Dylan Beattie
@dylanbeatt
coder • speaker • musician • MS MVP • creator of @codewithrockstar.com • founder of @linebreakers.band • organiser of @ldnug.org • fun stuff: dylanbeattie.net • work stuff: ursatile.com • he/him • 🥔
The low light camera on the iPhone 17e is absolutely phenomenal. I took this yesterday in the fruit bat house at Cotswold Wildlife Park. Near-total darkness and no flash.
That’s me, absolutely delighted, and laughing my ass off. I think Niels Leenheer (@html5test.com) had just fired up Doom on an analogue oscilloscope, but honestly, this could have been any one of a dozen highlights of his talk @cssday.nl. Inspiring, hilarious and thought-provoking in equal measure.
For £200, you can watch Muse at the O2, from the not-great-not-terrible seats at the side of the stage, for two hours... or you can buy an actual brand new electric guitar and have enough left for a Twix. CONCERT TICKETS SHOULD NOT COST MORE THAN ELECTRIC GUITARS! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?
I had a great time speaking at @infi.nl yesterday. Lovely people and a fantastic atmosphere. Not only that, but their office has a small tech museum! Although for some inexplicable reason my old Nokia phone is there alongside lots of obsolete gadgets that belonged to people who are really old now.
I met the very excellent @rebane2001.bsky.social, aka lyra.horse - creator of many awesome things including the x86 CPU built in pure CSS - at @cssday.nl 🤠
“enter the Jacoba Mulder building, walk 20 meters into the enormous open patio, built with cubic beziers and border-radius.” Excellent directions there from #TheWebYouWant crew. 😀
I love how the “American” products in Lidl look like AI but they’re actually real.
I honestly thought people were posting fake screenshots. But no, if you ask Google Search, the flagship product that turned Google into a trillion-dollar brand, how many 'g's are in the word 'goggle', it confidently tells you there are two. There are days I wish you could throw bricks at a website.
I have never in my life been so curious as to what's hiding behind "View full thread", and I can't wait to find out exactly how many replies it took to get from the price of a Viennetta to the etymology of "Weyland-Yutani". But I can see it took four hours, so I'm hoping for a proper roller-coaster.
I love the breaks on the agenda for @cssday.nl. This is the best kind of whimsy. ❤️
Title plate of the New York first edition, 1851. (Which, to be clear, I do not own, because of I did I’d sell it and spend the money on Discworld books.)
This Reddit comment will now live rent free in my head forever. www.reddit.com/r/masterhack...
yes i spent far too long sitting at a ridiculously uncomfortable hotel desk making this art about how hotel desks are ridiculously uncomfortable shut up.
Slack says it's time for "Spring cleaning". I am in FORTY SEVEN different Slack workspaces. I can sign out of them, but cannot actually leave without "contacting an administrator". I have absolutely no idea who the administrator is for most of them. Can I have a way to "spring clean" those? Please?
Two more photos of that same sunset. I've never seen anything like it before or since..
Six years ago today, the world was at a standstill. Airports, bars, restaurants, offices closed. Entire cities in lockdown. A strange, scary time. That day, I walked to the top of Horniman Hill and saw the most apocalyptic sky I have ever seen in London. It honestly felt like the end of the world.
Incidentally, this feature appeared in an overnight Windows update which also added two new Copilot integrations to Windows which I did not want, ask for or have the choice to decline. I'm so tired. So very, very tired.
Microsoft: "We are adding Copilot AI to all our products, and if that means building datacenters that will consume more power than a small city, that's the price we all have to pay." Also Microsoft: "Whoa there skippy! Showing SECONDS in your system tray clock uses more power! You sure about this?"
Conway's Law strikes again. This time it's me having to copy and paste a Customer ID and a Support PIN from one box to a different box ON THE SAME WEB PAGE because the person on the other end of the support chat can't see the same things I can see when I'm logged in to their support portal.
Good morning from the <body> tag on a typical Squarespace website and its one hundred and forty eight classes, which is obviously a completely normal and sensible way to build good websites that work very well and are unlikely to cause any problems for generations of future maintenance engineers. 🤡
I have to say, that's quite the wall of names for something that's been out less than a week. It's encouraging to see so many people showing their support for what we're trying to do here. Want to join us? Head over to usewhatworks.org and sign the manifesto.
Bought some Quad Lock gear. I love Quad Lock. Great kit. Got an email asking me to leave a review - "powered by yotpo" Sure! Five stars, nice comments, click the button... nope. Wait ten minutes. Still nope. And now I'm grumpy 'cos I tried to do a nice thing and yotpo screwed it up. Stupid yotpo.