“oil companies have mortgaged our children’s future away for their bottom line, and Washington is doing nothing about it!” ok have we tried asking the long space snake to mediate?

i know a couple people who’d be more open to believing climate change exists if it could be blamed on a beef between a massive volcano lizard and his space whale nemesis

the last 48 hours of my life have been MySQL kicking the shit out of me. i know that the ellisons are a horrible family who want to buy the freedom of the press out from under us — which gives a bit more weight when i say that MySQL may be the worst thing they've ever done

one must imagine sisyphus happy

Words With Freds for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Buy Words With Freds and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

as far as what's allowed — it seems like that game is still up on the Nintendo store, so the italian plumber hasn't squashed it (yet)

www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

not a clue what the test would be for legality — maybe there's *something* for "is bypassing the OS keyboard a gameplay feature?"

obviously a far cry from an actual implementation, but at the very least proves that custom on-screen keyboards for input could be possible

Wordle on the Switch?! Words with Freds Review (Nintendo Switch) YouTube video by Ogles Tutorials

obviously a bit niche, but the first thing I think of when I see "handrolled on-screen keyboard" is actually Wordle — where they go past the actual on-screen keyboard of devices to have character colors match prior guesses. console clones may be a good place to look

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVr...

i appreciate how my package of 4 pairs of underwear from REI is referred to in all of my shipping updates as my "gear"

if i were to describe the most horrid periods of my career, about 98% of those moments would involve the phrase "GitHub Actions".

it's heartwarming to see CI/CD on GitHub also makes LLMs want to kill themselves.

also relevant: it's a library for data pipelines, which already invites the pipeline->plumbing->sharded->sharted chain of thought

i might be cursed — after thinking about the word "sharted" more than i have any day since i was 12, i now can't unsee that "shattered" has "shat" in it

ugh — a feature in my library for "running identical things in parallel" lends itself very well to using the term "sharded", but i don't want to actually *use* that term because when i say it out loud it sounds too much like "sharted"

doing a little personal research project about the management economics around "flat" or self-structuring organizational structures, and two of the most notable examples are Valve Corporation and al Qaeda

getting two cats that look the same seemed cute at first. but now? i get up in the middle of the night to see them staring at me side-by-side like the twins from the shining

the interview comes across as a dork who got caught monologuing about process. two of PHM's messages are "people can work together to solve problems" and "different ≠ bad" — regardless of whether he *started* with those in mind. is this really the guy we're gonna light up today?

the whole andy weir business feels very "gotcha" to me — like the marketing company really sent him into a shitty situation with no context

his work is pretty much entirely garden writing. literally all of Artemis was premised on "what would the moon be if space travel was the same $/mi as airfare"

the next time my custom keybindings get blown away, on god i will tear a warpath through every browser that exists until i can find one with the appropriate keybinding settings, or build one my fucking self if i have to

arc browser: we're the browser for power users! sidebar tabs! many spaces! come on over!

also arc browser: if you try to use our custom keybinding feature, we will take you out back and shoot you like the sick animal you are

they must've gotten some complaints, because they (at least) didn't go as far as hiding the setting too deep

in the Gmail settings, under `Apps in Gmail`, disabling those will nix that sidebar entirely

still deciding if the lesson is "run a name by somebody else sooner" or "never consult anybody until you're trapped in a prison of your own decisions."

...hmmm.

i'm writing a Unity library at the moment and thought i'd come up with a clever name for it, until I ran it by my partner and she said it sounded like "a convention for pedophiles"

i'm saving the rename until the library is stable but now i'm surrounded by horrifyingly-named interfaces

this isn’t an admission of alcoholism, though — i mean, like, a good lemonade, or a minty mocktail

i feel like most of the problems in my life at any given point could be helped, if not solved, but one Really Fun Drink

impulse-bought an acoustic bass guitar and — i don't think i fully appreciated how fucking thick the strings on this thing were going to be

bluesky desperately needs a setting to mute any notification from accounts less than, say, a day old.

i can't think of a single open world game that's been released in the last 20 years where my first instinct wasn't "...i wonder how high thing thing can go"

not quite call of the void — it's the call of the tall

after-the-fact correction: after searching "are disney princesses unionized", the answer is apparently: yes, as of two years ago, many costumed performers are part of the "magic united" union.

a whole lotta goofies gave up their lives for that good outcome, i'm sure

i remember in the early 2010s, once of the coolest tech jobs you could dream of having was a disney imagineer. i can only imagine their job at this point is to program the drones that detect if a child is about to see two Elsas and shoots the one closer to unionizing

nevermind, project hail mary was *so* much better than the rebound fuck uber ad

honestly, the uber ad at the start where the couple breaks up and then gets back together made the ticket already worth the price. i’ve never seen, and will never again see, an ad with so many people crying over toothbrushes