Out of curiosity - if you're starting a new project, how do you come up with names? In particular, internal names whilst it's being developed. These tend to get everywhere in the project - eg repo names, Java package names, Go module names, etc - and so I'm curious how people choose them...

So, at what point is the US officially in a civil war? Because if it's not "The president ordering one state to send the military to invade another state" then I'm not sure what is...

Is anyone else currently plagued with ladybirds? Or just us?

Skittles are made with real fruit juice. There are 5 different fruit flavours in a bag. I therefore put forth the suggestion that a bag counts as your 5-a-day...

In case anyone needs a reason to vote against the Tories, the fact that they're now making promises to restrict your human rights if they win should be a big one. After all, there really is no other reason to leave the thing that protects your human rights... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wordle 1,568 3/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ok, I've never seen that before...

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the very first people who should stop getting paid in a government shutdown are the people responsible for it. That is, Congress and the President. They can afford to miss a couple of paychecks much more than the people who are actually getting hurt by this...

Random #accessibility question. Does anyone know of any good pages that can be used for testing good, bad and outright missing alt text on images?

I'm curious - how is the Bad Place managing to just get worse and worse? Surely there's a limit at some point?

Wordle 1,549 2/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I actually thought I had it then!

Just seen a YouTube video titled "Charlie Kirk's widow voted to continue his legacy", and it kinda feels like a threat...

Re-watching (New) Dr Who from the start, and I've just reached Pompeii. Which means I've just seen Peter Capaldi buying a TARDIS. But this isn't the twelfth doctor - just someone else who looks exactly like him.

I've been pondering a new idea - basically a single player #MUD game. By having a MUD experience you don't need to worry about art and sound assets, which means you can make a much more involved, complex world than if it's graphical.

So Farage has been going on about how Angela Raynor didn't pay enough stamp duty - by mistake. And that story is all over the news. It turns out that Farage has been deliberately fiddling his earnings from being a GB News presenter so he could pay less tax. And this is hardly being reported at all.

It's that time of year again...

We all know about the racists putting up St. George's flags around the UK to indicate that there are racists there. Including putting them up in Scotland and Wales. Today, I've just seen a St. Andrew's flag in a local town. That is, the Scottish flag. In the West Midlands! They really are idiots..

It's happening again... Google Trends for "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

All the people on here hoping that Trump had died - not only is wishing death on someone, no matter how awful, a really bad thing, but you're also missing something. If he's dead, he can't be brought to answer for his actions. Whether it's the pedophilia, the authoritarianism, or whatever else...

I've been re-watching #DoctorWho recently. This morning it was Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords. Cooking dinner tonight and I've just realised - the alarm on the oven has the same pattern as the drum beats!

D&D special item idea. A dog's tuggy toy attached to an immovable rod. If your dog is anything like ours that'll be hours of fun...

I'm conflicted (again). I really want to get on with my Goodreads clone. It's the default personal library tool that people use, and - let's be blunt - it's rubbish. :( But at the same time, I've been getting back into MUDding again (on Discworld) and that's making me want to build my own MUD too.

Assuming ChatGPT is correct, trans people have been responsible for 0.11% of mass shootings in the last decade. Not 11%. Not 1.1%. 4 mass shootings out of 3,561 were done by trans people. 4 mass shootings in a decade were done by trans people. There's NO reason for this response except bigotry!☹️😡

Farage is now actively campaigning on removing human rights from people. He wants to leave the ECHR and repeal the UK Human Rights act - which has all kinds of knock on effects - and replace it with a "British Bill of Rights" that doesn't mention human rights at all and only applies to UK citizens.

For anyone in doubt about how vile the Daily Mail is, they've come out in favour of Farage and his plans for "US-style raids to track down illegal immigrants living in Britain". Now, lest we forget, these "US-style raids" mean kidnapping people from the streets and either deporting them to foreign

For a couple of years now, every morning with breakfast I've done NYT Wordle and then Mini Crossword. My wife and I see who can do the crossword faster. Today, the mini crossword is no longer available without paying! ☹️

Can anyone suggest a decent article (or multiple articles) on setting up OpenTelemetry in Node with Zipkin and Prometheus, integrating with Fastify and exporting the metrics via a route in the existing Fastify server? Because I can't work it all out from the docs, and the various LLMs are useless...

