Speaking of, when *are* new chaser episodes coming?

Something poetic about how spellcheck has no idea what to do whenever I misspell 'bureaucracy.'

Sometimes I think about Wikipedia, and what they're trying to do, and what they could be, and compare their budget with the funding for LLM slop machines, and it drives me a little insane. We tried to build a library of Alexandria that would not burn, then tried a library of babel for profit.

Goose chase meme. If your windows PC can't be updated any more, what do they want you to trade it to do? To do what?

This was foreseeable, and in fact, foreseen.

Why would I eat a delicious meal, when I could simply pay a robot to eat it instead and tell me superlatives about it?

All upside!

Bob the Angry Flower singing SubZero from the Mortal Kombat soundtrack with dramatic flair. Nobody is impressed. (Well, I'm impressed)

Used colloquially as a noun too - with a meaning similar to "hack"

Is this Mass Effect 3?

Chicken butts (fluffy)

What's up,

Ah yes, it would have been much better if the fires had damaged... a nuclear power plant. 🙄

Aren't kids using fortnite etc the same way us olds used to use MSN and ICQ?
Nobody's logging on to single player games to hang out with their friends for hours.

Gentrified Doom remake trades chainsaw for cheese knife Remake of 1993 classic lets you drink wine and eat hors d’oeuvres as you admire masterpieces from art history.

@dosnostalgic.bsky.social @bhaalspawn.bsky.social y'all seem this already?
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

I'd argue this is less about the terminal and more about the need to manually duct tape parts of the OS when things break/don't work how you want. That hardly ever happens these days (though it *does* still sometimes happen).
Terminal is objectively superior as an expert UI though.

A brief write up on the absolutely bonkers game that was the collaborative project completed by my year 11 Computer Science students in 2023:
jonathan.ihle.in/2024/12/term...

@becauselangpod.bsky.social does this imply the existence of a third shape, yet to be discovered by linguists?

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

Applies to code too 🙃

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

Found a weird "bug" with the jukebox project. Surprise! It's a power supply issue. jonathan.ihle.in/2024/11/rasp...

A Minecraft jukebox and a chest with 10 Minecraft music discs, made out of laser cut MDF and vinyl cut stickers.

Most recent project "finished":
www.instagram.com/reel/DCqrA6n...

Sitting on a vanity domain only to find Bluesky allows you to set a domain as your handle?