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Michaël Vaes @michaelvaes

Software developer and do-it-yourselfer, trying to master the fine art of creating something awesome. @michaelvaes@mastodon.online

Joined December 2009
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Tobias_Petry.sql
@tobias_petry
22 Jul 2025
The State Of Laravel 2025 survey has started! You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months! Please RT for reach ❤️ stateoflaravel.com/participa…
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Sharath Kuruganty
@5harath
28 Jun 2025
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it Apple's design team cooked
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CSS selectors, a thing worth mastering 🔥
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@iavins
8 Dec 2024
insane lore inside SQLite's source code
** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then ** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it ** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. ** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a ** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the ** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain. ** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" ** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but ** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart ** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid ** of the file. */ #ifndef SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX # define SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "etilqs_" #endif

ALT ** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then ** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it ** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. ** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a ** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the ** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain. ** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" ** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but ** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart ** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid ** of the file. */ #ifndef SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX # define SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "etilqs_" #endif

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The weekly release notes from @TIDAL are gold. Let’s hope the teams behind can also laugh 👌🏻
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Seems my gut feeling about passkeys was worth the wait. Will maybe get better but in a world where we’re using multiple devices the problems stated seem to be quite a hassle.
DHH
@dhh
9 Sep 2024
"Bottom line, I'm disappointed to report that passkeys don't appear worth the complexity of implementation (which is substantial!) nor the complexity and gotchas of the user experience. So we're sticking to passwords and emails." world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-…
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Cool and not a bad result with @NextDNS 👌🏻
Troy Hunt
@troyhunt
4 Sep 2024
This is a cool project, shows you what percentage of ads you’re blocking. Tried it on wifi with @The_Pi_Hole doing its thing then on 5G, check the results: d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblo…
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Not that it was needed, but great warning @datagrip
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Excalidraw
@excalidraw
2 Sep 2024
Since recently we've started inlining fonts in SVGs for better embedding support. The downside was larger file sizes. We've now addressed this by encoding only the glyphs you're exporting! Via @mrazator 💜 x.com/excalidraw/status/1816…
Excalidraw
@excalidraw
25 Jul 2024
Replying to @excalidraw
We've also started embedding the fonts inside SVGs so that they show correctly when uploading to websites such as GitHub or Notion, when previewing on MacOS, or using elsewhere.
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Holiday reading material from @tobias_petry
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Luckily @aarondfrancis and @steve_tenuto Postgres course is not ready yet 😅
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The early years of 2000, in webdev we were struggling with browser compatibility. We still do today, but on different and more deep-tech levels. But 20y after @timhaselaars and I wrote an invoicing platform, it just still works. 20y without any front-end change!! #vanillajs
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I’m now in a position due to upgrade a merely four year old VueJS stack. Nothing fun about that until it’s done. But the nice reactivity and extensibility has its price. The comparison is wild!
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Understanding this makes you probably a tad older: “Anyone who wants the code can come by with a tape.”
Thomas Cherryhomes@tschak
19 Jun 2024
Today, 40 years ago, Bob Scheifler announces the availability of the X Window System, at MIT LCS.
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Christophe Rosseel d/acc
@chr1stophe
19 Jun 2024
Same in 🇧🇪 Alleen @Pieterjanvl was kritisch. Het verbieden van privé conversaties hoort voorpaginanieuws te zijn @italbers @jeroenbossaert @barteeckhout
The Greek Analyst@GreekAnalyst
18 Jun 2024
How is Chat Control not a top discussion point across the EU right now? Almost zero reference in Greek media but also most international ones covering Europe.
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Inti De Ceukelaire@intidc
22 May 2024
Here is the full blogpost: inti.io/p/when-privacy-expir…

When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains

As part of a large-scale privacy investigation, I have bought more than 100 domain names previously belonging to social welfare and justice institutions in Belgium. What I observed was unsettling.

inti.io
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Stefan Judis@stefanjudis
29 Apr 2024
Surprisingly good advice here: how can you make this condition more readable? 👇 testing.googleblog.com/2024/…
// Decide whether this pizza is fantastic. if ((!pepperoniService.empty() || sausages.size() > 0) && (useOnionFlag.get() || hasMushroom(ENOKI, PORTOBELLO)) && hasCheese()) { ... }

ALT // Decide whether this pizza is fantastic. if ((!pepperoniService.empty() || sausages.size() > 0) && (useOnionFlag.get() || hasMushroom(ENOKI, PORTOBELLO)) && hasCheese()) { ... }
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Nerdland@nerdlandbe
3 Mar 2024
Nieuwe #nerdland podcast! Deze maand: Drukjes op de maan! Sora! Vesuvius challenge! Neuralink! Apple Vision Pro! Dark Matter lab! Charlotte de rog! Kommagetallen! Doping! En meer... open.spotify.com/episode/763… @lievenscheire @zebbedeusje @entomobiel @NathaSupertramp @hHetty @Elz
Groepsfoto Nerdland maart 2024: Bart, Peter, Lieven, Els met Kastaar, Natha, Hetty

ALT Groepsfoto Nerdland maart 2024: Bart, Peter, Lieven, Els met Kastaar, Natha, Hetty

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Daniël Verlaan@danielverlaan
23 Oct 2023
Slim voorbeeld van 'malvertising': cybercriminelen adverteren met een nepwebsite van KeePass, een populaire password manager. De URL was ķeepass[.]info (met punycode-ķ), de officiële website is keepass.info. De nepwebsite bevatte malware. malwarebytes.com/blog/threat…
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Oliur
@UltraLinx
29 Jul 2023
Oftt 😮‍💨
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