Where were you when @musicologyduck.bsky.social was kidnapped?

we shall continue to mope until morale improves

Said my piece on X in the Laravel subreddit, I really hope we can start migrating away as a community and it was so good to see so MANY people calling it out for what it is already in the comments.

TIL You can force a browser to continue to load a page which has an SSL error by typing "thisisunsafe"

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

Ruin a band by changing one letter Poo Fighters

The fault in our SPAs

Thanks Ollama

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I just finished up a call with someone who had vibe-coded an error into a revenue-generating application that cost the company 6 figures in (fortunately recoverable) lost revenue. It's recoverable because two developers with a combined 40 years of experience managed to unwind the problem.

Which out of bluesky or mastodon is bouba and which is kiki?

Seem to be buying a lot of beyondco.de software lately. Well done team, very nice stuff.

Wrote some code today just to feel something.

My experimental single-user PDS has a name! Meet ☁️ Cirrus, the lightest PDS in the Atmosphere npm create pds@latest

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Happy attempt to distract and soothe the dog so it doesn’t wake the baby until the early hours day to all those who celebrate.

Some guy tried to rob a local store while brandishing an old wooden door. Just completely unhinged.

Blackbird in the style of Radiohead

Bluesky has made it folks. People are now dunking on PHP with ignorant and outdated takes for no apparent reason.

And if you like Teams, you'll love ENTMOOT! No meeting lasts less than 18 hours now.

I love thinking about attribution errors in this context & I believe skill-based beliefs is the right frame! That is what our observational study of developers suggested back in 2023: that fraught, dehumanizing skill-based identity beliefs can make every change from AI... osf.io/preprints/ps...

Even history is only green-lighting reboots these days.

The ghosts of Christmas leftovers, past, present and future.

Decadent dessert implies the existence of centurient dessert and millenient dessert.

¡Bienvinedos! The time of New Year's resolutions is almost upon us. In a world of lazy AI platitudes, practice writing unhinged messages to friends so they know it's 100% you. Don't fall victim to an eggshell white and grey existence. Start in Spanish. End in Klingon. Keep it spicy. Qapla!

Electronics makers: I have received a very basic breadboard kit. I want to learn from the ground up, ideally alongside my pre-teenaged child. What are your go to resources?

Wherever you are today, whatever you’re doing, I genuinely hope it’s a good one.

One use case of facial recognition I can get behind is filtering images of certain individuals out of my feed.

I genuinely believe most companies would be better in the long-term if they deliberately avoid adding any GenAI features at all. Don't talk about it. Don't add it. Just keep making the product good for your customers in the normal non-GenAI way. Ignore your competitors and stay the course.

TIL that "hospital" in Swedish is "sjukhus" (sick-house). Don't try to pronounce it though. However you think it's pronounced I guarantee you it's wrong.

Anything is a Christmas movie if you watch it at Christmas time.

Only just getting around to trying @laravel.com Nightwatch, and I have to say it's a little bit magic. Just a delight to use, and immediately telling me helpful things. Well done @jessarcher.bsky.social and team!

Almost every Youtube ad I am served now is weird extremely low quality slop. Text only, for obscure local businesses, with no sound except a terrible AI generated orchestral backing track which bears no apparent stylistic relevance to the content being advertised, and is musically just awful.

“Do you validate parking?”

It was right there the whole time. I can’t believe Jerry beat me to it.

email is post-post

IMPORTANT UPDATE: the chinese sellers on aliexpress use the word "medieval" when they mean "mid-century"

Your magical lantern-like steadiness could convince Santa's elves to unionise

“… Lost, lonely, lifeless, laconically lazy Marooned, marooned I'm on a lagoon I am an island I am an isthmus I come from Bermuda I don't believe in Christmas look out oh sinister holy man look out oh righteous Bolshevik I care no longer for your petty problems I make my own decisions now …”

uiua has got to be the weirdest programming language I’ve ever seen: www.uiua.org

Re-write a song in the passive voice “The sheriff was involved in a shooting. The deputy was also hit by gunfire.”

Maslow’s hierarchy of preferred coffee mugs

Currently building a work playlist called "Chunky Strings". Any suggestions?

The problem with “just one more thing on my list” is that lists aren’t lists, they are recursive trees. And when you pop a node off that tree, it might have a near infinite tree of other tasks nested under it.

That cancelled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.

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Wondering if I could craft an esoteric language in the vane of @dylanbeatt.ie's rockstarlang called "Adversarial Poetry"

@absurdcompliments.bsky.social Whatcha got for me?

What is happening to me? Wife was counting out loud and eldest and I responded with “six seven” in unison.

What do you mean that's cheating? I call that breakfast.