The other day I saw a video with a historian who specializes in Victorian times, who swore that the Muppets version best captures the spirit of Dickens' original. I guess it's my favorite because I've loved every Muppet movie I've ever seen so far.

we have a really good dev rel engineer here throwing himself to (i would say) a small number of very loud, hungry wolves because the new ceo did (i would also say) a very weird announcement that sounded like it was written in 2024 by an ai startup

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Omg my friend has this. She calls left and right "direction 1" and "direction 2" resp when driving. Dir 1 is left because if you get in a collision and you get hit from dir 1, it's your fault, and if you get hit from dir 2 (the right) it's their fault and that is ACTUALLY her reasoning.

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

If you look up the movie on IMDb, the rating isn't out of 10 but 11. RIP Rob Reiner who was behind some of the greatest movies ever made.

I have always wanted to visit New York City but now I guess I will pass on it. There are plenty of cool places elsewhere in the world to go - I will go there instead.

It's so weird. I'll tell people that North Korea is surprisingly good at cyber warfare and they'll look at me with this glazed look and even I'll not quite believe what I've just said, even though I know it's true - from sources I trust, like Marcus.

If lamb chops aren't supposed to be eaten with your hands why do they have handles

It's useful to note that the incidence of "some degree of dyslexia" is about 10%. Not all dyslexics are helped by the same font features. I know one who strongly prefers monospaced fonts, which is counter-intuitive. My #1 recc is DO NOT FULLY JUSTIFY. Ragged right helps a lot.

In case you needed reminders for why De La Soul is the greatest to ever do it, they are the reason for one of MF Doom‘s only televised performances (also this track rules) youtu.be/D99Rl606zY4?...

You will be visited by three spirits.

when i was invited to the full panel interview for my job, i turned it down i sent an email to the hiring manager & architect, saying i was honored that they would even consider me for this role of a lifetime, but i didn’t think i had what it takes just yet

I am having a lot of fun with #adventofcode this year. Doing Python, and so far - seven days - the whole thing runs in under 700ms. Many of them under 20ms.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc

I was at the Guggenheim in Bilbao just last month. The building is awesome, both from the inside and the outside.

I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

"come to our training about targeted government retaliation! but first, give all your contact information to a giant subpoenable tech company!" what are we doing here

A perfect CVSS 10 🧑🏻‍🍳💋 CVE-2025-55182: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components The vuln is in versions 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0: react-server-dom-webpack react-server-dom-parcel react-server-dom-turbopack Upgrade immediately!

it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

Almost Advent of Code time again!

when you call console.log() this is what happens

The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Snert 💚

Fish have committed credit card fraud

something i have tried to explain a few times, when people see crashes (panics, asserts, segfaults, whatever) as "bad": when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need

They should ask this about every movie. Why isn’t Pennywise in Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere and Diane Lane?

One of the most interesting recent privacy developments is the deployment of big two-hop IP blinding VPNs by companies like Apple and Google. These systems are designed to ensure that even those companies can’t link web requests to IP addresses.

I try not to comment on American or even Dutch politics on my timeline and keep it in replies, but if true, it's shocking to me how brazen these people are in violating the separation of powers. It's so wild that anyone in their position would even consider doing this.

that's right ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass

I keep forgetting how great Terry Pratchett really was, and it's a delight to rediscover. I mean the phrase "face like a blind carpenter's thumb" is just pure poetry to me.

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

One of the things I learned teaching search literacy is that search sucks because the world wide web doesn't exist anymore. The blogs that held it together with links are paywalled, big publishers paywall and don't link, the platforms users post to don't link. You're left with reddit and Wikipedia.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

One thing I'm noticing about ChatGPT is it seems to be engineered to keep you engaged in conversation with it. That's weird to me because the more people talk to it, the more money it costs OpenAI. Apparently there's value in keeping the conversation going somehow, but I can't see what it would be.

I was curious and looked him up on Wikipedia - they sentenced him to over 11,000 years in prison

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”

Follow Matt for interesting election and cyber security content - and cool photos. Also his post reminds me of this interesting case en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_w...

god dammit

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

I mean I guess it's technically true - huff a high enough concentration and you won't ever suffer any of those again.

I still miss the j key

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"