Philip Tellis

Now I'm dreaming of Nasi Campur

Halloumi is really squeaky when eaten

Do you only go to ConFoo on the years I don't?

I'm pretty sure it's because they didn't know how to create accounts without passwords :D. I was an intern at the time and apparently the only person who found the setup worrisome.

a couple of decades ago I installed a host in a data center where all the other hosts from all the other customers had the same network accessible administrator password. The password was... "password".

Statement on the Flock Safety ALPR Contract Termination The City is providing details on the termination of a contract with Flock Safety, which manufacturers and manages automatic license plate readers.

Meanwhile in Cambridge: Statement on the Flock Safety ALPR Contract Termination www.cambridgema.gov/news/2025/12...

Production quality just means most of the bugs are new.

Then there's the people who don't respond but show up anyway, and now there isn't enough cake.

Maybe a baby monitor?

😜

Just out of curiosity, did your blog ever run on MovableType?

A switch on a stereo tape recorder showing a selection between Normal and CrO2 (Chromium Dioxide)

IYKYK.

Yes it was also possible to build YSlow plugins. I built one at an internal hack day to do this: tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/08/equa...

I still worked out of India then but I made it out for OSCON later that year when YSlow was announced as a Firebug plugin (plugin inception)

Could pull it from this GitHub repo: clarle.github.io/yui3/

I remember doing Yahoo Hack U at CMU.

For emails, you didn't just write more HTML, you also have to base64 encode everything and can't gzip in transit.

tried to use it for HTML emails, but it doesn't work in Outlook. It's the only email client that insists on living in the past.

I got a keyboard for free on Buy Nothing. It has a built in metronome.

We suffered so much eye strain before the introduction of the <blink> element.

Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Apparently Google will not let you block X from your discovery feed. You can only block individual accounts. Support forums are full of folks asking how to block all of X from showing up in Discovery. Time to turn off discovery completely.

I made black eyed peas pulao.

Photo of a barred owl in a tree at summer. The owl is perched on a bench between two major trunks.

Barred owl at sunset.

Happy New Year to those who have a new year starting today. Bonne année.

A box of Douce Romance Butter Waffles with the Korean text 버터 와플 and the English text Premium Dessert written in English. A picture of 3 people having tea is on the left and a close up of 3 waffles on the right.

Is this a thing now where the Korean text is just the English transliterated into Hangul?

Screen capture of the snowflake icon in Google weather showing a snowflake with 4 branches.

Someone needs to tell Google Weather that snowflakes have 6 branches, not 4.

Y'all should check out "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan.

Photo of a loaf of Panettone in an aluminum tin on a wire rack. The Panettone has spilled over on one side of the pan.

Photo of the inside of the Panettone with the crumb and dried fruits visible.

Tried to make Panettone but ended up with Volcanotonne. Apart from the shape, it came out well. 50% whole wheat and used my own strain of yeast extracted from the skin of a mango. The overflow was due to excessively deep scoring.

A loaf of whole wheat sandwich bread on a wire rack. The loaf is arranged horizontally and is covered with black sesame, white sesame, and flax seeds. There is a horizontal tear across the middle where the loaf was scored.

This week's sandwich loaf.