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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 28/04/2026

Well it's been… a while, but I have finally won a handful of matches against humans. Still crap at chess though.

Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 15/03/2026

1 week update: still haven't won a chess match against a human in Duolingo yet. All of the puzzles have been fun brain teasers on their own, but I haven't (yet) figured out how to translate them into the actual game of chess.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 07/03/2026

I've been doing the Duolingo chess course for a month now. It's engaging and I like the puzzle solving aspect of the exercise. I am still very bad at _playing_ chess, however.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 09/01/2026

I wrote a thing! It's sort of about npm, but mostly about things like WebAuthn and token hygiene and supply-chain security in general. :)

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 19/05/2025

Deux salles, deux ambiances … #EUpol

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 17/05/2025

Good news everybody! You can buy #Bluesky at the French supermarket now.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 06/05/2025

The future of web development is… - Java applets - ActiveX - Flash - XHTML - Silverlight - Progressive Web Apps - CSS-inJS - Blockchain - AI …Get on or get left behind. alex.party/posts/2025-0... 😆

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The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 23/04/2025

The refresh of Elder Scrolls #Oblivion is wild y'all. It looks now like I *thought* it looked like way back when. If this release does well enough commercially, perhaps they'll refresh #Morrowind next? A boy can dream.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 15/03/2025

Dude's just into locks man

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 10/03/2025

p.s. I've never been to #Denver so looking forward to checking the city out a bit too. If you have suggestions for things to do (read: eat), let me know! 😄

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 10/03/2025

I'll be speaking at #OWASP #Snowfroc this Friday! The talk is called "Patterns of failure in modern #authorization" and it's about why #authz is getting harder instead of easier. Some academic research but also interesting examples of authz failure at large, well-known brands. Hope to see you there!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 28/02/2025

Dude, grew up in the place that Randy Bachmann wrote Prairie Town about. ;) Great suggestion though.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 26/02/2025

Any other quirky #ClassicRock bands I should be on the lookout for? Open to suggestions for sure :)

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 26/02/2025

Why BÖC? I was inspired by playing a Godzilla pinball game at the arcade & their quirky song of the same name was on the soundtrack (obviously?). I was like "dang this slaps what is this?" Anyway if you like weird rock about ghosts and monsters and stuff, you might like the album it's on: Spectres.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 26/02/2025

Anyway I've listened to four albums now and… it's pretty hit and miss. What's good is extremely good, and what's bad is absolute trash, and there's a lot in between. I guess if you've been active as long as they have, consistency is going to be an issue. i.e. it's not all "Don't fear the Reaper" :P

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 26/02/2025

Listening to some classic rock lately and have rediscovered Blue Öyster Cult. Apparently they're still active, having released an album in 2024. For reference, their eponymous debut album came out in 1972. For further reference, my parents were kids when that album came out. That's wild to me, haha

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 17/02/2025

Fascinating commentary of what statehood means with respect to land, or the lack thereof.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 11/02/2025

I shouldn't have said "no rights", but yes, it's fundamentally about through-ticketing. To be fair, that's also an issue for air travel—if the operators for a multi-leg route have nothing to do with each other, & the tickets are issued separately, then a missed connection is the passenger's problem.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 11/02/2025

…there are no EU rail rights, as there are for air travel. Imho, that's the reason the thing doesn't exist. It's not a computer problem—it's a business problem. Spending the time and money to build this doesn't result in a viable business, because the regulatory environment makes it impossible. 🫤

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 11/02/2025

… but, could you actually buy those tickets? Debatable—even if you go direct to the operators in some cases! And (again, as you've pointed), what happens when things go sideways? Even if the hypothetical solution _could_ sell you the tickets, a delay on one leg screws you for the rest, because…

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 11/02/2025

…it's certainly not, like, a week-end job, but it's all entirely within the realm of what is technically possible. As you've mentioned in the past, the real hurdles are institutional. Could such a Rube Goldberg machine generate a "good" answer? Yes …

