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The difference is that despite the fact that I will never use this, I am nonetheless here to celebrate the effort. What difference does it make if someone runs a marathon or takes …

Cool tool! Really appreciate the shoutout to gron in the readme, thanks! :)

I tried the oracle and got this: > Your accent is Dutch, my friend. I identified your accent based on subtle details in your pronunciation. Want to sound like a native English spea…

There's a bunch of open source work in the robot combat space, but it doesn't have to be used for robot combat specifically. The Malenki Nano is a great example: a tiny, open sourc…

Not directly relevant to the post, but seems like a good place to share. My team and I once took on a very tricky automation project. At the time we had a complex software deployme…

Back in 2020 my Swedish employer booked me a flight and I used Google Translate on the confirmation email. It changed the airport I was flying from https://twitter.com/TomNomNom/st…

A ~20 minute video on a particular number cropping up all over the place and not one mention of the frequency illusion / Baader–Meinhof phenomenon feels at least a little bit disin…

A bug in the spec doesn't necessarily mean there will be a noticeable bug in the browsers; e.g. a crash. The browsers may have been written to "work" / not crash over adhering stri…

Super, thank you! I look forward to it :) I've worked on similar problems recently so I'm well aware of how difficult this is. An example I've given people is in automatically dete…

It provided the wrong file-types for some files, so I cannot rely on its output to be correct. If you wanted to, for example, use this tool to route different files to different fo…

Sure thing :) Here's[0] a .tgz file with 3 files in it that are misidentified by magika but correctly identified by the `file` utility: asp.html, vba.html, unknown.woff These are f…

This looks cool. I ran this on some web crawl data I have locally, so: all files you'd find on regular websites; HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts etc. It identified some simple HTML fi…

Thanks for the shout-out :) I like the idea! I'll see if I get a chance to play around with it at work next week.

Just a silly aside with regards to the regex to extract domains from URLs, my little tool called unfurl [0] exists to solve that exact sort of problem :) [0] https://github.com/tom…

I strongly disagree that nearly 20% of the median household income (£31,400 [0]) is reasonable for a family's annual energy bill. Median income for the poorest 20% is £14,600 - the…

The Git Parable [0] was the thing that gave me my "aha!" moment with git. It may work for you too [0]: https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...

In a "Business and Communication Systems" exam at school I got the question "Explain how email works". Being the nerdy teen I was, I wrote about SMTP, MX records and that sort of t…

Tension is used in English to mean voltage sometimes too! The most common place I can think of is in the HT (High Tension) leads leading to a car's spark plugs: https://en.wikipedi…

If you were a bug bounty hunter and wanted to sign up for as many platforms as possible to maximise your potential scope, this list would be really useful. Seems to me like useful …

1. There isn't really a name for it, but it's a subset of JavaScript and the grammar is available here specified in EBNF, with some railroad diagrams to aid understanding: https://…

No problem at all! I'm as surprised as you are to be honest! Still makes me happy to see people getting use out of any of my tools though :)