The slogan on the side of a box of Shredded Wheat says "Your Bowl Your Way". Which is a really bad marketing slogan, since if I get any say in it then my way wouldn't include Shredded Wheat...

Reddit is huge. But when I signed up, it was just a small Digg clone. Bluesky is huge. But when I signed up, it was just a small Twitter clone. Slack is huge. But when I first signed up, it was just another IRC clone. So what if your idea already exists. If you think you can do it better, do so.

I've just discovered an android app called Z-Machine, which is all of the Zork games packaged up. The first of them even runs in DOSBox - not tried the others yet. And it turns out that Android is a really bad interface for these games. ☹️

I hate this time of year. For context, my wife and I both have longish hair. I was putting some laundry on, and I saw what I thought was a clump of knotted hair on the floor. So I went to pick it up and put it in the bin. And it moved. On its own. Turns out, it was a Huge spider! ☹️

So, I've started watching @criticalrole.bsky.social from the very start. Because obviously a show where each series is longer than all of TNG-era Star Trek combined is exactly what I've got time for...

It's engrained in me from the days before centralised social media -e from hanging out on (and hosting) various phpBB or YABB or similar sites - that a set of initials ending "BB" is likely a bulletin board system. Which is exactly what my brain thinks whenever I see one of these...

#iPhone users. My wife has just upgraded to an iPhone 16, and she can't log in to the #eBay app with it. The credentials are definitely correct, and work on her old phone. She can also log in on the web browser on the new phone just fine - it's just the app that's broken. Any ideas?

Normally, YouTube ads are unskippable for 10-15 seconds. Sometimes it goes up to 20-30 seconds. And sometimes only 5 seconds. Today, they're all 50+seconds!

Age verification?

I'm really amazed that Apple is so popular given how difficult it is to actually buy anything from them! 😠

Does anyone happen to have a sample message regarding the Online Safety Act to send to your MP that will work on theyworkforyou.com? In particular, where your MP is a Tory who is in favour of the act... ☹️

People who design flat pack furniture - do you deliberately put the screws just close enough to other things so the allen key can't freely spin?

Anyone in the UK who wants to petition against the UK government forcing you to give your personal details to unknown foreign (often American) companies in order to access many sites, here you go... Repeal the Online Safety Act - Petitions share.google/dRc1jIZCfzqJ...

Apparently phishers are using SendGrid to send fake emails pretending to be from SendGrid. Which means that the From address and all the links in the email look legit - because they all correctly point to SendGrid... Very sneaky...

I've been watching The Rook And The Raven on YouTube, playing through some classic CYOA game books. Maze, and now Scarlett Sorcerer. And I've been thinking bad things.

I've been using Cursor to write some Go code, and it's currently fighting between gofumpt and golangci-lint. Until it eventually gave up, and I just told it where to put the one blank line that would fix it all...

Time for #StrangeNewWorlds season 3. And I've just worked out how to install the Paramount+ app on the TV instead of using it through Sky. And, I must say, compared to this suddenly the ITVX app doesn't seem so awful... 😟

We've got our very own Rover in the garden... (I'm curious how many, if any, will get that reference...)

Does anyone have any suggestions for getting the glue from an Amazon package - including some cardboard - out of a carpet? In particular, ways that won't damage the carpet. We've scraped off as much as we can, but this stuff is super sticky!

Ok, who left the outdoor heating on?

Someone help me out here. We know Trump is a pedophile. Just look at the beauty pageant stuff. We know Trump is a rapist. Just look at the convictions. We know Trump was good friends with Epstein. Just look at the photos. So how could anyone ever think his name wasn't in that file?

If Vader had killed Sidious, but in doing so had turned Luke - so Vader was now the master and Luke the apprentice - and then "Somehow Palpatine Returned", what would this mean for the Rule Of Two? There would now be 3 Sith, but nobody had broken the rule...

So, apparently in #StardewValley getting the Stone Owl appear on your farm is incredibly rare... I've got two of them... I've no idea how that's even happened!