You know how on TV and in movies, if someone calls a phone number, it starts with 555 because that's a reserved prefix for fictional use? Well, those exist for domain names and IP addresses too:

• RFC 2606 - Reserved Top Level DNS Names
• RFC 5737 - IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation
• RFC 3849 - IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation
• RFC 9637 - Expanding the IPv6 Documentation Space

If you're putting a fully qualified domain name or an IP address in your documentation, use a proper fake one!

I just had to go and update a bunch of IP addresses in tycoon's documentation and unit tests. I should've referred to these standards from the start. It would have saved me the work of coming up with fake addresses in the first place.

A small capsule floats up to you. A window rolls down. A badger waves at you from within and presses a button.

The capsule gently fires a pneumatic cylinder at you. You open it. There's a slip of paper, which you unfold.

Read the piece of paper.

It reads:

NOW AVAILABLE ON GEMINISPACE: gemini://arjache.com/

You protest that you cannot open that URL. The badger fires a second small pneumatic cylinder. It bounces off of you like a nerf dart. As you bend to pick it up, the badger merrily flies off into the distance.

Open the cylinder.

You open the cylinder to find another small slip of paper:

LAGRANGE IS A DANG GOOD GEMINI PROTOCOL CLIENT.

I added a Hire Me page to the site. Not that I expect a big audience from this blog, but it's mostly so I can have something to link to on social media without linking directly to my resume or LinkedIn. That said, if any of my tech industry readers want to check it out, please do.

The thing about Star Trek is that the writers really want to write about the ship blowing up, but they’re generally not allowed to do that because it tends to preclude writing more episodes about the ship, so we get such scenarios as:

• Doomed timeline (just the one)
• Doomed timeline (multiple points from the same timeline)
• Doomed timeline (many of them all at once)
• An exact duplicate of the ship (regular kind)
• An exact duplicate of the ship (made of jello)
• It was only a Space Dream
• Holodeck malfunction

And, for when you really need to get the blow-up-the-ship urge out of your system:

• Groundhog Day

I feel like often I go too long between posts here because the easiest thing for me to post is a daily Today's Listening, but I feel self-conscious about posting two music posts in a row, because I don't want to give the impression that this is primarily a music blog.

This is, of course, a silly reason not to post.

Anyway, if you want to read an actual music blog, I highly recommend Morning Music.

I have a complicated relationship with David Lynch’s work, in that I am deeply allergic to his own works, but often very fond of the works he inspired. I am sad he will no longer be around to vex me so.

Me: I would like 3 of these please

Retailer: this product only ships with a minimum order; how about 6?

Me: okay sure whatever I'll stock up

Retailer: just kidding, we're out of stock! we'll ship you 3. turns out we could do that the whole time

(Previously.)

A talk show about Sierra games called Space Quest: Guest to Guest.

I know the historical ones didn't look like this, but whenever anyone says "flint and steel" in a non-Minecraft context I imagine a Bunsen burner striker.

(Which actually is a kind of flint and steel! Though the "flint" is probably ferrocerium.)

Did anyone ever figure out the connection between Dido and Fido Dido?