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When I first read The Time Machine (by H.G.Wells) I wondered how the split between Eloi and Morlocks happened, and where in the timeline it started. The more I see of people using …

In fact, I don't think I've ever heard the term "clean eating" used before... I wonder where that term is commonly used?

That fear is good, it means you know that you're taking a risk - I'd worry if you had to touch production and didn't feel that fear. If you only have the one or two production syst…

My personal opinion is that if a team couldn't write something before AI then they should be very careful about writing it with the help of AI. For example a team that couldn't wri…

Yep, it's a shame that we keep making the same mistakes when it comes to basic security practices.

200MB for a desktop sounds massive to some of us :D Back in the day I used to have a desktop running, with applications, in just 512KB. Getting that memory upgrade to a full 1MB wa…

It always amazes me the number of SaaS solutions that don't implement rate limiting, then tell us not to worry about it when we ask how hard we can hit their APIs, and then complai…

You can get light spreader kits for the F91-W/A158W that replace the bit of plastic that sits behind the LCD for one that spreads the light from the LED far more evenly than the st…

As a team we use Kanban, so everything being worked on gets a ticket and we walk the Kanban board every morning. So if a task is waiting for someone to review it, then it gets high…

Where possible automate them! From my point of view the power of automation for recurring tasks is less to do with time saved, and more to do with making sure that it will get done…

That is the second year of a PhD - the first year you're distracted by your literature survey of the area you're interested in. The second year is where you're trying to dig out a …

Stand out books for me that I've read this year: * The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Short, but a great read) * The Incandescent by Emily Tesh * The Armchair Universe by A.K.D…

Interestingly that would put some UK banks as running code that was written when the currency was still Pounds, Shillings and Pence. In the past I've heard that some banks put a de…

Tags and Stashes are both commonly used features of Git. There's a lot of value of having well defined ways of handling them, especially when it comes to collaborating with others …

A web version of comm, I can see that being useful for a lot of people who don't want (or know how) to use the command line.

This brings back a memory of when I was given the only copy of an XML file that was large data extract that needed to be restored. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines the XML …

Personally I prefer to be sent a full email thread over a message in chat, because a) I can ignore it until I have time to look at it b) You can see who else has already been invol…

For anyone interested in this I can recommend the book, The Future Was Here. It really explains the Amiga hardware and how it was used. It even goes into how the bouncing ball demo…

I hope you responded with "The team is still learning, which is exactly why I shouldn't be quiet about code standards."

One of the many definitions of the word Render is "to cause someone or something to be in a particular state", another is "to change words into a different language or form". Based…

I don't tend to use Caps Lock at all - I know a lot of people remap it to be escape, just like OuterVale has mentioned, but for me it's just a key that I never use. Then again I no…

Which, to me, heavily implies that you should be taking all feedback as being valid with your best interests in mind. My point is that feedback isn't always valid and sometimes you…

> I don’t care how smart or ahead you are, but hard work always beats talent. Although you do need some talent or working hard will just be making problems for everyone else, and a…

You know that you can just press at the bash prompt to quit it as well? (In fact will quit out of most command line programs as it's the End Of Transmission character)