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If you're in a terminal and want to edit just that command (and Vim is your $EDITOR), you can type `ctrl-x ctrl-e` and it will open your command in a buffer. Once you're satisfied,…

> The genius of this was that Jamie Oliver was of course famous

Hi :) Cool project! Just FYI, there is already a fairly well-established project with that name. https://www.graphiti.dev

Have you tried magnesium? I've found the oil spray applied to the soles of the feet effective.

That looks great! I'm not sure it was available in 2018 when I looked. I tried a few options, but posting to twitter & subbing to the account was the quickest hack that worked reli…

That's amazing!

Absolutely! My original plan had been to scrape their website using Selenium or similar. I quickly noticed that they had employed lazy loading, which would have made that all but i…

Hi! I answered this in the other post, but the Postgres UPSERT was the key. By using a combination of attributes (It may have just been name & D.O.B), In a single operation I could…

Good question! The primary reason was to learn Elixir, so this was just a well-timed excuse to explore the language (and Phoenix, the web framework). The secondary reason was that …

Well played!

Thanks! Probably the only side project I've ever seen through to completion

A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly…

The main moral of this story is that people like to claim hindsight for some sort of psychic power.

Flash came out in the mid 90s. I'd say there was a decade before they became practical and cheap enough to outnumber desktops

For most of Flash's lifespan, laptops and smartphones were not really a thing.

I've been using Vim Vixen[0] since the WebExtension switch, and I haven't noticed any missing features. I'd be curious to see how you found it in comparison. [0] https://github.com…

Gleam is pretty young, so I wouldn't expect the community to be huge. Not sure what you mean by 'Phoenix on Gleam', but you could write core code in Gleam and use it in an Elixir/P…

He did demand royalties, he gets a 40% cut as well.

My least favourite was Quentin Tarantino demanding a songwriting credit for Fun Lovin' Criminals' Scooby Snacks, just because it sampled a few seconds of dialogue from Pulp Fiction…

The only people that think April Fools jokes are funny are the ones performing them, or PR departments. I have no idea what sort of pizza that would be, but I don't think it's that…

Didn't Dyson move all his manufacturing to Singapore at the same time as loudly espousing Brexit? Waiting for the v2 of the ventilator that has a ball attached, and costs an extra …

I totally agree with your second sentence. Nobody's saying "ban jokes, I hate humour". Just this specific type of joke, at this specific point in time.

Fair enough, good ones can exist. But every year April 1st becomes such a barrage of PR stunts, mostly not of that quality, that I'd rather companies didn't waste the resource.

I agree with you, but in agreement with OP, April Fool jokes just aren't funny. They're inherently mean. You can be funny without tricking someone, and everyone is already on an em…

Seems to be struggling a bit. Alternate link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200309074327/http://frankforce...