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Hi Rich it was the definition that needed tweaking a bit - for increase I was thinking multiply, inflation,grow etc etc.. didn't think of increase in sound as that is specific. I look forward to tomorrows offering 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Not necessarily sound, it was a non-specific amplifier.
I'm glad you're looking forward to it, I'm not! 
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They are quite fun to do, once you get into the swing of it.
Try picking a word at random - there are "word of the day" sites that might help.
For example today is Word of the Day: Nimrod | Merriam-Webster[^] meaning "hunter" or "idiot".
Simple clue: "Fewest (reversed)", "Stick" so maybe "The fewest back pointy stick hunters (7)" for "NIMRODS"
Not suggesting that's the only way to go, but it's a starting point!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm generally just picking something relevant to my day (yesterday had some sound kit to test) and using that to avoid the problem of having to choose from an infinite pool!
In that vein, I have something, but it looks far too easy. It's trying to guage it right ...
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I loved this one. I feel smarter when I’m not the only one who can’t figure it out!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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So, after a long battle between a short and elegant clue (but maybe too easy) or a long wordy one, I went for length (and none of this is a clue):
Following a distorted representation of my surroundings, my very existence seems confused with an area beyond my vision. This will only increase! (9)
Clue 2, still 9 letters!
Pilfer! I am wicked and this will only increase!
modified 11-Aug-21 6:30am.
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Sadly, universe has only 8 letters.
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Damn! I miscounted... 
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CONFUSION?
Well, it's nine letters, and it's been increased since reading your clue ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Whilst "confusion" may be an accurate assessment, it is not the answer!
(Apologies, I have to pop out soon but should be back by 10:30)
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I have absolutely no idea 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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This could be a major error on my part, the stress of doing another one might finish me off!
All I can say is that, when broken down into small parts it looks do-able, but then again, it's easy when you know the answer.
(And there are no subtle clues hidden in this response!)
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They always look doable when you compose them - I ask a mate of mine what he thinks if I'm unsure of the doability - as I've said before composing a challenging but solvable clue is very difficult.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Does anyone else keep track of these? I set a couple of simple filters for them, probably miss a lot, and am amazed at how many business and mailing list emails I get containing them. I don't open most of them. Some are legit, like eCommerce order information.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have no clue what you are talking about.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Old stuff:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20681508/tracking-pixel-email-spying-superhuman-web-beacon-open-tracking-read-receipts-location
I see things like this:
img src=3D"https://openrate.aweber.com/y/=
o/?l=3DGtG2v&m=3Dxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" width=3D"1" height=3D"1"
x's to protect the guilty. Sometimes it is width="1", etc.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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How about an article on this topic? I will be interested!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I don't bother tracking them. I have "block remote content" as default and I can allow an individual message or whitelist an origin. The mailing lists I'm on are NOT whitelisted!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I was working on a minor UI update. I need to add a "close" button to an alert. It's 30 seconds work, but the alert wasn't showing so I couldn't test the button. I fire up the debugger and start tracing why the alert wasn't showing.
Funnily enough it was because the "show alert" flag wasn't being set. Which was because the query string for the "show alert" trigger was malformed. Which meant a "Do I show the alert" function had the wrong input.
Except it was totally and utterly the wrong "Do I show the alert" function. The function being called was in code that was obsolete and wholly replaced by a new component. Which opened up an entire new level of bugs and issues and testing and my afternoon completely shot.
Because I couldn't test a single bit of CSS properly.
I'm just curious as to what innocuous seeming bugs you've worked on that let loose the Kraken of bugs for you to deal with.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The Kraken and I are on a first name basis and regularly go for coffee.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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The source of the majority of the problems I see daily is the mentality that 1) we don’t have enough unit tests, so rather than refactor and force QA/myself to retest all affected code paths, I’ll create a *new copy* of existing code and 2) there’s no way to know when my code changes actually cause dead code, so don’t ever worry about cleaning up.
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(1) is a major problem almost everywhere. (2) is difficult in the absence of serious code coverage, for which all those unit tests are a prerequisite--unless you simply mean types, data, and functions that aren't even used. Most static analysis tools don't identify the latter, which suggests that the people responsible for the tool's specifications have no experience as architects.
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