The GentleHacker

@gentlehacker.io

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A Victorian Gentleman Scientist with inexplicable access to a Macbook and internet access. Svelte and TypeScript for Love, Developer Advocate for Money, Engineer, Linguist and Jolly Good Fellow. He/Him. More: https://dylanlacey.com

A chat window saying "I would like to inform you that the reason QuickBooks is unable to import the CSV file is due to an incorrect date format. The date '20 Jun 2024' is not acceptable. QuickBooks requires the date to be in a numeric format, such as 20/06/2024".

A Data input form titled "Let's set up your file in QuickBooks".

Below, a header says "Step 1: Tell us about the format of your data"

There are three input fields. The labels read:

"Is the first row in your file a header?"
"How many columns show amounts?"
"What's the date format used in your file?"

A four panel comic featuring a small boy talking to his father who is sitting in a chair.

Panel 1: the boy asks "papa what was internet like when you were a boy?". The father responds "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Panel 2: the father says "Bwong Bwong"

Panel 3: the boy asks "Papa are U ok" while the father says "Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Panel 4: the father's speech bubble contains the 'broken image' picture used by browsers to indicate an image is unavailable or did not download correctly.

An article clip for the Financial Times, titled "is Fridgescaping the answer to the post-holiday blues?".

A promotional card for the talk "Names, and Other Lies" at DDD Brisbane. It includes a photo of the speaker, Dylan Lacey, and the time of the talk, Saturday, 7 December 2024 at 11:10am.