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Dan Booth

@dandiplo

Web developer, Umbraco MVP, wannabe musician, Wire fan and dad to crazy young daughter. Likes wine and pictures of cats.

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linkhttp://www.diplo.co.uk/ calendar_today27-06-2009 17:13:54

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The law of unintended consequences strikes again... You killed the APIs that give controlled access to data so, of course, the more persistent resort to the anarchy of scraping... (Though you would have thought any decent WAF would limit this).

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Oooh! Just noticed that I've broken the million download barrier for my Umbraco Nuget packages - nuget.org/profiles/DanDi… #umbraco

Oooh! Just noticed that I've broken the million download barrier for my Umbraco Nuget packages -
nuget.org/profiles/DanDi… #umbraco
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Having a major golf championship (in this case #TheOpen ) on your doorstep is a pain. Far too many people flitting around in private helicopters, far too much traffic.

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Hey Visual Studio what is up with developercommunity.visualstudio.com triggering a deceptive site warning in Chrome (Version 116.0.5845.97 (Official Build) (64-bit) ?

Hey <a href="/VisualStudio/">Visual Studio</a> what is up with developercommunity.visualstudio.com triggering a deceptive site warning in <a href="/googlechrome/">Chrome</a>  (Version 116.0.5845.97 (Official Build) (64-bit) ?
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Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - this is a mind-blowing geek-out on the lengths the fantastic #dotnet team to go to squeeze out every ounce of performance from .NET 8. devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perform…

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Ridiculous password security rules for insperity.brightmove.com where your password has to be less than 19 characters and can only contain 1 (and 1 only!) special character and number: #security #fail

Ridiculous password security rules for insperity.brightmove.com where your password has to be less than 19 characters and can only contain 1 (and 1 only!) special character and number: #security #fail
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Not a lot of people know that when Grandmaster Flash said, "Pound-for-pound, costs more than gold" he was referring to printer ink. #music #rapfacts

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Click Update on NuGet package and go do other things whilst it installs... Come back and find it still not installed... Realise it's popped-up an acceptance dialogue half-way through that is sitting waiting for me... Every. Time.

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Trying to diagnose merge errors in JSON files is a nightmare. Say what you will about XML, at least it was easy to read for humans and easy to validate.

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The xz backdoor is, well, setting a fire under the entire Linux ecosystem... but I'm also so impressed with how it was set up: 2-yr maintainership, oss-fuzz, etc. ...and who knows how long it would've stayed undetected if the injected sshd code ran faster (<600ms) Highlights: