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Obligatory SMBC[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Wordle 868 3/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 868 5/6
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 868 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 868 5/6
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Can't work out what you used for your fourth go !
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You know what? I cannot remember myself!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 868 5/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 868 5/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Really interesting interview, very long but fascinating.
Quote: The Adobe Corporation has announced that cofounder John Warnock died at the age of 82 on August 19, 2023. His death will be a loss to many, most of all his closely knit family, but extending as well to many professional colleagues and, indeed, to us at the Computer History Museum.
In Memoriam: John Warnock (1940–2023) - CHM[^]
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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Mike Hankey wrote: Adobe Corporation
I'm just hoping for his sake he won't primarily be remembered for starting a company that devolved into one that produced unwanted nagware/bloatware.
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Hopefully not, and not responsible for the subscription model.
Whoever came up with that out to publicly flogged.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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#Worldle #651 5/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬆️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬅️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬆️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Apologies for the late posting. I'm not going to be able to post the solution until later tonight.
In favour of twitter now with different lolly (5)
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If "lolly" was replaced with "name" or even removed, then I could give an answer but as far as I know "lolly" can only mean a frozen treat on a stick or a slang term for money, so a bit baffled!
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I think it's FOREX Rich
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ah. I went with PRO-X and wondered how the Y could be explained for PROXY.
Not sure where the E fits in though ...
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It's probably just to enhance the sound of X - not a very good clue
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes
In favour - FOR
Twitter Now - X (EX)
Different Lolly - Changed Money
So FOREX
I take the point about the missing E in a later post. I'll refrain from posting until I get better at this.
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Posting is how you get better - setting these clues is a LOT more difficult than solving them.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nah. Pkfox will post Monday's clue since he solved your Friday one. If you're first to solve it you're up next. Don't be shy, I've posted some doosies when I was a newt - but I got better.
As pkfox said, setting is much harder than solving and like most things you learn best by doing. Try, fail, try again, fail better.
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FOREX
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl?
For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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There was very little you couldn't do in VB6 I to learnt a lot of Win32 stuff and was introduced to the wonderful world of Com servers and ActiveX. Exciting times.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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