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Erryn Pollock

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Making software since the 80s, mostly business, some games. Unabashed JavaScript enjoyer. Childish taste in entertainment (explosions and cartoons). Probably on the spectrum. A fan of strange haiku. #dotnet #csharp #js #javascript #anime #dnd

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Latest posts by atomicmonks.com on Bluesky

Want to, but can't get past $50 for a matinee showing.

09.08.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wayback Machine

So the U.S. Constitution hosted at congress.gov has had Article I modified to remove the end of Section 8 (starting with mention of the navy), and Sections 9 and 10 completely. Seems like some important stuff in there. Nothing to worry about, right?

web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

06.08.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Ha ha, that's pretty funny."

Goes to console after a long moment, because, well, JS.

15.07.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"This message was sent to you because you signed up to use Gemini."

No, you fuckwits, I absolutely did not.

10.07.2025 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I apparently can't be trusted to build a PC any more. Built many, but last one getting too hot. Pondered and poked, then on a whim did the "piece of paper in front of fan" trick.

I had installed the CPU cooler fans backwards. CPU up, builds a heat dome in the middle of the case.

Genius.

19.06.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every piece of information you give a company is sold and traded more times than you can imagine. And it takes much less data than you think to put together a very detailed picture of who you are, where you've been, and what you think.

17.06.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I was teaching the ultimate power move was to say you were going to contact their GRANDPARENTS. They took that super seriously.

17.06.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's useful if you need artificial stupidity.

17.06.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a dude, I find it disturbing how few guys understand this. Not surprising, just sad and disturbing.

I'm sure it's completely unrelated that most guys have thought of me as "weird" my entire life.

26.05.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Strong start, appropriate expletives, but a weak finish with "nincompoop". Might I recommend:

* soulless flap-mouthed varlet
* stinky codswallop
* witless wart
* canker blossom

More seriously, why don't we hear more about WHY due-process matters?

23.05.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/5 Chrome spots the honeypot field and autofills it, leaving the real one alone.

Google, why am I having to resort to such shenanigans for this?

20.05.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/4 The textarea was clunkier than I wanted to maintain. Where I finally fell was adding an additional text input between the label and the input I cared about:

<input type="text" style="width:0;height:0;padding:0;border:none" name="DummyUserName" />

20.05.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/3 I had removed the "for" attribute on the label also, but no joy.

There was a pretty clever example of using a textarea, which doesn't get the autofill treatment, and using CSS to make it look the same and some JS to make it act more like a normal text input.

20.05.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/2 The commonly listed advice of renaming the field to something other than "UserName" also did not work. After some experimentation it became clear that the associated label ("ID") was being spotted by Chrome's autofill service to populate the now renamed text field.

20.05.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1/ In case this helps someone else...we have a member management form where admins can edit user accounts. Users don't have an ID/login by default but it can be set there. The user ID was being populated by Chrome's form autofill and setting autocomplete="off" did nothing.

#javascript #webdev

20.05.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/5 Chrome spots the honeypot field and autofills it, leaving the real one alone.

Google, why am I having to resort to such shenanigans for this?

20.05.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/4 The textarea was clunkier than I wanted to maintain. Where I finally fell was adding an additional text input between the label and the input I cared about:

<input type="text" style="width:0;height:0;padding:0;border:none" name="DummyUserName" />

20.05.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/3 I had removed the "for" attribute on the label also, but no joy.

There was a pretty clever example of using a textarea, which doesn't get the autofill treatment, and using CSS to make it look the same and some JS to make it act more like a normal text input.

20.05.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

/2 The commonly listed advice of renaming the field to something other than "UserName" also did not work. After some experimentation it became clear that the associated label ("ID") was being spotted by Chrome's autofill service to populate the now renamed text field.

20.05.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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20.05.2025 04:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can tell a lot about what's going on in an area by what's for sale at the area swap/flea market.

Today's standouts: chickens, goats, fruit, veggies, plants, fishing gear, and rifles. So many rifles. No shot/hand guns, just rifles.

Hmmmm.

17.05.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think enough consideration is being given to the irrationality of hiring. LLMs don't have to have the capabilities of junior devs, they only have to seem "close enough". Managers making all the money will move on before the damage becomes evident.

12.05.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Atomic Monks - Blackjack

Simple game of blackjack I wrote over a week for grins and self-improvement. Play for fun! Suggest another simple game for me to hammer out for my own amusement!

www.atomicmonks.com/games/blackj...

#gamedev #javascript #indie

10.05.2025 04:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quick logical lesson: how do you know someone is here illegally without due process?

Feel like this point doesn't get made nearly often enough.

09.05.2025 03:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I laugh at your so-called "pollen".

29.04.2025 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's Mimas (moon of Saturn), for the curious.

22.04.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's probably mostly massive trades by Trump's favorites, particularly inside the white house. Like not generally the rank and fire govt. workers.

10.04.2025 04:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sending them would be quite the feat, since the Cossacks are pretty much Ukrainian.

01.04.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I do feel like I'd be spending less time outside by -20.

17.03.2025 03:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes it was. Still a lot of fires today but much less wind. Lots of dust and smoke still in the air. Not a fan.

15.03.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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