I still don’t understand the hype with venusaur either

mGBA mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator, copyright © 2013–2026 Vicki Pfau. This project is not affiliated in any way with Nintendo. Game Boy Advance is a registered trademark of Nintendo Co.,...

I used this to trade over because you can do multiple windows mgba.io

So yeh, I did have to start the game 3 times, but it was worth it

My team in the hall of fame: Charizard, Dragonite, Alakazam, Scyther, Venusaur and Blastoise

I treated myself to a pokemon fire red “luxury save” with all three starters on the ol’ Analogue and it’s been very enjoyable.

Time to fill the pokodex

logging on in the age of machine hyper intelligence to discover your personal data has been stolen for the 3rd time this week and not even remotely giving a fuck because the industry has sacrificed half a century of information security lessons in favour of 4 years of venture capital novelty

No worries. I know a lot of folks are feeling it rn and the relentless shilling doesn’t need to be seen innit

I live 4500 miles away from @beyondtellerrand.com (an extremely good event happening very soon). If you live closer than me, you don’t have a good excuse to skip! Get your ticket!

just put the cognitive decline on my credit… wait

A parady O'Reilly book cover with a pencil illustration of a horse as the main detail. The title is "Moving Fast and Breaking Things, Fragile Development Guide" At the top, text reads "Just put the technical debt on my credit card"

I generated this nearly 10 years ago in 2017 and it feels even more relevant now lol

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...

Not to be earnest on main, but, let's get the water industry back under public ownership. Privatisation has been an unmitigated disaster
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

i will never shame another person for their kinks

I just choose not to participate anymore with those people

Muting the hype keywords endlessly improves things here

There are some really good links in this one. Several tools I am interested in trying out. Thanks Piccalilli.

Nothing Sounds Good — Record Club UK vinyl subscription for DIY punk, indie, emo and whatever.

Spent yesterday rebuilding nothingsoundsgood.club from a Shopify theme to Astro + the Shopify API.

I love Shopify as a payment system, but hate it as a CMS. I'm hoping that the move means I will now actually want to update the website more...

Lesson: Don't build on shit you hate.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch smiling in a selfie with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them.

Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf - 27–28 Apr 2026 beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and frien...

8 days to go. 8 reasons to join #btconf Düsseldorf 2026 🧵

1. Annie Atkins
2. Single-track
3. Chip Kidd
4. 15 years
5. Lauren Celenza
6. Düsseldorf
7. Positivity
8. Spring

27–28 April → beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

Cheltenham town stadium — a tiny low league stadium — with the match going in the sunshine

took the kid to watch the local headers and volleys at Cheltenham

Nice!

Lose Your Self - Music collection A record by Enter Shikari on CD, Digital

I've been really enjoying this new entry to the collection this week bell.bz/music-collec...

They age like a fine wine

The Index: Issue #178 It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #178, sponsored by our good friends, CodePen.

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #178, sponsored by our good friends, CodePen.

piccalil.li/the-index/178/

😈

Got sugarcube running in the browser because...well, it was fun.

And also because it opens up a whole bunch of stuff I'm working on!

(Excuse the self-congratulatory emojis - I was v excited. Would remove them and record the video again but I'm tired).

10 days. #btconf Düsseldorf. 15 years. beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

It'll be good to see ya!

The above post failed to load, so I've doctored the error message, under "Error loading post" to simple read "Waffles"

The notifications view on Bluesky cropped so you can only see the title and the tabs. Under is an error message that I've doctored to read "Warning: vibe PR(s) merged"

"What do you think people will gain from taking the course? I figure you walk away from this course with a deeper understanding of JavaScript; table stakes, right? I couldn’t ask for much more than that. But if I could ask for more, what I’d really want, in my heart of hearts, is for you to be able to laugh at JavaScript a little. “Ooh, I’m made of computer science; I’m so scaaary” — man, JavaScript, you can’t even do math right. C’mon, we’re not gonna let this thing push us around. We got this."

Don't let JavaScript have the last laugh

piccalilli.link/js4e-q-and-a-6

Oh yeh Sanity is great. We're using that combo right now for client work

It’s coming up rather soon! Best get your ticket before you miss the chance to ever attend a @heypresents.com!

another one from the ol' personal site series

WordPress + Astro works so very well for me