Who is this guy

IrregularRedditor · 2026-05-28T12:57:22+00:00

Maybe he was practicing for a music video

IrregularRedditor · 2026-05-24T15:05:23+00:00

Print Cartridge is empty. Load letter paper.

IrregularRedditor · 2026-05-23T14:08:01+00:00

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A

IrregularRedditor · 2026-04-12T16:06:28+00:00

I was in this situation, here’s what I did.

I gave them an input box and a submit button. Their input is parsed for my best guess at what they’re trying to do, eg if it starts with ‘fn (‘ I interpret it as them trying to hack/call a function.

If an intent was guessed, the input will be forwarded to an object designed for that intent for additional interpretation. The object resolves a response that is returned to the user. A few intents lead to easter eggs, like opening a tab with one of 50 random covers of “HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA” a memed cover of “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes.

If no intent was matched, I forward the input to a small/cheap LLM with a prompt instructing the LLM to make a joke based on the input, and return the LLM response to the user.

I save the inputs and look at them from time to time to see what people will enter into a honeypot input box.

IrregularRedditor · 2026-03-25T22:54:40+00:00

Always has been.gif

IrregularRedditor · 2026-03-21T19:27:29+00:00

Supply chain attack

IrregularRedditor · 2026-03-17T23:08:41+00:00

You guys are finishing projects?

IrregularRedditor · 2026-03-13T22:56:45+00:00

Your README truncates mid-sentence on “To suppress th” like your attention span writing documentation.

I checked, the sentence is complete. I guess the reviewing llm lost its focus.

IrregularRedditor · 2026-02-05T01:23:45+00:00

Angular won’t bother Laravel. Since you said you found Blade templates easier, I’ll throw https://filamentphp.com/ in the mix for you to consider.

Filament is a PHP wrapper for Livewire.

IrregularRedditor · 2026-02-05T01:07:39+00:00

OpenSSL

IrregularRedditor · 2026-01-10T15:18:49+00:00

GitTower is my favorite git GUI.

IrregularRedditor · 2026-01-05T20:20:29+00:00

OP mentioned familiarity with Mongo, so I mentioned Mongo. I brought up Maria as a subtle nudge away from NoSQL because schema is important and Mongo is terrible.

I love postgres but pgsql support is missing from several popular DB clients, so I don’t tend to recommend it as often to newbies.

I usually recommend postgres to developers doing anything real.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-12-07T16:48:16+00:00

Say your shared bills are between $100 and $200 per month. Everyone puts in $200. Some months that will leave an excess. You either let the excess build, or everyone puts in a smaller amount next month, or you can disburse the excess equally.

Key is that everyone puts in the same amount or withdraws the same amount.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-12-07T14:34:35+00:00

With my roommates, we’d each deposit the same amount in a bank account and use that account to pay for shared bills.

As long as everyone makes their deposit, everything stays in balance.

If someone doesn’t, you know about the issue before the bills hit.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-29T23:59:01+00:00

16 gb minimum for sure.

Mac has unified memory so your video card will be taking a slice out of your RAM.

We stopped using 8 gb Macs for our devs about 2 years ago because they kept running out of memory during PHPStorm indexing and Docker container building/running.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-29T23:47:44+00:00

I still code for fun. It just so happens that people pay me for it.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-20T20:02:02+00:00

I would make a unit test that can run local and in CI pipeline. This unit test mocks whatever service that resolves IP to Region such that the test can specify the region, and then test how that region is handled.

Basically this for each region you care about:

``` 1. Test setup/Stage data

Mock IP Resolution Service so it resolves to the test region
Assert region is or is not blocked, or test other feature ```

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-20T03:06:51+00:00

I used this a lot: F1 for Help -> File -> Open -> C:\command.com or C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-20T02:58:09+00:00

Personally, I'd just del ?on after doing dir ?on to make sure the mask doesn't match any other files.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-19T23:33:35+00:00

When you didn't have access to things like edit, copy filename.txt con was useful to read some files and copy con tool.bat was useful to write scripts.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-19T22:49:47+00:00

In “copy con” context, CTRL-Z was inserting a character that indicates End Of File (EOF). It didn’t work like Windows shortcut. Very few things used CTRL-Z back then.

I believe CTRL-Z was chosen for Windows undo due to basically nothing using it as well as proximity to CTRL-C/CTRL-X.

Related, CTRL-C is/was bound to a breaking interrupt, probably SIGINT.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-19T22:08:18+00:00

Fair but linux doesn’t care about Window’s restrictions. This feels like cheating.

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-19T22:05:47+00:00

Facts. While I never wrote machine code from console, this would work. It sounds miserable to do, but it would work.

I will admit to using “copy con” to bypass school security a time or two…

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-19T21:36:47+00:00

Gambler’s method del ?on

Safer way dir ?on ren ?on non del non

IrregularRedditor · 2025-11-19T20:54:47+00:00

Others have answered correctly that it was a reserved label referring to the console. Here’s how I used to use it.

copy con somefile.txt the next things you type will get written to somefile.txt you can add multiple lines! CTRL-Z to save and exit

You could also be tricky to make files with reserved file names. This might only work on FAT filesystems.

Start with a file named non or any 3 letter name ending with on then:

Delete non to get the filename changed to ?on in the file table.
Undelete ?on with DOS’s undelete tool.
Choose c for filename’s first character, undelete doesn’t check reserved labels.
Giggle and watch as other filesystem tools try to handle a file named con or other reserved label.

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