I read a lot of books. I'm sure there's some Jane Austen quote about how it unsettles a young lady's mind to fill it with such wide-ranging nonsense, but I've not read any Austen this year 🤷 In total, I read 64 books. I strictly alternate between fact and fiction otherwise my brain gets confused. I try to maintain an even gender ratio and I like old books as well as new books. I mostly buy eB…
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If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close your brackets and watch how the computer recoils in distress. The modern web isn't like that. You can make your HTML as malformed as you like and the web-browser will do its best to display the page for…
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Many many years ago, I did some work for the NHS. As part of that, I was given access to certain GitHub organisations so that I could contribute to various projects. Once I left that job my access was revoked. Mostly. A few weeks ago, I received this email from GitHub. On the surface, this is a sensible email. They want all their members to only have strong 2FA and I still had SMS configured …
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