According to the Chicago Board of Elections Illinois residents can now register for a Permanent Vote by Mail Roster. 🗳️✉️🙌
*mumble* *grumble* Frickin' systems that won’t obey Unicode variation selector 15. *mumble*
Pickup on South Street is spectacular. Thanks to Lions, Towers, & Shields, I’ll watch whatever Shelly Brisbin tells me to. 🎥
Ah, the modern age of programming against an API that involves case-insensitivity.
How does it do the comparison?
Comparing upper case? Comparing lower case? Comparing Unicode fold case? Something else?
Documentation needs to be specific about what “case-insensitive” means.
Website fined by German court for leaking visitor’s IP address via Google Fonts
Good. Need more of this.
Weird that, in 2022, Ruby still doesn’t have a fold-case method for Strings.
Oops, turns out that there is case folding, but you have to call .upcase(:fold) or .downcase(:fold), which is wakadoo.
This is really, really good.
It’s been a This Mortal Coil festival around here for the last week or so.
Enjoy the story of the Puritan war on Christmas: overcast.fm/+L-hp9XIb… 🎙
Merry Consumermas: www.youtube.com/watch 🎄💰🎵📺
I learn about memes that I didn’t know existed by watching Kirby Ferguson. 📺
Today’s dumb mistake:
sudo iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
😳
Regulators don’t allow any licensee to buy Arm; does Arm go under?
If so, what is RISC V’s governance structure?
🍂 Fall-iage 📷
Metaverse 1994: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrml
The wonderous thing about the pandemic life is all the package tracking you get to do wherein you learn about all the small towns that have had warehouses built in them like Jefferson, GA and Channahon, IL.
Eating Raoul (1982) is still awesome: www.youtube.com/watch
Beat me! Whip me! Make me write bad checks!