CJ Ryan

@vitreouslight

Burnt out middle-aged tech nerd. Writer of things. Former senior full stack developer. Unrepentant Luddite. (he/him) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 Go Marlins! ⚾️🏟️

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CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· 13d

I went to a remote island and walked to the top of it for this photo, please give me the appropriate number of likes

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· 14d

You have some explaining to do. @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social

A screenshot of a Twitter post saying “Absolute banger from Rebecca Bligh, who seems to have used Al to make her post opposing Al data centers for a lack of adequate consultation” from user @Cadeyrnn. Bligh is running for Vancouver mayor and she’s ostensibly anti-ai, so she’s being a hypocrite right now.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· 15d

I have been forced to go to Lahinch Beach.

A photo of a beach with a blue sky above it. The Atlantic Ocean is in the background. It looks like a sandy beach with the ocean and is therefore very boring.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· 17d

Proof

A photo of me standing next to a stone plaque thing that says “cliffs of moher experience” that absolutely does not convey how ridiculous the wind is. I’m practically burnt. My hair looks like it’s been styled by a blind trapeze artist

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jul 5

I went to @vancaf.bsky.social and all I got was this sticker for my laptop

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jul 4

Seriously I AM DYING 🤣

Screenshot of the article with text highlighted: “I believe Ronald Reagan hit the nail on the head when he described this country as a shining city on a hill with a shantytown stinking of boiled cabbage at its base,” Garson added.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jul 2

Got my snark on in a reddit thread today about LLM coding tools

Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying “Man I used to be a full stack dev. These things are toys. They can spit out shitty prototypes like whoah but they're kryptonite to a large established codebase, and 75% of my job was working on those. And I was even working for a company that did a lot of new projects due to consulting stuff, building apps for other companies.
Devs live and die on being able to complete the statement of work for a project on time, under budget, and built defensively so that the next SOW can also be implemented on time and under budget. You cannot do this with these fuckboi LLM systems. We already know that they reduce dev productivity, screw up your real coding skills, and the cost of salary AND unknown token spend will blow out the project budgets faster than you can type "Hello world".
Hype is all well and good but eventually reality has to be on your side as well. And the reality is that these things are toys. The future belongs to the devs who can undercut everyone else because they don't bother wasting their time with toys.”

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jun 24

Things are afoot. I’m planning to write a number of articles to get started on my journalism schtick so at least it won’t be just one of my insane opinions out there all alone

Screenshot of a list of articles with the following titles: “Elon Musk Talks a Lot”, “The Puffery of AI CEOs”, and “Betting with Imaginary Math Bucks”

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Apr 23

As soon as I saw this parade of idiocy I knew I had to post it for imaginary internet points. Apparently the RCMP are practicing for when the World Cup is on.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Apr 8

Every Irish politician is a wet noodle

Screenshot of a news article where our glorious balding leader, Micheál Martin, complains that the fuel protests in Ireland “are wrong” and “not a legitimate form of protest”, which confirms that he is in fact an enormous prick out of touch with the common people (who are known for engaging in demented protests and who will absolutely take this as an opportunity to mock the shit out of him)

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Feb 23

In my “hoodie, sunglasses, hat and mask” era

A selfie photo of me, wearing a hood, sunglasses, baseball cap and mask. Apparently I look like the Unibomber. I have no idea whether this is a compliment or not.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Feb 12

What I’m wearing to the bsky Valentine’s ball (I can’t pull it off but idgaf)

A photo of Keanu Reeves from The Matrix, in the iconic black trench coat, sunglasses, black pants and shirt and boots, and carrying enough weaponry to scare the bejeezus out of law enforcement

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Feb 11

Can you really call yourself a coffee shop if you don’t serve your largest drinks in a soup bowl

A photo of my ENORMOUS coffee cup, holding what is allegedly a decaf latte, with an absurdly small handle on the side

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Feb 6

I feel it’s important to promote and recognize the beauty of the written word when we encounter it

A screenshot of the linked post highlighting a quote that is a beautiful example of just how truly evocative language can be, to whit: “Still, Memphis leadership is cordially invited to grow a dick at its earliest convenience.”

