BREAKING: UK government announces exciting new dietary program where you drink two litres of fizzy pop a day. Drinks upskilling thirty million adults by 2028. Working in partnership with Mr C Cola, Dr Pepper and Dame Barrs Dandelion-Burdock

I feel like over that past two weeks I found the secret magic time pocket. I genuinely don't know how I've been getting so much stuff done, and how I'm taking massive amounts of time to do it. Not that I'm complaining.

If I'm understanding right, vibe coders have convinced themselves that all problems with it can be fixed by by running a dozen or so AI agents in parallel, and have somehow convinced other will be cheaper than one bot, despite a cryptocurrency being made to fund one guy's thousands of API calls?

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is consulting on what topics should be included in the 2031 Census. @transactualuk.bsky.social have produced this really helpful guidance, and are encouraging both organisations & individuals to respond. Deadline 4 Feb 2026. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bluesky could really use some keyboard navigation. No wonder all the nerds are on Mastodon, this thing is agonising to use if you don't want to use a mouse.

Me, thinking about prototyping: This sucks, I hate this, boring, I don't want to have to do this, I just want to make the thing. Me, actually prototyping: I need to join a support group for people addicted to printing every possible variable to console, this is incredible, I can't help myself.

AI has really helped me with my art (made me actually put in the hours to learn to draw partially out of spite and disgust)

Why yes, I have been stretching very particular definitions to extreme degrees in order to make important points about data governance in the Charity space, thanks for asking: hannahl.co.uk/blog/digital...

Why yes, I have been stretching very particular definitions to extreme degrees in order to make important points about data governance in the Charity space, thanks for asking: hannahl.co.uk/blog/digital...

I am sorry 'The Last Supper' fans, 22 hours from now, I will take 'The Last Supper' down. I cannot take this anymore.

I think on my next CV I should be allowed to put "Made an offensively good roast (brisket), lemon drizzle bake, and loaf of bread in one afternoon."

YOU'RE A REAL ONE IF YOU HARMONISED WITH THE VACUUM CLEANER ALL MY HOMIES HARMONISE WITH THE VACUUM CLEANER

Every so often I'll get stuck in a real rut with cooking that turns it into a chore I do to survive. And then eventually I'll go completely off the rails, spend 98% of my waking hours in the kitchen and remember why the hell I love it. Home cooking is one of the greatest gifts that life can give.

Trying to Trust The Process™, but thinking I've made the same mistake I always make when baking bread: "Oooh, that dough looks a bit dry; have lil' sippy my sticky little friend"

"I only use AI for ideas generation and summarisation and low-stakes tasks, I'm using it the right way." Even if you don't buy the ethical arguments, one of the most high-profile cases of AI psychosis was a guy with no known history of mental health issues trying to learn maths.

Got a job for you, 621. Salesforce is funding this operation.

I have mastered the technique of pressing the lever so I almost always get a pellet and rarely shocked

A horrible thing about the End Of The World is that, with no direction, unity, or structural support, we have to somehow find the time, energy, and resources to make a new one.

I was dogpiled off Tumblr by adults as a teenager. I've seen similar hostility on Twitter and Reddit way back when. Bsky isn't unique. It's the result of a thousand design choices that constitute what we understand as "social media". I wrote a thing about it: hannahl.co.uk/blog/reflect...

Sometimes I think "Wow! My drawing skills have improved so much over the past few months!" Sometimes I unexpectedly end up with a 5 dimensional face with eyes on 7 different planes.

Okay yeah, having a bot that publicly posts CSAM on demand is pretty bad, but at least they'll make sure that you're over 18 before you log in

Online safety is for making queer kids feel isolated and suicidal, not about stopping CSAM.

If you've ever had the misfortune of working with the enterprise side oficrosoft, you'll know that re-naming Office, a recognisable brand, to something easily confused with literally any other platform or offering is just standard fare for Microsoft. You know, except even more stupid than usual.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

I think I might actually set some goals for myself this year: 1) Participate in (complete?) at least 1 game jam; 2) Do at least 1 practice sketch for every day of the year; 3) Read at least 1 book every month; at least 50% fiction; 4) Start (finish?) publishing my blog series on modern work.

Just had an out-of-the-blue realisation that I think there's somewhere on my website where I claim I don't use any javascript, but that's definitely not true. There's definitely a one-liner I put together to cover for a CSS bug I couldn't figure out that only affects mobile and small windows lmao

The final day

You couldn't pay me to do a 2025 round-up blog post — the ridiculous horribleness of this year would just undermine all the good that happened. I did a LOT that I've been really proud of, but it's very much in spite of the torrent of nightmares this year brought. I don't need it linked and tainted.

My Gaming Hot Take of the Year is that Silksong's boss run backs are actually its best content. Yes, even and arguably even especially that one.

Regularly recharge the negative energy that builds up inside you by spending time in nature. #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

I don't WANT to prototype, I just want the ideas in my head to be FULLY FORMED AND PERFECT right now so I can just get on with actually making the thing. Is that so much to ask?

Just saw a very low stakes Internet Argument, in which one party was very invested and the other clearly not. The invested party was, between replies, posting screenshots of chatGPT helping them reply. I feel deeply embarrassed at being human. Can't even make my our own 300 character replies.

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1666

Remember a while back where I was screaming about developing proper XP-Pen Deco 02 in most Linux environments? I finally did a write-up, mostly aimed at a non-technical audience interested in was achieved. You know, in case you wanted some really festive reading: hannahl.co.uk/blog/deco-02...

Remember a while back where I was screaming about developing proper XP-Pen Deco 02 in most Linux environments? I finally did a write-up, mostly aimed at a non-technical audience interested in was achieved. You know, in case you wanted some really festive reading: hannahl.co.uk/blog/deco-02...

Saw somebody lamenting RSS as a "dead" technology that "couldn't be saved". and pithy comments about all the blogs and news sites I've got RSS subscriptions of aside... The popularity of podcasts begs to differ. It's all just secretly all RSS all the down. It's alive and it's good. It's just quiet.

I write far too many long threads that should really just be sat on and fleshed out into blog posts instead. Unfortunately I have like 20 unfinished drafts, and so I believe that this is now where thoughts go to die

Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.

The most deluded thing Linux people do is suggest people just use GIMP.

I've seen lots of people saying they want to use Linux, but they can't because they need MS Office for work. If that's you, the best thing that you can possibly do to move the needle is to start saving things in Open Document Formats: Word documents at ODT, spreadsheets as ODS, presentations as ODP

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

"the lootboxes are okay, they're just cosmetic"

There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

Unless you define "ready", and make the target reasonable, you'll never be "ready" to leave Spotify (or music streaming generally, if that's your direction). These services thrive in expanding your libraries at rates you can't possibly keep up with on a normal income — that's never been doable.

In spite of all the hardship in the game industry at the minute, whether for indies or larger studios, that make it easy to doom over… I honestly don't think I've ever been more excited by games than in recent years. There's incredible stuff happening and an incredible diversity now.

two types of mass-market "artificial intelligence": 1. can't actually do the thing 2. can do the thing, but only because it's secretly remote workers in Malaysia