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South African software engineer. Just trying to figure out what it means to have fun online
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Mozilla is pronounced like Tortilla.

Me in highschool: Woah! This place has a pingpong table in their office! Me as an adult: Oh no. This place has a pingpong table in their office.

"Oh, look at this weird condition in the code. It's been there for years, how has no-one run into this?" Next day: someone runs into it

say what you want about javascript

sometimes it really do depends

Idk if you've ever watched MasterChef where the team has to prepare a dish, but only person at a time gets to be in the kitchen and they can't communicate what they've done and the next person has to figure it out on the spot That's corporate software dev

The whole "spiders are your friend" thing is a psyop by Big Spider ™️

There are such incredibly cool things happening/being developed. A real tech acceleration after years of what felt like stagnation. But the sea of bullshit and the fear for the livelihood of people make it incredibly difficult to be as excited as we probably should be

signing back into all the work apps using sso mfa fingerprint yubikey 1password security after a 2 week break

Wife made biltong and ricotta filled ravioli and hot damn if I could marry her again I would

If I ever come to your house and see you have motion interpolation turned on on your TV I will think less of you as a person

Guy in the mall to his wife (she's in a wheelchair): "You can have a look around, I'm going to look for a place to sit. I'm tired of standing"

Inside me there are two wolves. One is a gopher, and one is a camel

I'd just like to thank everybody working tirelessly on diagnostic messages in such compilers as clang, rustc, and many others, making stupid ancient programmers jokes unfunny and irrelevant. You are the Real Engineers pushing the industry forward. Love you all. ❤️

Wtf the original Dragon Ball episodes from 1986 are GORGEOUS

Built a bookshelf for the useless hole above the fireplace and can finally unpack my books after 1.5 years! My @stephenking.bsky.social bias is clearly showing 😅

Well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

"it is said currently almost 90% of the scientists who ever lived are now alive" (from Richard Hamming's The Art Of Doing Science And Engineering) Damn that's a crazy thought

If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss looks away because the abyss is quite shy

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 tapas.io/episode/2960406

By "popular" demand 😅 I've rewritten the demo of my "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir" talk. The code now uses the latest Erlang, Elixir, & Phoenix. It is also licensed (MIT), so you can freely use it in your own demos, or for any other purposes. Enjoy! github.com/sasa1977/sou...

Ek gaan hierdie seker nog berou, maar ek speel nou al 'n tydjie lank met die idee om Yu-Gi-Oh! te probeer vertaal na Afrikaans toe. So hier is die eerste deel van daardie proses: www.pjlast.com/writing/afri... Ons sal maar sien hoe ver ek kom

Pro tip: practice a language you're trying to learn by using ChatGPT's voice chat. i.e. tell it "Pretend you're a waiter in a restaurant and speak very simple, slow French while I order" and then speak French to it

Magic links are the laziest, user-hostile login method