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Dec 21

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFFFFFFF

A screenshot of an email sent to me by Google home saying that Gemini is now available through the Google assistant thingy, consisting mostly of bullshit marketing speak which I am not prepared to type out because my patience is limited and not a single word of it is interesting to anyone with a functional brain. Sorry.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Dec 17

Do you have ANY good ideas left FFS

An image of a tweet, I assume, saying “idea: AI earrings that whisper to you and help you make decisions” along with some photos of concept products in the logos of the AI companies that make me question whether humanity dying in a meteor strike would really be a loss to the universe

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Aug 28

The /r/ireland subreddit found the Keffiyeh Leprecaun image that the Times of Israel used to attack Ireland’s stance on the war, and the discourse was predictably 50% intelligent and 50% absolute mockery. They’re already talking about making it the official subreddit profile pic

A photo of a redheaded guy with a red beard, wearing a green sweater over a white shirt, and a bright green keffiyeh with black patterns on it, and he’s holding the Palestinian flag and has the expression of a man who is already drunk but has his next pint in view. I am not lying when I say this is the funniest shit I have seen in at least a few months.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jul 19

Cat tax (with back payment)

A close up view of a very large, black tomcat sleeping while lying on my legs, which means I’m probably not going to be able to move for the next hour

The same giant black tomcat sleeping on his back with his mouth partly open, proving once and for all that cats are capable of looking like absolute numpties while napping

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jul 16

Finally finished my cosmic socks made with Sagittarius Satin by @isasaxonists.bsky.social - toes and heels finished with soft Malabrigo held with a strand of lace alpaca

A pair of socks sitting on the back of my very battered off-yellow couch. The socks are lovely striped purple and blue with black speckles, and the heels and toes are a light beige speckled with purple. They are very large because I have giant feet.

A close up of the texture of the sock with the stripes and the colours and IT’S SO SHINY I’M GONNA DIE, I LOVE THEM SO

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jul 7

NO I FUCKING WON’T, YOU VIBE CODING SHIT BISCUIT

Screenshot of a Reddit ad about some shitty AI service and the title is “An AI assistant built this on one sitting. You’ll want to check it out”. And let me tell you, dear reader, I would rather set my own tits on fire than check this out

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jun 22

My mum, having come all the way to Vancouver from Ireland to visit me, decided the best use of her time was to weed the garden.

A photo taken through some railings of my mum, down in my little not-really-garden, more a large dirt patch, bent over and yanking up weeds in a sun dress. She is wearing bright blue gardening gloves and I’m not even sure where she got them from.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jun 12

So, who do I look more like - Mum or Dad :D

Photo of me, and an older couple who look suspiciously like me. We are in a pizza joint acquiring pizza to take home. This is a selfie at a weird angle but I am not a photographer or an influencer so yeah. We are all smiling because we’re about to have pizza

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jun 7

Hello fellow #glassnerds, I feel like I’m going nuts. There is absolutely no way these bowls are legit #Muranoglass and I need someone to validate me because Reddit is trying to tell me they are.

A handblown green glass bowl on a black background, with bobbly pulled sides and a weird waffle pattern on the base which is VERY NOT ATTRACTIVE.

Same bowl, showing a sticker label in the middle that’s red and white and very worn.

Close up of the label and you can see it says “Murano Made in Italy” which is PATENTLY FALSE because these bowls look like shit and no self-respecting Murano glass artist would claim them

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· Jun 4

A photo of a woman’s hand clenched in a fist, with three little hearts tattooed on the inside wrist in pink, yellow and blue.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· May 25

Experiment twelve: discarded craft paper

A large fat black tomcat, in the loaf position on top of a sheet of purple craft paper that got left on the floor by someone. Not naming any names here. I’m sure it was just an accident, and not a regular occurrence.

CJ Ryan@vitreouslight· May 24

Watching a roller derby game right now, first one ever. I don’t know why I thought it would be more violent. Lots of shoving and people falling over humorously. Can’t ask for more than that.