I think LLMs may well change how software is delivered, but there is no way we don't look back and say "we got pretty superstitious at the beginning didnt we"

FT outdone by ABC on this one abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Anyone that talks about how much of a speed multiple they watch content at has to immediately get in the bin. I don't make the rules, but I have a big bin

What a time to be alive!

Is anyone else that's lucky enough to have a short term memory that kinda works getting annoyed when even shorts on YouTube have like a preview at the beginning of them so you hear like 20% of the video twice?

Reminder that enshitiffication does not just mean you don't like something

We've all done it, left the hotel key at the bar and happened to have a 200 quid cracking device on us to save going back

It's ya boy up a mountain

It's actually impossible to buy a ticket that will definitely work between these 2 locations in the UK, you have to choose being locked to an operator (perhaps they are the only choice anyway?) or going via a particular 3rd city. So now I have to research how the rail infrastructure is organised

Improbable but increasingly unavoidable conclusion that Christopher “moot” Poole who created 4chan at age 15 is one of the most influential figures of the 21st century.

Well she would say that wouldn't she

This is the route. The piece reckons most people take 12 - 16 days to cover it

Thurl Ravenscroft was also the voice of the parrot in the Enchanted Tiki Room, and so many other characters. Plus such a great name! youtu.be/rUl8dyaUIqo?...

"stop yawning daddy, you're not a creature" How's your day going?

"If a vulnerability has been public for two years and you have not been breached, the market has spoken" wise words as always

The modern web is quite something

Every sign tells a story

Find your local access island: Access Islands are unique phenomenons where we have the right to roam, but no way in which to get to them without trespassing. There are around 2500 access islands in England. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

I regret to inform you that I missed Bin Day

I told my mate I was surprised that my cousin went to New York as his daughter wanted to go to a shop she'd seen on tictok Told me that in the school he caretakes they were replacing 15 toilet seats a week until they installed vandel proof ones and when anything bizarre happens they look on tictok

My daughter watches a dinosaur program where a chap sings "I'm Andy and I work here at the National Museum. There's Dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes, you should see them" And he doesn't say 'em as presumably the person that wrote the song intended. What a monster

My "year in Monzo" is about as exciting as expected. Who thinks anyone wants this bollocks

"I work for my family's family office" Ah, I thought for a second you were just from a minted family, nice to know you work for a living

I've been researching extending git in various ways for a little side project, didn't find a good guide that covers everything so I put one together on my blog: nesbitt.io/2025/11/26/e...

The first #AdventOfCode 2025 puzzle comes out in about five hours! What's your plan? What language(s?!) are you using? What's your IDE of choice and why is it Vim? Do you have a comfy chair? Did you check out the beta release of Lua 5.5? How much sleep have you gotten? Drinking enough water? 🌟 ❤️ 🎄

lol github.com/wp-admin/ind...

There is deffo a niche for plumbers/electricians that respond to emails and/or have some kind of scheduling system for their jobs

Just watched Twin Peaks S1 and S2 with my wife and piled straight into S3. While I don't like to be a cognitive sommelier I did spend a bit of time saying some people had to wait 25 years

a remake of austin powers, set in 2027 in which austin awakens after being frozen in 1997, and struggles to deal with the changes (no headphone jack, locked out of hotmail for inactivity, geocities page offline, sega no longer make consoles, etc)

My five-project (along with slides, video lectures, etc.) compilers course has all projects now available online free: kmicinski.com/functional-p.... Five projects have you incrementally build a compiler for a substantial language, including functions, mutation, loops, vectors, etc.

I have to battle my nemesis again

Now own a house so am of course looking at Home Assistant, bit disappointed that my home life will now involve pretending YAML is a programming language too

Why do people that design bathrooms assume you want to twist around 90-180 degrees to get toilet paper

Yeah, make an API call each time in case I'm looking for a train station opened in the last 5 mins

Who needs to paste things anyway

I love this.

Stolen from facebook

I joked about "black frimonth" the other day and accidentally lathed it into existance. I'm sorry

Saw this on the bottom of someone's blog and I am so into it. Bring back webrings!

Devs are not engineers, we are handypeople

The AI supercut you need www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qby...

TIL you can use @quarto.org markdown to generate ACM format compliant journal articles... github.com/quarto-journ...

Announcing the Gleam community game jam! gamejam.gleam.community

Cadiz is beautiful

It's so bad when someone smokes near you outside, it's actually absurd how late smoking bans indoors came

LOL, I made a manual hiccup to DOM renderer + patching algorithm, 3.6kb zipped I bet it won't work for most UIs but simple crud apps, probably good enough. #squint #clojurescript #clojure squint-cljs.github.io/squint/?src=...

For once, this headline says it all: UK must resist raising taxes on banks, says NatWest boss as profits leap 30% www.theguardian.com/business/202...