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@carnage4life @mdione hang on, did they not require code review before? Surely code review was required.

People of the nice bit of the internet, what regularly published things (blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, whatever) are you consuming that are informative but not relentlessly bleak? I feel like all I ever see is people saying how terrible everything is, and while everything is terrible I need some joy in my life as well.

I have once again found myself feeling oppressively depressed only to realise the cause was listening to a Placebo album and I t could be fixed by pressing stop.

I think I’ve fallen well truly down the Nix rabbit hole. I was reading a blog post earlier about enabling something on some other Linux distribution and spent the whole time thinking that it would have been a single config file on NixOS rather than editing half a dozen files and firing off a bunch of random executables while hoping nothing breaks halfway through.

I have spent so much money over the past week or so on buying things that aren’t quite right to fix my electrical problems. Some might say I should have done more research and planning, to which I reply SQUIRREL.

It looks like today is a three espresso day, thanks to some unexpected network engineering which touches on a whole section of the Linux network stack I don’t usually have to deal with.

I’ve finally sorted out my heating in order to have a consistently warm flat so you can all thank me when summer comes early next week.

Companies running mailing lists, you’d have a way better chance of me not unsubscribing if you could resist emailing every single day just to remind me you exist.

I must know, was the Notepad RCE demonstrated by using it to launch Notepad?