Happy birthday to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, which first aired 20 years ago today: youtu.be/La1moU5qArM?fe…

Good photo of Alan Bates. I should know. I took it, when there weren’t that many people interested in the #PostOfficeScandal. Now the ⁦The Telegraph⁩ have stolen it. I asked them to contact me last week when they used it without permission. They didn’t. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/3…

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀 Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀 🧵

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10 years ago today, THE LEGO MOVIE released in cinemas. It was a joyful experience making the film - a celebration of creativity. To celebrate, I’ll post some memories and behind-the-scenes tidbits on this thread throughout the day.

I cannot forgive them for not calling this a Quornish Pasty.

PWAs work again as expected on iOS 17.4 Notifications, persistent storage and badging are back

Ok, so GitHub Copilot has apparently started assigning work to me in other people's code bases. 🙃 Got an email with this screenshot, showing that I was the suggestion to complete this TODO. Not cool Copilot, not cool. 😅

🤖 WE ARE NOT ROBOTS - UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED! Check out the video for full details⚡️ Pre order the album via the Official Store store.terrorvisionofficial.com for pre-sale access. (Anybody who has already ordered from the Official Store will be sent a pre-sale code).

SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS! WE ARE HIRING! come and work with our gloriously happy and productive team, developers and researchers working side-by-side, pooling skills and knowledge, and above all WE SHIP: we make huge open source software projects that change lives, give access to

ManageOps is Tonight. If you are an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead in general then come join us. Meetup: meetup.com/manageops/even…

We’re teaming up with The Slovenly Trulls 💕 to run our first ever meet up, at UK Games Expo ! Join us for a chilled lunch time meet up at 1:30pm on Saturday 1st of June. Location to be confirmed the day before. Open to all. Bring your lunch, your coffee and show off your new TTRPG haul!

Movie idea. Someone is murdering everyone who has ever done a film or TV adaptation of the Watchmen. Alan Moore has to investigate to prove that it’s not him.

Want to vote in the general election taking place on 4 July? ❗ You must register to vote by 11:59pm tomorrow (18 June). ❗ Register now 🔽 gov.uk/register-to-vo…

Another sad loss for Brum’s indie scene. Please if you can, go visit and support Laghi’s before they close their doors on 10 August 💔 Once again, a stark reminder on why it’s so important to support our local independents. It’s so tough for indie businesses right now.

“we hope you join us in moving forward into new and innovative ways for navigating web and app experiences” – no! Be old and boring! Don’t break the web! It’s a list of redirects! It’s the least you could possibly do! If I can keep 20 year old URIs still working, so can you!

After years of trying and failing to use the correct German article, I've found a viable long-term solution. Is it Der, Die, or Das? Let chaos decide!

and this is why we need to stop absolving *commercial* cybersecurity vendors of software quality concerns. there should be multiple checks preventing this type of broken content in an update. how did they allow it to ship to so many machines all at once?