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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 09/06/2026

Oh look, they removed all old ,lost and vague bikes from the rack in front of my house and left … only mine?

A bike rack with just one bike in it: mine. Has a kind of New Beginnings vibe.

ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 02/05/2026

Well, I've got a version of my grid article, the one I asked so many questions for lately. It'll likely be a two-parter, with an extra posting about the inner workings of grid.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 29/04/2026

What I want to achieve is this. I have in fact achieved it. But it requires me to explain - the grid filling algorithm - debugging via counters [1/3]

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 30/03/2026

I can't get the atproto-handle for perfnow set up. I filled in the key, and the domain was verified, but the handle still didn't register. What's going on? I transferred to a new ISP, and the @cssday.nl account works fine, but perfnow.nl doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 21/03/2026

The next mystery: what game do these components belong to? The red shield contains a clue, but I’m still not entirely sure.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 20/03/2026

I hear you like gamification.

Big board game boxes: Anachrony, Weinar, Yedo, Trickerion, And a few others

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 17/03/2026

Oh look what arrived today! I can now defend against monsters with too many dimensions and tentacles.

Books for the official Charlie Stross’s Laundry Re Playing Game

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 08/03/2026

One of my problems is that I have too many board games. 99% of what you see is going to go, the ones I’m keeping are mostly nog on this photo.

Stacks and stacks of board games, and if you think I’m going to list the all you’re out of your mind.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 06/03/2026

I again placed and lighted some art from my mother’s collection I inherited.

Glass and ceramic art objects on a shelf.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 03/03/2026

Getting somewhere with my house-re-decorating: I can now properly place and light these four pieces from my art collection I inherited from my mother.

Four art pieces, one glass and three ceramics, on a shelf, with reasonable lighting.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 20/02/2026

Old magic lantern slide of a decapitation in Beijing, 1919, made by my great-grandfather.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 20/02/2026

Oh look, it’s the old statue of Confucius tweeting from his Nokia.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 20/02/2026

You never know what you encounter when you go through your book collection.

Title leaf of a Gothic (to German) dictionry, including Crimea-Gothic, with a photo of a Very Serious gentleman, Sigmund Feist, who does not look feisty at all and curiously is not a Herr Doktor Professor.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 22/11/2025

Cleaning out my old clothes and found my old conference jacket with buttons. What’s Huffduffer again? Sounds familiar.

Closeup of buttons: hufduffer, unknown, FFConf

Closeup of buttons: Stuff and Nonsense, Dibi, “Made by Elephant “ and Scuk. Don’t know what the latter two are.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 31/05/2025

Your AI is wrong. Get a better one, like mine.

Google query: 'How many ts in throttle'

AI response: The letter "t" appears four times in the word "throttle".

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 24/05/2025

Winston Francis 82nd birthday

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 12/05/2025

Bitterballen on bread because there were no more kroketten! (If you don’t know what bitterballen are, visit one of my conferences.)

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 11/05/2025

Got it! In its infinite stupidity, Apple suddenly started asking for something something access something, and I reflexively clicked No. Obviously. Not in Firefox and Safari, though. Turns out it also made browsers skip the local DNS server. Turn back on in Settings -> Privacy and Security ->

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 28/04/2025

The browser list I got when first opening Safari iPhone. As far as I know none of these browsers actually uses its own rendering engine - please correct me if I'm wrong. I picked Safari. I'll only pick another browser when another rendering engine becomes available. For WebKit, Safari is without

A browser list: Ecosia, Chrome, Aloha, Opera, Web, Brave ...

Continued browser list: Web@Work, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Onion Browser, Safari, Edge.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 16/04/2025

Test phone with new phone.

One of my bookcases, brown, mostly filled with SF/Fantasy books (Charles Stross, Harry Turtledove, Tolkien, Asimov, Herbert) but also some detective-adjacent (Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Dutch writers Havank and Ivans; NOT Agatha Christie, not sure where they are), and, lying on a row of other comics, the great Freak Brothers compendium.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 28/01/2025

Psst ... #cssday cssday.nl Ticket sales not yet open, unfortunately.

A mysterious, blurred-out look at the Line up section of the CSS Day site that you can also reach via the link in the main text.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 24/11/2024

Game of Weimar in progress. Not looking good for the DNVP (me).

A game of Weimar in progress. There are too many game pieces to describe, especially because I'd also have to explain the rules.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 13/11/2024

Stacks of chair do their stately dance at #perfnow ... ... or my phone camera is just rubbish ...

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 11/11/2024

Can someone please explain the phrase "Please click on the entity that does not have a pair" to me in the context of this image? I literally don't understand a word of it.

No alt. I don't understand the fucking image. That's the fucking problem.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 09/11/2024

Cross-posting test with a picture with ALT.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 09/11/2024

Cross-posting test with a picture.

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 08/11/2024

Subtle #ffconf sponsoring. I'm also wearing my official Web Monetization t-shirt.

A coffee cup with a sticker saying Web Monetization <link rel="monetization">

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 08/11/2024

Subtle #ffconf sponsoring. I'm also wearing my official Web Monetization t-shirt.

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