Weeknotes 117

People’s behaviour at music gigs is getting worse. I have three rules to solve that | Simon Price.

Hard to argue with this.

1. Shut Up. 2. Put Your Phone Away. 3. Don’t Be a Dick.

This applies to the cinema too, unfortunately.

My only weapon against these selfish people is, as bourgeois as it may sound, going to the £18 a ticket cinema where the ratio of poorly behaved people tends to be better, but is still not certain. I’m guessing because £18 is a lot more money to waste than the fiver you spend in some cinemas.

Witchhazel is a nice colourscheme.

A dark & feminine color scheme for Sublime, VS Code, JetBrains, Pygments, Atom, and Vim.

“Post Office: Horizon scandal victims to receive £600,000 compensation each”

Not enough.

After the scandal, it emerged that about £1.6m in bonus payments had been made to executives. The progress of the Horizon inquiry was one of four metrics on which bonus payments were awarded.

Disgraceful. People died.

“Pitchfork is no longer experimental”

It has been running Shopify’s monolith for over 3 months now it is safe to assume major issues have been ironed out.

You can now run Tailscale on your Apple TV. Presumably using this in conjunction with their NextDNS and Mullvad integrations opens up many viewing possibilities?

Signal are rolling out a new version of their protocol, PQXDH.

The timeline for when a sufficiently powerful quantum computer may be created is a matter of great debate. On the low end, some argue it is only a couple of years away. On the high end some say 30+ years, and there are even those who assert that we may never solve the challenges necessary to make a quantum computer with enough coherent qubits to break the current public key cryptosystems. The middle ground seems to be around the 5 to 10 year time horizon.

frum, a new Ruby version manager written in, wait for it…Rust.

iOS 17 can strip tracking params from URLs 👏

URLs in iOS 17 can be stripped of all tracking information appended to the end of the URL so that websites cannot track your browsing using URL identifiers. This function is enabled auto-magically for private browsing in iOS 17, but it can be turned on for all browsing.

Gitlab DELETING Production Databases – This made me feel physically sick.

The point about reviewing your PR inside the web browser is very true in my experience. Something about seeing the code in a different context makes mistakes far more obvious. I nearly always publish PRs as soon as I can for this reason.

DNSimple, whom I use for DNS, have launched new pricing which works out at $2 per month for me, instead of the $6 I’ve been paying. A compelling reason to stay as a customer.

Weight loss progress – nae good, pal.