I am fed up of fucking "AI Employee" ads. AI is not magic. AI can handle specific things with strong human guidance. The outcome of blindly trusting "AI Employees" will be shitty user experience at best and outright disaster at worst. But these companies don't care. It doesn't hurt them.

Seems I'll be waiting a minute or two for my Instagram metrics

Ah. Man. This little bastard had no idea of the heights and depths to come. No idea at all. There did turn out to be plenty more buttons to wildly push in their future, though.

The best tacit agreement ever to hit startups was the understanding that if nothing else, you need a Pricing page accessible to logged out users. It wasn't always this way and frankly it was terrible.

The Thundertank has seen better days

Been seeing a pattern of posts lately centring around a show disappearing from Prime or Netflix. They're all by the same guy. So who is Quentin Couprie? Well, he's not a journalist. And his shit is almost certainly AI slop.

Monzo: allow me to freeze and defrost my card in the API you cowards

I accidentally played DUGGA DOO and the theme from Gerry Anderson's “UFO” together at the same time and... oh no, my friends. Oh no. I’m going to have to do something about this.

Oh, Root, you tragic, beautiful, big gay maniac. I loved you so much I made a sticker. https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/There-Has-Never-Been-A-Plan-by-daveio/23398038.QK27K

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Advertising has realised I'm looking for work and is all like "this product can get you a job at JP Morgan Chase! Microsoft! AWS!" Whereas I'm over here like "I just want a gig at a 10-30 person startup where everyone is a bit of a mess and we can all work together to build something cool". I've done my time in corporate at Facebook and I hated it with everything in my soul. It ruined me, physically and emotionally. I still haven't recovered. I don't think I ever will. I stayed as long as I did, and that's on me. But it doesn't change the myriad things wrong with bigger companies. I want nothing more to do with them.

You kind of have to be a deep Star Trek fan to understand quite how funny Lower Decks is. You need to understand the difference of Alpha and Beta canon to understand how incredible it was that they got the Alpha canon stick, kept within the broader rules, and dicked around as hard as they could.

The bangiest banger is 16 years old this day.

Term I just came across and ADORE: "loving out loud"

Every time I see some insufferable old fart post about how only Reform will save us from the Shania Law menace, I post this

I will never not love having my PRs merged. Now you can install `trunk` as just `trunk` using `mise`!

base58 is superior in every way to base64 and I will fight you (storage is cheap)

Admittedly this is of little value beyond pretty cool, but I'm now on IPFS! https://key.ipfs.dave.io : my public key, also available by CID bafkreid3gd3gljpguwpnxwvjnsfy2e4j2ib53c5vahjmmtukplo4bg5x3m https://cv.ipfs.dave.io : my CV, also available by CID bafybeihh45n5ypckbmsckofkuqbzebtvdm2tvcvomcr3tw6tprkdw6iv3q

Gamer types. Look. We welcome you as part of the fight against payment processors as the true arbiters of taste and censorship. Just realise that you're walking into something that we have fought against in sex work for years. Maybe show a bit of appreciation for that. Just a thought.

Funny how the pro-life crew never come out arguing for mandatory organ donation, hey. I mean, if it's about maintaining life at the expense of all else, including bodily autonomy, why not? It's almost as if their arguments are intellectually bankrupt and they just want to tell women what to do.