Something had been bugging me about MAMMON'S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MID-SEASON SPECIAL, so I slowed down the credits, and I was right.
Tom Cardy, you magnificant bastard. 
Dave W
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big queer infra overlord.
devops, infosec, politics, shitposts.
collaboration not competition.
may contain gender.
Someone glued the Gods of mischief and lust together by accident. 
YouTube: A Dichotomy 
I refuse to gloat about the missiles hitting Israel. Yet again, the people suffer from their leaders' decisions. But it is very much a case of what did those leaders really expect to happen?
“I found a cool thing”
“Cool thing doesn’t fit my preferences, so it’s shit and so are you”
Oh, Internet, never change.
Wait. No. The other thing. Change. For the love of God, change.
Switched my primary search to DuckDuckGo a week or two ago. Have not regretted it for an instant.
It really is a decent Google competitor, without the nonsense AI summary bullshit.
So Postman drives me nuts. I've found Yaak, an open-source alternative. Written in Rust, which is an instant bonus, and will write its workspace setup into Git if you want too, with full secrets encryption.
Dead good. Totally free for personal use with no feature gates.
Yaak – The API client for modern developers
A fast, secure, and offline API client that works with Git.
I'd say the cutover to the new 
has been a success, what do you reckon? 
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I do find it kind of mad how this tiny little dangly bastard hanging off my NAS - a Coral accelerator - gives it such ludicrous AI superpowers. 
Picked up The Hollow Crown, which I thought was a miniseries, but is a series of Shakespeare adaptations. Which I could not be more onboard with if I tried.
Naturally, it had been going a whole 30 seconds before Patrick Stewart rocked up. Because you can't have Shakespeare without Patrick Stewart.
Look, I'm the first to admit that the AI discourse is nuanced.
I have a fairly radical disability - multiple sclerosis - and I use AI to help me cope with it. I also use it a fair amount in technical work.
But when I hear that people are going mental and attacking family members when they tell them that AI personalities aren't real people, then we have a problem.
Was watching a video yesterday in which someone pronounced Sartre as Sa Tra.
Is pronouncing something truly comically wrong in a video the latest engagement bait dark pattern?
Because, if so, can we just not?
I see the Liberal Discourse is in full flow today, let me sum up.
The Right: anything not heteronormative and white must be destroyed
The Left: excuse me my good bitch, hey liberals, time to pick a side
Liberals: ah, good, my column, Why The Left Are Mean Poopie Pants To Me, is done
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Claude Code in a pipe continues to absolutely slap.
`cat bios.md | claude -p "Convert this Markdown table to JSON. An example of the JSON format is below the table. Output only the JSON. No markdown wrapping." | tee bios.json | python copy.py`
Do I even need to say it? 
People who have done API dickery in the past: which platform is the least headache to write bots for? Discord or Slack? Would consider Matrix if there’s a significant selling point beyond its nature.
Windows ‘95: tired
iOS ‘25: wired
I don’t really know why, but I’m cool with Apple’s plan and see it as somehow distinct from vintage Microsoft. When it’s not. Not even a little bit.
Ah yes, the Internet is losing its shit about a first revision of a first beta of a thing not being production-ready, very cool, very normal
moment of silence for all the em-dash users who are getting all manner of bullshit for daring to have an opinion about puncuation. sam altman is inevitably to blame.