I don’t have enough crayons to explain why data centres in space with current tech is a ridiculous idea so I’m just to quietly finish my Guinness. 🍻

Back when I was at Spotify working on mobile I had to design the caching. So if you ever wondered why Spotify takes up so much disk space 👋 I’m the reason you’re still able to play that old Rogan podcast you half listened to 6 months ago for 3 minutes. You’re welcome internet.

Microsoft was hit with a 15Tbps DDoS attack yesterday[1] but that's not the headline. Or the return to UDP-based amplification techniques. Anyone remember DNS resolver attacks? ヽ(｀Д´)ﾉ [1] - www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Underwriting rapidly depreciating computers stacked in giant sheds so that sama can pimp fake girlfriend subs? There are arguably better ways for the gov to pump $1T into the economy. investinglive.com/stock-market...

Unexpected log output from Claude Code’s new cloud infra. So many possible explanations, none of them a good idea.

There’s a PFY at #vodafone shitting themselves at the minute, desperately trying to remember which uplink cable they shouldn’t have unplugged.

PragProg is running a 48-hour flash sale — 45% off all books with code flashsale That includes my book Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir Sale runs Sept 18–20, 9am CT Grab it here: pragprog.com #pragprog

When you go on holiday with a book on the history of statistical theory. Don’t expect your 6yo to understand the appeal. 🏖️🤓

It was 12C today and I managed to get sun burnt. I’m never going to be able to retire somewhere nice.

Quiet patience is not my biggest strength so I’m a very happy camper now that I’ve finally gotten my hands on @acroll.bsky.social’s new book.

This is clearly beaver propaganda. The real headline should be “Illegal workers steal $1M from local economy”. www.voxnews.al/english/koso...

Apparently the CIA has a CTO. Did they swap waterboarding for leet code interviews? “Tell us what we need or we’ll make you whiteboard the median of two sorted arrays!”

Everybody knows that “hardware is hard” so why does it feel like so many startups spend more time on packaging to be like Apple instead of the product? I don’t want magnets on boxes, I want whatever you promised in the marketing.

If games really influenced young people, munching pills in a dark room to repetitive electronic music would be a real thing.

Christmas is always a special time of the year for devs when they get another opportunity to explain to relatives wtf it is they do.