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matty stratton @matty.wtf · Jun 18

Behold the finest project @phrawzty.com and I have ever done

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GitHub - mattstratton/yaagfss: Yet Another Another Generator For Static Sites

Yet Another Another Generator For Static Sites. Contribute to mattstratton/yaagfss development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · May 19

Deux salles, deux ambiances …

#EUpol

Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · May 17

Good news everybody! You can buy #Bluesky at the French supermarket now.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · May 14

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · May 6

The future of web development is…
- Java applets
- ActiveX
- Flash
- XHTML
- Silverlight
- Progressive Web Apps
- CSS-inJS
- Blockchain
- AI
…Get on or get left behind.

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The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Apr 23

The refresh of Elder Scrolls #Oblivion is wild y'all. It looks now like I *thought* it looked like way back when. If this release does well enough commercially, perhaps they'll refresh #Morrowind next? A boy can dream.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · Apr 23

Death by Shakespeare
Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays
#ShakespeareDay

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Mar 15

Dude's just into locks man

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Mar 10

p.s. I've never been to #Denver so looking forward to checking the city out a bit too. If you have suggestions for things to do (read: eat), let me know! 😄

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Mar 10

I'll be speaking at #OWASP #Snowfroc this Friday! The talk is called "Patterns of failure in modern #authorization" and it's about why #authz is getting harder instead of easier. Some academic research but also interesting examples of authz failure at large, well-known brands. Hope to see you there!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 28

Dude, grew up in the place that Randy Bachmann wrote Prairie Town about. ;)

Great suggestion though.

Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 26

Any other quirky #ClassicRock bands I should be on the lookout for? Open to suggestions for sure :)

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 26

Why BÖC? I was inspired by playing a Godzilla pinball game at the arcade & their quirky song of the same name was on the soundtrack (obviously?). I was like "dang this slaps what is this?" Anyway if you like weird rock about ghosts and monsters and stuff, you might like the album it's on: Spectres.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 26

Anyway I've listened to four albums now and… it's pretty hit and miss. What's good is extremely good, and what's bad is absolute trash, and there's a lot in between. I guess if you've been active as long as they have, consistency is going to be an issue.

i.e. it's not all "Don't fear the Reaper" :P

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 26

Listening to some classic rock lately and have rediscovered Blue Öyster Cult. Apparently they're still active, having released an album in 2024. For reference, their eponymous debut album came out in 1972. For further reference, my parents were kids when that album came out. That's wild to me, haha

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 17

Fascinating commentary of what statehood means with respect to land, or the lack thereof.

EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · Feb 17

Trouble in Heaven: Do the Changes to the Sovereign Military of Malta’s Constitution affect its relevance for the future of Small Developing Island States | by Michel Rouleau-Dick

Trouble in Heaven: Do the Changes to the Sovereign Military of Malta’s Constitution affect its relevance for the future of Small Developing Island States

The fight of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to maintain control of their destiny and retain their statehood needs no introduction. Threatened by the sea level rise caused by centuries of gre…

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Feb 14

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 11

I shouldn't have said "no rights", but yes, it's fundamentally about through-ticketing. To be fair, that's also an issue for air travel—if the operators for a multi-leg route have nothing to do with each other, & the tickets are issued separately, then a missed connection is the passenger's problem.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 11

…there are no EU rail rights, as there are for air travel. Imho, that's the reason the thing doesn't exist. It's not a computer problem—it's a business problem. Spending the time and money to build this doesn't result in a viable business, because the regulatory environment makes it impossible. 🫤

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 11

… but, could you actually buy those tickets? Debatable—even if you go direct to the operators in some cases! And (again, as you've pointed), what happens when things go sideways? Even if the hypothetical solution _could_ sell you the tickets, a delay on one leg screws you for the rest, because…

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 11

…it's certainly not, like, a week-end job, but it's all entirely within the realm of what is technically possible. As you've mentioned in the past, the real hurdles are institutional. Could such a Rube Goldberg machine generate a "good" answer? Yes …

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 11

Are there technical hurdles to offering a comprehensive overview of rail routes and ticket availabilities in Europe? Yes—but speaking as a professional computer person 😆, that's not actually the hard part. API calls, a data lake, some stats modelling, and maybe rub some LLM on there…

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · Feb 10

I have written a piece for @energiewendeger.bsky.social about why 2025 is a crucial year for #CrossBorderRail in the EU. New Commissioner, political commitment, and a bunch of problems that can be fixed!

energytransition.org/2025/02/2025...

2025: finally a breakthrough for cross-border passenger rail in the EU? | EnergyTransition.org

Boosting passenger train transport is key for reducing greenhouse gas emissions of transport and for accelerating Europe’s energy transition. Are EU railways on track? Establishing a fair picture of…

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 7

Nah. Macron was all in on the "start-up nation" like 8 years ago. This is nothing new.

Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · Feb 6

And yet, they would never fine somebody for smoking or vaping on the platform—which is, literally, the _only posted fine_.

Chapeau, SNCF.

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