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  1. Toot toot! A new posting on my weblog, so.nwalsh.com/2022/12/09/toot
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  2. I will not be distracted by pixelfed today. I will not. I. Will. Not...today.
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  3. I thought it would take a quarter of a century to undo Brexit. I now wonder if it’ll be closer to a decade. The recovery will take a lot longer, of course.
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  4. I discovered a couple of weeks ago (issue #204) that I broke localization for some languages in the DocBook xslTNG stylesheets. Broke it like "I designed it wrong" not broke it like "I left out an entry". I think I see light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's still a (1/2)
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  5. We plan to make beef stew for dinner, but I forgot to get some nice crusty bread to go with it. Too cold and wet out there to go back out again, so I baked some!
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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  6. This is also a test. Apologies for the noise.
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  7. Have I waited long enough to consider letting my laptop update to Ventura?
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  8. Herb garden and a cactus. To be fair, also a motion sensor and not really a cactus. But this is only a test post anyway.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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  9. I want to replace a complex table with a graphic. The table isn't especially accessible, but I don't want to make the situation worse. A description would probably run to a couple of paragraphs for clarity. What's the best way to do that in modern HTML?
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  10. Apropos of nothing, The Spare Man by MaryRobinette is a delightful read with delightful cocktails (and mocktails) and I recommend it highly.
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  11. Yeah. Lots of scary options. And they *could* be true, but remember the maxim: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ptexpat/1594261144113479680
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  12. This also reads as plausible. drskyskull/1593465921498144769
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  13. I’m not scrolling back more than a decade for the context, I’m just going to chuckle softly. It wasn’t 1 April, I did check that. WHATWG/3124901565
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  14. So the Saudis bought Twitter by way of their willing co-conspirator or useful idiot proxy so that they could destroy what has been a useful tool for organizing against facists. Is that about it?
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  15. The advertisement for "The Ultimate Performance Everyday Pants" is especially funny on this side of the Atlantic. But it's also just kind of funny. The what now?
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  1. Who started the anti-pattern that you can't paste into a password field? I have a few angry words to share ...
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  2. Six stages of debugging: plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/
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  3. ROTFL! ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com/
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  4. Every. Single. One. Of. These. troyhunt.com/2016/01/its-2016-already-how-are-websites-still.html
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  5. I don’t recall who said this was the best thing ever, but they might be right: devopsreactions.tumblr.com/
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  6. Years ago, any proposal that required another HTTP round-trip was effectively DOA. Today, every fscking link goes through eight shorteners.
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24.4% of my tweets are replies (×8,783)

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  3. shelleypowers 167 replies
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I’ve sent someone a mention 269 times (0.7%)

73.7% of the links I’ve posted are using the https: protocol (3,195 of 4,335)

89.0% of the links I’ve posted in the last 12 months are using the https: protocol (137 of 154)

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  7. www.youtube.com 40 tweets
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My tweets have been given about ♻️ 4,227 retweets and ❤️ 15,357 likes

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  3. 👍 used 6 times on 5 tweets
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72 unique emoji on 112 tweets (0.6% of all tweets***)

Top 5 Hashtags

  1. xmlprague used 210 times
  2. balisage used 97 times
  3. fail used 86 times on 84 tweets
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  5. marklogic used 61 times

2,584 hashtags on 2,572 tweets (14.4% of all tweets***)

Top 5 Swear Words

  1. d_mn used 69 times on 67 tweets
  2. h_ll used 31 times
  3. f_ck used 30 times on 29 tweets
  4. f_cking used 27 times
  5. s_it used 16 times on 14 tweets

275 swear words on 268 tweets (1.5% of all tweets***)

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