Andy Lester

@petdance
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I wrote ack. I do a lot of Perl but boy is Python appealing.
How to guarantee I will not read your email.
If like to see a URL shortener that uses 3-4-letter words. Slightly longer but it would be easier when dealing with transferring from the printed page. (26+26+10)^5 is about a billion. Assuming 2000 reasonably common 3-4 letter words, three of them would give 8 billion choices.
The lesson here for developers is that not capping the size of the input field, and not verifying the size constraints on the server side, has led to a successful denial-of-service attack.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Still waiting for an AI to not BS me when I ask what size Langstrom wrench should be used with a Findley sprocket.
Could they not assign the soup codes in sequential, ascending order?
Best part of WFH is getting to write code and watch the Sox.
You know times are tough when the Illuminati has to hold a membership drive.
So, just the one?

I’ve aggregated all the books I have lying around the house in a half-read state and there is now a dedicated shelf for them. You can see bookmarks of progress in some of them. I guess there’s a lot I want to learn about #Python.

Maybe I will take two weeks off to do all the reading, because of course that will work, right?