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Merry Christmas 🎄

"I'm tired boss"

Blackwing just released an all-black pencil for the first time. The Blackwing Labs 11.28.25 🌑

Never rains but it pours! First Cloudflare, now Github's Git operations suffers a 'major outage'.

AWS last month, taking out half the net. And Cloudflare today (although relatively brief) effectively doing the same. 🤔 The fate of many, in the hands of a few.

Anyone seeing a Cloudflare outage atm?

Cloudflare down? Uuh oh!

One of the most satisfying feelings..? Closing multiple tabs after spending hours, sometimes days solving a problem. 👍

Ok, I've settled on a Hetzner VPS and @coolify.io to host my personal projects currently on Vercel.

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

New scheduled task: Migrate personal projects away from Vercel.

By no means everyone, but far too many for far to long now.

RIP github.com/dashboard-feed 💀! We all knew it was only a matter of time till it was retired. 😥

Delete old emails to save water?! I can't, I just can't! - www.thejournal.ie/uk-governmen...

I still love my Zoom H4n pro, but boy does it eat AA batteries! Powering it with a 10000mAh power bank via USB to power cord saves me worrying about battery failure during longer recording sessions, and saves a ton on AA batteries.

Every time I see the word, 'difficult' in a budget related headline... Difficult? Difficult for who??? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I remember when the internet screamed every time you accessed it! 👴

UK Online Safety Act - Cartoon from early 2000's by American cartoonist John Jonik.

Encrypting your data prior to upload can nerf so much of big tech's nefarious AI practices. A drive to offer users convenient, native data encryption is desperately needed.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"I paid you a small fortune" "And this gives you *power* over me?"

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Not me! No, no, I never require this gitmoji...! - gitmoji.dev

Absolutely incredible performances from everyone in #Adolescence. Standout performance from the kid that plays Jamie, Owen Cooper.

I guess the name gave it away! 😂 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My paranoia has instructed me that a 3rd and 4th Yubikey is indeed necessary!

hitting my rhythm at the back end of January 🏃

Dark mode is a godsend for scrolling sites/apps just after waking.

PLEASE do not feed raw milk to your cats. Or your kids. Or yourself. #H5N1

I remember being introduced to Google by a friend in the late 90s whilst at uni. It was super fast and gave relevant results. Fast-forward to 2024, and Google Search is one of the examples given by Wikipedia's entry for 'Enshittification' 😥

This place is getting a little lively! 🎉

Looking forward to resuming development on this project. A lot of PRs and feature requests to go over. 👀 github.com/colinwilson/...

hmmm. I feel a spike in VPN subscriptions on horizon. 🕶️

Every time I try one of the many new and fancy databases available today, I find myself gently grimacing and eventually returning to postgres (and sqlite occasionally).

Note to self on JOINs in SQL 🧠

After a long hiatus, I plan to revisit LotusDocs during the upcoming holidays 🎄. Thanks to all the users and for all the stars. ✨

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dashboard I once built to analyse the volume and origin of email spam sent to my email address.

Bobcat! 😹

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,353,754!

This is when Email peaked... Everything after this was downhill. 😿

If anyone's wondering how things are going on the hellsite: This setting was just turned on by default for everyone. if you still have an account with content, go log in and disable this so Grok can't use your tweets as training data. Direct link: twitter.com/settings/gro...

A desperate attempt to stoke fear. No such thing as a "supermajority" in the British constitution. That's an American thing.

Every once in a while I turn off my browsers' ad blocker 🚫, tracking protection 🛡️ and dns blacklist apps 📃 just to experience the current state of the Internet. Disappointment. Every single time! I honestly don't know how those who browse without those protections cope.

I'm reached a point with Twitter (X) where I'd rather accept this and have no access than change my tracking settings or even bother to Google what valid workarounds I'm sure exist.

Microsoft Edge has been sitting (unused) on my Win11 system for over a year. I don't use the Edge browser but never felt the need to uninstall it for any reason. Yesterday, Windows update installed Copilot. Today Edge (and Copilot) have been uninstalled ✋!

Game over! Hands down THE highlighter I've encountered. Highlights ballpoint, fineliner, pencil and even some fountain pen ink without so much of a smudge. I only wish they came in pastel colours.

Compared to the erasers I've used before, this thing (Tombow MONO) is legit sorcery 🪄! Can't believe I only discovered the existence of plastic erasers this last year.

oh how I long for a reasonably priced pair of earphones that actually stay in while running. 😢. 20+ years now and it seems my only choices are astronomically priced, custom molded brands.