Scatmania

The two most important things you can do to protect your online accounts remain to (a) use a different password, ideally a randomly-generated one, for every service, and (b) enable two-factor authentication (2FA) where it's available.

If you're not already doing that, go do that. A password

https://danq.me/2023/01/26/2fa-in-password-safe/

Two years after our last murder mystery party, almost three years since the one before, and much, much longer since our last in-person one, we finally managed to have another get-the-guests-in-one-place murder mystery party, just like old times. And it was great!



It's still been been over a

https://danq.me/2023/01/22/murder-in-the-library/

It all started when I saw no-ht.ml, Terence Eden's hilarious response to Salma Alam-Naylor's excellent HTML is all you need to make a website. The latter is an argument against both the silly amount of JavaScript with which websites routinely burden their users, but also even against depending on

https://danq.me/2023/01/11/nocode/

Following their security incident last month, many users of LastPass are in the process of cycling their security credentials for many of their accounts. I don't use LastPass, but I've had ocassion to cycle credentials before, so I appreciate the pain that people are going through.

It's not

https://danq.me/2023/01/05/changing-security-questions/

Because my feed reader is the centre of my digital life, I don't like it when people make free subscription content available ONLY by email newsletter. So I use an email > OpenTrashMail > RSS tunnel to "fix" their feeds for them! Here's how: https://danq.me/2022/12/14/newsletter-to-rss/

You don't really see it any more, but: if you downloaded some media player software a couple of decades ago, it'd probably appear in a weird-shaped window, and I've never understood why.

Mostly, these designs are... pretty ugly. And for what? It's also worth noting that this kind of design can

https://danq.me/2022/12/07/old-music-player-design/

Nowadays if you're on a railway station and hear an announcement, it's usually a computer stitching together samples. But back in the day, there used to be a human with a Tannoy microphone sitting in the back office, telling you about the platform alternations and destinations.

I had a friend

https://danq.me/2022/12/01/automation/

A few yeras ago, I wanted to subscribe to The Far Side's "Daily Dose" via my RSS reader. The Far Side doesn't have an RSS feed, so I implemented a proxy/middleware to bridge the two.

The release of version 1.20.0 of my favourite RSS reader FreshRSS provided a new mechanism for subscribing to

https://danq.me/2022/11/23/far-side-freshrss-xpath/

With thanks to Ruth for the conversation that inspired these pictures, and apologies to the rest of the Internet for creating them.

https://danq.me/2022/11/22/http-breakups/

I'm off work sick today: it's just a cold, but it's had a damn good go at wrecking my lungs and I feel pretty lousy. You know how when you've got too much of a brain-fog to trust yourself with production systems but you still want to write code (or is that just me?), so this morning I threw

https://danq.me/2022/11/21/sisyphus-game/