Marcus
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Had my weekly 1:1 with my manager (we talked about the IPCA report while doing laps around the park)
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Had my weekly 1:1 with my manager (we talked about the IPCA report while doing laps around the park)
Pizza Hut NZ have a "Responsible Disclosure" link in their footer but it doesn't actually resolve anywhere so I guess they shut down their account with Synack (who run responsibledisclosure.com)
Anyway, back to actually ordering pizza after that distraction
Anyway, back to actually ordering pizza after that distraction
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Pizza Hut NZ have a "Responsible Disclosure" link in their footer but it doesn't actually resolve anywhere so I guess they shut down their account with Synack (who run responsibledisclosure.com)
Anyway, back to actually ordering pizza after that distraction
Anyway, back to actually ordering pizza after that distraction
Just to make sure I have this straight, Uber Engineering have once again published an RSS feed but the only way that you can successfully fetch this XML-based RSS feed is to pass "Accept: text/html" as a header. Remind me why I'm even attempting to read their blog?
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Just to make sure I have this straight, Uber Engineering have once again published an RSS feed but the only way that you can successfully fetch this XML-based RSS feed is to pass "Accept: text/html" as a header. Remind me why I'm even attempting to read their blog?
It's nearly Kawaiicon time! The badges are pretty hard to read but if anyone I know is also attending, I'm in all green: Green trousers and my dark green Halter hoodie. Not a work trip but I figure I might as well do some free advertising if anyone wants to learn more about it or apply for a job 😅
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's nearly Kawaiicon time! The badges are pretty hard to read but if anyone I know is also attending, I'm in all green: Green trousers and my dark green Halter hoodie. Not a work trip but I figure I might as well do some free advertising if anyone wants to learn more about it or apply for a job 😅
As ever, a solid 10% of my luggage at least is just cables of various types
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
As ever, a solid 10% of my luggage at least is just cables of various types
TIL Chrome has deprecated XSLT and is intending to remove support entirely by late 2026 due to security concerns around libxslt
It seems a number of government agencies and public bodies still make use of it though
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4582...
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
It seems a number of government agencies and public bodies still make use of it though
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4582...
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
Removing XSLT for a more secure browser | Web Platform | Chrome for Developers
Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.
developer.chrome.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
TIL Chrome has deprecated XSLT and is intending to remove support entirely by late 2026 due to security concerns around libxslt
It seems a number of government agencies and public bodies still make use of it though
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4582...
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
It seems a number of government agencies and public bodies still make use of it though
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4582...
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
Earlier this evening, I read my dishwasher instruction manual and discovered that I have been putting rinse aid in the wrong hole. It turns out I'm meant to unscrew a plug and pour it down a hole with a glowing light that feels like the equivalent of pouring honey directly into a toaster
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Earlier this evening, I read my dishwasher instruction manual and discovered that I have been putting rinse aid in the wrong hole. It turns out I'm meant to unscrew a plug and pour it down a hole with a glowing light that feels like the equivalent of pouring honey directly into a toaster
@errbufferoverfl.bsky.social Hello! Very excited to catch your talk at Kawaiicon 😎
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
@errbufferoverfl.bsky.social Hello! Very excited to catch your talk at Kawaiicon 😎
Reposted by Marcus
Shinohi-kun and Himari-chan the fire prevention ninjas are a pair of cigarette lighter siblings who advise children not to play with lighters.
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Shinohi-kun and Himari-chan the fire prevention ninjas are a pair of cigarette lighter siblings who advise children not to play with lighters.
@emgoto.com I came across your site from the Hardcover monthly newsletter and the design is very cool!
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
@emgoto.com I came across your site from the Hardcover monthly newsletter and the design is very cool!
