Ben Hutchison
@aldaviva.com
Millennial. Threat actor. Silicon Valley techbro with heart of gold. Top 8% Stack Overflow. Posts cause CA Prop 65 birth defects.
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https://github.com/Aldaviva
https://flickr.com/photos/benhutchison/
After about 4 months, GitHub finally fixed their referrer tracking, which I assume they broke because of their ridiculous Azure migration. Unfortunately, the referrer URL paths have gone from mostly unavailable to totally unavailable.
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
After about 4 months, GitHub finally fixed their referrer tracking, which I assume they broke because of their ridiculous Azure migration. Unfortunately, the referrer URL paths have gone from mostly unavailable to totally unavailable.
Accidentally used another Cat5 cable until I noticed a suspicious 100Mbps download speed. Replaced with Cat5e.
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Accidentally used another Cat5 cable until I noticed a suspicious 100Mbps download speed. Replaced with Cat5e.
I seem to have replaced an ISP's shitty router with a great off-the-shelf alternative even though the ISP said it was impossible. Static IP address, incoming connections, hairpinning, and IPv6 all work. The shitty modem doesn't have IP Passthrough, but MAC address cloning avoided double NAT instead.
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I seem to have replaced an ISP's shitty router with a great off-the-shelf alternative even though the ISP said it was impossible. Static IP address, incoming connections, hairpinning, and IPv6 all work. The shitty modem doesn't have IP Passthrough, but MAC address cloning avoided double NAT instead.
Here I was, innocently reading about video games, when The Verge gut punches me with "opportune opportunity." Christmas is ruined. www.theverge.com/gadgets/8462...
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here I was, innocently reading about video games, when The Verge gut punches me with "opportune opportunity." Christmas is ruined. www.theverge.com/gadgets/8462...
Tis the season… for ethernet.
December 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Tis the season… for ethernet.
I should buy the $26,100 official Dakar foosball table. store.dakar.com/en/others-m-...
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I should buy the $26,100 official Dakar foosball table. store.dakar.com/en/others-m-...
Super cold long-night oak full moon before yule
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Super cold long-night oak full moon before yule
That was somewhat excruciating, but after years of wanting to, I finally figured out how to add custom buttons with vector icons to Visual Studio toolbars. My extension launches Bitbucket web, Git Extensions, GitHub web, Sublime Text, and Total Commander for the current repo/proj/file with 1 click.
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
That was somewhat excruciating, but after years of wanting to, I finally figured out how to add custom buttons with vector icons to Visual Studio toolbars. My extension launches Bitbucket web, Git Extensions, GitHub web, Sublime Text, and Total Commander for the current repo/proj/file with 1 click.
Now my breath mints will be protected inside an impregnable titanium vault when the bombs drop.
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Now my breath mints will be protected inside an impregnable titanium vault when the bombs drop.
It seems only right that Microsoft's official 11th anniversary Windows Insider celebration wallpaper pack ZIP file was created on a Mac.
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It seems only right that Microsoft's official 11th anniversary Windows Insider celebration wallpaper pack ZIP file was created on a Mac.
I must inform all you motherfuckers that it is once again decorative gourd season.
October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I must inform all you motherfuckers that it is once again decorative gourd season.
Three years after removing it, the world's best Git GUI FINALLY has dark mode again, and I can upgrade from 3.5.4. github.com/gitextension...
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Three years after removing it, the world's best Git GUI FINALLY has dark mode again, and I can upgrade from 3.5.4. github.com/gitextension...
Also, that butterfly isn't the "original MSN logo," Tom.
October 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Also, that butterfly isn't the "original MSN logo," Tom.
It's even better on an ultrawide monitor, for a truly immersive wrap-around confirmation dialog box.
October 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's even better on an ultrawide monitor, for a truly immersive wrap-around confirmation dialog box.
NBC managed to hit a new record low with a spelling error in the very first word of a headline. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/r...
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
NBC managed to hit a new record low with a spelling error in the very first word of a headline. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/r...
That Google Meet integration is very lame: placing a mouse on the hook disables the camera instead of muting the mic or hanging up. I built my own video conference pulse dialer in 2018, where you physically dial a meeting ID, and return the receiver to the hook to actually hang up like a real phone.
October 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
That Google Meet integration is very lame: placing a mouse on the hook disables the camera instead of muting the mic or hanging up. I built my own video conference pulse dialer in 2018, where you physically dial a meeting ID, and return the receiver to the hook to actually hang up like a real phone.
I just learned that British rotary phones mapped the letters O and Q to the number 0, instead of to 6 and 7 like we did in the US because it's consistent and monotonic, and because the mapping isn't based on glyph congruency. Does S look like 7? Their logic is why we fought the Revolutionary War.
October 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I just learned that British rotary phones mapped the letters O and Q to the number 0, instead of to 6 and 7 like we did in the US because it's consistent and monotonic, and because the mapping isn't based on glyph congruency. Does S look like 7? Their logic is why we fought the Revolutionary War.
For a real challenge, I tried taking a telephoto night picture of a spider swaying in the breeze above a neighbor's backyard.
October 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
For a real challenge, I tried taking a telephoto night picture of a spider swaying in the breeze above a neighbor's backyard.
I saw a cool bug just now.
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I saw a cool bug just now.
UWP Paint has the best dialog boxes. This isn't even a computer that ever changes screens or resolutions or densities.
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
UWP Paint has the best dialog boxes. This isn't even a computer that ever changes screens or resolutions or densities.
Found a cat on my backyard fence at midnight.
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Found a cat on my backyard fence at midnight.
Following his legendary Cisco IP Telephony Router cake, the incomparable chef/motoring enthusiast @werealltubes.bsky.social executed a wonderful roundel cake for my birthday this year.
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Following his legendary Cisco IP Telephony Router cake, the incomparable chef/motoring enthusiast @werealltubes.bsky.social executed a wonderful roundel cake for my birthday this year.