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Rust aficionado. Functional programming advocate. Final Fantasy collector. Vim fanboi. Oxford comma proponent. Armchair etymologist and reluctant descriptivist. Opinions my own. No shilling. Cat photos will be liked.
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The BBC has created an electric zombie Agatha Christie in order to sell writing classes. This is stomach-churningly awful, and the sooner this stupid, useless, frankly evil bubble bursts, the better. Disgusting.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

New episode out today! We catch up with former scuba diver Nicholas Summers, who has emerged from his coma and started a new business venture. Featuring the excellent @mrcodydahler.bsky.social maximumfun.org/episodes/bee...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Dood. FedEx. Do you need me to call you a cab? Spoiler alert: Oakland is not the hub for my area.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Apple Music used to ask "Yes" or "Not Now." Now it's "Accept" or "(search for the low-contrast X in the corner)." I assume the next iteration will read "SUBMIT", with no second option.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes. Talbot Yancy's nephew, Stan.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Yep, the opening to Erasure's "Chorus" still makes me want to play Metroid.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Do tell, Google: What's the risk to the community of bots watching your videos? Or are you afraid of bots you don't control being trained on "your" data? Fascinating.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

someone: "Instagram: ruin a perfect meme with one widget" instagram:

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

JSON should have sum types to help developers coming from Haskell

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This is just perfection. Shut down the internet for the day, we already have a winner.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not saying I expected the movie "Y2K" (2024) to be rigorously accurate, but it was fun to spot this goof of Ubuntu Linux in 2000.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We had a fantastic time watching this. If you have the opportunity to see it, please do! (The tour is just starting!) www.eddieizzardhamlet.com

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Show me a corporate lawyer that trusts any LLM with an important decision, and I'll show you a bad lawyer.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This story fails to mention the reason they couldn’t open the doors to save the people who died. Cybertruck doors can’t be opened from the outside when the electrical isn’t working, like when they’re on fire.

submitted 19 days ago • 85 comments

How does this infantile dilettante, this connoisseur of ritual sycophancy continue to find new ways to embarrass himself? tech.yahoo.com/general/arti...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

The big surprise here is that DoD still has an (acting) inspector general, and apparently even one with a backbone. Musk tried really hard to get rid of all of those, so he and the teen cybercriminals could operate in the shadows. www.theregister.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

"we want our code to be readable" like dude, English is a bizarre nonsense language and you want your code to be more like that

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 30 days ago • 963 comments

Show me an AI a corporate lawyer will trust with any important decision, and I'll show you a bad lawyer.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It is truly mind boggling how closely the DOGE script is to the devastation of Twitter. Right down to the public humiliation at an event that “technically… was 90% & 10% boos”. Cannot recommend “Character Limit” by @rmac.bsky.social and @kateconger.com highly enough

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Notes on coreutils in #rustlang alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/22/...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Can't believe I didn't do this years ago: Linux on an iMac, even one as "old" as 2011 (an extremely powerful machine) is a glorious experience & the intractable obsolescence problems of OS X just go away. Beautiful 27" screen. & Deskflow works perfectly making it a 2nd screen 4my existing work Mac

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

👇 linux is far better for ageing Macs (say ... > 4 years old) than struggling with OS X and its built-in obsolescence believe me, i've tried to persevere with OS X it has been a total waste of time

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

magician: *pulls tiny rabbi out of a hat* me: that's a little unorthodox

submitted 50 days ago • 23 comments

Mozilla solicits feedback on its advertising and AI policies, and is flooded by negative reactions. Mozilla responds by adding vertical tabs.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

This is so good. “I want efficiency towards an end, towards a vision of the future that imagines more for us.” #ezraklein

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

"Starship is an embarrassment, not just for SpaceX, but for the US. It’s not a revolution; it is a nightmare of twisted monopolistic privatisation and the idiotic inefficiency that comes alongside that." www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spacex-has...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments