The SpongeBob Musical's ‘Bikini Bottom Day’ – Chicago vs Broadway lyrics

‘Bikini Bottom Day’ is the opening number to the critically-aclaimed SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical, which premiered in Chicago in June 2016, and moved to Broadway in December 2017. Between the Chicago run and Broadway run, the lyrics to the latter half of the… »

Not in my backyard, and not in yours either: On respecting the autonomy of others

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or CDDA, is an open-source survival roguelike video game. As a roguelike, CDDA is characterised by permanent death (permadeath), and one request which pops up now and then on discussion groups is whether permadeath could be disabled. The following is… »

Investigating Google Cast: Disabling device authentication on Android with Xposed

Background

Google Cast is a proprietary protocol by Google which enables controlling playback of Internet-streamed audiovisual content on the Chromecast, Android TV and other compatible devices.

From the consumer perspective, Google Cast connects two devices: a sender (such as a smartphone) and a receiver (such… »

FIFO inventory with ledger-cli

Ledger is a powerful command-line plain-text accounting system. It has extensive built-in support for tracking complex ‘commodities’, such as currencies and inventory items, but does not support FIFO valuation.

This is a small Python script that can take input from Ledger, break down the prices… »

Melbourne to Adelaide via Ararat: Combined V/Line timetable

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Effective 1 December 2019.

The secret, better way to get from Melbourne to Adelaide by V/Line

According to the PTV website, V/Line operates a service between Melbourne and Adelaide, via Bendigo. This is described by a V/Line timetable as the ‘Adelaide Daylink’. The journey is lengthy, but economical, particularly for those on concession fares or with large amounts of… »