I just attempted to close the cupboard door in the wrong direction. It rebounded against its hinges, smacking me on my forehead. 💢 How's your Monday morning so far?

I recently found out about a novel concept called "negative space programming". Isn't it design by contract?

I'm proud of myself. I made some progress in learning how to handle conflict, and I'm no longer restricted to my two default responses: shut up and build resentment, or all-out hostility.

We want free speech so that we can protect ourselves from autocracy and fascism, you want free speech so you can drop a racial slur and follow it up with "it's just a joke don't get offended" we are not the same

If you are a Java developer (and you happen to use a recent Java version), watch this series! It's informative, and its office-comedy-drama format will make you laugh along the way. (No spoilers, but the final revelation took me by surprise!)

Let's respond to hate with love. Let's respond to love with big love. To those who are anti-transgender, Chiitan isn't asking you to understand transgender people. I ask that you quietly watch over us. Transgender people just want to be happy with the people they love🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

There is only one hard problem in computer science, as Pixie is helping me naming things.

Me: Time to close the backyard door. Pixie: Time to wake up and go outside! I guess I will leave the door open for a while.

I read posts of people asking «please do not perceive me», and I'm unable to relate to that feeling in the slightest way. The trouble Is I used to feel the same. However, I suppressed that feeling so well that I can't even remember what it felt like.

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

I wonder why the parcel I was expecting by last Monday is taking so long... Oh, I forgot to actually buy it. That explains it.

The Internet technician has arrived!

I'm a wildlife photographer (taking pictures from afar, as Pixie doesn't like to be perceived).

Optional.ofNullable(arg).orElseThrow(() -> new Exception(String.format("arg must not be null"))); 🤔 If only Java allowed a less verbose way to, say, require objects not to be null!

Sabbipode, enjoy the last few days of summer before it gets too cold for you to be outside!

pros and ( :: )

Once again, I left the house for a few hours and, when I was back, Pixie was closed in the wardrobe (she likes to get in undetected whenever I open it).

I’m increasingly convinced that the neurotype ratios out in the world evolved that way to be ideal. It’s probably optimal to have lots of people in agreement about what’s good enough, with the occasional people shaking things up with radical new ideas.

In a deal brokered by expert peace negotiators, questions such as “how are you?” will now be answered with “fine, thanks” and no more than one sentence of additional, low-stakes information.

Fellow autistic friends, I believe we can easily follow 4 out of 5 of these tips and be 80% highly likable. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/t...

What if we used 100% of our brain? www.newsweek.com/human-evolut...

Here we go again 🙄 we have written an open letter detailing how incredibly misguided is the ChatControl proposal: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Tell me you have a cat without telling me you have a cat.

I used to own a suitcase.

Not to mention the existential dread which comes with a domain: having to set up a website, a blog, and keep posting regularly.

Happy International Sudoku Day 🔢🧩 Why not challenge your colleagues or students to a #Sudoku puzzle today? Let’s keep the numbers flowing and the brains buzzing! #NationalSudokuDay #MathsIsFun #Maths #Mathematics

French friends, are you telling me that your government losing a confidence vote is a rare occurrence? In Italian politics, this usually happens at least once a year.

Something's fishy. #sudoku #swordfish

It's all fun and games until Jupiter randomly decides to knock Earth off from its orbit, and send It soaring into interstellar space.

Sometimes one of our cats just goes down to the basement and screams a bunch, and you know girl I get it.

HAPPY SILKSONG EVE!!!!!

Who is more ridiculous? The silly cat, patiently waiting for someone to open the wardrobe, or the sillier human, who answers her silent call and lets her inside?

if you like doing sodoku you should really try sudoku.coach if you havent already

> Wants to eat an apricot > Washes it > Opens it in half > Eats the first half (the one without the stone stuck in it) > Gets lost in thought 💭 > Picks the stone from the second half > Gets more and more spaced out 🌈 > Eats the stone 😖 This already happened more than once 😦

German whispers are absolutely great, and I love them. Renban lines, however, give me anxiety. I panic whenever I see a purple line. #sudoku #variant

Making no effort *at all* to make trans people feel safe would deserve a visit from the Trans Allyship Revocation Patrol.

Whenever I'm looking for something in the house, and failing to find it, I'm a real-life implementation of a Bloom filter.

Dear slimy slug, merrily strolling on my kitchen counter, how did you get up there without leaving any traces? Could some cat have helped you? (The slug has been "rescued" with two chopsticks and put into the grass on the far side of the backyard.)

Self-awareness moment of the day: I guess I'm paranoid. I've never realised this before, as I don't think people are conspiring against me. However, I always have a guilty conscience, mostly out of fear of behaving badly and not noticing.

This looks good¹, as it isn't going to share *any* personal information with the target website. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages... ¹ Assuming that age verification is actually required, but let's not enter that debate.

programming is not *just* coding !!

This is pure gold, I laughed from the beginning till the end! Everything you need to know when upgrading to the next Java LTS version (actually...), presented as a short, office comedy-drama. Good job upgrading to JDK 25, Peter! 👀

I'm so glad I'm working on a modern Java code base, with generics and none of those unsafe casts from Object. 😑

**IMPORTANT**: each method should have AI-generated documentation 😭😭😭

My dear Sabbipode, I would like to sit *right there* and eat my breakfast.

You're not giving me much to go on, but here you go!

Tired: asking where to find <thing> in the house or where to put it back. Wired: "If you were a <description of the thing>, where would you like to stay?"

Alt text: For panel comic in two blocks Top block is labeled “Introverts” In 2 panels a Bivalve says “no, I will not open up” Second Block is labeled: “Extroverts” 2 Pandlsd, diet panel is an otter. Sedona pale of Otter lifting Rock (Subtext: otters use rocks to break open bivalves)