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Back in March when I was working on my Wordpress-to-Zola exporter I'd written some PHP to generate a .zip file with my markdown site in it, but there was a problem. Although the file size was correct, opening it with Windows Explorer revealed that there were no files in it, but opening it with 7-zip showed that all the files were there as expected. Baffling!

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May saw books set in the future and the past. The Arc of a Scythe trilogy by Neal Shusterman, made up of Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll were an interesting look at a future where humanity has overcome death and instituted an organisation called Scythes whose role is to kill a fixed number of people per year in orde...

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Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent If you are taking "misleading" actions in order to make money you are unethical and if you don't fix things you need to be thrown into a firey pit. That's it. That's the post. That's also why it's so INCREDIBLY disappointing to see,

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I spent some time in April and May making a toy cross-platform desktop RSS reader which uses Yarr as its backend. It's called Yaffle. It looks like this on Windows: It's absolu...

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Eva Decker has an incredible guestbook. Not only does it look wonderful but she's also

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Heat Death of the Internet by Gregory Bennett stresses me out as I read it. To my mind there's basically been two decades of intentional bait-and-switch-fuelled enshittification in almost all the commercial products and services which have been front and centre of western society in that time.

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It's springtime! What was I reading? Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams - “the acknowledged inspiration for the games Cyberpunk Red and Cyberpunk 2077” follows a smuggler who connects his brain directly to his vehicle when running across borders and a street mercenary who took the wrong job. Can they face off against the ruler...

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