Taking umbrage with the English words that end with "-erer". Eg renderer

Feelings are hard 😞

The shame about mass consumer art in the age of digital and trivial global supply chains is that limited physical editions are just a sales and marketing choice rather than function of actual human effort

Shot, chaser. 🍪

how do klingons decide if it's a good day to die

I give up; turned off retweets; I'm tired of those moments of scrolling through the noise of compulsive retweets and the "are you sure you haven't seen the thing I posted 5 hours ago?"

“Apparently, TV wildlife presenters can live as long as 99 years” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

50 years ago the BBC filmed this incredible documentary about Shrewsbury Town FC’s ball boy who was a grown ass man named Fred who owned a tiny boat.

Pretty sure this is how my non-tech friends feel when I talk to tech friends

Messing around with the Vivaldi browser and it's interesting to use a browser like it's the noughts with copious customisation

Can dev docs websites please stop using Aloglia for their search? It rarely delivers on search results that are even relevant, let alone exact with not even a way to stop searching for "similar strings" Every time I hit it, I just have to go to google with `site:example.com some query` 🫥

Got a bit of a phantom follower problem. I'll get the phone notification, check later, then poof they're gone

To all the users who had no idea about Honey; To all the influencers who shilled Honey: Did you not bother to ask "where is the money coming from to do this sponsor spot"?

One of those obscure pleasures is setting calendar software to use Monday is the first day of the week. I can't describe what a pleasure it is What sort of egit thinks breaking up the weekend is a good idea

Today I Learnt: Charlie Brooker, the writer of Black Mirror, also co-founded Cex (pronounced sex)

Annoying a designer in Figma by following their screen and moving my mouse as they work is one of my favourite sports

A lot of the time people talk about the Internet Explorer or the modern web. Most will proclaim Firefox or Safari as such. But I'd argue that Chrome **is** the modern IE 🧵1/4

Redis the company is so cringe! Went to get their GUI tool to explore an instance in dev. They demand a "work email" and will sign you up to a newsletter without consent So they exclude anyone without a custom domain and break GDPR

Wait, compiling code IS the excuse to be on here

Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2022 (°C) science.nasa.gov/resource/vid... 🧪

I will not talk about current affairs here I will not talk about current affairs here I must not blather on about current affairs Ugh, I must be the person I want to follow

Yeah, but they never laugh at it ... I think my timings a little off

Had my first "viral" post here, I've had the bittersweet of learning the benefit of good feature: Blocking people "disappear" them from that conversation. It's liable to a power trip, but being able to disappear that blatant rage bait and avoid endless baited replies to a troll is kinda rewarding.

This is, technically, a sandwich.

#GamesDescribedBadly Luck Be a Landlord, the game that proves you're not an addict, and you can totally stop, and it's all your landlords fault you got evicted because you don't have any money

spotted in the NYC subway

#MoviesDescribedBadly The Mask of Zorro (1998) is a movie that shows you too can become a hero by doing press ups over some candles

#gamesdescribedbadly Subnautica - Space Janitor for leaves a beautiful paradise by stealing propriety and patented technology and decimating local flora and fauna

#GamesDescribedBadly Hunt Showdown: see who gets head shot first, leaving your other teammate to die on your traps that you pinged a thousand times. I'm not mad, just disappointed; Where's the nearest extract? It's not a skill issue I died to those dogs, I just forgot to bring a knife

Hey any #dataviz people have suggestions for how to make quick and dirty data visualisations? I've used Observable in the past, but as software dev by trade the platform made some painful choices for me. I won't be using Jupyter though

This is so gorgeous, yet simple! Love it!

Just had to verify I'm a human while unsubscribing from StackBlitz emails

I don't believe Jacob doesn't have more love for this Cat and Dog climbing duo Go follow them!

Putting this on my GithHub after removing Twitter feels so good😆

I know what's on my Christmas list www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

Anyone out there recommend some recent and good tech talks to put on in the background?

I may be an amateur mathematician but I want to assert that at least half of all numbers are not primes

One of my favourite sayings is: "You cannot reason a person out of a position they were not reasoned into" Often people get stuck trying to lead a horse to water when the horse is not thirsty

If we are not willing to pay for the products we use, then the products we use will use us.

Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/CTZvmGD 🖊️ @jasonadamk.bsky.social