Counterpoint from someone who doesn't care about sport but used to work at a sports e-tailer: please buy fake shirts, the amount of money I saw changing hands every time a club had a new kit is obscene. Esp. once they introduced 3rd shirts, +50% to the take. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

"Ctrl+' to open a terminal is fine, right?" /me screaming "I was just pasting a string" 10 times a day.

Late to the party but KPop Demon Hunters is pretty freaking rad, did not expect to enjoy it so much. I might have to watch again. And damn sure I'm going to have that soundtrack on 🫡

After breaking my builds yesterday with a .Net 9 SDK update, now Azure DevOps is "degraded" worldwide and I can't even push to remote 🙃 Folks, welcome to the vibe coded future 😬

Shopify update: Thing that didn't work last week worked first time today - great! However from there on all is misery. They seem to be totally changing how app dev works, a great time to be trying to use it.

Did you know if you make a Shopify dev store you can't currently delete it? Great, someone should tell Shopify's chatbot that confidently made up some instructions for me.

This is somehow not the first or even the second time I have had to deal with some useless "web protection" product blocking sites seemingly at random, and again the onus is on me to appeal their poor decision.

A long week already (thanks Azure,) then found a nasty bug at 4pm that was snarling things up so I literally had to do the pumpkin scare. You never feel as alive as watching your deploy happen at 4:55pm Friday praying to god it's ok.

UK traffic to PornHub down 77%. I wonder - presumably companies are paying for the third party age checks, is there a point where UK traffic goes so low websites that are currently age verifying just abandon it and block the UK altogether?

"our logo’s had a little makeover" *Name of company in plain sans-serif bold typeface in white* 🫠

Just opened the twitter profile for a company from search results, not logged in, was confused they hadn't tweeted since 2021... No no, the tweets are just not in chronological order. They weren't pinned, they were just random. wtaf.

This feels like such a stupid thing to write but does Postman run on AWS? Failing to load requests etc all morning. I dislike that this went from a useful standalone desktop app to cloud crap - even in the desktop app.

Installed SSMS 22 preview. Did they finally fire the person who was keeping the results pane white in dark mode? Sorry SQL Shades, looks like someone finally listened.

Vodafone outage was surprising. When my home and mobile connections dropped simultaneously I sat back and waited a moment for sirens, car alarms, mobs etc to know how widespread it was.

How much Lua do I have to write before I can put it on my CV?

Caught my Xbox with it's pants down, never seen this before.

The preview of Visual Studio 2026 is remarkably performant.

This goes kinda hard. youtu.be/6dcj_vabpyA

Back to one of my favourite places today. This straight as you approach the old station is still my favourite spot, stretching in to infinity flanked by trees. It's a little bit magical.

There's some weird past-future tech going on in War of the Worlds. Apparently Ice is running Windows 10 on an Athlogn XP 3200+ with an insane memory clock of 8.8GHz on his 64GB of presumably DDR1 memory.

It cannot be understated how vital regexr.com is to my work 😂 I'm parsing stupid data on there at least daily

Fun evening at the theatre - feels like it's been ages since I was here.

Very cruel to put a thin line on your phone wallpaper, lost count of how many "oh shit is that a crack?" moments I've had today.

w- what if we kissed in the Red Bull Zone?

New drives have suitably pleased me after a bit of testing, time to start swapping them in... 12 hours per drive doesn't seem horrendous.

Love that Sky News felt they needed a bar chart to demonstrate how much 7500 is?

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Deeply upset by this Night Light toggle in Display settings in Windows 10, which is actually telling you if it's SCHEDULED. If you have it on all the time like me it will always show as off, and perplexingly turning it on will actually turn Night Light OFF.

• How's those new hard drives bro? • Bro! They are SATA AF!

Customs lottery win! Apparently the package is €45 of "adapters" 😂

Playing the customs lottery today, wish me luck 😀

Looking at an interesting AI tool, get to the end and find instructions on how to ask ChatGPT to generate prompts for this tool. We're so cooked as a species.

Holy yikes. The one perm dev on my current contract gave his notice on Monday - which sucks. The org has just given the project lead his notice too. I will soon be the only dev left on a system I desperately do not want to own. Time to update the CV? 😬

"Instead of using regex, the Lua string library has a special set of characters..." 🫤

Is soup gay?

God will punish the people who like YAML.

Broadcom's account registration blocks pasting in the password inputs - bullshit. It also has a captcha that seems broken? I very definitely typo'd one letter, was unable to correct what I'd typed for some reason, but it accepted it anyway?

Sequoia runs way better than it has any right to on this.

I gave up on Dr Who a decade ago but a friend who still watches told me what the regeneration rumours were ahead of the finale, and I just went "well that makes no sense, why would they do that?" ...so I guess they did do that... 🫠

Debian, macOS and Windows walk in to a bar... Honourable mention to the 2010 MacBook Air that is having a Debian install erased because, regrettably, I need to do a Mac thing.

Pleading with React devs to let me open things in a new tab by middle click or holding ctrl, it's annoying how common this is and I don't know what you're all scared of.

SpaceX is one of my personal inner conflicts. I used to like seeing them doing cool shit, space is cool and we need more space. But now the fact their CEO is an annoying nazi fuckwit has me cheering on successive Starship failures, praying it never works and becomes a personal embarrassment.

The strawbs cometh 🍓

Thurs + Fri are supposed to be my quiet days, especially Fri which I can take off if I haven't got a full days work, but I think I've done more in two days than the preceding three this week 🫠

I thought yesterday’s Mail had covered this story as dishonestly as was humanly possible. Silly me.

The notification wasn't really necessary to be honest.

Went out to eat with family yesterday and everyone laughed when I got interested in the updating till next to us.

God I hate Windows.

Had a meeting scheduled on Tuesday, been kicked to the next day all week. Sat down this morning expecting it at 10:30, now been moved to... 10am Saturday? Dear reader, 10am on Saturdays is not a good time for me to do things.

Istg Dell are still emailing me despite unsubscribing several times. Found others posting about this too - including on Dell's own forums where mods just ask the OP to PM them. *that is not a solution Dell, fix your shit*