The GentleHacker
@gentlehacker.io
A Victorian Gentleman Scientist with inexplicable access to a Macbook and internet access.
Svelte and TypeScript for Love, Developer Advocate for Money, Engineer, Linguist and Jolly Good Fellow. He/Him.
More: https://dylanlacey.com
Svelte and TypeScript for Love, Developer Advocate for Money, Engineer, Linguist and Jolly Good Fellow. He/Him.
More: https://dylanlacey.com
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our "smart" coffee machine at work is broken today. I made a joke about it being related to the AWS outage but then we looked in the back and it's plugged into ethernet
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
our "smart" coffee machine at work is broken today. I made a joke about it being related to the AWS outage but then we looked in the back and it's plugged into ethernet
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It should not be as niche as it is, but I keep having to repeat it:
If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.
If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It should not be as niche as it is, but I keep having to repeat it:
If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.
If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.
I have just discovered that Evernote is still installed on my Android device.
Discovered, and remediated. No need for that rubbish here, tyvm.
(Oh, how the mighty hath fallen)
Discovered, and remediated. No need for that rubbish here, tyvm.
(Oh, how the mighty hath fallen)
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have just discovered that Evernote is still installed on my Android device.
Discovered, and remediated. No need for that rubbish here, tyvm.
(Oh, how the mighty hath fallen)
Discovered, and remediated. No need for that rubbish here, tyvm.
(Oh, how the mighty hath fallen)
Because I was asked to give it a fair showing, I have asked Copilot to generate me a project shell; nothing fancy, just a Typescript project with the Twitch API library.
So far there are 3 packages and it has invented four different API libraries, none of which exist.
Truly a marvel of the age.
So far there are 3 packages and it has invented four different API libraries, none of which exist.
Truly a marvel of the age.
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Because I was asked to give it a fair showing, I have asked Copilot to generate me a project shell; nothing fancy, just a Typescript project with the Twitch API library.
So far there are 3 packages and it has invented four different API libraries, none of which exist.
Truly a marvel of the age.
So far there are 3 packages and it has invented four different API libraries, none of which exist.
Truly a marvel of the age.
Please enjoy this utterly unhinged video from the BBC featuring Marco Pierre White being needlessly intense about Lentils: https://youtu.be/5CozySQ1Roc?si=8BWvUEUM1077U5BB
The ONLY way to cook lentils with Marco Pierre White | Meet your Maestro | BBC Maestro
YouTube video by BBC Maestro
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August 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Please enjoy this utterly unhinged video from the BBC featuring Marco Pierre White being needlessly intense about Lentils: https://youtu.be/5CozySQ1Roc?si=8BWvUEUM1077U5BB
It is with the deepest of chagrin that I find myself enjoying an article in the New Yorker.
Perhaps it is time for excessive drinking and melancholic reflection after all.
Perhaps it is time for excessive drinking and melancholic reflection after all.
June 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is with the deepest of chagrin that I find myself enjoying an article in the New Yorker.
Perhaps it is time for excessive drinking and melancholic reflection after all.
Perhaps it is time for excessive drinking and melancholic reflection after all.
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Today's amusing peccadillo: When pasting into @hetzner.bsky.social's web-based console, the Shift Status of characters is being removed.
eg
`ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL`
becomes
`ALL=9ALL0 NOPASSWD;ALL`
For reasons unknown to even myself, I find this _frightfully_ funny. Just have a care, #developers!
eg
`ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL`
becomes
`ALL=9ALL0 NOPASSWD;ALL`
For reasons unknown to even myself, I find this _frightfully_ funny. Just have a care, #developers!
April 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Today's amusing peccadillo: When pasting into @hetzner.bsky.social's web-based console, the Shift Status of characters is being removed.
eg
`ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL`
becomes
`ALL=9ALL0 NOPASSWD;ALL`
For reasons unknown to even myself, I find this _frightfully_ funny. Just have a care, #developers!
eg
`ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL`
becomes
`ALL=9ALL0 NOPASSWD;ALL`
For reasons unknown to even myself, I find this _frightfully_ funny. Just have a care, #developers!
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I don’t think I’ve made a worse financial decision in my life than developing good taste
April 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I don’t think I’ve made a worse financial decision in my life than developing good taste
An entertaining little factling:
If, say, an Australian political party were to send you mail then attempt to trick you into providing contact details when you try to unsubscribe, causing you to have to mark their emails as "Spam", it encourages _all_ their mail to be marked thusly.
If, say, an Australian political party were to send you mail then attempt to trick you into providing contact details when you try to unsubscribe, causing you to have to mark their emails as "Spam", it encourages _all_ their mail to be marked thusly.
April 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
An entertaining little factling:
If, say, an Australian political party were to send you mail then attempt to trick you into providing contact details when you try to unsubscribe, causing you to have to mark their emails as "Spam", it encourages _all_ their mail to be marked thusly.
If, say, an Australian political party were to send you mail then attempt to trick you into providing contact details when you try to unsubscribe, causing you to have to mark their emails as "Spam", it encourages _all_ their mail to be marked thusly.
