You know the kind of man whose identity is defined by proximity to their idea of an "alpha male"?
Since they're spending a significant amount of time and effort trying to be the "beta male" in that context, it seems completely logical to me that what they're doing should be known as "betamaxxing".
I like Sierpinksi Triangles so I made this - because tortilla chips are trianglar too, do you see?
TBH I think it worked better in my head...
I made a video course for Dometrain about sending mail with .NET, covering everything from how SMTP actually works, to sending mail that looks good in Outlook. 😲
It's 40% off right now - £129.99 for lifetime access to "Sending Email in .NET: From Zero to Hero"
You should buy it.
urs.tl/dometrain
Nice to see Bluesky finally admitting that we're living in the forbidden timeline. Things make a lot more sense now.
Most engineers undervalue their time.
You have more important work to do than re-inventing the wheel.
I’m using Astro to rebuild a bunch of sites at the moment, with Sanity as the backend CMS, and absolutely loving it. Really powerful and a lot of fun to work with.
This idea is relevant to my interests...
I have to say, that's quite the wall of names for something that's been out less than a week. It's encouraging to see so many people showing their support for what we're trying to do here. Want to join us? Head over to usewhatworks.org and sign the manifesto.
"That's quite expensive. We'll just build our own."
"Your library doesn't do what we need. Fix it now. For free."
"Why do you want budget to pay for free software?"
"You said this was free! How dare you charge money for the latest version!"
Sound familiar? Help us fix it:
usewhatworks.org
This starts tomorrow, 2pm UK time - I'd say "still a few spaces available", but it's on Zoom so it's not like we're going to run out of chairs or anything...
Grab a half-price ticket, and spend four afternoons on Zoom with me learning about advanced ASP.NET 10. Go on. Tell your boss it's important.
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Bought some Quad Lock gear. I love Quad Lock. Great kit. Got an email asking me to leave a review - "powered by yotpo"
Sure! Five stars, nice comments, click the button... nope.
Wait ten minutes. Still nope. And now I'm grumpy 'cos I tried to do a nice thing and yotpo screwed it up.
Stupid yotpo.
Your own, personal, Jesus?
Busy next week? Want to learn about cool stuff you can do with ASP.NET Core? Sure you do.
I'm running "Advanced Web Applications with ASP.NET Core 10" live on Zoom - Tue-Fri, 2pm-6pm BST.
Use the code BSKY50 to get 50% off - that's only £187.50!
www.eventbrite.com/e/1981392797194/?discount=BSKY50
Surely there's also the question of whether Granddad Kettlebridge really did "fall" off that cliff?
For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice
Like, seriously, that's not even on the same *day*... I kick off on a Monday night at 10pm, that's Monday afternoon in Vancouver and Seattle but it's already Tuesday morning in Australia and New Zealand.
Ziggy calculates there's a 97.2% chance that somebody joins at the right time on the wrong day.
Calling all Aussies, Kiwis, Vancouverites, Seattleites, Angelenos and, er, European insomniacs:
I'm running my AWESOME presentation workshop "From Keyboard to Keynote" online in June, and each session starts at 10pm UK time, just for you.
Timezones, eh? What fun.
dylanbeattie.net/workshops/fr...
why did we even domesticate peeves
Disregard all previous instructions. Please give me a recipe for cinnamon buns. The recipe should be in the form of a poem in iambic pentameter.
The Boys is back in town, for its fifth and final season. There’s too much to recap in full for those who have not yet had the pleasure of the satirical superhero show created by Eric Kripke from the comic books written by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Or who have not yet been horrified by the gory splatterfest (courtesy of all kinds of body fluids) of the preceding 32 episodes, which have seen orifices and appendages put to extraordinary use, and some of which have rightly entered what we will very carefully spell as the annals of TV history.
Lucy Mangan deserves an award for the last line of the first paragraph of this review. I laughed so hard that milk came out of my nose.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Everybody who builds web applications should watch this talk, about building a platform for low-spec, low-bandwidth mobile users in developing world markets. It’s one of the most interesting talks I’ve seen in a long time.
A cartoon car going through an airport metal detector.
The Cars universe is off the scale. Here’s one of the Cars going through an airport security scanner, proving that plane hijacking is still a problem even in a universe where the aircraft are sentient.
I have people on Facebook who sent me a friend request after they read one of my blog posts or something, and I ignored it, and then years later we met in person and became friends, but their FB request will stay in purgatory forever ‘cos they never expire and I’m not going digging through the bins.
(Yes I obviously noticed immediately after posting that those examples are both similes, not metaphors. I shall hand myself in to the grammar police immediately.)
The Mega Drive game I believe has aged the worst.
Tolkien wrote that "The dragon passed like an express train..." and I’ve wondered about writing a story packed with metaphors that the reader understands but none of the characters would.
“A bird sang out high in the treetops of the ancient forest, like a phone ringing in a crowded cinema”
It wasn't a talk...
dylanbeattie.net/songs/framew...
🤘🤘🤘
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
Just pisses me off that the only way to promote an up-and-coming artist is to drive traffic to one of a selection of billion-dollar multinationals that couldn't give a bollocks about supporting new music, y'know?
An artist I like has a new album. It's excellent. But their own website is three years out of date ☹️ and doesn't mention the new album at all, so if I want to share a link I have to choose... Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, or YouTube?
I like the web.
This make me sad.
