Shout out to the boy who entered his first climbing competition today, scored one (1) point out of a possible 275 and is chuffed with that result. Hoping I can have the same attitude when these boulders kick my ass in an hour or so.
Jonty single handedly destroying the tradition of gathering round the machine god praying it declares the festival to be feasible here.
https://chaos.social/users/jonty/statuses/116264137655228558
The EMF team really are the best bunch of people you could find yourself, through a deeply unlikely series of events, running a festival with. Special shout out to @solderandchaos for going “hey, looked like your inbox was a bit overwhelming so I unwhelmed it for you”.
Caved and created a burner Instagram account this evening. Not because I want to use Instagram, I killed the last one because that thing is crack that destroys my ability to do anything else, but because there’s an increasing number of things where they solely post updates on critical information like “we’re closed today” to Instagram rather than their website.
just learned that my colleagues rotate VS Code by 1 degree when you leave your laptop unattended
Funny how websites never seem to be able to remember I declined their tracking cookies for more than a week but you’d better believe the moment I tap accept by accident it’s going to be etched in stone and carefully stored for the rest of time.
So AGENTS.md is just the human-readable documentation the AI dudebros have been refusing to include in README.md until now, because they claim that the code is "self documenting" and everyone else must be stupid if they can't figure things out.
Changing at Westminster rather than Embankment because I feel like a bit of nuclear bunker architecture.
I’ve been trying to regain access to a long dead Dropbox account just to find out what’s in it but it’s got SMS based 2FA turned on and I no longer have that number, and I have no backup codes I can find.
This is fine, but I just can’t stop myself replying to the support guy with “but can you help” because he keeps replying “sure, I’d love to help, you can use any of [list of things I don’t have]” rather than going “nah, sorry mate, you’ve fucked it, it’s gone forever”.
@carnage4life @mdione hang on, did they not require code review before? Surely code review was required.
People of the nice bit of the internet, what regularly published things (blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, whatever) are you consuming that are informative but not relentlessly bleak? I feel like all I ever see is people saying how terrible everything is, and while everything is terrible I need some joy in my life as well.
I have once again found myself feeling oppressively depressed only to realise the cause was listening to a Placebo album and I t could be fixed by pressing stop.
I think I’ve fallen well truly down the Nix rabbit hole. I was reading a blog post earlier about enabling something on some other Linux distribution and spent the whole time thinking that it would have been a single config file on NixOS rather than editing half a dozen files and firing off a bunch of random executables while hoping nothing breaks halfway through.
I have spent so much money over the past week or so on buying things that aren’t quite right to fix my electrical problems. Some might say I should have done more research and planning, to which I reply SQUIRREL.
It looks like today is a three espresso day, thanks to some unexpected network engineering which touches on a whole section of the Linux network stack I don’t usually have to deal with.
Who is the patron saint of email?
Saint Francis of A CC.
(Don’t @ me, I stand by my choices)
I’ve finally sorted out my heating in order to have a consistently warm flat so you can all thank me when summer comes early next week.
Companies running mailing lists, you’d have a way better chance of me not unsubscribing if you could resist emailing every single day just to remind me you exist.
I must know, was the Notepad RCE demonstrated by using it to launch Notepad?
“I’ll quickly put this smart switch on my water heater over lunch”
Reader, my hot water system is currently held together by Wagos and controlled by turning that loop on and off at the breaker box due to a missing part in this puzzle, and being unable to get the old switch back on. I truly hate electrical work.
Things that weren’t on my todo list for today when I got up this morning: going to the Apple Store so they can make my work laptop less of a fire hazard.
To Apple’s credit this is the only damage I can detect from it being dropped on a concrete floor from about 4 feet up.
Are you trans / gender-fun, an Engineering Manager (or Director, etc), in or around London, UK, and would like to attend LeadDev.com this year in early June?
If so, I have 1 free ticket to allocate to someone and I would really like to support other trans people managers in tech to be there.
It's a good conference, and will help you in your role, and yes I'm going too but I would like to help other trans eng leaders to be there.
Feel free to boost if this is not you, DM if it is you. 