This is going to be hillarious if everyone just stops using tiktok.

That was a wild ride (see the last paragraph) dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the...

So many companies emailing me lately, telling me they're going to delete my account because I haven't used it for years. Saved a couple, but I think I'm going to let Trello delete my stuff. Anyone still using it since Atlassian bought them?

How much piss did he bottle making this one?

Also, this is my obligatory 'Indie is a stupid category for games' comment. I'm not even going to say that Clair Obscure is too big budget to be called Indie. Just that putting games that are made by 3 people in the same category as games with tens of million dollars (well, euros) budget is stupid.

It's kindof fitting that the person hosting the Game Awards pre-show has a script with the same quality of wise-cracks as the 'new-IP from a new studio with a wise-cracking character' game trailer they showed.

Why the heck would I want to do that? I can't talk to 4 random programmers without three of them disagreeing and arguing with me - why would I talk to a whole room full?

Are you kidding me... this might be the cheat code to get gamers to spend all their money. You know someone will buy all the colours... www.analogue.co/editions/3d-...

There are a couple of things I don't like about 3d printing (e.g. the fumes). But the worst of all has to be that the build plate is earthed so I seem to get an electric shock every time I touch it. Like an abused animal in a science experiment, I really don't want to touch it any more.

Really great decision from the Cmake people to call their config file CMakeLists.txt. Saves having to specify the config filename to the tool when you run it. Except... when have a non-trivial project and you have five different CMakeLists.txt files open in your IDE and no idea which tab is which.

While I'm saying controversial things... Something that bugs me is humourous progress bar/status messages in software. You're never going to beat "Reticulating Splines..." so stop trying.

This is quite the yak shave. I often think people waste a lot of time speeding up their game's iteration time (how many times would you need to save that 45 seconds in order to pay back the days/weeks of optimization effort?). But you could wind up being hired by Anthropic :) bun.com/blog/bun-joi...

Turns out gitbash can create a file called "nul" on Windows, that can't be deleted (not in Powershell anyway). Launched WSL bash and deleted it from there. Some would say launching an entire VM to delete one file is overkill but this is the modern world lol

That’s a bummer. Guess I’ll just drown in my car if it ever ends up in water.

Asking Claude Opus 4.5 to review your code is a pretty humbling experience. The report is so comprehensive I'm like "stop kicking the codebase, it's already dead" by the end.

In powershell you have to hit → to accept a completion instead of tab and I don't think I'm ever going to get used to that.

Dare I activate Ludicrous mode?

Achievement Unlocked: 3d printed something actually useful. (an E27 lamp collar for an old Ikea standard lamp that I was given years ago but the shade was loose)

Here's my money saving expert tip: Always cancel your subscription services before they renew. They will usually offer you a discount to keep the service going. And the worst case is they don't and you just reenable renewal for the same price if you do still want it.

I'm glad Ofcom allowed all those mobile network mergers. My 2 year contract with Vodafone comes to an end this month and... everything is twice as expensive now. Like holy shit expensive.

I bet all of these 7000+ comments are well thought out and completely reasonable and nuanced. Seriously why does the BBC have comments on some stories? Why invite Daily Mail readers into your home?

When you have no idea what you're selling... [or more likely the software they use to create ebay listings can't communicate Chinese characters to ebay's API]

How the heck is the Xbox 360 20 years old? And why haven't Microsoft released any other consoles since?

Man in his 50s, referring to the participants in his Teams meeting as "chat".

Sheesh. I literally just bought a DM42n from them a few weeks ago 😭

I need the German word for when you have 67 unread books in your Audible library and you don't feel like listening to any of them.

Are juries allowed to return a verdict of "oh, come on....."

Anthropic could make Claude 100% better by removing "Perfect!" from the start all responses.

You’ve got to wonder about the mentality of people who come into an empty lecture theatre and sit right on the end of a row so that everyone else needs to get past them to use the rest of the seats.

She runs an event management company. The story even mentions that it was her job skills that prompted her to jump in and help manage a difficult crowd situation. Her job is not 'mum'. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Got a new PC at work because of Windows 11. Still think it's really idiotic that they removed the ability to reposition the task bar on the side - something you could do since it existed. I have all this monitor width, but no, the task bar has to take up some of the much more precious height.

Why do audiobook narrators speak so goddam slowly. I'm not one for speeding through these things, but I have to speed most of them up to 1.3x or 1.4 just so the narrator is speaking at normal coversational speed. If I slow it down to 1x it really sounds like they are drunk or doing a funny voice.

An absolute legend has re-implemented notoriously difficult puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll, charted the entire state-space of levels and made a 3d visualization of the state space where you can zoom in on nodes and see the game in that state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK8O...

Everyone laughed at the crew in Prometheus for not taking precautions, but I'm rewatching The X-Files and Mulder and Scully are at least as bad. A scientist just got blasted in the face with a highly infectious disease because Scully decide she had to examine a corpse without biohazard gear.

I confidently predict that obtaining "V-levels" will be extremely popular with teenagers and not attract any giggles or stigma at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm old enough now that I really need Amazon to show a scan of one page from any paperback they sell, along with a scale, so I can tell if it's too small to read. Multiple times I've bought a paperback, then had to buy a used hardback copy just because the paperback type to too small to read.

Calm down Marx and Engels. No one has time for this.

When your graphics programmer tells you to stop simulating off-screen cloth, show them this video.

October 4th in Tesco. Absolute disgrace.

AI Coding tools be like: We support all the IDEs you know and love*! * as long as they are forks of VS Code

One for @andrewfray.dev regarding the impact of no testing (or even CI?). Though it seems like they had many other problems. A lot of staff who just weren't very good; a general lack of caring about quality; poor decision making by leadership and an unwillingness to hear about it or revise.

This craps on the difference engine. Babbage must be shitting himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sP...

Just finished watching all 11 original seasons of Frasier. I feel like I deserve a medal.

If you tell someone the whole web used to look like this, they won't believe you... thick-coins.net/gold.html

Just took off one hoodie because it was very loose fitting and the way it sat on me was annoying. So I put on another which fits well but the cuffs are a bit tight and touch my wrists in a way I find annoying. Am I autistic?

Didn't we already go through all this national ID crap under the last Labour government? Why are they so obsessed with it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry but if I’m not stacked like a 10x Deliveroo guy, what’s the point?

This is fucking insane. The United States is not a serious country.

As of a couple of days ago, there are adults (well, 18 year olds) who weren't born when "Don't Tase Me Bro!" happened. knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-t...

One aspect of programming competitions I don't like is when the creative framing of the problem makes it more difficult to understand the problem than it is to write the solution.