Which ones are Aliens and which ones are Predators?

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Soundtrack: #HugeOrangeTraitor He can't even tell the truth about being alive or dead.

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Probably not yet, but your crate of prosecco will still be good for a while.

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I JUST MET THESE THREE CRAZY GUYS WHO APPEARED IN MY BEDROOM, BUT FRANKLY I'VE NEVER HEARD SUCH RIDICULOUS SOCIALIST STORIES SINCE SLEEPY JOE WAS IN 'POWER', I THINK I'LL CARRY ON JUST AS I AM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER!

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

That's a duff response (which I heartily approve).

Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Everyone knows Jack Daniels Old No. 7 brand. But what came before? Old No. 6: Divorce In A Bottle Old No. 5: Punch Drunk Punch Old No. 4: It's Gonna Work This Time, I Swear Old No. 3: I'll Fight You All... I Love You, Man Old No. 2: Fire Hazard, Do Not Inhale Old No. 1: When Alchemy Goes Bad

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I remember visiting Activision/Mediagenic in Southampton one morning: some developers were in with their BBC Micros Econetted together. One guy asleep at his keyboard woke up and groggily turned to us (me and Peter Sleeman?) with all the key caps imprinted across his face. It was not a good look. 😬

Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

That's a fairly stark choice.

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Should Iron Man's operating system be rewritten in Rust?

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Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Yacc, yacc, yacc, you never change.

The #1 reason for chaining simpler regexes is to get them all through code review without major incident.

Most regexes really aren't the cryptic footguns some people like to paint them as. But beyond a certain level of complexity, you won't find a lot of love for them, I'm afraid. 😬

You made a rod for your own back there.

Honey, what makes you think they ever let it go cold?

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The arc of history is long, and only has room for animals sitting side by side.

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Using a RegEx to match IP addresses

These days, I tend to chain together simpler regexes, to avoid going completely demented trying to read them back. 😬 That said, here's a link to an IPv4 regex I posted on Stack Overflow last year (and have used several times since): stackoverflow.com/questions/11...

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I'm trying to make a test for checking whether a sys.argv input matches the RegEx for an IP address... As a simple test, I have the following... import re pat = re.compile("\d{1,3}.\d{1,3}.\d{1,...

It's quite impressive how bad a good regex can get.

A banana republic or a banana democracy? It's so hard to tell the two apart these days.

Facebook is actually quite easy to drop, unless you want to keep up with what your fascist-leaning grandparents are up to.

Of course! These even included a beefed-up Acorn Atom running Elite. I also got to play Aardvark Atom Galaxians on real hardware for the first time in decades. 😁 ...though I should note that the nice guy behind the exhibition (Paul) is staunchly in the Z80 camp, but don't hold that against him. 😸

I had a really nice time at the Archive of Retro Computing at Kingston University, which was like my loft but with helpful labels. And machines that actually turn on. The exhibition is on until this Thursday, catch it if you can! Recommended!

Nick Pelling standing beside a poster for The Archive of Retro Computing in Kingston University's swanky new Town House building. Which is nice.

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Apparently my Dickensian cosplay was even better than I thought.