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Jon Wood

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*tap tap*

Is this thing on?

Follow us for exciting updates on bin emptying status, lost shoes, how the shower queue is doing, where to find things, and other minutiae for the day-to-day stuff.

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Boost if you've recently attended a "poorly run small music venue" that actually managed to put on a show

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@erbridge @alice annoyingly, not currently. Is this a “they need a job now” thing, because we’re working on drastically reducing wasted energy in commercial real estate, and will likely be hiring in the nearish future.

Please donate to my kickstarter raising money to send a list of adjectives that can be used instead of “insane” to YouTubers.

The problem with replying to emails is that shortly afterwards there are more emails to reply to.

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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.

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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.

Death of a family member
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Getting married and makiing sure to clarify some soup together on our first night.

It's important to conssométe the relationship.

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I hope this email finds you no matter where you're hiding.

@volpeon @cato coincidentally this used to be how we’d connect to the internet.

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.

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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.

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Oh for heaven’s sake, people.

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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

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The thing about being middle-aged in the 2020s is that you have spent your entire adult life watching serious, obvious problems get worse and worse because nobody is willing to sacrifice even a little bit to address them