I know you don't care about that but I'm a nerd and

Romans were so keen on oysters that we keep finding oyster shells in this landlocked county that is miles away from any source of fresh oysters. I knew they loved oysters, but this is truly going the extra mile for them.

Bones come in the weirdest shapes. Obvious, in hindsight, but took me a bit to start distinguishing them from rocks.

Yeah that's Chacon, the GitHub co-founder who loved having a bar on every floor of the GitHub office and left around 2016. And jfc what did I just read?? Yes Scott, I'm sure i18n is a completely useless feature for a tool that deals with user files and content, totally.

I was raised on these streets

Oh wait, I know what it is, it's AI douchebags outsourcing their incompetence to AI and claiming everyone secretly loathes the practice of making software so they can justify to themselves that what they're doing is somehow acceptable.

Here's how they all fit together, pick one of the threads (or go nuts and pick at random, my first one was Thud)! You can keep on the tiffany aching storyline since you’ve already started it from the beginning.

GitHub giving off some creepy janky Windows vibes, as a treat.

There are waaaaay too many bad jokes popping into my head as this notice of yet-another GitHub outage suddenly pops up! End boss hard mode: GitHub going one day without an outage. There are only two hard problems in computing: naming things and cache invalidation.

Time to do some work in my office.

🫡 It's honestly impressive watching them speedrunning their way straight off a cliff.

I guess we need a status page for the status page now

Oh well they both use that incredible obscure language called *checks notes* C++, they have to be the same person, it's irrefutable!

Her white-blonde hair that is slightly darker in places because of shadows cast by the environment turns into washed out bleached hair with roots showing because the genAI saw the true intended color of the strands? The shape of her upper lip changed because lighting? Oh man you need new eyeballs.

His Splootinus is on the case of the missing comfy-ness.

Cory Doctorow writes well and comes up with a lot of cultural catchphrases, but the combo of needing to churn out ridiculous amounts of content with being a libertarian with an absolute belief on the neutrality of technology leads him to the inevitable "LLMs are fine actually". Unsurprised face.

I don't buy games in early access either and I think I'll wait for 1.0 to play it even if I do get it now, but it's a hard wait, it's extremely promising already! I'll just stare at it in my library and wait...

Big boys, tangerine for scale (sorry no bananas at hand).

Oooh right I forgot there's miniatures!

Totoro supervising unboxing operations of the Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion boardgame kickstarter rewards.

Too much?

There's the next one (blue dot on the right is me)

Here we go again folks, hold on to your butts.

Dooooo iiiit, it's fun! We got a temperature gauge that sits magnetically on the flat surface on the top, telling us how hot it gets. It gets hot enough!