runescape but every 1,000 xp I face my demons (taxes and sunlight)

I don't do a lot of multiplayer PC gaming these days, but it's good to see it hasn't changed. Hop online, *someone* has to download a 1GB patch before they can join. Today it's me. I opened Steam yesterday so it's just Unfortunate Timing.

Have you ever found a literal fly in literal ointment? What was it like?

The extent to which Microsoft will leverage one product to cross-promote the rest is just... unique. This showed up while trying to try out their new chatbot.

tired: "to be compatible with X" wired: "to compat X"

Is your tech company a stodgy establishment who uses headers like "Summary", or a cool fresh startup who uses headers like "tl;dr"?

I like requests phrased as "Hi, someone can't do something. They think it's a security issue" when the problem is that we're blocking it. We have too *much* security. Normally that phrasing means we don't have *enough* 🔀

heck all the music nerds dumping on Pachelbel's Canon, it's quality music and acts as a scaffold to encourage a ton of variation

I think Bluetooth likes to work only 99.9% of the time so that, every so often, you're reminded that it exists and how miraculous it is.

`git rebase` is a mechanism for gaslighting yourself.

looking to borrow a cat or cats so I can explain my tax reasoning to them and see if it makes sense

blog.lord.geek.nz/2023/07/21/for…

Never underestimate the motivational power of a glossy auto-testing tool with a big red "fail" result and guidance on how to fix it. Stuff like SSL Labs' Server Test or the HSTS Preload eligibility checker.

"If I fits, I sits" but for office spaces your card lets you access.

true i18n means you can still say “hey siri” while the plovers squawk past in the background

let's all be rational here, talk through it together and then I'm sure we'll arrive at [the opinion I currently hold]