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Friday, July 26, 2024

Good morning.


This mad genius found a way to get free in-flight wifi. Read all about it:

I logged in to my JetStreamers Diamond Altitude account and started clicking. I went to my profile page, where I saw an edit button. It looked like a normal button: drop shadow, rounded corners, nothing special. I was supposed to use it to update my name, address, and so on.
But suddenly I realised that this was no ordinary button. This clickable rascal would allow me to access the entire internet through my airmiles account. This would be slow. It would be unbelievably stupid. But it would work.
Several co-workers were asking me to review their PRs because my feedback was “two weeks late” and “blocking a critical deployment.” But my ideas are important too so I put on my headphones and smashed on some focus tunes.

A more dedicated newsletterist would publish this via PySkyWifi. Your humble host will settle for scheduling the issue for a time when he'll be on a flight.

Item 2: a list

This is all of them

EU Member State Flags, Ranked:

1. Czechia
2. European Union (bonus flag)
3. Denmark
4. Finland
5. Poland
6. Luxembourg
7. Austria
8.Sweden
9. Hungary
10. Ireland
11. Latvia
12. Germany
13. Cyprus
14. Slovakia
15. France
16. Croatia
17. Estonia
18. Belgium
19. Greece
20. The Netherlands
21. Italy
22. Bulgaria
23. Romania
24. Slovenia
25. Malta
26. Spain
27. Portugal
28. Lithuania

Item 3: a media recommendation

Item 4: word of the week

Sockdolager

He coiled his body like a tightly wound spring, then just as the pitch came over the plate he unfurled a mighty swing and smacked the humble baseball with a thunderclap, unleashing a mighty sockdolager deep, deep over the wall in left. Unfortunately, it was foul.

Item 5: a photograph

Egret in the Rain (1926-1936) - Ohara Koson (1877-1945)

See ya!

Thanks for reading. See you next week.