Franchise that has already rebooted itself struggling with continuity problem. This is a problem that LLMs could actually fix

I was inspired to write about the Edmund Fitzgerald on the semicentennial of its wreck. It rambles a bit but I guess the main thesis is that folk music is cool and good https://phils-web-site.net/web-log/the-legend-lives-on/

Very much enjoying @tylersticka on ShopTalk, particularly the absolute torture of waiting for a chatbot response while coding with ADHD

oh no https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115510757714043233

just because you have big screen doesn’t mean you should write big function

The arc of the Meta product lifecycle is long, but it bends toward Facebook https://www.threads.com/@katienotopoulos/post/DQuFHLNje0_

Asking DALL-E to make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

[uspol] 🙂

A great battle was fought here…

happy host a pod cast with your wife day to those who celebrate https://phils-web-site.net/pod-cast/5/

I have replenished my plectra.

ai is all about skating to where the puck will never go. but faster!

I remembered that I write sometimes! Please enjoy my review of the original Superman movie, my first viewing and the first of a planned review of the Caped Crusader's entire film run. https://phils-web-site.net/reviews/superman/

50% operating system market share looks like a banner across the Linux Mint support forums saying "Replies encouraging non-sysadmins to open the terminal will be removed"

anyone remember about a month ago when i asked for help identifying font support for a bunch of weird unicode characters? well, i kind of just finished the project that was for, and instead of using existing unicode characters i ended up actually MAKING MY […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

infosec has a lot to learn about understanding failure conditions and accurate, understandable error messages from roadies

Just received the company-branded Patagonia quarter-zip and I will say this for Technology Brothers: they are very comfy

jailbreaking an xr headset to explore unsanctioned worlds

Mr Rogers’ song “you can never go down the drain” is raising a lot of questions

I didn’t know I needed a hot dog brush, but here we are. #affinity

It’s frustrating that multi-billion tech corporations create the environment for these sort of tips, but they’re useful tips all the same. https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass

The board is set. The pieces are moving.

Proud to share my latest work with FedEx to localize their iconic logo for RTL regions. This took a lot of hard work but really proud of how it came out 💜💜

Corn guy, seeing the thread: 🐤 Haha OK, I'll do a corn ad, should be a laugh, might get like six hits Corn guy, checking his web stats: 🐤 oh fuck Corn guy, reloading the thread: 🐤 oh FUCK

Ad executives: 🦊 we've spent ten million dollars on youtube video ads but people just keep skipping them or blocking them, what will we do, Fedi: 🦝 did you know that corn can make its own nitrogen

Like I know I don't have to tell y'all, here on the algorithmless fedi, that you-might-like-this algorithms will not tell you things about yourself that you didn't know, will not help you grow as a person, will in fact stunt you and restrict your ability to change, because they're designed to […]

Hahaha which one of you submitted this one Like it made me laugh with its wide-eyed eager absurdity but also this is genuinely a textbook example of a Great Ad If you click on this ad then it goes to a small Neocities webpage at […] [Original post on retro.social]

Every time someone tells me they have a new version control system. #git #jiujitsu #jj

One day there will be a client that will appreciate this, and on that day, I’ll be ready https://whoremipsum.com/

back on my bullshit (listening to Sid Meier's Civ soundtracks while coding)

Azure outage is sending my “make a doctor’s appointment” productivity through the roof

I'm trying to place where I've seen the new Outlook Mobile icon before...

this is like… the timecube of HTML editing. I have so many questions: - what does "DCKIM" stand for? - what is HTML "drafting"? - what does the "HW" in "HW HTML" mean - where did this person get the idea that "shift" is abbreviated to "SHI"? (is "SHI T" describing a keystroke just a little joke […]

Following hashtags has lead me to discover some really interesting stuff around the Fediverse but by far the most unusual and baffling is this https://dckim.com

O Lord My God, write a Python script that reverses a binary tree https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115452367370353109

@phil in case anyone feels like defending this by saying "oh it's just a law of large numbers thing, of course some fraction of 'everyone' is crazy" here's a thing I wrote about how that's stupid https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114705892469441577

Oh, well I guess it’s a good thing they don’t have many users then From https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-psychosis-and-self-harm-update/

Mmmm. Web design

I miss NYC

Me after googling “sword art online” Wait, there’s a game?

It took upgrading to Eero and putting a repeater with an open Ethernet port in my office, but I have now conquered the printer. I have bent it to my will. IT works for ME now

when i finally put down my phone and take a mental health walk: doomstrolling

We're hosting #globaldayofcoderetreat in #pittsburgh on November 8: https://meetu.ps/e/PC4Lx/SzJp/i Come learn system design, test-driven development, and pair programming in this day long #coderetreat exercise.

I would LOVE to have a Vision Pro with the tinkering flexibility of a proper computer. I’m interested by the medium but it’s still treated as this other-worldly black box that I mustn’t dare to question. I wanna get FREAKY and BREAK STUFF at the passthrough level. What happens when i show one […]

[licking lips venomously] MMMMM YESSS WE HAVE *A* PAYMENT METHOD. BUT PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO...GIVE US MORE PAYMENT DETAILS?

Maybe they wanted an adoption rate as thin as the device itself, have you ever thought of that https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/iphone-air-supply-chain-cuts/

On my bullshit again