Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.

A lot of folks know me for one or two posts, and might not know I've created nine (9!) visual explanations of computer science topics, aimed at practitioners. If you're looking for things to read this Thanksgiving, I think you'll love them. Computer science is a lot of fun, when explained well. ❤️

OMG, example.com has *changed* 😮 Really took me by surprise

14 year old son just did an insult at me that made me laugh out loud: “old man, show us your landline”

Oh damn they invented find and replace

Gooners never say die

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

apropos of nothing I have a ton of silicon valley secrets btw

One lesson from yesterday's AWS outage is that we found a flaw in the advice to "have a Signal groups with core staff as a backup channel during outages". (So change that to also have their phone numbers so you can use WhatsApp or Telegram or SMS if needed.)

Please stop throwing stones at the Overton window

My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke! youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...

Guess I've always been old 🙃 YSK: properly fitting shoes are comfortable immediately. "You need to wear them in before they're comfortable" is something impatient parents tell their kids when they're tired of school shoe shopping, then the kids grow up believing it and tell their kids...

okay i laughed source: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

Liege waffles are the superior waffle.

I've been working on a new video for a while. Starting a new series today! We're gonna explore all the technology you find in ordinary cars, and we're starting with the catalytic converter. youtu.be/Aytf6ARcs8s

Just had an unexpected visitor

We now have five websites, and any new website tries to become one of the five.

If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

Emoji kitchen just randomly offered me Truth from Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Yak yak yak... Get a job! 🫵

🗺️ NEW MAP MEN VIDEO!!!!!! 🗺️ Have you ever wondered why Britain has twin towns? Or which two are the silliest? Share and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zte_...

Please stop throwing stones at the Overton window

is like \ ovo \

I did a music on.soundcloud.com/7XAjUzgmak7m...

He's done it again look. @samwho.dev dropping a lovely article on Big O notation: samwho.dev/big-o/

Time to reveal what I was doing with @teknogeek.io back in '19. All the hard work and sleepless nights have paid off!

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

theic boi

Before I started on the levothyroxine

I don't think I'll be continuing my trial of Roland Cloud.

Just found this picture of when I invented "cursed PHP". It's just PHP but all the brackets are flipped.

@kagi.com I think you need to use a better dictionary. Why would *that* be the definition of "staring" to return?

Did a music challenge where you could only use the stock plugins in your DAW. I mostly use stock plugins anyway so I added "only use an 808 kick sample" to the challenge soundcloud.com/tomnomnomuk/...

Put the toothpaste with the toothbrushes and the antibiotic ointment with the bandaids. Things you use together go together. Group your code by feature. What changes together goes together. Not shape.

Putting all your controllers in one directory and your views in another Is like putting the cortisone and hemorrhoid cream in the drawer with toothpaste because they're all tubes.

Definitely an Arch user...

Really enjoyed @francis.codes‬'s fantastic video on flow fields. Only just got it working so I haven't experimented with the field much yet, but it's already looking cool :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_SU...

If I could have one feature added to Go it would definitely be ordered maps; no contest. It's the only thing about the language that makes me miss working in PHP.

Full video is live now! youtube.com/@jamesbruton... #3dprinted #mechanical #weird #bike #testing #balancing #electronics

I did a music. For a song challenge where the theme was "solar maximum", and I made a visual thing to go with it (made in JS/canvas) youtu.be/O3sYoj2EDro

Well I've got the 4096 followers now, but I've only had about ten questions 🤣 I had more than 100 last time; what a fall from grace 🙃

Here's some photos of the Lake District before it became the world's largest sheep grazing paddock.

A big part of the problem with the "Brontë country" conversation is that we've been conditioned to see scenery like the photo below and think "ooh lovely countryside" and not "yikes, an ecological wasteland with almost no plant life left thanks to centuries of relentless livestock farming".

3D printed 2U rack brackets

Close enough! AMA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I'll do a live stream answering questions some time soon :)

Good sky this evening