James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk

The slew of emails I've got from GitHub about this nokogiri vulnerability is reminding me of repositories I'd completely forgetten existed...

Jekyll 4 is out, yay! Sounds like it should be quite a bit faster! https://jekyllrb.com/news/2019/08/20/jekyll-4-0-0-released/

This morning: fish tubes and chip tunes

Incredible to watch 40-odd kite surfers doing their thing off Goring-by-sea. It looks like an enormous amount of fun...

No reason for this to kill me no sir

Dreams can be weird, but one from last night was a cracker. @torgo was asleep at the foot of my bed, but his phone kept waking me up, then someone had left the TV on downstairs, then a neighbour came looking for his cats, all 15 of which were in my house for some reason, and then I think some aliens half-assedly invaded, and then I tried to sell dxw services to my local council (always be closing!). Utter nonsense. Stupid brain. Most of it was reasonably normal-dream-weird, but why @torgo?

Thank god for /r/outoftheloop. If, like me, you’ve got no idea what’s going on on social media this morning: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cmi3hb/whats_going_on_with_this_3050_feral_hogs_joke_on/

I’m positive there is a good word for this, but I just can’t think of it!

I have a mental block. I need a word for a piece of software that isn’t reused by anything else - like the opposite of a library or component. Could be an app, a website, any sort of end-result thing...

Sad to see GitHub geoblocking users in Iran. I’m sure they’ve been forced to by the real problem here, but it still sucks. https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us

Boris really is having to drag up the dregs of the Tory party, isn’t he. A new Home Secretary who seriously wants to bring back the death penalty, multiply-disgraced former everything Liam Fox, Rees-Mogg “the minister for the 18th century”, and on and on and on. Just waiting to hear that Nadine Dorries has been made queen or something for the full tragic set.

I know that UK politics is so screwed it’s beyond tragic, but if you do want to at least try to do *something*, https://somethingnew.org.uk is still alive but in desperate need of new blood and energy.

Reviving this classic:

“Failing Up: the Boris Johnson story”

This goddamn country. We really do commit to our mistakes, don’t we.

Honestly never thought I’d find myself rooting for Jeremy Hunt.

BRB changing my middle name to “1202 alarm”

A souvenir from one of my favourite gigs. The warm up act was Fred (I think) calling a game of bingo...

Having a password field only appear after entering a username is a huge accessibility antipattern, isn't it? Why is everyone and their dog doing it now? It plays merry hell with my password autofill.