new desk utility to help me assess if the surreal reality we live in is actually a dream 💭

this little island gets devoured by a storm within an hour. yay to cooler temperatures though ⛈️

quite a badly impersonated scam sms. though it still delivers an initial shock factor when you receive the notification. also strangely timed while i was trying to get a cashier's order at the same bank.

storing arbitrarily concatenated values in an integer is probably bad news.sky.com/story/remember…

blast from the past circa 1996. always fun to do a retrospective on historical perspectives. guesstimates on the future will always bunch up into things you either get so wrong or things you get so right it's bizarre.

when open source developers go rogue and destroy the world bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

how to check if you are affected - use @sourcegraph! (free for oss)

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spent the last week dealing with a drive failure in my NAS. you really only see (massive) product defects in times of need. frantically trying to perform a complete backup while getting unhelpful, misleading and dismissive copy/paste "advice" from Synology Inc. support #frustrating

this should make it easier to upgrade legacy projects. just go to pom and add a 1 in front of that 8 😜

💡 Spring Framework includes a bunch of handy *Util classes. Perhaps you do not need any extra dependency for the util you need? Examples below 👇

T-3 weeks to migration go-live of my residence. new platform isn't fully operational yet but i'll get evicted from current host otherwise. need to work on that shabby runbook, since rollback is not an option.

me, but coffee instead of chickens please

cool stuff

#TIL there's a name for why everything is closed on sundays in most of Europe en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law

#contagion is just an artificially created concept run by loud rich people with a self-centered agenda slate.com/technology/202…

one step towards transparency of content recommendation engines blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…

🌟 Excited to welcome Yong Sheng Tan, Solutions Architect - Orkes, to #apidays Singapore 2024! Join us as he dives into "Orchestrating Microservices in the Era of AI" 🔗 apidays.global/singapore