By @edent · chair ergonomic review · 7 comments · 400 words · read ~263 times.
Sitting down, eh? What's that all about? You bend your knees and just hope something is there to catch you as you fall! So, the good folks at Flexispot have sent me their latest chair to review. Just like most modern office chairs, it is fully adjustable. But, rather than having a a set of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · review theatre · 300 words · read ~455 times.
Unless someone invents time travel, this is probably the closest you'll get to experiencing Janis Joplin live on stage. Jukebox musicals have a variety of viable routes to success. You either do a Mama Mia / We Will Rock You and just spin a weak story around the tunes - or you do a straight […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Book Review Sci Fi · 2 comments · 250 words
Turns out, you can just relive your childhood for £2.99 on eBay! I was exactly the right age when this book came out, and I was the perfect target audience. A boy in a sleepy suburb finds a mysterious device which allows him to understand every language. Could it be… Aliens?!?!?! It's all biking to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api blogging twitter · 3 comments · 650 words · read ~618 times.
I logged into Twitter using a fresh account last week. No followers, no preferences set. The default experience was an unending slurry of racism and porn. I don't care to use Twitter any more. Whatever good that was there is now drowned in a cess-pit of violent filth. I still have a lot of Tweets […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML Open Source php · 250 words
Dan Q very kindly shared his script to make WordPress do good HTML. But I couldn't get it working. Looking at the HTML it was spitting out, the meta generator said it was HTML Tidy version 5.6.0. That's quite old! I confirmed this by running: echo tidy_get_release(); Which spat out 2017/11/25. Aha! There are a […]
Continue reading →By @edent · finance money python statistics · 5 comments · 950 words · read ~281 times.
It's sometimes useful to run experiments yourself, isn't it? New investors are often told that, when investing for the long term rather than chasing individual stocks, it is better to be invested for the longest possible time rather than trying to do "dollar cost averaging". DCA is the process of spreading out over time the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · CyberSecurity opsec · 14 comments · 300 words · read ~2,821 times.
For lots of online accounts, a date of birth is nothing more than a very weak second factor. The majority of places aren't checking your identity, cross-referencing your birthdate, and personalising your experience based on your Zodiac sign. At most, they'll wish you a happy birthday and / or let you recover your account by […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 2fa CyberSecurity MFA totp · 4 comments · 300 words
Yeah. Yeah, I reckon so. Under the right circumstances. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA, 2FA, TOTP, whatever you want to call it) is pretty nifty. You scan a QR code and your phone will continually generate a set of one-time passwords which are synchronised with a remote server. There's nothing stopping multiple people from scanning that QR […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Book Review fantasy · 1 comment · 200 words
My friend has published their first novel - and it is a cracker! After a calamitous accident, the Fairy realm is cut off from the mundane world. Only one trickster remains, a sprite by the name of Mainder who is now trapped on our side. All seems to be going well in his little corner […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Game Review linux · 1 comment · 500 words
Remember World of Goo? The hit game that you loved on the Nintendo Wii? It was all the rage in 2009: Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentAh. I appear to have spent the majority of the night playing World Of Goo. What an addictive little game.❤️ 1💬 0♻️ 000:16 - Sat 07 March 2009 Fifteen years […]
Continue reading →