Category: tech
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Back to the start
Bamm-Bamm got a Switch at Christmas which he shares with his sister. His main game for the past while is Mario Odyssey He’s getting good at it, like really good. I’m not saying it’s educational but the kid has figured out a lot of the mechanics and what to do without me telling him. For…
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Alex Mills
One of my Automattic colleagues, Alex Mills has been battling Leukaemia. He passed on Wednesday. His family posted on his blog. Alex was a huge influence in the WordPress world, his Regenerate Thumbnails plugin has been used on literally millions of sites. But his love for cars was also massive. He ran a Top Gear…
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Momo and kids YouTube and what is actually happening
There is a trend going about that videos on Kids YouTube are getting spliced with that freaky Momo character telling kids to do unspeakable things. Not without realising it, but I saw this tweet from Basecamp/Rails big man, DHH: Everyone is so fixated on the Momo thing and that it is actually a hoax and…
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Teaching The Kid video editing
Every Monday, the Kid has movie club after school. They watch a small video and talk about different aspects like scripts or plot development. Considering she watches some YouTube stuff like people building SIMS and whatnot, it’s educational. She mentioned on the walk home today that she wanted to make slime (again 😫) and how…
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Tumblr Adult Content Review
I don’t think I need to tell many people who are vaguely aware of the news that after Tumblr announced a massive overhaul of their content and introduced an adult filter, that this has been often incorrectly flagging posts. Part of my backdating is driven by seeing posts linking from Twitter to my old Tumblr…
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“I would be interested in contributing”
16 years ago at the exact time this post publishes, the idea of WordPress, and contributing, and everything started. January 25, 2003 at 3:58 pm mike says: Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too.…
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Is this a security exploit / good enough for bug bounty?
Remember I posted about account access? This is the long story of how that came about. Picture the scene – You have an old email address you rarely use. It gets the occasional email which is clearly meant for someone else. Mostly Jacquline Lawson eCards or random newsletter signups. I saw the “1” in red…
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Tracking TV Watching – an update
Thanks to my friend & coworker Bryan, he let me know in a comment on my previous post, what I’m looking for is Trakt.tv. I had read through Jer’s post 2018 in TV Shows and thought it was wonderful – even using the “small” screen and WordPress.com Reader interface rather than a direct blog post. In…
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First name basis
Clearing out some photos to make space and I came across this one from a few weeks back Ben has an iPad two with a few games on it, he’s listed as a child in my iCloud “family” and I have purchase requests on. I found it odd that when i was installing YouTube Kids…
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Discovering & educating about account access
This evening I discovered a possible security problem with an online service who sell a physical problem. I’m being intentionally vague now since I’ve responsibly disclosed it to the company and they’re going to work on it. They’ve let me know I can publish a post when it’s fixed. If I find a security hole…
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