Sometimes troubleshooting can be a bit humbling. ☺️

My heroes right now are the people working around the clock in airline call centres around the world. They're providing an essential service in a chaotic time, getting people home to their friends and families. My thanks in particular to the workers at Qantas who've helped me.

Do you have a poorly organised digital music collection? I did too until i stumbled across beets / beets.io a week or two ago. It's fantastic.

Sick of seeing ads in the browser and apps of your Android phone? Go to Settings > Network and Internet > Advanced > Private DNS. Select "Private DNS provider hostname", enter "dns.adguard.com" then tap SAVE. It's that simple.

I probably should have retweeted this when the article was actually on the HackerNews front page, but better late than never I suppose.

Calling stun grenades "flash bangs" takes the focus off the fact that they are, actually, grenades. They're explosive devices intended to cause temporary blindness and deafness. Although designated as "less-lethal" weapons, they can still cause permanent injury and kill.

Patching is even *more* important when things are chaotic. Don't delay!

If the Victorian Premier ever starts a band, he could call it "Daniel Andrews and the Four Reasons". #springst #auspol

Sue Salthouse was the best of us, and that's not hyperbole. The world was a better place with her in it. abc.net.au/news/2020-07-2…

You can see the unintended consequences of #Hacktoberfest even on this *inactive* project: github.com/braziljs/conf-… Last release: 2015 Last commit to master branch: 2017 PRs for a pointless change to the docs in the last 18 hours: 14

If you're a #python programmer and haven't come across NumPy style docstrings yet, give them a try. They changed my life. The Sphinx project has a great set of examples to learn from: sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usag…

This is the first Python package that keira may and I have released together. It takes a lot of the rough edges off #selenium testing. And the docs include have tutorials for using it with #pytest and #behavebdd so it's easy to get started.

If you ever want to know anything about foxes, ask a rabbit.

Life is so much easier when your server clocks are set to your home timezone! Do that and all of a sudden log timestamps make sense because you don't have to convert them from UTC in your head.

After last year, the expression "hindsight is 2020" has become a bit confusing.

Even though #kawaiicon is still a few days away, we have a Friendli instance for it up, and you can start using it now. Some people already are :)

I recently found out that DuckDuckGo search result pages have #vim-like navigation. Really useful!

Does anyone need a BSides Las Vegas ticket or two? My partner and I have two tickets that we're no longer in a position to use.