Marco Fontani

@mfontani

Marco Fontani is a freelance Perl developer, mainly working for The Register, and a Camel and penguin whisperer in his spare time.

Milan, Lombardy
Joined October 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    9 Jan 2017

    Three simple aliases I use to help me publish a branch on a remote, named after the local branch

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  2. Retweeted
    24 hours ago

    Spanish Guy tricked 'Waze' to change the traffic on his street

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  3. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route!

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  4. Feb 2

    Happy palindrome day everyone! Whether you prefer to write it as 20200202, 02022020 or (ah well) 02022020!

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Can't believe a virus that reveals how racist people are is getting more coverage than this...

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Glasgow dealing with the only way it knows how.

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    Replying to

    Yahoo insisting that whenever we mentioned them we included the exclamation point. After one too many calls we decided to go the whole hog and have done ever since.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    Ever play those "what's your porn star name" games? First pet plus first street and so on? You're giving out the answers to your password reset questions on many web sites.

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  9. Jan 27

    Yay, my 1yo mod_maxminddb pull request, which has been used in production for quite a while now, has finally been merged, with no complaints! \o/

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    What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this…

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  11. Jan 22

    For duck's sake, stop trying to make Bing happen!

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  12. Jan 22

    looks to be alive and well - </shivers>

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  13. Jan 19

    This was the very first programming book I ever read, and I remember it fondly. /sniff

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    in retrospect this may have been a mistake

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    Just showed my son The Matrix. He loved it. "Are there any sequels, dad?" "No, son. They were happy to make just one great movie."

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    I didn't think it was possible to make printers any worse than they already are. I was wrong.

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    What's going down in DNS land: Customers of Oracle-owned DynDNS's domain registration service suffered a sudden involuntary change of registrar There's drama around who's going to control all those trendy .co startup domains

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    The real “clean code” is code that is easy to understand, verify, and change. Which often means more repetition and less abstraction.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    Today is a day ending in “y” which means it’s time for another data aggregator breach: “Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why?”

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    Every British kitchen contains an electric kettle to boil water for a cup of tea in less than a minute. British households are wired for electricity to deliver power to that kettle on demand without issues. British infrastructure is made to support massed kettles making tea. /2

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  21. Jan 9

    This is how you, too, can start the year with a clean slate: don't backup.

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