{"id":4777,"date":"2026-04-30T17:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:34:09","slug":"stop-helping-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4777","title":{"rendered":"stop helping me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years now I have maintained a long list of bookmarks to comic strips and other serials.  Because I like to read earliest first, rather than follow any one title through its whole archive, I named the bookmarks with dates in the format <code>26430<\/code>: two bytes for a year, one for a month (<code>a b c<\/code> for October November December), and two for a day.<\/p>\n<p>(I know what you&#8217;re thinking.  For dates before Y2K, I replace the leftmost digit with some character that sorts appropriately.)<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of Firefox interprets leading digits as numbers rather than as characters, so that 25c31 precedes 00101.  Dammit.  I&#8217;ll have to rename them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years now I have maintained a long list of bookmarks to comic strips and other serials. Because I like to read earliest first, rather than follow any one title through its whole archive, I named the bookmarks with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neep-neep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}