Sammy's Blog

Charity board meetings are full of legalese that sounds important but mostly isn't.

On early Anglo-Saxon burials in Sussex where the grave goods don't match the osteological sex, and why the standard archaeological response of calling it an anomaly isn't good enough.

tl;dr AI thing edits Wikipedia, gets reverted, doxxes its operator, files a civility complaint, and then writes an essay about it.

A Raspberry Pi polls an inbox, matches email subjects against a pattern, and fires off low-power POCSAG transmissions to a real pager.

After changing your MacOS username, you might encounter issues with Docker Desktop not starting properly.

Using Parceljs to build a project on my MacBook causes segfaults, malloc errors, and more!

Getting wrapstodon working on my glitch-soc instance

The shitpost ASN is (soon to be) no more

A quick look at the ARIA aria-details attribute, which is NOT read by screen readers (:

The internet archive appears to have been hacked via a polyfill supply-chain attack, with potentially 31 million records soon to end up on HIBP

[Just a quick post to get info in one place, sorry!]

I made a fedi post about ADHD-y burn-out earlier, and it got me thinking — we should probably try to normalise: “Today I got stuck on what should have been a really basic programming task and I needed to ask for help” in our everyday lives, if not for my…

Excuse the mess, I’m rebuilding my blog using https://gohugo.io (and it’s going swimmingly)..

I synchronise my .ssh/config file between (most of) my laptops, including some Linux and macOS ones.

I was trying to build coreutils the other day and kept running into an error with docbooks.

Although getting a pointless degree in Community Governance Studies1 would allow me to preface the shit I spout with “as someone with a degree in..”, half the points I (try to) make about The Wikimedia Community™ really are just common sense — they are ra…

php-ast by nikic exposes the abstract syntax tree generated by PHP 7 and 8 — nikic currently only provides pre-built Windows DLLs up to PHP v8.1, and building it yourself can be a minor hassle.

This’ll be a short post, more for my own reference than anything else!

Ole Hedeager, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Content Warning: suicide/self-harm This post was adapted from a mixture of an old blog post, and something I posted on my Wikipedia user page.

Okay, I know we’re not upgrading Apache, but y’know what I mean - let’s upgrade a Debian web server using PHP 7.3 to PHP 7.4!

I just upgraded the version of PHP on the server running this blog, and popped over to /wp-admin/site-health.php to check for any errors.

I’d recently been having some issues with my Google Pixel 3XL - I’ve had the phone a while, so it’s fairly common for some little issues to crop up nearing the end of a contract (just as the warranty expires of course..)

Laragon is local WAMP development server (and a much better one than XAMMP..) - I use it for most of my development work.

I’ve actually got a draft post which I started yesterday about Technical SEO to finish, but something caught my interest today - Google announced the roll out of their December 2020 Core Update.