Bonnie Tyler – “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (literal version)

I just watched the real video for the first time, and somehow, it’s even weirder than this version.

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Day Job Orchestra – Who Pooed on Your Dad?

I’ve seen this so many times that I’m beginning to confuse lines from this video with actual quotes from the characters.

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Things I almost invented but didn’t

  • Electron (“why can’t I just write the UI in HTML and CSS? why do I have to use ridiculous things like GridLayoutBag?”)
  • Rock Band (“I could create a website that’s a game that teaches people how to play guitar”)
  • Netflix recommendation systems (“people can make a list of their favourite movies, and then they’ll get recommendations from other people who liked the same movies”)

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Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a MistakeHTTP/2 is a great leap forward for HTTP, but turning it on HTTP/2 was a mistake. Learn how to solve this problem without having to increase computing.

I really want to enable HTTP/2, because the performance gains are supposed to be crazy good, but I’ve been afraid to, because I’m already having CPU issues, and I suspected HTTP/2 might make it worse. Looks like I was right, and I need to learn more devops before I can do this. 😞

The great mysteries of my life

  • what ever happened to the film with the pictures from the Christina Aguilera concert
  • where was “Monkee See, Monkee Die” filmed
  • how did that Wayne’s World board game VHS play different clips every time we started it

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