Notices by Professor Fischstörer (theoutrider@mastodon.social)

a reminder of one of macOS's greatest UI innovations: the Crayon color picker

GDPR is pronounced "giddy purr"

ah, Teddy Bear month https://youtu.be/cILZ_cB3_so

it's KIND OF WEIRD to think that Germans just grow up knowing that there's *literally tons* of explosives buried around the towns they live in that MIGHT blow up at any point especially if disturbed but they probably won't so it's just kind of taken as a fact of life

I'd previously mumbled about how growing up in post-WW2 Germany is a bit weird because construction work keeps turning up unexploded bombs and everyone just kind of goes "oh, okay, another one of those"

there was one found in Nuremberg again yesterday but when searching for news reports about it I'm just finding other articles about one found in February (also in Nuremberg)

here's a screenshot of the "related articles" bit from one of them

http://twitter.com/sweekbat/status/1172955352343732225 "My roommate got super stoned a couple weeks back and found out you can order a personalized big toblerone. He immediately forgot about it until it showed up last night"

heyo, code people friends! Just thought I'd let you know about this helpful testing resource I ran into a few years ago: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

it's a long long list in various formats of bits of text that are liable to cause Problems when you use them as user input, from control characters to fancy unicode to things that look like rude words to simple script injections

Doomguy IS in the Donkey Kong Extended Universe:

Doom -> Commander Keen -> Minecraft -> Super Meat Boy -> Bit.Trip -> Shovel Knight -> Smash