The problem with replying to emails is that shortly afterwards there are more emails to reply to.
holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.
Today in the week that keeps on giving, the washing machine is broken. I think it’s filling up with water but it then refuses to spin, I’d kind of been hoping for a quiet morning rather than one in which I crack open a washing machine.
Full stack engineer: when you're routinely baffled how anything works at all, regardless of where in the computer
One day I’ll learn that it takes me at least 20 minutes to get up off the sofa and go to bed when I decide it’s time to go to bed. Today was not that day, so I’m once again going to bed later than planned.
Getting married and makiing sure to clarify some soup together on our first night.
It's important to conssométe the relationship.
I hope this email finds you no matter where you're hiding.
You can tell new hardware to test for work has arrived because suddenly my desk is a mess, and there's an extension cable running across the floor so I can flash the thing from one of the Linux boxes in my network cupboard.
Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—
@dinn @gsuberland checks out. As we all know grub comes from Tesco.
Quite amused by the fact the whole Yuzu being shut down by Nintendo thing was quickly resolved with a different group forking as Suyu and self-hosting their source control.
Just had an entire text conversation with my brother when after his first message we would send the same thought, at more or less the same time. We decided to stop on the basis we already knew what was going to be said.
I finally bit the bullet and bought a half decent coffee grinder and oh my, why did I wait so long? Consistently ground beans have transformed my morning espresso.
This doesn’t even slightly surprise me.
https://eupolicy.social/users/ilumium/statuses/112235832500838592
my new burger restaurant concept is inspired by modern software. the options for mayo are "yes" and "maybe later", and if you pick maybe later, the chef stands at your table with a squeezy bottle, threatening to add mayo to your burger when you least expect it
I need to get some lunch but there’s a cat asleep on my lap. If someone could arrange for a food delivery person to break in and bring me something that would be great.
I spent this evening dealing with WebPush and service workers, which has led me to conclude these APIs were primarily designed to promote the wig industry, with the ability to send push notifications falling out as an unintended side effect.
dying laughing at terry cavanaugh’s tea-making simulator
Out of nowhere the boy just silenced everyone at this family gathering to say “when you think about it the mythological gods had a lot on their plate”.
No, TV, when I hit the standby button on the remote I don't want to be given a selection of attractive wallpapers to be displayed, I want you to go into standby. How is this even a thing?