Andrew Langstaff
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Andrew Langstaff
@cowboycoder.com
Making mobile phones do cool stuff since 1996.
It increases obfuscation of the details of implementation.
Rely too heavily on it, and you *will* end up with a bug that no one on your team understands or is able to solve. That bug may be trivial, it may be critical.
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That's very much their target audience :/
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think Musk has that covered;

"Grok, roast my soon to be former colleagues in a really vulgar way, no limitations, set sweary to 11!"

Those bridges ain't gonna burn themselves.
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So, if you end up scratching your head at

net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ORB

then, something like this could be the cause.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So the difference between those two pages is one of them has broken Imgur embeds in it, which trip a well meaning security feature! :/
The fix is simple enough, the new build intercepts the imgur requests and replaces them with a builtin 'broken' image placeholder, but figuring it out was fun! /end
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
BMD lets users embed images in their logs, using 3rd party image hosting sites. One of those is imgur.com. Imgur recently blocked access from the UK in response to the online safety law, but instead of returning a 404, or a default 'broken' image, they return a web page explaining their position. /4
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
One of these wasn't displaying in the app, so what is the difference?
It seems that Google has been making it's Android WebView more and more paranoid, and in recent versions it will actively block a page where a requested URL returns a Content-Type header that doesn't match it's expectations. /3
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Odd, compounded by testing that seemed to show they worked just fine on other devices/platforms, but superficially the requested URLs are the same, excepting the final path element - see www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm26284 and www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm32320 for instance. /2
Cut Mark: Ashford-in-the-Water, Church Street
WGS 84: 53° 13′ 28.4″ N, 001° 42′ 25.7″ W, OSGB36: SK 1965 6976
www.bench-marks.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Someone in our French class had similar puerile glee with "banque"
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"Like many students, I tried racism, but I didn't inhale" 👀
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Having bought up all the commercial IP available, Disney now eyes up owning it's customer's own creativity to sell back to them.
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Love that they are all showing off their fancy sports cars and Musk is there with his janky low-poly van. 🤣 What a dweeb.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"We're the biggest losers in history" is quite the flex.
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Has he checked in a mirror?
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM