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My wife says I do “computery things”.
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It’s occurred to me that having the sound of a cat retching would be the ideal alarm clock sound - it’s guaranteed to get me up and halfway across the room before I’ve even woken up.

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Playing a playlist I made on Apple Music a long long time ago and it fuckin kicks. Past me had great taste.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for. -- Chris Sacca

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statistically valentine’s day is the safest day on the road because none of the cybertrucks have anywhere to be

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

Women make up only 35% of STEM graduates worldwide. UNESCO encourages more women and girls to get involved in science education. On #WomenInScience Day, let's amplify their voices! www.unesco.org/en/days/wome...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Vance at Munich: "the Biden Administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds ... the Trump Administration will do the opposite". Vance's govt: orders Pentagon schools to ban books, close "Women in Stem" clubs & drop Black History Month. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Trump and Musk are deleting profiles of women in science and at NASA from government websites. America is gong to be a hollow shell of a country at the end of this term. www.instagram.com/p/DF7ydjxROC...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learnt that Uli Roth quoted Duke Ellington’s Caravan on the intro to the Scorpions Sails Of Charon. When you hear them both you realise how good Uli is.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A framework can provide 90% of the features we need quickly - giving us a false sense of confidence early in the development cycle - and then be frustratingly hard when it comes to implementing the last 10%. -- Tony Parisi

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

This. A thousand times this.

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments

their motto? "how hard could it possibly be?" and every experienced systems engineer in the room is now cackling. if only it were actually funny though rather than a deadly serious matter.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

😤

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

"Claude is so much better than ChatGPT" Also Claude:

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Having one of those weeks where one minute you’re creating connections between networks in AWS and the next you’re writing CSS. Full stack for the win.

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Amused to see the shock at what Trump is doing. He had similar moral intent first time around and then he had four years experience and four years planning to figure out how to enact his perverse political desires. I’m dismayed but not surprised.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Having spent the weekend amongst fellow dads with their daughters at gymnastics, swimming lessons and playgrounds, it strikes me that a man happy to be around and encouraging femininity are worth a thousand alpha males.

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I wonder if the Republicans are having their Liz Truss moment.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I figured out why the Simpsons are so dysfunctional, they’re stuck in a sailboat retrospective. #agile #jira

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I wish PHP had virtual environments like Python.

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