Not everyone who works in software development has realised this yet.

And also, that plate of flesh looks absolutely revolting.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock. The album cover is the promotional poster of the 1984 Calgary Stampede.

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_Ta...

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.

An EU based social network called W, built on ATProto (and initially a fork of Bluesky?)… cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media | Corporate Europe Observatory As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to joi...

A great article about the EU digital fairness act on addictive design and the big tech industry’s 900 Brussels-based lobbyists fighting against it.

corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

i'm sorry that happened to your bite coins :(

I’m Still Your America Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...

"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

The real world of being a software engineer and working as part of a team. These are some valuable lessons.

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google - addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

Oh no. I’m hope you’re ok.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Hi, I’m lymphoma.

some things i’m taking into the new year.

And to you.

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Me using a vibe-coded UI:

Punk Legend Jello Biafra's 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible Owned and driven by music legend Jello Biafra since 1995, this 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible has impeccable punk rock credentials. As Jello’s daily driver for decades, this T160-generation...

Anyone wanna buy Jello Biafra's '89 Toyota Celica? 212k miles, runs fine.

This Old Experiment With Mice Led to Bleak Predictions for Humanity’s Future From the 1950s to the 1970s, researcher John Calhoun gave rodents unlimited food and studied their behavior in overcrowded conditions

Behavioural sink, quite fascinating.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

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Look at the symmetry.

Hi Dan. This is cool. I managed to follow a trail but now I’m presented with a “lost the trail” message on every page. I see the trail flash up momentarily before seeing this message.

Onlooker band performing on stage. In shot is the singer holding a mic stand and screaming aggressively with the bass player also in view.

Onlooker band performing on stage. 5 piece band of two guitars, bass, drums, singer.

Onlooker band performing on stage. In shot is the singer holding a mic stand and screaming aggressively.

Onlooker band performing on stage. In shot is the singer holding a mic stand and screaming aggressively with the bass player also in view.

Endless Spite 2 fest.
Onlooker (from Teeside)

“Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker
“I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.

Fast Blood band performing on stage. 4 piece band. Singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer.

Fast Blood band performing on stage. Singer and guitarist in view.

Endless Spite 2 fest.
Fast Blood (from Newcastle)

Hidden Youth band performing on stage. A singer, two guitarists, a bass player, and drummer.

Hidden Youth band performing on stage. A singer, two guitarists, a bass player, and drummer.

Endless Spite 2 fest.
Hidden Youth (from Leeds)

WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX) YouTube video by BEATPELLA HOUSE

Well this blows my tiny mind. How? How‽ youtu.be/qlrpeYdm9Ec?...

Now heading down a beatbox 🐰🕳️

Endless Spite 2 Comes to Shipley this December - Yorkshire Gig Guide Endless Spite returns to Shipley on 6 December with cult punk and hardcore acts including And None of Them Knew They Were Robots.

Or is it. I’m going to Endless Spite festival later - yorkshire-gig-guide.com/news/endless...

I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.

That’s your lot.

I’m also really interested in Authentication Transfer Protocol (ATP) and have been working on understanding it in my free time. I’ve got authentication working and I can post to both Bluesky and other schemas. I’m now thinking about designing the schema I need for the app I am working on.

Maybe I’ll write more things here. Maybe.

I’m getting better at chess.