Notices by Mike Roach (mroach@mas.to)

Oh no, if OldVerison goes away, it’d be a sad, sad loss for retro PC enthusiasts.
And this is another reason monopolies are bad.

@captainarcee I can’t imagine why that’s a thing. If someone publishes text in public, of course you can quote them. It’s already public.
We can always go back to sharing screenshots of what someone wrote…

Last week in Portugal we visited a place called “Happy Donkeys” where you can go for a walk with these donkeys and the owner chats with you about donkeys and such. Absolutely perfect day out. #asstodon

A new variant has emerged: the CSV header row is UTF-8 but the data rows are ISO-8859-1. At this point it's actually hilarious.

We deal with a bank that sends us data by zipping-up a CSV and emailing it to us every day. They told us they'd have an API in December 2022 so they're a little late on that.

Usually the CSV headers are in English, but sometimes they're in German, and sometimes a mix of English and German. Sometimes the file is UTF-8 and sometimes ISO-8859-1. Sometimes dates are dd.mm.yyyy, sometimes dd.mm.yy.

I'd really like to know how things work on their end. Again, this is a BANK.

I’m not a fan of football but if I had to pick a team to support, it would be SSC Napoli purely for their logo basically being the Netscape logo.

@skinnylatte I can recommend Lolita Taco Bar! Their food is outstanding and they have delicious non-alcoholic mocktails and outdoor seating. And as a bonus, Levain is around the corner if you want the best cookie you’ve ever had.

Travelling from the US back home to Europe always makes for an interesting carryon bag. This time: a Pentium II laptop. As if I needed another NT4 / 2000 dual boot machine.

Nothing has me running away from a website faster than the pricing page having "Book a demo", "Request a quote", "Get in touch".

Give me the price or you don't exist to me.