RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

I'm doing an online course for a framework I'm about to use a lot over the next few months: the trainer has just reached routing He's created a route for unmatched requests that returns a web page that says 404 Not Found. Not a 404, an actual page Imma need to step away from the computer for a bit

I should not have to spend 20 minutes trying to explain why you shouldn't put data specific to one customer in the database for another customer's, even if the data isn't designed to be shown to the customer. (I may have just reached the level of frustration that causes my wife to check on me)

This is how we do it going forwards @benstewart.bsky.social

Ooh, just realised I forgot to open my posh advent calendar this morning. Surprise mid-morning chocolate!

Have reached the point of writing my self review where I'm feeling the urge to answer the question: "Are there any skills or capabilities that would help you moving forward?" with "Something to help my humility" If I wasn't so close to the deadline I'd be walking away for a few hours

A tool I used has responded to the major update to Jackson with "we should wait until half our users have migrated" which is baffling. Because as one of those users, my choices are to find a replacement to the tool or roll my own. And I won't be putting effort in to swap back in 6 months

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Puffin Leopard Sidewinder Sea Lion Humpback Whale

One of our junior devs still hasn't spotted that Claude leaves fully qualified types in the code sometimes. Still, it serves as a good marker for "pay extra careful attention when reviewing this code" I guess.

Is anyone else on bluesky interested in games for peace education? I'm thinking of setting up a feed - if you know people or existing feeds of relevance please tag them in a reply. #peace #education #GBL #SeriousGames #PeaceEducation #edusky #academicSky

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

Some fuckwit on the radio is suggesting "airport style scanners" at train stations and people are treating him like it's not patently insane. Have none of these people used a train during the rush hour? It would be cheaper to put an armed guard on every single train. And no less ridiculous

What's it like inside your head?

My Nazi tattoo seems to be raising a lot of questions already answered by my Nazi tattoo.

Braquage! #Louvre

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee. I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

Mood

Wait, did anybody tell @garius.bsky.social about the KPop Demon Hunters singalongs this weekend? uk.singkpopdemonhunters.com

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Sometimes I really wonder about people. It's not just this thread, it's the way he leaps back in the next couple of days. The follow-up threads are actually worse. "This tool proved itself a bad idea, so I swore off it. Today I shall use it again anyway!"

Just watched KPop Demon Hunters, largely because @garius.bsky.social keeps going on about it. If it was any more self aware, it would be hunted down by a Bladerunner. If you have any sense of fun at all, you should probably watch it. It's like the best Disney Princess movie turned up to 12

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I feel like this skeet sums up a significant part of the history of the world. Sorry folks, some of us do feel at least a bit guilty that our ancestors were like this.

Wow, an Actual Play of Skyrealms of Jorune. That's not something I expected to find. By @itsquinns.bsky.social no less. @incarcosa.bsky.social might be intrigued, I know @wulfboyraff.bsky.social will.

Last month, I gave a talk at the Computer Conservation Society on Lore Harp. Founder of Vector, she was a key figure in early computing. It's now online. I explore both her incredible story, and how sexism (then and now) has led to her being almost entirely forgotten www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVc...

I'm not saying Pandas are @wulfboyraff.bsky.social 's spirit animal. But I'm not saying they're not ...

No court can erase the history of trans people existing. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Had a flick through this at UKGE. It looked like it had some good potential. Some obvious influences, but some a bit less obvious too. I didn't have a good excuse to pick it up right now, but maybe you do.

even pirating the new HP is unacceptable. stop legitimising JKR's nazi works and platforming her nazi views. LET THE IP DIE. no watching, streaming, pirating, reviews, deep dives, fix-it fics, fanart, merch, HP tourism. NONE OF IT. DONT ENGAGE with the IP of Harry Potter ever again.

One is tall, the other is small.

Sod it. I haven't done a Columbothon in a while. Reply with: - A screengrab of a donation of goods/cash (ANY amount) to PAWS - Name of an actor of your choice. I will give you a fake plot summary of a Columbo episode in which they are the murderer. Reskeet to spread the word. Kitties need food.

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

Trans women are women.

Well that's hilarious.

Very accurate

This looks interesting.

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

If you won't buy this crap even if it does get unbanned, RT.

I see gold is doing quite well today in comparison to the Dow and NASDAQ. I wonder why that could be?

You probably didn't realise you needed to read a full military breakdown of the assault on Toad Hall today, but fortunately I'm here to help you.

And the pope shits in the wood ...

Just read a CV were somebody claimed to be practicing SAFe and Extreme Programming at the same time. We can argue about whether SAFe can be described as Agile or not (I lied; it can't), but the idea that there is any world in which it's compatible with XP is just risible. Maybe I should interview

Fuck the arseholes who enable this shit.

And ye maye aske yowerself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And ye maye aske yowerself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my fayre castel!' And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my swift goshawk!'

Please can everyone listen to Geek Gods: Sir Ian Livingstone at 4pm and midnight please? Tell everyone about it too. Radio 4 Extra : BBC Sounds thereafter.

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No, I didn't "miss" the meeting yesterday. I rejected it. And messaged the meeting organiser to explain why the meeting wasn't necessary. If the two people who (mistakenly) thought they needed to talk to me went ahead and had it without me, that's their problem.

"People who like to sound tough back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny."