Rob

Rob

@r0b.io

Research software engineer @ Open Lab, HCI, design, infrastructure, stroopwafels. Maker of web stuff, tinkerer of apps & player of video games. www.r0b.io

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I just made a whole burrito only to realise it wasn’t chilli I’d defrosted … it was bolognese

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I'm going through any public NPM packages I have to turn on 2FA publishing and about half way through I've been rate-limited by NPM for making too many requests 🙃

This is the only thing it says, I had to open the developer networking tab to see the actual error

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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Moved 4/5 of my Netlify sites to GitHub pages at least for now 😅 DNS is always the killer, it takes so long

Is there anything more adult opening your made to measure blinds with a nerf gun in your back pocket?

I had a CD that would not rip on Windows/iTunes and sounded awful when played. I gave it a last chance from my home server which happened to have an CD drive in it and it worked! Feels pretty cool to be doing it from the CLI too. The CD drive does sound like it's on its last legs though 😅