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I think money probably could buy happiness, if only people with the capacity to be happy could get some of it for a change

here's today's post: "Republican conundrum: how much Nazi is the right amount of Nazi?" — are they the baddies? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Just me today, come and keep me company? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZUj...

Tech Bugs & Rock'n'Roll! Running late, flustered! www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Pp...

Bringing an otherworldly dimension to software failure screens, thanks to @rendle.dev

is money even real anymore?

Join me and @eli.holderness.dev and probably @dylanbeatt.ie for another Tech, Bugs & Rock’n’Roll podcasty livestream thing. Now! www.youtube.com/live/6HZVcRH...

Get 15% off your Build Stuff ticket AND 15% off the FREE Linebreakers afterparty on Friday 5th December in Vilnius! - Top international speakers - Five tracks of tech talks - Great venue - Me! www.buildstuff.events/9794438

Cool Pokemon style title generator, if you ever need one! pokemon-fonts-generator.netlify.app

Any time someone who wasn’t on the Internet before 1993 says “the Internet”, they mean the Web.

Excellent film, almost as good as Paddington 2, recommend

More Tech Bugs & Rock’n’Roll in a couple of minutes folks! www.youtube.com/live/-YLApHY...

Honestly, pretty much my entire speaking career and thus my enormous group of amazing friends, so, um, yeah.

Every once in a while something reminds me of a fun past time I had online. Yesterday someone reminded me of this so I had to go look it up - It's a funny thing that @rendle.dev did on twitter back in the day - I had a great time reading and even "collaborating" on it github.com/ThatRendle/m...

32 Chunk winning Fat Bear Week causes debate between me and @dylanbeatt.ie #856wasrobbed

The intro countdown thing has started, TBRR is back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsqJ...

This was the final slide from my Reasons To Be Cheerful talk yesterday at #DDDPerth and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so I’m sharing it here.

This was the final slide from my Reasons To Be Cheerful talk yesterday at #DDDPerth and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so I’m sharing it here.

Answering messages from #DDDPerth: Yes! 🦈

This finally happened yesterday and I feel like I delivered on that bold promise 😊 My first time at #DDDPerth - and in Perth itself - was just fantastic. Brilliant conference, amazing people, so much love and joy and wisdom being shared. Huge thank you to everyone who made it happen! 🩷💕

you open the Bluesky app and take 4d6 psychic damage

Do. Not. RSVP. To. A. Protest. It. Is. Not. Brunch.

It is an excellent article, but I do so wish that the media would say at the start of their pieces “whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon” and then refer to him as Yaxley-Lennon from that point on. Every time they use his jingoistic pseudonym they just add to his brand.

today I released LibOQS.NET, a .NET wrapper for liboqs (Open Quantum Safe), bringing plug-and-play support for post quantum cryptography for .NET developers. Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64) 💻 github.com/filipw/maybe... 📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...

Explore the .NET track 👉 oredev.org/line-up?tags... Say Halloj! 👋 to these visionaries: 🪐 Andreas Wänqvist 🪐 @codewithanjuli.bsky.social 🪐 @dotnetdave.bsky.social 🪐 @dylanbeatt.ie 🪐 @hanneslowette.net 🪐 @heatherdown.ing‬ 🪐 @rendle.dev 🪐 @wildermuth.com‬ 🪐 @vagifabilov.bsky.social

...the Manhattan Project was not against Russia OPEN THE SCHOOLS

It is becoming increasingly clear that Keir Starmer is the Antichrist

@tompowelljr.bsky.social is there any way i can write to you to share something personal related to your video about your mom that i'm not comfortable posting as a comment or whatever? everybody else: ignore this please

We're live on YouTube (and Twitch etc) with this week's Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll, with our first ever proper guest, Adam Korga, who has written a very funny book about IT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-i...

Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll will be live at 4pm with me and @eli.holderness.dev talking about the North/South divide and radioactive shrimp. Come join the chat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqwh... or www.twitch.tv/justRendle works too

Super special al fresco edition of TBRR starting in one minute at www.youtube.com/live/h3Af7M9...

I can Photoshop though

:%s/rmer/lin/g AI because I can’t draw and I’m on my phone and drinking gin. If it’s a problem just call me names and I’ll delete it.

Thanks for messing with my time! 😎 I really enjoy listening to all of you, @dylanbeatt.ie , @eli.holderness.dev and @rendle.dev ! www.youtube.com/live/Eu28YGL...

It really is fun and positive and contains no exploding spaceships or JavaScript, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with lovely Aussie folks!

So excited that @rendle.dev is joining us all the way in Perth next month!

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Welcome to yet another Thursday; it's not quite Friday but at least it's not Tuesday, right? And of course Thursday means @dylanbeatt.ie, @eli.holderness.dev and I will be recording Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll at 4pm UK time, and you can come watch and chat in the chat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNuh...

I’m learning all about electric from a Christian home-schooling book. Turns out the electric works much the same way the moon and insects do: god does it.

Autocomplete in 2025 is wild

My current tech bugbear is when you're looking to see whether the Wibble library supports Quux, and it doesn't, but the search results show you a wibble-quux fork so you go "yay" and check it out, and it's a three-month old fork with no commits, not even a README update.

I hate this country so much. Would the last person to leave please burn it to the fucking ground and salt the earth on their way out?

Not-an-AI summary of Crime & Punishment: Raskolnikov did it

Normally you'd have to pay £££ for a conference ticket to get @rendle.dev and @davidwhitney.co.uk on the same programme. Or you can come along tomorrow night and see them both for free - our friends @accurx.bsky.social are even providing free drinks and snacks! www.meetup.com/london-net-u...

London people! Tomorrow I'll be at @ldnug.org doing the first run of a brand new talk, "How ChatGPT Happened", looking at the history of AI from 1943 until now. Also @davidwhitney.co.uk will be doing a brand new talk, "Code As Art", which I'm really looking forward to seeing. Link in reply.

It's the only day of the week when I know what day of the week it even is: Thursday. And that means Tech, Bugs and Rock'n'Roll podcast recording* and livestream at 4pm BST, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPP_... *if I ever get round to uploading the audio to Spotify...

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