CTO @sunstarmedia. Web applications developer (since '97) with a focus on ColdFusion/CFML, MSSQL & security/anti-abuse. Occasional blogger.

Monterey, CA
Joined January 2009
I use DaVinci Resolve Studio by @Blackmagic_News and almost made the mistake of purchasing a subscription to davinci.ai as I thought it was an offering from the same company. Has this happened to anyone else or am I the only one?
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It looks like @lawdotcom (using Centellic) wasn't able to go 15 days before re-violating my repeated unsubscribe request. This time, I'm going to use the unsubscribe link and then place a phone call. Stay tuned.
Another day... another unwanted email from @lawdotcom and "sent by #Centellic" in my inbox after already unsubscribing seven (7) times. Perhaps unsubscribes aren't working at all because the form hasn't been tested and there are multiple javascript errors.
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I called within minutes of opting out. The representative "Joy" was unable to determine if I had opted out before & was going to "take my name off the list". I explicitly requested to be put on a do-not-contact list so that I don't get resubscribed against my will or knowledge in the future. We'll wait to see what happens next.
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Hey @fastly & @FastlyDevs It's been 13+ hours since I received this email regarding "New Signal Sciences Agent release 4.82.0". Could you provide an ETA when the "View documentation" link will work? Also, do I have to keep asking for it?
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I'm trying to delete some dead "social media" links from my @facebook profile, but the FB server returns CRITICAL code 1675012 indicating that "A server error noncoercible_variable_value occured. Check server logs for details." It's been doing this for a couple days now. :(
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Another day... another unwanted email from @lawdotcom and "sent by #Centellic" in my inbox after already unsubscribing seven (7) times. Perhaps unsubscribes aren't working at all because the form hasn't been tested and there are multiple javascript errors.
Hey @lawdotcom Are you compliant with Federal & California laws regarding sending unsolicited commercial emails? I previously opted out on 7/18, 7/27, 8/3 & 8/18... and again, just now (8/29). Do I need to report it to the FTC & California Attorney General to stop the emails?
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Hey @lawdotcom Are you compliant with Federal & California laws regarding sending unsolicited commercial emails? I previously opted out on 7/18, 7/27, 8/3 & 8/18... and again, just now (8/29). Do I need to report it to the FTC & California Attorney General to stop the emails?
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I received another @lawdotcom email on 2026-09-03 and manually unsubscribed on 2026-09-14. Any guesses as to what will happen next? My educated guess is that I'm still not unsubscribed. Should I start looking for legal assistance, perhaps a class action?
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Hey @lawdotcom, my guess is correct as I received two (2) emails this morning. These emails are "sent by Centellic". This tech organization appears to be fairly useless if it's incapable of performing opt-outs, but perhaps this is your marketing strategy.
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Hey @asuswebstorage I have lots of Markdown files with an ".MD" extension. Your iOS app doesn't know how to render them. It's 2026. How is that possible? If the app can't be updated to render Markdown (which should be fairly easy), could you at least render them as a TXT file?
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I was interested in integrating Slack to an existing application, but the only CFML library I could find was last updated in 2017. Here's an updated version.
Built a new #ColdFusion component for the Slack Web API. 50 methods, zero dependencies, tested clean on 7 #cfml engines (ACF 2016-2025, Lucee 5/6). MIT licensed. mycfml.com/articles/cfslack-…
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Hey @northabpayments I have a developer account. Does a sandboxed embedded check-out form perform webhook requests? (The documentation isn't clear.) If so, is there any way to view if it was successful or "resend"? (I see nothing available in the dashboard UI.)
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We troubleshot a showstopping server issue this week. FusionReactor was running in local mode (ie, non-cloud) and leaked threads & exhausted TCP connections to localhost. #ColdFusion was throwing this error: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?)
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This was finally resolved by disabling the unused FusionReactor Cloud UI WebSocket tunnel using the following start-up flag: -Dfr.ui.ws.enabled=false
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I get 12+ phone calls to my home @Ooma landline daily starting before 8/9 AM (Federal earliest time is 8 am; California is 9 am) that spoof a local caller ID with solicitations using an autodialer even though I'm registered on the FTC DO-NOT-CALL list. I'm thinking about switching to @voipms. This should be less expensive in the long run, but I'm wondering if it will actually result in less abuse. Are there any guarantees of safeguards? (Ooma wants to upsell me, but the upgrade doesn't do anything I can't already do by adding the spoofed throwaway number to a block list.)
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Whoa! TIL that the ColdFusion isdate() function was broken until CF2018. Using CF10, 11 or 2016 on tryCF.com, "2026-08-03 13:35:18-07:00" is an invalid date. Lucee 4+ got it right. CF & Lucee parse to UTC timezone; BoxLang appears to just drop the offset.
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We got tired of waiting patiently for Bing to recrawl our web applications after we'd make changes. This CFC pings all IndexNow Search platforms with URLs to trigger add, updates & remove requests. Enjoy!
New on the blog: cf-indexnow, a CFML client for the IndexNow protocol. Ping Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver & Yep the moment your URLs change instead of waiting for a recrawl. ACF2016+/Lucee 5+, MIT, 38 tests. #CFML #ColdFusion mycfml.com/articles/cf-index…
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Hey @fastly I received an official email regarding "New Signal Sciences Agent release 4.81.0". When I click the link, the new 4.81.0 release is not listed. :( Please either: - add a delay to the email announcement or - update the changelog before sending email
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Google recently removed the DrawingManager functionality in the Maps JavaScript API. I discovered this when a business-related mapping feature stopped working. Thankfully a developer from London created terradraw.io/ and it works across different mapping providers.
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Has Claude's Fable 5 been trained on Canadian/French data? I've been noticing many words have been flagged as misspelled: behaviour, colour, centre, centring, kerb (uh, curb), etc.
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