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It's a good job it was off by such a large amount, or I might have panicked instead of writing it off as a phishing attempt. I had an email saying my $7.50 budget had been exceeded with an actual cost of $3bn.
Re:Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer on Friday April 10, 2026 @08:20AM (#47716989)
I didn't notice this at first but if you click the pencil icon you can draw a shape to match against instead of searching with text or browsing with the dropdown
Crazy to see this story on the front page of the BBC and now Hacker News too! Ronnie was an awesome guy, and absolutely a part of Rob and Dianne's family, not a "maid" as another comment suggested.
Apple: would it kill you to add some labels to all the mystery-meat navigation in Xcode?
Re:Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:20AM (#45137305)
Tiny easter egg: refreshing the page on either the blog post or the website gets you a new random background pattern
Re:Major outage of oss.sonatype.org on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @07:14AM (#41055735)
Looks like 30+ instances of downtime in the last couple of weeks. Anyone know what's going on there?
Had same issue with Wise followed by same email about Evolve. I don't think Wise have discovered (or want to admit) the real scope of the issue.
I tend to use hapi (https://hapi.dev) instead of Express if I need to write a quick backend for something these days.

Fastify looks nice too but I haven't used it.

Been burnt by full-stack frameworks in the past (e.g. Meteor) but they can be a good option for some.

Re:Niche Museums on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @05:15PM (#36063948)
The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence was a very niche one near me in South Wales. Think it has closed its doors now though.

https://captainbeany.com/baked-bean-museum-of-excellence/

Re:Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:40AM (#34258891)
PSA: Seems like deleting deploy keys on the CircleCI end doesn't actually delete them from Github, so you need to do it on both ends.
Very soothing. Now I'm wondering how common "a supermarket trolley on the track earlier on this train's journey" is in Scotland that they needed to pre-record that audio.

https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/announcements/0923

Re:Happy Birthday GNOME! 25 years today on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:51AM (#32480915)
In case the author is reading, the specified font-family 'Cantarell' is not loading and there are no fallbacks specified. Probably needs a 'sans-serif' fallback or a webfont.
Re:Spam accounts in 2022 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:29PM (#30407352)
Oh great, now my good name has been sullied by crypto spammers.

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