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Over a great many years I built up a habit of reflexively opening Hacker News when idle, because back in the day I’d probably see something good there. Now it’s just a sea of AI companies that are just a thin wrapper around Claude, and people saying how it’s completely normal to check your morals at the door when entering work.

What site should I write a small Safari extension to redirect to when I attempt to open it?

Fucking Acast ads. “Your customers are scrolling past your ads, using ad blockers, and paying for ad free streaming. Well fuck your customers. Fuck their dislike of ads, get some in their ear holes while they’re driving down the road and can’t skip them.”

@sundogplanets @catsalad wow, that’s the same face I’d pull eating raw rhubarb.

Big sigh of relief on finishing a dry run of the interview exercise I’ll be running tomorrow and discovering I am indeed qualified to do my own job.

I was briefly surprised by how well mapped the car park I took a shortcut through was while trying to find the exit, it made sense when I remembered it’s the car park for Ordnance Survey headquarters.

A very happy Resonance Cascade Day to all who celebrate.

It’s the time of year when I can go out for 90 minute walk at 7pm, absolutely beautiful in the woods this evening, so beautiful in fact I didn’t think to stop and take a photo so you’ll just have to believe me.

You know things are bad when you find yourself reading the source code for NetworkManager 8 hours into the work day.

@marioguzman @eval every now and then someone reminds me what Aqua era macOS looked like and I lament the loss of both the playfulness and the functionality.

When did become ok to use the phrase “up to 100% [positive aspect]” in advertising? Could be 100%. Could be 0%. Who knows?