← Feed

Posts

• View post

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/117444898893958907 Somebody needs to make a giant sized Sport Band strap for this enormous Apple Watch.

• View post

  There is a bug in the Xcode 27.1 Device Hub / Simulator (fixed in 27.2) where shift keys don't get passed through if there is more than one simulator open. This is great fun when you spend a lot of time with a phone and watch simulator open side by side and you generally use inbox subaddressed emails for your usernames. Yes I am acf=testing2mydomain.com

• View post

  LinkedIn is a bit of a hellscape right now. Posts are either AI super-hypers declaring all technical people pointless, "I'm part of the recent 10,000 person layoff at $COMPANY" or "I'm starting a gofundme because I've been jobless for two years now". In the end though, I suspect whatever is next is going to come down to the network of friends and colleagues I've built over 30 years mentioning something random in passing....

• View post

  Trying to figure out ways to articulate the change in context from travelling consulting and project based work to more permanent team based roles and product work. I was using "looking outwards" for that consulting and coaching, and "looking inwards" for the team based product work. Matt Wynne has suggested "breathing in" and "breathing out", which I love.

• View post

  Oh wow. This is interesting. I'm a Napier graduate :-) https://www.brightredtriangle.co.uk/adhd-enterprise

• View post

  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117445853827353147 The first programming I ever got paid for was a FORTRAN job.

• View post

  This is quite a boring game of football.

• View post

  Today in “English is 40 different languages in a trenchcoat”, why is critique pronounced criteek, but communique pronounced commyoonikay ?

• View post

  @mnemonica@xoxo.zone when I used to take Hope to dance classes we’d all have to wait in the corridor to pick the little girls up afterwards. One season they were rehearsing something for Frozen and I became aware of *all* the dads (myself included) singing along to Let it Go under our breath every week while we all looked at our phones. I suggested they add all the dads to the show in costume for a comedy number but the teacher took herself far too seriously for that.

• View post

  Great interview with Bob Odenkirk https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html

• View post

  Wes Streeting looks like he belongs behind the desk at a Carphone Warehouse or your local Skoda dealership.

• View post

  For the record, I think a progressive smoking ban is total genius. It makes it illegal to *start* smoking without forcing all the existing smokers to give up at once. Like saying *new* cars must come with seatbelts without forcing every old car to be retrofitted, or new houses must be built with solar panels without making everyone install them in houses unsuited. New adults are banned from smoking ... without forcibly retrofitting older adults.

• View post

  @meganL@mas.to Usually either : 1. to pay for the upkeep of the facilities 2. To discourage local disreputable types from using them as a place to do disreputable things. You'd see the former reasoning sometimes at a beach or park. The latter often at railway or bus station stations. Usually the disabled or baby change facilities are free if you ask.

• View post

  Sure I’m preaching to the converted…. If you’re in the UK, don’t forget to vote today. Low turnout is how these fuckers end up wielding disproportionate amounts of power because inherently angry and unhappy people always make time to vote.

• View post

  Incredibly depressed to discover Reform are in with a chance of being the second largest party in the Scottish Election. Heartened to see that all polls still point to SNP being the largest party by some distance, and maybe an overall majority (though that's a stretch in our system)

• View post

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c202652vvnjo

• View post

  https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d

• View post

  weev is in my feeds again so thoughts turn to Kathy Sierra, who was the most amazing, clever, sunshiny, joyous writer until she was beaten back by the trolls almost 20 years ago. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win/

• View post

  My son needs to get some survey responses for an assignment at college. Dont take it too seriously, it's just a 3 or 4 questions and the aggregated results are purely for a college assignment :-). If you have a couple of minutes and fancy helping out, it's an MS Form at https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WNzgmUucIEiGFwTDhsJUxv58Gj80BJRBirZhiXX_TTBUQURJSVFJQ09YR1lQQ0gyMVNTRFo4SDFaSi4u&route=shorturl

• View post

  Nothing positive to say. They don’t care whether you vote for Labour or Reform, they’re just terrified of Scottish independence. The SNP have been in power for so long in the face of this. This concentrated hate. It’s almost every newspaper, the BBC everything. And still we managed to hold steady at roughly 50% support for almost 15 years. Imagine the landslide if the mainstream media were actually neutral.

• View post

  Now on my second little wireless CarPlay adapter. They just crash and reboot my cars head unit after 2-3 minutes. Will try it for a bit with no music playing, just Google maps, and see if it can stay up.

• View post

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2lr40g17kt. I thought he didn't like NATO anyway because he didn't see why the US should have to defend an ally in Europe.