Ooook you've given me an idea

document.getElementsByClassName('html5-main-video')[0].playbackRate = 3.0

you probably know but this works surprisingly well in devtools on desktop. and you can of course do whatever speed you want

Home is where the bbc.co.uk/news doesn't redirect to bbc.com/news

Tell claude your flowchart and let it vibe-code your tables, and claude will fuck up your codebase.

Hand-code your tables, and claude won't usually need a flowchart; it'll be obvious.

I Found Hidden Patterns in UK place names using Code YouTube video by Conrad Godfrey

Thanks for sharing Jay! I made a not-short short about this a while back youtube.com/shorts/1tQQE...

Wish we'd known about this tool from @conradgodfrey.com when we made our last episode of Map Men. Instantly visualise where place names are across Britain. Excellent stuff!

(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)

conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/

didn't realise e-ink displays had gotten so good!

why can't I reliably interrupt chatGPT yet?

always breaks the chat.

very hyped for this! Ready to be part of an audience choir for the first time.

Spotify wrapped described my Charlie xcx phase in August as "indie sleaze strut pop" and not "Brat Summer" and I'm mad about it

Tis the season!

@spiralganglion.com conradgodfrey.com/mariah/ Chrome will die after 50 seconds in - Safari survives longer.

I had a better midi sound at one point but lost it.

Midia Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is Midi Large YouTube video by xBenedictumx

I kept expecting I was going to get Mariah-midi-roll'd as it sped up www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhwf...

To be fair, you have to have a very High IQ to understand Kenny G

Damn! I guess it's a very human design choice to not have a notification though. Like forgetting to eat a meal and then hours later being like "why am I so grumpy".
You have to feel the hunger, and you have to feel the drag of a slow computer. Promotes a sense of oneness with the machine?

... not sure I would count 2 like this in the UK

can it do "am I from Germany"

Or to put it another way, I can just clear out the top 1% of my Downloads folder and it will deal with 80% of the problem...

Power laws really don't incentivise me to organise my files well...

I guess death by 1000 paper cuts it is

and the intuition, unsurprisingly, is that it follows a massive power law.

Log and linear scales of file rank, vs size.

original program I was writing was to try and understand which files are taking up the most space here.

`du -d 1 -a | sort -rn | awk '{print $1}'`

then copy into google sheets to get the intuition

Single = 'Shield' everything.
Double = 'Dynamic' substitution.
No quotes = 'Naked', so be careful!

seems correct enough to be useful?

so in the awk example, it was failing because $1 was getting interpreted at the *shell* level, not the *awk* level.

Practicing awk, and was getting bamboozled on "awk {print $1}" failing, but 'awk {print $1}' succeeding.

Decided to try and properly cement the shell quoting rules - rather than just automatically flipping to the other type of quote.

Asked for a mnemonic and ChatGPT came up with the goods!

why is it I always notice this stuff by some secondary reason - today it was the Quicktime was refusing to screen record.

am I missing some notification?

Me: grumbling that my slow laptop that is clearly the result of planned obselence, bloatware and electron apps.

Also me: stuffing my ssd to 99.8% capacity

Anyway! Was fun to cosplay as a @itseieio.bsky.social project for a bit. Will definitely do more websocket things in the future, maybe this time even on an actual server? Idk sounds extreme

When I got home this was what was left on my laptop - I guess the estrogen gang really brought it home.

Anyway I only launched the web toy like an hour before the fiesta. It was a brief flash in the pan! But I guess probably a few 10s of thousands of toppings got added. We made it 240 metres!

What was this all in aid of? A poll told me that most people I know have never had a filet o fish. I've also never had a filet o fish. I thought why not try and hold a London meet up for the First Time Filet o Fish Fiesta!

And so why not make a web toy to advertise it?

And also I was out in London bridge getting... A fish filet. So to bring it down gracefully and avoid (maybe) getting hacked and all my data exfiltrated, I ended up nuking the Cloudflare tunnel to kill it. Seemed to work? Now that's what I call DevOps.

I was trying to get it running as quickly as I could, and as such it was all hosted over a Cloudflare tunnel on my laptop on essentially a development server. All the warning signs of "never ship development servers in production" started bouncing round my head.