But no, let's go for option 2 "👀: I haven't read this book and am eager for something to keep me going until Dungeon Crawler Carl #8 gets released in May."

I'm reading that as "How dare you disparage my favourite feminist author and activist Robert Galbraith 😤" and wtf how dare you even suggest such a horrible thing 😂

👀

After 17 years, AO3 is out of beta.
I’m thrilled, but also sad? Is this what my mother felt when I left home?

(lol, no. It was her birthday and she was pissed)

www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-is-exiti...

"whenever working with C always keep in mind that C stands for CVE" iev.ee/blog/gzip-de...

My entire kitchen is sticky. I’ve wiped down all the surfaces and days later I’m still finding sticky spots that seem to defy the laws of physics.

This was attempt #4 to get 71B yeast going, btw.
The starting gravity was 1.108 and every attempt before this the yeast got the honour of Death by Osmosis™

Frozen block of apple juice sitting in a sieve, with a bowl underneath to catch the syrup.

Half-melted block of frozen apple juice, leaving behind a block of frozen water and the syrup drained into the bowl.

Carboy fermenter containing high-syrup apple juice and yeast, with the airlock on top bubbling away.

It’s my first time trying to make ice-cider.

It took 5 days for it to start bubbling, and I’m worried that some other bacteria started before the yeast culture could thrive.

I’ve never seen that much foam before.

3.
oh Stratt, they did you dirty! Such a complex and nuanced character not getting to shine with the limitations of screen time.
Wasting precious seconds on karaoke instead of how the guilt of necessary evil weighed on your conscience? Knowing you were the world’s scapegoat? + more 😭

2.
That math ain’t mathing, buddy. Weir is meticulous when it comes to at least trying to make his fictional science believable within the laws of physics. Who the fuck approved that line?

1.
that’s a really quick way to fuck up a centrifuge. Literally 1 second of screen time and not relevant to the story at all but I was screaming in my head at that.

My advice: read the book (or listen to the audio book). Preferably before the film, but after the film to fill in the gaps is also good. I don’t think it really matters.

The additional context from the book really makes the scenes in the film so much more impactful.

Three things however:

But understanding that, and armed with the knowledge of multiple book readings: it is a powerful performance that really conveyed the gravity and emotion of the scenes better than the book did (even if they didn’t fully explain _why_ the scenes matter).

To be clear, they completely gutted most of the context and nuance that made the book great. But you have to, in order to fit it into a runtime of under 3 hours.

Just saw Project Hail Mary, and it was amazing. It’s one of my favourite books and I was really worried about how well they’d portray it on-screen.

Does this librarian have a name? Aurawra, perhaps? Rawree? Libby Rawrian?

OH. MY. GOD.

It’s beautiful 🥹

Yes! I’m learning left-handed so I can be ambidextrous. There is an unfortunate learning curve when you’re used to the reverse

Big arm bruise.

Even bigger arm bruise.

Get yourself a hobby that makes you blush. Remember your arm guards, kids!

but is it type-safe?

How the fuck do you even do that to yourself?
I have to go to a nurse every time because I'm too much of a baby to even look at a needle without freaking out 😒

And I get the boring, straight bandaids ☹️

I don't think we've talked enough about this login trend using OTPs (one-time passwords) sent via email. My ADHD brain has enough problems staying on task as-is, I don't need you, authentication designer, over here making me open the distraction circus that is my inbox to dig up a six-figure code

Git clones of my side-project are sky-rocketing with no web traffic. Some AI scraper is probably using my code to train their models but, jokes on them, my code's shit.

I like to believe that I'm doing my part to make Sonnet 5 that little bit worse <3

That was 5 YEARS AGO? 💀

Adding Dragonfly Shipping to the “worst fucking delivery companies in the Netherlands” list.

My package could not be delivered to my personal residential address because “het bedrijf was gesloten” (the company was closed).

At 3:56pm. When I was reading a book about 4 meters from the front door.

People all over the internet were talking about the #SpacetimeDB video and I've only just got round to watching it and... Oh. Wow. That's, er... something. Again, wow.

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"

Status dashboard:

I wouldn't say idiots, just... my level of curiosity is higher than my level of common sense 😃

28 cartons of "Albert Heijn"-branded apple juice, neatly stacked.

There is absolutely no shame in boxed, store-brand apple juice - especially if you're making cider! Happy experimenting!

That looks too orange for wort. Cider? And from the temperature, your making ice cider?

... for legal reasons it's definitely ice wine and not applejacking 😂