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Wandering round an old haunt from the 90s. Wail. That used to be May’s snack bar @darkbluemonkey.bsky.social @notthatexciting.bsky.social

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@quaplek.bsky.social and @notthatexciting.bsky.social hanging out with us.... Marshmallows later perhaps.... :)

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Why do openAI let ChatGPT (attempt to) do fact-based technical imagery like this? (It’s nonsense) Electricity and electronics are no joke. It’ll also draw a completely stupid way to jump start your car.

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Unwritten rule of UI design #634,975: When a very common and uncomplicated operation like writing a small file to disk completes, you don’t need to breathlessly let the user know that it worked. #ux

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When signs cry out for help

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All hail the Maillard reaction, hallowed be thy chemical reaction. 40% wholewheat loaf (750g, 71.6% hyd) #wholewheat #loaf #fwsy #bread

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When a cat is relaxed and stretches one or two paws out into the air it is “touching the ghost of Elton John”. Yes, Elton’s still alive. But they are touching his ghost anyway. Because cats are special

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I’ve published my basic snare technique doc from a few years ago on ze bloggo. #drumming #snare hunsley.io/posts/2025/s...

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May I present to you the most cursed tech job description I’ve seen in literal years I know. It’s a high bar

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Summerhall Arts have confirmed today they have a signed lease to secure their future. Go and visit soon to support the arts (and have a coffee at their lovely café)

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I posted about my cable recognition hack which has helped my sanity. I’ll never defeat my cable nest(s) but I can pick out a cable much quicker now from a nest or my bag! hunsley.io/posts/2025/c...

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Oh, so Apple are now going to use system notifications to advertise Apple goods and services at me?

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Ugh, I’m getting tired of the console-ification of pc games running gameplay. Sometimes at key junctures. Dying light 2 has form here. The latest is that I was at the start of the epilogue. I was hidden and wanted to stealth it. I had to leave the game, was stealth in bushes at time. (1/2)

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

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Debugging an old flat panel tv that does nothing (that i can see) on power on. It has a rareish combo of inputs: hdmi composite SVG. So it’s valuable for that. If nothing else, I could save the panel itself for projects.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Debugging an old flat panel tv that does nothing (that i can see) on power on. It has a rareish combo of inputs: hdmi composite SVG. So it’s valuable for that. If nothing else, I could save the panel itself for projects.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

A post on AI “dazzle”: in this case, someone pushing a poor idea under the sheen of “the chatGPT code looks complicated!” hunsley.io/posts/2024/b...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone else feel weird seeing all the videos about Neil Gaiman’s assaults/abuse that are monetised? Like, all of them. The authors’ disgust stops short of not monetising the trauma of the victims.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

This job hunt sankey diagram is amazing.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Well, happy eighth anniversary to that Twitter reply, obviously

submitted 149 days ago • 4 comments

Is it ok to throw these away yet? #winXP

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

The founders of stackoverflow got a pretty perfect exit point: in 2021 for $1.8 billion. Just the decline was truly setting in… blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak...

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My poor Ducky One keyboard died :( So I’m getting some desoldering practice by liberating the keyswitches and leds (one per key) from the keyboard. Will probably make some monstrous keyboard thing from the switches in future. #mechanicalkeyboard #keyboard #ducky

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

The fuster-cluck clock! The most confusing clock you've ever seen. It tells the time two ways at once, with only two moving hands and two numeral dials. hunsley.io/clock2

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Today I was playing with clocks, and a little story grew. #js #clocks #frameofreference #story hunsley.io/posts/2024/n...

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

There will be a shader jam on Monday at 20:00 BST! Get in touch if you fancy a go, no pressure, if you can do anything in Bonzomatic, you are invited! Or come and watch our livecoders with friendly chat. twitch.tv/FieldFxDemo #demoscene #glsl #livecoding #dj

Wandering round an old haunt from the 90s. Wail. That used to be May’s snack bar @darkbluemonkey.bsky.social @notthatexciting.bsky.social

@quaplek.bsky.social and @notthatexciting.bsky.social hanging out with us.... Marshmallows later perhaps.... :)

Why do openAI let ChatGPT (attempt to) do fact-based technical imagery like this? (It’s nonsense) Electricity and electronics are no joke. It’ll also draw a completely stupid way to jump start your car.

Unwritten rule of UI design #634,975: When a very common and uncomplicated operation like writing a small file to disk completes, you don’t need to breathlessly let the user know that it worked. #ux

When signs cry out for help

All hail the Maillard reaction, hallowed be thy chemical reaction. 40% wholewheat loaf (750g, 71.6% hyd) #wholewheat #loaf #fwsy #bread

When a cat is relaxed and stretches one or two paws out into the air it is “touching the ghost of Elton John”. Yes, Elton’s still alive. But they are touching his ghost anyway. Because cats are special

I’ve published my basic snare technique doc from a few years ago on ze bloggo. #drumming #snare hunsley.io/posts/2025/s...

May I present to you the most cursed tech job description I’ve seen in literal years I know. It’s a high bar

Summerhall Arts have confirmed today they have a signed lease to secure their future. Go and visit soon to support the arts (and have a coffee at their lovely café)

I posted about my cable recognition hack which has helped my sanity. I’ll never defeat my cable nest(s) but I can pick out a cable much quicker now from a nest or my bag! hunsley.io/posts/2025/c...

Oh, so Apple are now going to use system notifications to advertise Apple goods and services at me?

Ugh, I’m getting tired of the console-ification of pc games running gameplay. Sometimes at key junctures. Dying light 2 has form here. The latest is that I was at the start of the epilogue. I was hidden and wanted to stealth it. I had to leave the game, was stealth in bushes at time. (1/2)

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

Debugging an old flat panel tv that does nothing (that i can see) on power on. It has a rareish combo of inputs: hdmi composite SVG. So it’s valuable for that. If nothing else, I could save the panel itself for projects.

Debugging an old flat panel tv that does nothing (that i can see) on power on. It has a rareish combo of inputs: hdmi composite SVG. So it’s valuable for that. If nothing else, I could save the panel itself for projects.

A post on AI “dazzle”: in this case, someone pushing a poor idea under the sheen of “the chatGPT code looks complicated!” hunsley.io/posts/2024/b...

Does anyone else feel weird seeing all the videos about Neil Gaiman’s assaults/abuse that are monetised? Like, all of them. The authors’ disgust stops short of not monetising the trauma of the victims.

This job hunt sankey diagram is amazing.

Well, happy eighth anniversary to that Twitter reply, obviously

Is it ok to throw these away yet? #winXP

The founders of stackoverflow got a pretty perfect exit point: in 2021 for $1.8 billion. Just the decline was truly setting in… blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak...

My poor Ducky One keyboard died :( So I’m getting some desoldering practice by liberating the keyswitches and leds (one per key) from the keyboard. Will probably make some monstrous keyboard thing from the switches in future. #mechanicalkeyboard #keyboard #ducky

The fuster-cluck clock! The most confusing clock you've ever seen. It tells the time two ways at once, with only two moving hands and two numeral dials. hunsley.io/clock2

Today I was playing with clocks, and a little story grew. #js #clocks #frameofreference #story hunsley.io/posts/2024/n...

There will be a shader jam on Monday at 20:00 BST! Get in touch if you fancy a go, no pressure, if you can do anything in Bonzomatic, you are invited! Or come and watch our livecoders with friendly chat. twitch.tv/FieldFxDemo #demoscene #glsl #livecoding #dj

Two-headed cats for the win.

Typo of the day: HTTPSPS, which is how you call a cat securely over the web