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James Urquhart

@sjamesu

Develops software while drinking cups of tea. Also on mangofu.bsky.social

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calendar_today09-07-2007 13:30:37

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Noticing an odd tendency to do web framework benchmarks with disproportionate feature sets which ends up telling you almost nothing

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Not too sure if SDLs GPU api is exactly going to be a win after checking it out. Needing to compile for 4+ different shader targets sounds like a nightmare.

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Not sure if I should be concerned with this synology nas stating "raid1: Disk failure on sda2, disabling device." in dmesg, then not reporting a thing in the UI. 😲

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Missing when this site was more about seeing what everyone was doing and thinking about rather than facebook tier trash news

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Stood here wondering where my next day Scan Computers order is. DPD Delivery driver mysteriously vanished after missing the supposed delivery window hours ago! Pretty terrible really.

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My daughter, Emery, is raising money to go to Nicaragua in July to help build a school. Anything you could do to help her out would be greatly appreciated, and would go a long way towards bringing education and opportunity to the people of Nicaragua. act.buildon.org/fundraiser/589…

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Managed to almost injure my foot yet again looking for my wallet to scan my id for the dumb age verification on Discord required by an act likely written by a bunch of morons - interesting times we live in!

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One way you can tell if an API is good or not: asking an LLM to give you an example of using it. If the example doesn't work, it's probably bad.

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Have to say, webgpu is probably one of the most promising standards I've seen go down the toilet with completely convoluted and buggy platform implementations.