I’m begging you iPlayer, stop asking me who’s watching. No one else lives here. No one else has ever signed in on this device. You can just assume it’s me.
Is their any video format worse than “YouTuber watches TikTok videos”? This question brought to you by my son’s terrible taste in YouTube.
I am now one full week into the worst insomnia of my life. It appears I can be tired at any time other than when attempting to sleep. If anyone has tips on dealing with this they’d be greatly appreciated.
Periodic reminder:
Are you feeling dispirited by the software industry? Does every job you look at feel like another bullshit way of transferring working-class money into VC pockets?
YOU CAN LEAVE!
It will mean less money, but you can leave.
Whether it's as small a step as a janky university webmaster job, or as large a one as retraining, you can leave. I have been so much happier for leaving.
Always happy to talk through logistics of this with the curious.
The problem with testing a thing that involves SMS delivery is eventually you have to send real SMS messages, and that involves waiting an indeterminate amount of time for it to arrive.
Apple Music appears to support animated album covers and I'm deeply disappointed that they're just static animations when they could have made them full blown custom visualisers for each album.
Please send help. I’ve developed a crippling addiction to pretend power washing. My plan tonight was to have dinner and get an early night. What happened was to have dinner and then Powerwash a house on the Steam Deck while half watching YouTube videos.
Turns out the 31st January 2024 is today, not a year’s time. Thankfully I realised that in time to pay the tax I owed without getting fined for late payment.
I’m once again pleading with Minecraft streamers to stop screaming into their microphones. None of this is that exciting.
Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU
Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU
I just realised it's been over a year since I last touched a relational database in a professional setting. Guess that makes me a systems programmer now.
We're finally ready to announce ticket sale dates for EMF 2024!
* Saturday 3rd February at 14:00 GMT (UTC+0)
* Sunday 11th February at 11:00 GMT
* Tuesday 20th February at 21:00 GMT
Tickets will be on sale at https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets - prices are available there now.
More info: https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/01/21/emf-2024-ticket-sales/
Things that annoy me, #8363: YouTubers opening with “only n% of people who watch my videos are subscribed”.
I’ve only known of your existence for the last 25 seconds, stop asking me to put out before you’ve even bought me a drink.
Hello, is this the International Bureau of Weights and Measures? I’d like to lodge a complaint, I think there must be a problem with the atomic clocks, my watch is telling me it’s midnight but that can’t possibly be right because I just sat down half an hour ago.
This is an article that took a lot of strength to write and I might take it down again. But I felt like it is an article that is very necessary right now. https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa
Why is it all text editor colour schemes mute the colour of comments? They're often the most important thing in a given source file, don't make them so damn easy to skim over.
Me, a teenager in the late 90s: “Hackers is unrealistic, you can’t just hack into a sprinkler system and set it off by phone”
Me, today, sitting at my desk: “I’m logged into the building management system, you should find the Secret Room on the upper ground floor”
Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:
Not to alarm you about modern software but "emulate a complete 486/120 system and play an MP3 in it" turns out to be one of the more CPU and memory efficient ways to listen to music on my laptop.
Dear God, please stop asking me to rate things. There is no 5 star scale for a parcel delivery, there's just "I received the parcel intact" and "I did not receive the parcel intact".
Just had an offer accepted on the flat I’m currently renting, leaving me equal portions of excitement and trepidation.
