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Chris Buckley

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Head of Engineering for SmartSearch, based in Leeds, UK. Opinions my own, when I have any. He/Him ๐Ÿ”— https://cmbuckley.co.uk

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Take it one step further:

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19.11.2025 00:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was woken up with wisdom tooth pain during the night. Only realised in the morning that it was at 2:30. It finally happened, the joke became a reality

20.10.2025 09:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unicode Consortium scrambles to create seahorse emoji to prevent runaway AI consumption

19.10.2025 10:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This isnโ€™t the first time itโ€™s happened to her:

14.10.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great move this. SSO is not an enterprise feature!

28.09.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

13.09.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8988    ๐Ÿ” 4057    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 177    ๐Ÿ“Œ 362

Good news!

bsky.app/profile/bsky...

08.09.2025 23:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s not a selfie

06.09.2025 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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dotfiles/files/gitconfig at main ยท cmbuckley/dotfiles Thereโ€™s no place like ~. Contribute to cmbuckley/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

My colours here: github.com/cmbuckley/do...

29.08.2025 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Terminal screenshot of a git show for a commit titled โ€œFix stupid typoโ€. The change is shown using diff-highlight, which has highlighted the changed words. There are changes to meta tag image paths in demo/index.html, replacing /assets/og-image.png with /Obs.js/demo/assets/og-image.png.

Terminal screenshot of a git show for a commit titled โ€œFix stupid typoโ€. The change is shown using diff-highlight, which has highlighted the changed words. There are changes to meta tag image paths in demo/index.html, replacing /assets/og-image.png with /Obs.js/demo/assets/og-image.png.

Worth adding that git ships with a helper called diff-highlight that you can use with a few tweaks to gitconfig: github.com/git/git/tree...

29.08.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rather a dumb reason not to use a road for its intended purpose, no?

27.08.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you confusing a slip road with a hard shoulder?

27.08.2025 06:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just got IDโ€™d at the shop. Whilst I should take the compliment, it was for ibuprofen for a bad back; should that not be ID enough?

23.08.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers

๐Ÿ”ดOnline Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to โ€˜Unregulatedโ€™ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records

Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...

12.08.2025 07:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 63    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Quote from Blackadder: โ€œOh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.โ€

Quote from Blackadder: โ€œOh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.โ€

07.08.2025 06:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My first thought: why does a ticket machine need a 60GB hard drive

My second one: bet itโ€™s actually difficult to get anything smaller these days!

06.08.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So thatโ€™s where those Doctor Who serials went

26.07.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
iOS notification for an American Express card charge for Bluesky age verification. The amount is ยฃ0.05 and the description is โ€œKids Web Servicesโ€.

iOS notification for an American Express card charge for Bluesky age verification. The amount is ยฃ0.05 and the description is โ€œKids Web Servicesโ€.

Age verification needs to come up with a better name

25.07.2025 05:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Better off with the soundtrack to Lock Stock than the Champions League theme

17.07.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™d say itโ€™s a good job you canโ€™t see my face, because when I was younger I pulled a funny face, the wind changed direction and now itโ€™s stuck like that.

24.06.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Golden shaded British shorthair cat, lying at top of stairs with tongue out and claws bared on one paw

Golden shaded British shorthair cat, lying at top of stairs with tongue out and claws bared on one paw

โ€œYou shall not passโ€

17.06.2025 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I first had my hair cut by our mobile hairdresser, she said I was โ€œgood as gold.โ€ Iโ€™m now 40 and have been chasing that high ever since. Not one barber has said the same since then

05.06.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just a real sound bloke

06.05.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I spent a good few seconds trying to imagine a 2D aeroplane before I realised what you meant

30.04.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone else born before 1999 notice that boredom is not a thing anymore

18.04.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6237    ๐Ÿ” 350    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 534    ๐Ÿ“Œ 102

Thanks for the message! Despite a really quick and dirty implementation, I occasionally get a message like this that itโ€™s helped someone, and thatโ€™s all that matters :-)

01.04.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What was the bit about โ€œitโ€™s hard to get by, when your arse is the size of a small countryโ€?

02.02.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is this also you?

bsky.app/profile/fess...

28.01.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How can I retrieve the TLS/SSL peer certificate of a remote host using python? I need to scan through a list of IPs and retrieve the common name from the certificate on that IP (for every IP that allows port 443 connections). I have been able to successfully do this using the

Looks like youโ€™ll have to do the parsing yourself (answer from 13+ years ago but sounds like your exact issue): stackoverflow.com/a/7691293/28...

17.01.2025 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Theyโ€™re called pull quotes, and they make sense in magazines, not so much on websites ๐Ÿ™ƒ

07.12.2024 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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