You can’t make millions on insider trading without causing a few market shocks.

A mere five-and-a-half years after becoming a @herring1967.bsky.social badger, I finally remembered to switch to the ad-free cool kids’ RSS feed for RHLSTP (juſt in time to liſten to ſome ſtone clearing without thoſe peſky advertiſements).

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

He's not going to be called Prince Andrew any more.

From now on he's called Nonce Andrew.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Two ends of the spectrum (both Phoenix apps; one tiny personal app and one big work one with integration tests):

Finished in 0.5 seconds (0.5s async, 0.02s sync)
142 tests (111 async, 31 sync)

Finished in 1645.4 seconds (131.0s async, 1514.3s sync)
17551 tests (14615 async, 2936 sync)

Essential?

A couple of dozen developers sitting round tables in a big hall, pairing on Conway’s Game of Life.

Today I ran a #CodeRetreat at work. I think it went reasonably well, but it’s always a bit disappointing how few people outside our team are using #TestDrivenDevelopment, or have even tried it in any meaningful way.

Me posing with myself by a snooker table (sorry, board), with a corner pocket section cut from a different board on a wooden plinth in the foreground.

I’m a rank amateur when it comes to self-playing snooker, but now I (and I) can compete in the shadow of part of the hallowed baize of @herring1967.bsky.social’s original board! Once I’ve moved it out of the way, of course.

Although for some reason Waitrose seem to have started homogenising their organic milk now.

I’m definitely not awake yet – the other one was cabbage, of course!

I did something similar when I switched from ruby to elixir years ago. Tried white_bread and another one I can’t remember the name of, and even wrote a simple story runner (kale), but eventually decided using exunit for all tests was simpler as we weren’t actually writing scenarios with customers.

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer.

Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.

We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.

It will never reach you.

Joined bluesky ages ago, then ignored it, but popped back to see what the renewed fuss was about. If I’m going to stay, I need a good Android and/or macOS client – any recommendations? By good, I mostly mean “opens at the point in the timeline where I last looked, and lets me scan forward to now”.