Years ago at a job the sales team would ask "is it possible to have X feature or Y feature added" and I would respond "anything is possible with enough time and resources". My manager hated it not because it was an awful non-answer, but because the sales team might think anything was possible 😂

I have worked for 11 different software companies over the last 14 years. Each had their own challenges, but the biggest ones were never development speed.

I have an Electron app that apparently crashes on Linux arm64 so I need to debug this myself. I have both a MacBook and a Windows Surface that are arm64. Apparently people have messed up their Surface by trying to dual boot them. Do I use a VM? On which machine?

Does @npmx.dev have package dependents? Couldn't see it in the UI and it's one of the few reasons I ever went to npmjs!

We had our house well water tested and the results are in... it's not safe to drink without boiling. Some bacteria levels are too high. Maybe caused by the recent heavy rain and flooding but I guess UVC treatment might be required. Maybe a good idea to call in the experts!

I never pay for extra insurance with rental cars because I have my own yearly policy which covers the excess. I didn't pay enough attention when picking up a rental car today and opted for not paying extra and now I'm reading the documents I see the maximum I would need to pay is €23,000 😱😱😱😱

@tolin.ski loved the @syntax.fm video about your Electron app. Are you using the @sentry/electron SDK? Also, what do you know about international digital sales taxes and how horrible it makes selling apps these days?

Finally got the fibre installed and the usability vs 3G is night and day, especially at peak hours. 1Gbps symetric was only €31/month! Now I just need to get a ladder so I can remove the overhead copper wires the installer couldn't be bothered to remove 🤦🏻‍♂️

Goodbye winter!

Love how Quickbooks accounting software now has AI transaction classification that's useless and they've also messed up manual classification in the process.

I love any country where McDonald's/Burger King serve beer at the drive through

I'm working all week on 3G with an antenna up a pole outside until our fibre gets installed next week. Can't even get HSPA+ and AVERAGE latency is 600ms. Might even have to telephone in for meetings 😂

Rather stupidly booked standby tickets not realising it's school holidays so all the flights are full. At this point I've already been at the airport for 12 hours and in 90 minutes I'll know if I'm on the next flight or if I'll be here for another 18 hours 😭 Lesson learned!

This plane gives me 15 minutes of free wifi but I can get another 15 minutes by disabling mac address privacy. Enabling and disabling mac privacy doesn't seem to get me any more time 😔 I can use my other 2 devices to get another hour of free wifi on top of that 🫠

I regret not bringing a jacket 😆

Our broadband provider says they can offer 10Gbps but if I upgrade all our networking equipment it's apparently going to cost an extra 2-4 watts PER PORT used vs 2.5Gbps 🤯

Github Actions giving me really actionable feedback today

At least ww3 will have a memecoin

I really need a Lotus Emira in my life

I spent half a day trying to work out why I couldn't generate the specific 16bit CRC in some communication examples in a specification document. I emailed the doc author and they told me the document was generated by AI so not to trust the examples 🤦‍♂️

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The flight we needed out of Vienna today was overbooked and a hotel for another night was crazy money so we jumped on a train to Bratislava!

New Bloody Mary level achieved

Writing cross platform c++ is a truly awful experience

require-in-the-middle v8.0.0 has been released which reduces the dependencies significantly while only bumping the minimum supported Node version to v8.10.0

Thank you JavaScript!

Love it how airport security get rude and angry when people don't know the rules that differ by country and airport and are constantly changing 🤣

We've been incredibly lucky with the weather for 68 degrees North. Lofoten, Norway is beautiful and I would highly recommend it!

It still blows my mind that when flying within Schengen you can check-in online and board through automated gates with no passport or id checks. What stops you from using someone else's ticket?

Every couple of months I dig out my Windows laptop to test or debug something and it spends the next day almost unusable because it's downloading and installing dozens of updates with multiple restarts required.

I created a native node module that can capture JavaScript stack traces for all threads from any other thread! github.com/getsentry/se...

I'm going to create a JavaScript registry that proxies npm and transpiles all the ESM only packages to support CJS too 😏

A light Portuguese snack

Oh I've missed the Mediterranean produce 😍

@chadwhitacre.com are the clips of hard labour moving huge rocks a visual metaphor for open source maintenance? 😄

If you've ever had imposter syndrome, consider that with nearly 20 years experience I managed to git reset my working directory this morning before I'd had coffee and lost hours worth of work 😭

Stansted Airport - London's shittiest airport™️

Summer is coming 😍

Amazingly clear day over Europe today. Managed to get some pretty clear shots of central London from 10km up

Does anyone remember when we didn't live in a political satire?

It's not the first time I've watched my wife fly from the jump seat but the level of responsibility still blows my mind every time! In the briefing I was told "DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING" but I think that goes without saying 🤣

There are a load of nasty ESM/CJS interop issue when both @vite.dev and @pnpm.io are used together in monorepos. Is this a Vite or pnpm issue? github.com/nodejs/requi... github.com/getsentry/se... github.com/getsentry/se...

@vite.dev any tips for getting eyes on my PR? I've added Debug ID support to webpack, rollup and rolldown and wanted to get this working in Vite too! github.com/vitejs/vite/...

This evening I'm mostly parsing minidumps with Node.js

What's all this talk about "local first" web apps? Is it just a rebranding of "Progressive Web Apps" that we've been shipping for a decade?

absolutely incredible attack vector

Going backwards on iOS is so inconsistent and awful. Sometimes you have to find and hit a back button and occasionally swipe gestures work. There's no way to know which one you should be using though. Why does anyone put up with this?

I've spent years working full time from 12-14 inch laptops without any external monitor, keyboard or mouse. I've had home offices but I didn't use them much so I stopped kitting them out with peripherals I barely ever used. Please donate to my GoFundMe to help pay for my chiropractor

Flying on standby tickets means I occasionally have to sit on a flip down, rear facing jump seat in the back galley with the crew. Nice to make it on the flight but no way to get any work done here 😆