Week Notes 2025-05

📓 Notes

I Managed to do some work on the SSG, nothing to show yet but the thing I kept putting off is started 🙋

Retook the 8values political quiz to see if I've changed, and it seems I might be getting... better? I've got the results for last year and this year on My About page.

🦣 Mastodon

Open AI started crying because the Chinese plagiarism machine copied the US plagiarism machines.

Dave Henry @mort8088 - Jan 29, 2025, 10:08 AM

Sooo... They scraped all the same websites as OpenAI?

Ever since I got rid of PHP I've had more requests for PHP files that don't exist than requests for pages that do. But it's finally turned a corner and it's all because of you, thank you. 🤗

Dave Henry @mort8088 - Jan 29, 2025, 10:18 AM

Today I'm a happy blogger, and by that I mean that the number of script kiddy requests resulting in a 404 has finally been surpassed by requests by site scrappers and a real person. #blogging

I started working on my SSG and I thought that it would be a good opportunity to try using JetBrains Rider, I still don't like it but I'll give it a fair try.

Dave Henry @mort8088 - Feb 01, 2025, 01:18 PM

I seem to have caved in to the demands of my Lead developer in work.

I'm actually trying Rider at home... I don't hold out much hope that this will stick, but I can say I tried.

#cSharp #homeDev #peerPressure

🎞️ Films

I gave up on watching the Alien films and started rewatching the Harry Potter films instead:-

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

We watched Back in Action (2025) a funny family action spy film.

We watched FuriousFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) and all through it, I had to keep explaining to Wife that it was a prequel, so obviously we then had to watch Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) straight after to remind her. About half way through she was like "Ooh! This make so much more sense now."🤦‍♂️

Wife mocked me for watching Orion and the Dark but I thought it was fun and an interesting way to tell a story.

📺 TV

Still working my way through Smallville - Season 5 (2005)

New Death in Paradise - Season 14 (2025), YAY!

🎧 Music

Metal Pick Kill ’Em All by Metallica though I was a little taken aback to realise it was released back in 1983!

Non-Metal Pick the far newer Off the Deep End by “Weird Al” Yankovic from the thoroughly modern year of 1992!

God I'm old.

But until next time, Stay Lucky.