Daniel A.

part-time pixelmover, part-time gamer.

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

"Every weekend, the magical workshop opens its doors for the public to see how legendary film and television characters are made" #creatureshop #muppets

https://t.co/FYHPjcoasx

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

FUCK #PARGER

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

#Hetzner hat ihre neuen Preisanpassungen sorry.. Preiserhöhungen bekanntgegeben und man kann nur sagen: WTF.

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser!

On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.

Try the browser emulator https://t.co/1ZxhMhVTFj

#InternetHistory

[Pallav | RAG Expert @vibingmonk]

Dear recruiters, if you are looking for:

- Java, Python, PHP
- React, Angular, Next
- PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
- AWS, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS
- *nix system administration
- Git and CI with TDD
- Docker, Kubernetes

That's not a Full Stack Developer
That's an entire IT department

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

Was für ein epischer Thread.

[Robert Willacker @derWillacker]

In meiner Nachbarschaft wurde vor rund acht Wochen eine Verkehrsinsel umgestaltet und im Zuge dessen auch ein neues Schild aufgestellt wo vorher keines war. Soeben hat es zum fünften mal jemand umgefahren.

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

Apple TV’s colorful new branding was built with glass and captured in-camera.

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

"1999 might best be remembered as the year of three revolutionary new internet technologies: #Napster's disruption of the music industry, the launch of #Blogger ushering in the age of weblogs, and #RSS as a new way to syndicate web content."

https://t.co/PcCcrQQLCI

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

In 2012 "#Backblaze deployed every last employee, as well as friends and family, to acquire drives in what became known internally as “drive farming.”"

https://t.co/3PlyisLws3

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.

If you're not the type to pay for your software, you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation, and this was our first major "hack".

And yet, it wasn't a 'hack' at all - it was a disastrous leak.

The FCKGW key was a valid volume licensing key, so all you needed was special volume media to go with it. Eventually, they were bundled and put online by pirates.

WPA worked by generating a hardware ID from your CPU, RAM, and other components, then sending it to Microsoft alongside your product key for validation. A mismatched or suspicious key would flag the install as pirated.

But as a legitimate VLK, FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 was whitelisted in XP's activation logic—it told the system, "This is corporate volume licensing; no need to phone home." During installation, users selected the "Yes, I have a product key" option, entered the code, and WPA simply... skipped the activation prompt.

The OS booted fully functional, with no 30-day timer or watermarks. It even fooled early validation checks for updates. This loophole let pirates distribute "pre-activated" ISOs, making XP as easy to "acquire" as a free mixtape. Technically, you could still use it today on an old XP disc (if you can find one), but Microsoft's servers shut down validation years ago, and the key's long since been blacklisted.

[Cameron!! @cameronmattis]

i can't believe this shit actually works

[U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics]

IKEA website shows a verbatim copy of the physical printed receipt in HTML, complete with logo, exact transaction details, and mono font. It goes on for another 300 lines.

Whoever did this at IKEA, come forward, you have been recognized! 🏆

[Dishpit @Dishpit]

in case you didn't know, this is how you're actually supposed to do software versioning

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

"Der schwedische Zahlungsanbieter #Klarna sichert sich offenbar weitreichende Zugriffe auf die jüngsten Transaktionsdaten der Bankkonten seiner Kunden."

https://t.co/AsbSN26jPM

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

On this day in 2003, Steam was launched.

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

"In this 2016 GDC Talk, Grey Alien Games' Jake Birkett explains how to survive as an independent game developer without having a single hit game."

https://t.co/1fylpdrINW

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished?

This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone.

Why?

/1

[Natia Kurdadze @natiakourdadze]

Startup founder with 12 abandoned side projects is about to start his 13th, instead of doing marketing 😅

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

"The first ever 'True' Killscreen was just reached in NES #Tetris."

https://t.co/EE7KSy5zw9

[Daniel A. @casefourty]

"NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away"

https://t.co/vqtU5QfCgP