@petergleick @tdp_org in a few decades I think there’ll be things emerging that make the tobacco companies look like they had our best interests at heart.
New Strange New Worlds *and* Donkey Kong Bananza? Truly fate has smiled upon me today.
Shout out to balena.io for a) making almost all their code open source b) having a really solid product and c) their support team not blacklisting me for endlessly opening tickets that can be summarised as “I know your product isn’t meant to do this, but are there any workarounds I can use to make it do it anyway”
I mentioned I did something 25 years ago, and then it sunk in that I wasn’t *that* young even then. Is this what getting old feels like?
I got a pop up ad on a Sainsbury’s self scan thing today. Is nothing sacred?
Idea: set up an online forum, but to comply with the Online Safety Act and verify age, new UK users have to go to a pub & buy you a drink to get access
“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.
@mattl @CatherineFlick while I applaud the sentiment, no, I would not install a third party tracking system on my website in the year 2025.
Not saying the postman is juicing his stats but the parcel that was due before midday and marked as delivered at 11:30 just got posted through my letterbox at 16:45.
“Astro introduced something called "Island Architecture," and once you understand it, you'll wonder why we've been doing things any other way.
…
Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."
(From https://websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-a-developers-dream/)
We’ve gone full circle folks, all the way back round to “generate HTML on the server and progressively enhance with JavaScript”.
It finally happened, I ended up on my arse while bouldering, via my elbow. Not ideal because it hurts, and I wanted to climb more, but it does mean I’m pushing out of my comfort zone. Also I got back on and kicked that boulder’s arse before the adrenaline ran out and I noticed quite how sore i was.
Grabbed some stuff out the bottom of my bag, and look who came along.
Slow clap for VOXI, who offer the memorable word option “Grandma’s postcode” and then require it to be 6-12 characters.
I think I might make my whole identity the belief that podcasts should be abbreviated to casts rather than pods. The “pod” bit is vestigial now no one is listening to them on iPods. Also “listen to my cast” sounds way cooler.
Your devices can have unlimited battery life with this one weird trick.
How the fuck was GDPR (or whatever it’s called under UK law post-Brexit) found to only apply if you don’t lose money by not tracking people? Absolutely fuming at the wave of “accept our 16,522 closest friends having data on you or take out a £7.99 a month subscription” across media websites now.
Jeff Bozos' wedding guests are turning up in 95 private jets and untold mega yachts in fucking sinking Venice and meanwhile I gotta cut my hand rinsing out a tin of tomatoes so I can recycle it, the fuck man. The fuck.
Great start to the week as I realise my keys aren’t in my pocket as the front door clicks shut. Now waiting for a locksmith to arrive.
Alright climbing folk, how are you meant to learn how to trust an auto-belay? Even at the sort of heights I’d jump off from a boulder I can not make myself push away and trust what is basically a glorified hoover power cable retractor to take my weight.
Bouldered again, which is rapidly becoming a habit. Managed to top a V1 for the first time (that’s a grade of boulder for the non-climbing folks, not the Nazi rocket), which has made my day since it had a chunky overhang on it as well.
Why is “LLM makes something up rather than say it doesn’t know” headline news just because the thing it made up was something that happened to be someone’s mobile number?
https://mastodon.world/users/Mer__edith/statuses/114708975593767155