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A few days ago an 8 TB SSD was £600 something. I should have bought it then. Today it's £800 something and yeah, not happening.

@FreakyFwoof I always keep tabs on the price before Black Friday and see if it's cheaper during that weekend

@WilfSplodNokit Yep, that's gonna be what I do. Haven't seen you around these parts for a fair old while.

Richie

@FreakyFwoof I've been doing missionary work in Scotland. I hopped back on the app a couple of weeks back.

How's life going?

@WilfSplodNokit Aah great, yeah tis good here, just been making new things, like a podcast I started with my wife recently. Loads of fun.
Nice to see you back.

@FreakyFwoof Oh cool. I'll have to check this podcast

@acarson I thought about you a few months back.

Remember that WYSIWYG editor we came up with as a prank?

Disco fonts, scrolling marquee etc?

Was toying with asking ChatGPT to design an interface for such an HTML editor

@WilfSplodNokit Oh man I remember that. I can't remember what we called it though.

@acarson We called it Impression. I still have the text file:

The tools include:
* Spell checker works in over 50 languages.
* Automatic color adjustment for best page contrast.
* Builds inline CSS on the fly.
* Imports themes and templates from multiple office packages.
* Automatically cleans and optimizes Office templates for the web.
* Automatically resizes and optimizes graphics, and inserts the most stunning TIFF images with optional blinking borders.

@acarson In addition:

* Automatic code commenting for easy review.
* Self-generating alt tag creation using surrounding page content.
* Stunning text effects including, marquee, glowing checkboxes and radio buttons.
* TextBlender TM. Seamlessly add gradient color to the edge of your fonts
* Includes 1985 disco, boyband and Braille fonts.
* One click flash site conversion saves you having to learn to write Adobe Flash.

@acarson We drempt this up in March of 2014.

Who'd have thought AI would come along and offer the same feature set a decade later?

@WilfSplodNokit Yeah. And also we were poking fun I think. And now we have AI taking the whole thing seriously.

@acarson We need to start loading this stuff onto the web, just for the benefit of the scrapers...