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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-26 at 19:33

Bill hartnell's all-knowing Doctor, and and referential giggling, reminds me of Yoda.

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-25 at 16:24

This #LEGO model did not go to plan...

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-24 at 10:04

"You requested a County Court Judgment"

It's barely 10am, and I've already done more adulting than I planned.

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-23 at 19:34

This pizza company has a order "Information" button right next to a "Reorder" button.

If I'm not careful, I'll check on the progress and end up stuffed!

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-23 at 18:13

TIL: I'm not the geekiest #Queen geek on the internet.

Also: https://www.pcpki.com/queen/frequent.html

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-22 at 13:23

With authors having not being paid for over a year, someone has finally outed Unbound for not ring-fencing royalties...

(Yours truly is one of the many affected.)

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/news-top-stories/exclusive-unbound-faces-financial-uncertainty-as-authors-wait-for-delayed-payments

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-22 at 10:53

My three #FOSDEM presentations total 194 slides...

...and I haven't finished them yet!

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-22 at 10:13

If you were planning to attend Jack Dorsey's talk at #FOSDEM, then it looks like it's been called off. This frees up your 12.00 time slot to see mine, instead!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4227-25-years-of-javascript/

If you were planning on boycotting or protesting Jack Dorsey's talk at #FOSDEM, then it looks like it's been called off. This frees up your 12.00 time slot to see mine, instead!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4227-25-years-of-javascript/

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-21 at 11:35

Note to future self:

My Ubuntu's wifi stack failed in weird ways (i.e. worked perfectly at home, but listed no network adapters, or found no SSIDs) because netplan was set to use networkd instead of NetworkManager

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-20 at 11:05

Two weeks until #FOSDEM, and I've just finished the first version of the scoreboard app for "The Big FOSDEM Quiz of the Year"

Saturday night, 6pm - be there!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4388-the-big-fosdem-quiz-of-the-year/

https://marquisdegeek.github.io/ScoreboardMaster

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-20 at 10:16

1D cellular automaton in 133 bytes of code!

https://www.dwitter.net/d/33092

this.r??=1;s=10;j=1;for(n=i=0;i<32;j*=2)(j&r)&&x.fillRect(is,t600,s,s),n|=126&1<<((r&1<<++i?4:0)|(r&j?2:0)|(r&1<<i+30?1:0))?j:0;r=n

[#]programming #codegolf #life

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-20 at 09:24

Google searching for my name now brings up a little box labelled "Public Figure":

(or, at least it does on my machine!)

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-18 at 10:54

The only golf I do, is code golf.

[#]programming #dwitter

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-17 at 20:35

Almost Automaton

https://www.dwitter.net/d/33081

Not a bad output for 131 characters.

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-17 at 15:47

@hej Hey - if you couldn't work out how I got the FOSDEM keynote in 2020, then you won't understand why I've got one this year for running a quiz show! :)

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-15 at 16:39

Hot take: The only way to get equality in society is if poor people can commit the crimes that rich people do, with the same impunity.

[#]taxonthepoor

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-14 at 10:47

I’m not cynical – I’m a disappointed idealist.

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-14 at 09:20

TIL: I can become a world record marathon runner if I can just improve my PB by 27 seconds...

...and maintain that level of fitness until I'm 85!

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-13 at 20:21

Random hot take:

C-3PO must be a droid you can buy, as a kit.

[#]starwars #c3po #headcannon

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Written by Marquis de Geek on 2025-01-13 at 12:01

Profundity attempt:

Code refactoring must always be done for modern idiomatic style.

Rarely for structure.

And never without purpose.

[#]software #development

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