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I only just realized why my Linkedin is blowing up - I'm old.
Ascii art easter eggs over the years
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Why is modern advertising so bland?
A lot of people are asking themselves this, and many experienced ad people are blaming DEI, or the need to be "safe" and not offend, but that doesn't explain abrasive brand voices like Tampax on Twitter
Music
Let's party with Party Boy!
So yesterday was a fun day for me. I started the day ready to tackle a list of four annoying bugs that needed to be sorted out, and instead of ending the day with eleven bugs I actually managed to solve all four.
dabitch
"Defending womanhood in advertising with Åsk Dabitch Wäppling"
I was invited on Isaac Simpson's podcast The Carousel, because I am outspoken and Tired of Explaining Reality to Fuckwits.
geek
Paypal shuts yet another account down
The concept of credit cards and digital cash seems so convenient, with no heavy coins to carry, and no need for purses at all in the future when you can just skip the phone altogether and use your fingerprint everywhere.
advertising
Supermarket wars
The other day I saw a forum post where a British bloke asked whether Swedes had a "snob" supermarket like they do in the UK. He was trying to describe the Tesco phenomenon and wondered if Swedes had something similar.
web design
Updating a really old Ghost theme to 5.0 so custom templates and comments work
Ah, Ghost is now released in 5.0 and I was using an ancient theme that didn't have all the bells and whistles available.
dabitch
Joseph Jaffe is not famous but he has a talk show - I talked about data security on it.
Yesterday I was on "Joseph Jaffe is not famous" and I had a great time. I was fully expecting a different kind of podcast.
perla
Unreal Tournament Dabitch the Second
I used to be un-real-ly good at Unreal. I would spend nights just playing and then cleaning up my Jolt Cola just to start work in the morning.
cat
"I don't understand why my photo of Caper hasn't become a meme yet."
As soon as I took this photo of Caper, I uploaded it to Reddit, because I think it's epic.
press
I hosted the @Netherlanders Twitter account and got the whole country shut down. Sort of.
Well, sort of. I was invited to host the @Netherlanders Twitter account, which is like the @Sweden account once was,
hack
When Ghost upgrade dies on "ERROR alter table `products_benefits`"
There is a bit of a surprise in upgrading your Ubuntu to 20.04.2 , because that will include upgrading your MySQL to mysql Ver 8.0.25, and before you know it, you're upgrading your LTS Node Version: v14.16.1 , your Ghost-CLI Version: 1.16.3 and finally, your Ghost version
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Cleaning Twitter by unfollowing, to reset your follows/following flow.
Sometimes a Twitter cleanse is necessary, as the Twitter app has some odd bugs in it and acts up from time to time.