The druids designed Stonehenge in inches, but there was a mix-up and the contractor delivered the stones measured in feet.

Typical overreach from Canberra!

There is no difference. It’s not even from the Himalayas.

The developers after you changed the code radically but left your documentation in place.

Developers who think they’re following the patterns, but they never even read the books and they’re still just doing whatever but naming it like it’s the pattern.

It’s on the cricket’s onlyfans.

I’d say there’s at least a strong opportunity if the US giants just continue to fellate each other into an AI-induced death spiral.

What’s intelligent about getting deep into debt and using up years of your life to get into niche work you can only do in a handful of locations, if you’re lucky?

Have a good time all the time.

It’s actually neutral on the subject of what you should do. That is for medicine and public health policy, or even personal choice.

Me trying not to murder my partner who I love very much when her phone suddenly blasts out Instagram brain-rot at 11pm and I’m trying to maintain a vaguely healthy bedtime ritual.

We’re not laughing at you, America - we’re laughing with you!

Obviously you’d have to write “To ___” and “From ___” in the accompanying card, as including PII is a real no-no.

Isn’t that dangerous? No-one really knows what magnets are.

Of course not.

It occurs to me anyway that making Fediverse apps in the shape and likeness of corporate media was a mistake. Even without the ever-present feed algorithms, people still post as though they are in an attention economy in these formats because they were conditioned to do so for years.

I understand that this was done to make adoption and migration easier, but I feel like the Fediverse ultimately needs to succeed on its own terms.

I think the worst software-gore I remember seeing was a web app that dumped all the data to the browser as a huge XML file and then had JavaScript translate the contents of the xml into views. That probably wouldn’t even sound that far off the reservation now if it was JSON, thanks to the sleepless efforts of the JavaScript industrial complex, but back then you’d just render pages and return them.

Remembered this film this morning while listening to Tricky, and weird it is that Tricky is in it (and Lee Evans!). It’s like Eurotrash: The Movie with Bruno The Singing Bartender there as a thin veneer of Hollywood respectability.

I was a senior developer within my first year, so I guess this tracks with the mid-wit theory. Now I’m well beyond that level I answer all questions with “it depends”.

How can seagulls be real if our eyes are not real?