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 11/02/2025

Are there technical hurdles to offering a comprehensive overview of rail routes and ticket availabilities in Europe? Yes—but speaking as a professional computer person 😆, that's not actually the hard part. API calls, a data lake, some stats modelling, and maybe rub some LLM on there…

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 07/02/2025

Nah. Macron was all in on the "start-up nation" like 8 years ago. This is nothing new.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 06/02/2025

And yet, they would never fine somebody for smoking or vaping on the platform—which is, literally, the _only posted fine_. Chapeau, SNCF.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 04/02/2025

«There are no built-in constructs for looping. Nobody has time for yesterday's loops or last week's break statements. If you must loop, use recursion. Every program must end with PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, because you have to grow your audience! Hashtag hustle.» 😆 tabloid.vercel.app

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Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language

Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

Recalling the halcyon days when we could get to Lille without having to go through Paris, too…

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

Now if only we could get Lyria to stop in Montbard ;)

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

I'll check out Pop. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

No, I want to wipe the existing drives out and start with fresh encrypted partitions. Ext4 I guess but btrfs is also something and tbh I don't really care too much—it's effectively a gaming PC and there's nothing on it that is invaluable hehe

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

Also, it's unclear what app this actually is, so it's hard to search for help because I can't be specific about the name of the software. Really just a shit experience and I haven't even installed Linux yet. I guess some things never change, haha.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

Eventually I got it to apit out a recovery key, which is a long string of digits, but the text box it appears in is too small to see the whole thing—so you can't e.g. take a photo of it.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

I more or less randomly downloaded a Mint ISO to see how that went. I didn't make it past the partition editor. I have multiple physical drives and I'd like to encrypt them. There's no help or hints as to how to proceed. You have to scroll around to see things, and the window can't be resized.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

So obviously I'm downloading a Linux distro right now. I haven't rolled Linux on the desktop in, like, a decade or more. Actually kind of stoked to see what's gotten better (or worse?) in the past 10+ years.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

Got the inevitable message that my Windows 10 is now EOL and that I need to upgrade to 11. The machine is perfectly fine but it doesn't have the secure boot stuff, so there's no good upgrade path. This isn't even my daily driver (I use a MacBook for work), so I'm definitely not buying anything new.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

#HTTP status code 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons"; for use when a server operator has received a legal demand to deny access to a resource. Used to provide transparency in circumstances where issues of law or public policy affect server operations. www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725....

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RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 28/01/2025

It is heartwarming to see three of the four #NHL divisions currently being lead by Canadian teams. Notably, my beloved @winnipegjets.com—who appear to have an active account—and the other great prairie team, the Edmonton Oilers. (Oh and the Leafs too, which is fine, I guess.) #GoJetsGo!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 28/01/2025

All these companies out here with job listings for "senior developer" and "staff engineer", are the same companies that are busy trying to replace juniors and mids with LLMs. Where do you think the seniors and staffs are coming from, my dudes?

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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 26/01/2025

Literally 8 hours ago: "we're excited to offer wifi for purchase on this flight" Excited. Really?

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 25/01/2025

The level to which every tech company on earth desperately wants to cram large models into everything, is astounding. It's like, ffs, please just don't. Just don't. How about not?

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Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Mittlerweile ist klar: Nicht 50.000, sondern 70.000 Menschen sind heute in Köln auf die Straße gegangen. Gegen die AfD und den Plänen von Friedrich Merz, gemeinsam eine Mehrheit mit ihnen zu finden. Das ist ein starkes Zeichen. Danke! ♥️

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 22/01/2025

«What truly limits democracy is the power of the elites […] It is the power of those who think that because they are rich, they are above the law and can do anything. That is why, my friends, that is why the tech billionaires want to overthrow democracy.» www.politico.eu/article/spai...

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Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says

“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.”

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