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Monday 8th July, 2019 #

  • Why Stella McCartney reckons washing clothes is unfashionable
  • US World Cup win proves female players deserve equal pay, team says
  • Mozilla has no plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in the UK
  • Now you can check in on Bill Nye’s solar sail as it orbits Earth
  • Following on from my password issues from a few days ago, my password manager today has started overwritting new passwords with old passwords, I suspected this happened a few times before, but this time I saw it happen directly - I changed the password in the web browser, tested it, checked that the passwrod was saved, then synced my iOS device and the password in the web browser got overwritten - It's bad enough when something breaks, but when multiple things break all at once on different layers, that's a catastrophy
  • I've just been reading the migration docs Stripe has published for their push to get all their customers to rewrite their entire billing systems in user 60 days or everything breaks - It's not a simple update either, as far as I can tell from the docs it completely breaks all my server-side code, and forces me to do a much more complex integration - It's a bit like someone handing you a grenade with the pin removed and saying "here you go, deal with it or you will die", I'm hoping that I've missed something in their docs, how are others dealing with their bombshell?
  • Wimbledon 2019 - The Serena Williams–Andy Murray Mixed-Doubles Match Shows the Future That Tennis Should Be Embracing
  • Data can now be stored inside the molecules that power our metabolism - They were able to encode a 6142-pixel image
  • How to write idempotent Bash scripts - every time I finish a big piece of work a few days later something appears in my feeds that would have been so useful, happens every time, these bash script tips are excellent
  • How to Use User Mode Linux - if only I had more time I would love to try this out, maybe sometime in the future