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We can‘t be entirely sure who shouted at the 2025 registered Tesla “Did Grok teach you how to drive?” But based on the driving behaviour I observed, it was a valid question.

If you can’t say anything nice, say it as a two-part question.

I don’t know why we’re letting UI/UX slide backwards in time to recreate fucking Zork.

As a non-USAin, growing up I had absolutely no idea what thanksgiving was. It was some strange American holiday rest of the Anglosphere didn't have. That was until 1993, when Wednesday Addams finally explained to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Xh...

The mood earlier this week when one of my direct reports tried to explain CSS to me.

I endorse this message. xslt.rip

The team was chatting about favourite movie quotes last week. I mentioned that my favourite, particularly when this are a little tough at work or home, was the wise words of Gunnery Sgt. Apone. m.youtube.com/watch?v=woB1...

/me suddenly realises he’s on call this week. So yeah, that rapture is still happening today right?

Today I learnt about Lego Quatro. The bricks were twice the length, height and width of Lego Duplo bricks and four times the length, height and width of traditional Lego bricks. The line was disconnected in 2006.

I gave the “Testing is just Risk Management” speech again. My apologies to all involved.

I know self-help Singh. 😭 But I was the one that organised the meeting. youtu.be/OlR0ajHHsKM?...

Awesome news everyone one, my house is becoming a museum! Think we have at least three or four of these in the house, and a few models not shown.

Slightly diminish a band: Not really better than Ezra

Growing up in New Zealand I always assumed that Cicadas and Monarch Butterflies were introduced, much like gorse and Crowded House. But no! It turns out they’re both classed as natives.

You know what this means? The very hungry caterpillar is in fact a moth?!

I have a PhP in Computer Science

Opens Outlook this morning, and sees Copilot has been added to it. My first thought...

~This is a placeholder for a rant about calling software engineers “Individual Contributors” (ICs) that are working in and with complex Sociotechnical systems.~

This evening I discovered I lived and worked for _years_ less than 1.5 kms from where the music video for “Never gonna give you up” was filmed.

Think my subconscious is trying to tell me something. After every AI thing I've read in the past ~2 weeks, I've had The Mountain Goats' Hostages humming in the back of my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4o...

“Early May bank holiday” implies the existence of a middle AND late May bank holiday. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Current mood: m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Ou...

It was an important, character building life lesson for us all in the cinema that day. War is hell, Death comes to us all, and Hasbro needs to sell more toys. My Transformers: the Movie (1986) review/remembrance.

So here’s the pitch: Nick Cave doing a cover of Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club. What’s it gonna take for this to happen and the costs?

Anna Coddington popped into my head last week, and I had completely missed she released a new album. annacoddington.bandcamp.com/album/te-wha... So if you’re interested to hear what would happen if Prince wrote a bilingual Māori/English album. Here’s your chance.

Hilarious. Just had a spam call saying “Hello, hello. Please add me to WhatsApp so we can talk about work” Who falls for this stuff?

I could have written this post 15 years ago, 10 years ago and 5 years ago with two small amends; Pressure not adrenaline, and I'm not embarrassed by it. I suspect if you asked around, you could fill a support group of folks dealing with this.

I want git blame for google docs. I've no recollection of writing this section in the document, although I'm 80% I did. I'd just like the confirmation that I wrote this (first draft) garbage.

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

post your favorite pokemon, wrong answers only

My Pumpkins? Smashing!

This is your quarterly reminder that “No” is a complete sentence. You’re welcome, and have a great day.

IMHO this is the wrong question. The right question is; what risk model are you using for software quality and assurance, and how? For example, are you using the “three lines of defence” model or as one thing else.

"Oh no I'm not exceptional" he says bashfully. "Oh you are" She replies "Lots of people take exception to you!"

“In space, no one can hear you scream. On the internet, no one can hear your nuance”

A “storm” that has category 3 hurricane winds is about to hit Ireland. They can’t call it a hurricane because it doesn’t fit the definition, but there is no meteorological definition for what type of storm this is. In fact this seems like a first of its kind storm system.

Allyship is the DEI initiative that can’t be stopped. Together, we can — and will — make a difference.

Damn you @jamesgunn.bsky.social that character deserved a far better outcome! If I ever find you, so $deity help me, I’m gonna buy you a beverage of your choice to congratulate a job well done for creature commandos. *shakes fist angrily*

This an accurate recreation of walking anywhere near an Australian Magpie nest.

Current mood: “Here’s to another goddam new year” m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANB...

The pitch: A YouTube series where we kidnap the CMOs of FMCGs and filming them trying to open their own product’s packaging.

Last night I realised I’ve become this guy. “It was at the start of the second browser war, if I recall correctly. We didn’t have the fancy tooling you have today. Oh no. Now if you wanted a browser developer console, you could only get it as an extension in Firefox in thousand and hickerty six…”

But the cancellation doesn’t arrive in your inbox until 7:03am.

It’s the run up to Christmas 2001(?), and I’m working for the org that manages unemployment payments for everyone in the country. I make a small snow globe in flash for the intranet homepage. I use a particle effect for it. The effect uses so much memory it takes out all the call centres.

Fuck it! You’re all getting t-shirts. They say “Stop tying your goddam content publishing process to your software deployments”.

This is an absolutely brilliant visualisation, youtu.be/FpaoCUEhZJM?...

Thanks to Sayre's law.... "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

"He did not, in fact, succeed when surrounded by asshats"