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Some Manufacturers Don't Care About Standards Anymore

15 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment stuntdila

Some manufacturers don't care about standards anymore. here's why I say that. As you know, my computer power cable went up in smoke. so I had to buy a new one. Yesterday, I went to a computer shop near me and bought a new power cable that was the sam...

I refuse to deliberately write any more buggy and smelly code for bad customers. Enough is enough!

10 Mar 2023 4 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark

While I am not immune to the failing of writing bad/smelly/suboptimal code by accident (and I wish otherwise), it really grates my cheese to do so deliberately/knowingly under instruction from people whom are paying me for my professional expertise a...

Another Eleven Signs I'm Working for Amateurs: Unnecessary Verbosity by Design and Implimentation

9 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

For those of you who haven't read my initial post on this (see the resource links, because the inline link editor is playing silly buggers again), I suggest that you do. If nothing else, it will probably provide some context. At the end of that, I me...

Pump.io: Activity Streams Engine and Federated Social Networking Protocol

13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

Am looking up various protocols, specs and RFCs in order to get a better sense of how to go about my undertaking (including things like IRC, USEnet, etc. & more 21th century things like Mastodon, Diaspora...) — here's one that's more along the lines...