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#doctorwho #spoiler What if the regeneration was rushed because Ncuti was contracted via Disney rather than the BBC and they've now pulled out? Hence Feb reshoots, a clumsy ending... ? Did not feel like it was his time to go yet

Scheduling Slack messages at 5pm on a Friday to be sent at 9am Monday is probably the closest I'll get to feeling like I'm in severance

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XCode. I'm not using you to edit my RN code in. Stop trying to index my files whenever I need to create an iOS bug. Just try to build, and tell me if it failed. I've been sat here for 20mins now

Typescript saved my butt yesterday I had to add some suboptimal workaround to address a prod issue. The Graph we talked to didn't quite respond properly to the schema we requested. I could override the assertion I knew to be true, but TS subsequently warned me of 4 more edge cases to consider

I've been making an effort to move off big tech platforms and self-host more of my everyday services. I wouldn't be comfortable with this if I couldn't easily repeat this setup anywhere. So, I've been using Ansible and Terraform it is ✨awesome✨ Let me tell you why www.helbling.uk/blog/2025-ia...

Took Zed's AI Editing for a spin and omg I'm actually mind blown. "Here's an API endpoint handler, here's my separate API spec for it. Write them as a class so I can generate an OpenAPI schema using this library" It just did it!

#doctorwho this is not the silly, light hearted distraction I need from the world right now

I'm often surprised with how small bits of furniture can change your life. Got a little trolley to slide in between the fridge and the wall and it's cleared up SO much space

Finally got some space + opportunity to fix some stuff in our main codebase that's been annoying me. Getting consistent headers, fixing eslint/prettier rule conflicts, adding a logging abstraction

I see we're mixing up what gender and sex is now. Cool. Cool cool cool

Huh

I think I'm starting to like working with redux toolkit. A lot of boilerplate, but heck is it nice to work with once you have it set up

I hate how when I'm writing code, I'm always doing so knowing that it and its environment will change. Why can't I have the same outlook at my professional life. A small change in working arrangements had been announced and I went into a complete spiral...

Ew - Firefox, no thank you Why would I want that on text selection as well???

Pleasantly surprised that I had 2 new user signups for Pokecompanion. Shame that I found out after the BE's SSL cert expired a while ago.

this is amazing github.com/MichiganType...

I kept reading this as "Casual Analysis" and thought like ??? That's what I'm supposed to do!

Derive everything, whenever you can

I love how my dev setup keeps wanting to build for my iPad (locked, down 2 flights of stairs) instead of the iOS simulator I have open right here

Getting a nice Cloudflare setup for Homelabs where CORS is set up so that status dashboards can report on it is REALLY annoying. Probably something I should write a blog post/sample on.

I've been enjoying using Zed, but I still find myself reaching for VS Code to stage my git changes and generally dig through the history. I'm trying to like lazygit but it just doesn't feel as integrated :(

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

How is Labour not looking to get Weed legalised. Honestly disappointed

*heating soup* Needs more time The concept, not the herb

Coming to think democratic leadership might just be western propaganda. No one person should be offered a position of such power. Not as people are so easily manipulated. When we're all connected, manipulation scales and putting that much weight on a 6 month period every 4 years is nuts

Maybe connecting humans all across the world wasn't such a good idea

World sad Be loud Be proud Play Pokemon TCGP

Stop giving me full-art Salandits. This is my 4th one...

The "Did Jimmy Carter Die Today" bot author used the wrong timezone and declared he wasn't dead today at 6AM lmao

πŸŽ…πŸŽ„πŸŽ ADVENT OF SVELTE πŸŽ…πŸŽ„πŸŽ We're going to ship one thing a day every day from now until Christmas. Wish us luck! svelte.dev/blog/advent-... First up...

rm -rf some_folder Read as "rm rf" Boring, cryptic, done a million times rm -fr some_folder Read aloud as "remove for real" Modern, understandable, in touch with reality

Martin Lewis from Money Saving Expert is the UK real life version of Bob Vanced Vanced Refrigeration

I bought this for a friend in Security a few years ago

My macbook just randomly decided to boot into Windows 10 on bootcamp. Cursed