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🔗 Key links for the DiscMaster Game Jam 🔗
(starting April 21st 2025 at 12:00 PM AEST and running until April 29th 2025 at 4:59 PM AEST followed by judging)
Jam Page: itch.io/jam/discmaster-j…
Jam Discord: discord.gg/7JQTtDQyy5
CanDev: canberra.games
Internet Archive: archive.org
(3/3)
(starting April 21st 2025 at 12:00 PM AEST and running until April 29th 2025 at 4:59 PM AEST followed by judging)
Jam Page: itch.io/jam/discmaster-j…
Jam Discord: discord.gg/7JQTtDQyy5
CanDev: canberra.games
Internet Archive: archive.org
(3/3)
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
🔗 Key links for the DiscMaster Game Jam 🔗
(starting April 21st 2025 at 12:00 PM AEST and running until April 29th 2025 at 4:59 PM AEST followed by judging)
Jam Page: itch.io/jam/discmaster-j…
Jam Discord: discord.gg/7JQTtDQyy5
CanDev: canberra.games
Internet Archive: archive.org
(3/3)
(starting April 21st 2025 at 12:00 PM AEST and running until April 29th 2025 at 4:59 PM AEST followed by judging)
Jam Page: itch.io/jam/discmaster-j…
Jam Discord: discord.gg/7JQTtDQyy5
CanDev: canberra.games
Internet Archive: archive.org
(3/3)
I wonder, @qbhelp.bsky.social , if your colleagues over in Quickbooks Consumer are quite well, because this response is UTTERLY REDICULOUS.
"20 Jun 2024" is not an INVALID format, it is, for QuickBooks, an UNSUPPORTED format, and that in itself beggars belief.
"20 Jun 2024" is not an INVALID format, it is, for QuickBooks, an UNSUPPORTED format, and that in itself beggars belief.
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I wonder, @qbhelp.bsky.social , if your colleagues over in Quickbooks Consumer are quite well, because this response is UTTERLY REDICULOUS.
"20 Jun 2024" is not an INVALID format, it is, for QuickBooks, an UNSUPPORTED format, and that in itself beggars belief.
"20 Jun 2024" is not an INVALID format, it is, for QuickBooks, an UNSUPPORTED format, and that in itself beggars belief.
I had not thought that In Quickbooks could vex me more, until I discovered that:
A: Their CSV importer does not understand space-separated dates, or months as abbreviations
B: Their support asked me to verify my identity, not at the start of the call, but after finding I wanted CSV help
A: Their CSV importer does not understand space-separated dates, or months as abbreviations
B: Their support asked me to verify my identity, not at the start of the call, but after finding I wanted CSV help
March 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I had not thought that In Quickbooks could vex me more, until I discovered that:
A: Their CSV importer does not understand space-separated dates, or months as abbreviations
B: Their support asked me to verify my identity, not at the start of the call, but after finding I wanted CSV help
A: Their CSV importer does not understand space-separated dates, or months as abbreviations
B: Their support asked me to verify my identity, not at the start of the call, but after finding I wanted CSV help
But the families *weren't* alike in dignity.
March 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
But the families *weren't* alike in dignity.
I have successfully completed a task! You may send letters of adoration and praise as you wish.
March 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I have successfully completed a task! You may send letters of adoration and praise as you wish.
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What's your favorite hobby?
1. sharing ennui with cats
2. cheese experiments
3. reading past bedtime
4. haunting the world
1. sharing ennui with cats
2. cheese experiments
3. reading past bedtime
4. haunting the world
March 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
What's your favorite hobby?
1. sharing ennui with cats
2. cheese experiments
3. reading past bedtime
4. haunting the world
1. sharing ennui with cats
2. cheese experiments
3. reading past bedtime
4. haunting the world
He's a ten but he think's he embodies Holden Caulfield. She's a ten but she though Atlas Shrugged was "Engaging and Erudite".
March 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
He's a ten but he think's he embodies Holden Caulfield. She's a ten but she though Atlas Shrugged was "Engaging and Erudite".
Behold the glorious future: 127* ways to make a #database, no coherent way to obtain all my bank statements.
(*128. No wait, now it's 130.)
(*128. No wait, now it's 130.)
March 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Behold the glorious future: 127* ways to make a #database, no coherent way to obtain all my bank statements.
(*128. No wait, now it's 130.)
(*128. No wait, now it's 130.)
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This taught me that sometimes a flaw in a technology is going to persist until that technology dies altogether so you might be able to just wait it out
March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This taught me that sometimes a flaw in a technology is going to persist until that technology dies altogether so you might be able to just wait it out
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By the way; I seem to have a number of splended Authors following me. Welcome!
I DO regret to inform you that many of the missives I pen will primarily concern the Computing Sciences, but I hope you will enjoy my amateur dispatches nonetheless.
I DO regret to inform you that many of the missives I pen will primarily concern the Computing Sciences, but I hope you will enjoy my amateur dispatches nonetheless.
March 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
By the way; I seem to have a number of splended Authors following me. Welcome!
I DO regret to inform you that many of the missives I pen will primarily concern the Computing Sciences, but I hope you will enjoy my amateur dispatches nonetheless.
I DO regret to inform you that many of the missives I pen will primarily concern the Computing Sciences, but I hope you will enjoy my amateur dispatches nonetheless.