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When testing a software system or mocking up examples for documentation you often want realistic values, but you shouldn’t simply make these up. »

Immigration has always been a hot political topic and, perhaps, even hotter recently. One of the main concerns appears to be a fear of jobs being taken, but I think this focuses on such a specific case that it misses the wood for the trees. »

There have been a few pieces of news in the .NET Core world recently. Firstly, .NET Core 1.0.1 shipped. This is just a small update that fixes some bugs and should give you more confidence in using ASP. »

Update: Huxley 2 is out now. Huxley is my open source project that proxies the Darwin SOAP API to simple HTTP JSON, for easy use in alternative cross-platform tech stacks. »

The hosted version of Shutdown Scanner (my service for monitoring how many of your computers have been left on wasting power) has now shut down. »

I’ve used the Application Cache (AppCache) successfully in many projects (such as InstaBail) but for my recent book I wrote about JavaScript Service Workers, as AppCache has been deprecated and Service Workers have replaced it, almost. »

I’m still using an old stereo for music, as the amps and speakers are great. Although now I have a Raspberry Pi set up as an internet radio, instead of a record deck for vinyl. »

Update The second part of this hack will stop working when the BBC get around to rolling out HTTPS at some point in the next year (second update: over a year after this post was written and it still hasn’t been done). »