Note to self (and anyone else, perhaps, wondering why their fries aren't looking crispy yet): 375°≠425°.
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Patrick Johanneson 🚀👻 🇨🇦
@pjohanneson@mstdn.ca
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchPart-time prevaricator.
University webmaster, #WordPress #Multisite maven, #PrairieSFF #writer, #judo instructor... dang that's a lot of hats.
Avatar: Hallie Bateman
Header image: Alex Plante (Painting of blue sky over a wheat field, in the colour scheme of Ukraine's flag; I'll keep this as my header till Russia leaves Ukraine)
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Joined November 22, 2022
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He / him / his
ICBM address:
100th meridian ought to do it
Just my toots:
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@NicoleJLeBoeuf@wandering.shop According to the WHOIS record, the registrar is NameCheap, and the "Abuse" email is abuse@namecheap.com.
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@neauoire@merveilles.town This is amazing. My dad, a shop teacher, would have hated it.
things you really don't want to see in a vulnerability disclosure
- 100% reliable
- every distro since 2017
- here run this 732-byte Python script
I mean, holy shit
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@dave@alvarado.social
Me: That's not a backslash.
Them: Hmmm?
Me, only now realizing I spoke aloud: ... never mind.
I just looked out the window and it is
fucking
snowing
Recently established the 3 levels of technical support:
- Have you tried turning it off and on again?
- Have you tried replacing the device?
- Have you tried renouncing technology and living out your days in a cabin in the hinterlands?
So how many people are still on mstdn.ca? Is it just me and the mods?
Replying to on ottawa.place
@stephanie@ottawa.place Well, that's... not ideal.
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@oysta "Honestly, officer, it might be quicker if I tell you which pages don't contain the words 'Fuck Trump'."
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@barcode@mastodon.ie Ooh, hadn't heard that epithet for it before
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@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com I don't see Primus but I also don't know where the hell I'd put them.
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@mral@mastodon.sdf.org @angiebaby@mas.to Hmmm, I'm still gonna run my ad blocker, thanks.
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@jbminn@toot.bldrweb.org @kfury@mstdn.social
"We realize this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative."
—Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
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@ElleGray@mstdn.social
"OK. In a billion years, give or take, the sun will swell into a red giant and devour Earth. So it really doesn't matter if this project gets pushed back by a month or even a year."
"That's too big a picture, elle."
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@mori@mastodon.au @LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com Makes sense, they've got their own id3 tag.
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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social ...on a collision course with our own Milky Way, as I recall.
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@hacks4pancakes So far, all right. The website login issue that I thought was network-related (ie, not my problem) turned out to be network-related.
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@joeybaumgartner@mstdn.ca I guess we're the mods now
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@paulk@writing.exchange "Let me just unfix it then"
VIP¹ at my place
https://patrickjohanneson.com/2026/07/28/dragonfly-2/
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¹ VII?
There's a definite chutzpah to an "ai" company using a video clip of someone kayaking through icy waters as an ad, considering they're helping melt that ice
Moving a handful of #WordPress sites today, starting with:
wp db export /home/username/wp/site-db-final-FINAL.sql
...as one does.
Watching a presentation on clearing PDFs off your site, and the presenters tell us they used to have 972 PDFs on their site. I quickly did a find ./uploads -iname "*.pdf" | wc -l and guess how many PDFs are on my institution's website?
Leading on Accessibility in Higher Education (Sept. 17, 2026)
I suppose it’s spring
A little bit of summer, a little bit of winter.
https://patrickjohanneson.com/2026/04/21/i-suppose-its-spring/
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@joeybaumgartner@mstdn.ca I'm kind of glad I don't work for, say, Dreamhost right about now.
When you're reading off a URL:
The application's in and the money's paid: in a month (hopefully) I'll be doing a sandan → yondan test, which will involve ju-no-kata as tori and katame-no-kata as uke, and a bunch of other techniques.
Wish me luck!
well I'll be thinkin' about this Blind Alley comic all day