Beep, revisited

 Some time ago, I've posted a snippet for making client-side-only beeps from JavaScript. I have an update to that.

Error 409 Conflict

 This will be another entry in the file of things that took me time and frustration to troubleshoot, so here is the recipe, for humankind's benefit. A website that I manage, hosted at a shared hosting plan, displays as if there are no stylesheets. And here's one more ominous warning before the fold: the dreaded error 409.

Where does if flow?

 Rule of thumb: when something is advertised as "workflows" or "automation", that means you'll be given a crippled programming language with no subroutines, probably no loops, tacked on variables/expressions and no debugging whatsoever.

If read, why not write?

Some time ago I wrote a script to create an arbitrary self signed certificate. Then I made a DevOps pipeline task out of it. Now, I'm wondering about the same logic, running interactively.

I am globally unique, baby

UUIDs are supported everywhere these days. But what about binary compatibility?

Turducken or duckturken?

 A static library (a .a file) is a collection of object files. On MacOS, executable binary files can contain code for multiple CPUs - that is, an executable can be internally a collection of slices, each of them also an executable. 

Joomla 2 on PHP 7

 An archival instance of Joomla 2 broke on PHP 7.