Oh no I think I want a Leica Monochrom

And so begins my annual Christmas tradition of reading about Haskell, only to forget it all within a week of Jan 1st

Pro-res zoom is quite impressive right up until it creates Eldritch horrors

Remarkable that Spotify can't get something as table stakes as syncing changes in playlists between two devices right

Jesus this is a game changer, I had no idea this was being worked on. Thanks for the deep-dive, @skydoves.bsky.social!

"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. As software practitioners know, IT projects suffer from enough management hallucinations and delusions without AI adding to them." spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

Some snaps from Japan in XPan format

Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account. So that's nice.

Last day in Japan. Acquired a Fujifilm GFX 50R and a Mitakon Speedmaster 65mm f1.4. Pumped.

I have major FOMO about Droidcon London but I'm going to Japan next week so I can't be toooo salty

Onsite complete and cold acquired - I can't wait to go home and do nothing for the long weekend

Travelling for work feels very cool and grown up the first few times but eventually you realise it is absolute arse

We booked our honeymoon today 😊

I will never get tired of watching these little dudes. Fujifilm X-T5 w/XF70-300mm

Fuck no, Google android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elev...

Nine Inch Nails absolutely slapped, best show I've ever seen

Phones just aren't exciting anymore huh

We bought a 16ft sailing dinghy yesterday and I am ecstatic

Two hours after sunrise and the sun is still orange due to wildfire smoke. Who said the end of the world isn't pretty

Not really surprising. Yeah, it might get you 80% of the way there, but we all know that reading someone else's code and finding the issues takes much, much longer than just building it ourselves. It tracks that the last 20% takes longer than expected.

I hope Google are pleased with themselves - the technology to do this does not need to exist and is only going to be used to create 1) derivative junk and 2) misinformation www.cbc.ca/news/ai-gene...

Burning down the rainforest for a single sentence which could be trivially gleaned by reading a graph

When your beautifully designed piece of software collides with telemetry requirements

Wild to revisit System Of A Down in 2025 and realise 1) they were absolutely spot on, and 2) things have only gotten much, much worse. Also bonkers that their drummer turned into a MAGA tankie

I've seen a loooot of social media about the Fujifilm X Half but I've not seen a single decent photo taken by one yet. As much as I love the idea of the camera I think it's a miss overall

Lol, America

Judging by the setlist and the production we are in for a fucking treat in August lfgggggggggg

Some of my favourite snaps from a week in Chicago

I bet Google's design team have been having a jolly good laugh today

I cannot stop laughing

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Summer is FINALLY here in Ontario and we're going paddleboarding this evening and I can't wait

Interfaces are your best friend. Put wrappers around third party code, especially for data requests. It will be an immense help for testing and for changing data sources over time.

When the day's rise in your company's stock is offset by the fall in the value of USD

Union types coming to Kotlin is sweeeeeet

I really really like the idea of the Fujifilm X Half, but that price is brutal. Nice to see them experimenting though.

I have to say I'm digging Material 3 Expressive, it's nice to see a bit of playfulness in our UIs and a bit of a refresh of Android feels good.

"Enter the code sent to your phone to securely use your saved information." Phone buzzes. Me, a stupid person: ooh a text

Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

What do you reckon that 50x increase in Gemini token usage costs us in terms of energy?

I really enjoyed going to Google I/O last year and hanging out with people from the community. More FOMO than I expected today. Where we live now is beautiful but man, I do miss being closer to community events. London was peak for that.

Andor. My god.

Paying actual money for a 3 sentence AI-gibberish blurb after each workout is incomprehensible to me, Strava what are you doing

The hardest decision on any work trip is what camera and lense combination to bring 👀

We had to clear out all of our kitchen cupboards because we're fitting a new kitchen this weekend and I have nearly a dozen Google-branded water bottles I've never used. The perks of being a GDE I guess.

Easy to claim when it's wedged into fucking everything www.theverge.com/google/65464...

A long but productive weekend

Today is my two year Snooversary - two years at Reddit!

Why does this website seem absolutely intent on showing me anime when I have zero interest whatsoever? The Discover feed algorithm is so so bad

Yes, SPY futures are down 3%, but just wait for the jobs report in ten minutes...