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Solar panels and car sales, a financialization story - 2020 November 12
Solar panels and car sales increasingly have something in common beyond Elon Musk being good at selling both of them. Increasingly I see a situation whereby people don't want you to pay cash for them.
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Please stop making arbitrary password restrictions - 2020 November 08
Making arbitrary length limits on passwords is not good for your users and makes the overall internet less secure. If you do this please stop and fix your systems, if you see other people do it please encourage them to fix it. Also when you see poorly implemented password policies it is often a sign of deeper troubles existing.
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2020 USA election - 2020 November 04
I think this will be close.
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Slack capacity and food supply chains - 2020 November 02
Wasting some food is an important part of avoiding famines. There's an optimal amount of food that we have to waste in order to avoid the worst impacts of famines.
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Good developers care about their tools - 2020 October 15
Good tools are important and organizations that shut down progress on this front don't succeed longer term.
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The story of Lasseters reef - 2020 October 09
A family member shared me a link to the fascinating story of Lasseter's Reef with a request for some help with navigating the website. It turns out that the website didn't have the story links ordered chronologically and they asked me for some help to sort this out. This is a perfect example of where using some web scraping along with programming can deliver value so that's exactly what I did, I wrote a short script to create some easier to navigate links to this great story.
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Making the post date more obvious - 2020 October 07
I find it annoying when I look at other blog archives and only see a list of posts without the dates. I noticed I was doing this myself courtesy of a comment from a reader so I decided to improve this
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Impacts of a dependence on backpackers and other foreigners on farm labour during a crisis - 2020 October 01
The other day I was watching a news report where some farmers were claiming they might not be able to get enough workers to pick their crops. At the same time Australia has the highest unemployment in a LONG time with many people desperate to work, so something doesn't add up here. Food security is important, surely we can figure this out.
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WeGrow - 2020 September 30
I had no idea that WeWork had a venture called WeGrow for providing child education until I came across this comment.
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Is this blog now popular enough to be plagiarized from? - 2020 September 27
This blog might be popular enough to be a target for plagiarism, I'm surprised!
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