It's called a dictionary
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It's called a dictionary
My first flat in Wellington was because I got invited to an Age of Empires 2 LAN party by a Twitter mutual and then they jokingly asked if I wanted to move into the spare room. I was introduced to the (very laidback) landlord with my username rather than my real name 😄
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My first flat in Wellington was because I got invited to an Age of Empires 2 LAN party by a Twitter mutual and then they jokingly asked if I wanted to move into the spare room. I was introduced to the (very laidback) landlord with my username rather than my real name 😄
Is Perth just Blade Runner but steampunk? Watch as I find out this week
October 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is Perth just Blade Runner but steampunk? Watch as I find out this week
It helps when you spend a bunch of money on a nice new home server to actually make full use of the 2TB SSD instead of only having a tiny 100GB partition 🤦♂️
September 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It helps when you spend a bunch of money on a nice new home server to actually make full use of the 2TB SSD instead of only having a tiny 100GB partition 🤦♂️
@gruber.foo I just happened to see your post today about Max Read's Apple History. It's nowhere near as polished but I thought I'd share my own bit of digging that I happened to write up a few months prior to Max's post 😅 Nerds think alike etc etc utf9k.net/blog/ipad-ca...
Do demo iPads have a canonical owner?
In which we investigate whether the demo content loaded onto iPads is owned a single fictional person
utf9k.net
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
@gruber.foo I just happened to see your post today about Max Read's Apple History. It's nowhere near as polished but I thought I'd share my own bit of digging that I happened to write up a few months prior to Max's post 😅 Nerds think alike etc etc utf9k.net/blog/ipad-ca...
Sometimes I wonder if the comfort of decludging (software) infrastructure is functionally the same thing as gardening but that would require me to go outside to find out
July 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sometimes I wonder if the comfort of decludging (software) infrastructure is functionally the same thing as gardening but that would require me to go outside to find out
I emailed DIA to enquire a bit more about hCaptcha briefly appearing in front of www.govt.nz and someone from their All of Government unit said that it's "something that we are actively investigating across our sites to understand the issues and to avoid more recurrences in the future"
July 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I emailed DIA to enquire a bit more about hCaptcha briefly appearing in front of www.govt.nz and someone from their All of Government unit said that it's "something that we are actively investigating across our sites to understand the issues and to avoid more recurrences in the future"
@openpolicy.bsky.social I can't wait to doomscroll the official NZ Govt app www.dia.govt.nz/press.nsf/d7...
Press Releases - dia.govt.nzGovernment App Programme names Dave Clark NZ and MATTR as key delivery partners
www.dia.govt.nz
July 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
@openpolicy.bsky.social I can't wait to doomscroll the official NZ Govt app www.dia.govt.nz/press.nsf/d7...
It seems like this was reversed at some point over the past 2 weeks. My change detection tool should give some hints as to when it was undone but it seems likely lately all I have time to post about is government firewalls 😅
It seems that www.govt.nz will now prompt the user to fill out a captcha if they're unknown or seem malicious.
I was able to trigger it reliably by navigating to the site in a private window.
I was able to trigger it reliably by navigating to the site in a private window.
July 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It seems like this was reversed at some point over the past 2 weeks. My change detection tool should give some hints as to when it was undone but it seems likely lately all I have time to post about is government firewalls 😅
@seafoam.bsky.social Hello! I was going through my folder of screenshots of websites I like a lot (maybe i will finally redesign my site...) and am stopping by to say I like it a lot! My screenshots were of v5 so I need to take some new ones 😤
July 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
@seafoam.bsky.social Hello! I was going through my folder of screenshots of websites I like a lot (maybe i will finally redesign my site...) and am stopping by to say I like it a lot! My screenshots were of v5 so I need to take some new ones 😤
It seems that www.govt.nz will now prompt the user to fill out a captcha if they're unknown or seem malicious.
I was able to trigger it reliably by navigating to the site in a private window.
I was able to trigger it reliably by navigating to the site in a private window.
July 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It seems that www.govt.nz will now prompt the user to fill out a captcha if they're unknown or seem malicious.
I was able to trigger it reliably by navigating to the site in a private window.
I was able to trigger it reliably by navigating to the site in a private window.
It's fine, I didn't even really want to engage with democracy anyway!
June 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It's fine, I didn't even really want to engage with democracy anyway!