Saw Cruise HOME this afternoon. @1JackHolden is still an absolutely remarkable performer and writer. Go see it for a slice of queer history

There are five unions representing charities - any #tradeunion folks able to recommend one in particular?

Friends lied to me about how much casual dating in coffee shops my 20-30s would have.

dammit tweetdeck is gone for me

#joey #microservices #kubernetes

If you haven't been crying I'm not sure you're actually studying cyber security.

SQLite, used in every phone and browser in the world, has 3 developers, millions of tests, and no manual testers. So don't tell me you need a 1:1 tester:engineer ratio for your "mission critical" system.

Does anyone know/happen to be an artist who drew those classic ‘clinch’ covers for romance novels, particularly historicals? Would love to chat!

I swear to god every author who was raised as an only child please watch this to understand siblings, I am in tears

Loving how obsessed with bins we are right now. Reminds me of that amazing Twitter spaces yonks ago about bins which everyone thought was so geeky, then SO many people joined. As a nation, we just can’t get enough weather & bin chat.

it’s called standup because your code is a joke

That number is almost always in the first line or two of any promotion document for managers. When the *most influential* metric available for a manager is "number of people working for them", it means that the strongest incentive for those managers is finding more headcount.

A tenner is an absurdly low price for the quality of these two (2!!) shows. Go get!

Note that hackers love infecting pirated software and distributing it themselves because the users have a driven need to run it and they’ll disable antivirus if they’re told to. This isn’t some made-up scare tactic, I’m completely serious. Be careful out there.

refusing to click on links in emails for security purposes while raw dog installing packages from random strangers to get one slightly more convenient function

The AI revolution might be what takes the internet backwards to where it was before the 2010s: Member-only forums, register-only sites, subscriptions everywere. What is good? You ask people who seem well-informed where they get all that reliable info from.

Some people still have faith in the government's ability to deliver large scale IT programmes

Hallo, do I know any U.K. based literary agents who know about the romance novel space?

My dad just rocked up at mine after an auction with a bunch of chainmail. Fragmentary, individually riveted which suggests not made for re-enactment & also includes a piece with platelets with what looks like a heraldic motif incised - any experts know about this kind of thing?!