A weird thing in the Culture Wars, is that the left hate the left more than they hate the right

To be fair to Elong, if AI and robots wipe out humanity, they WILL have solved hunger, disease and poverty

He’s got pretty good taste then! I might suggest that for my next birthday

I can still to this day sing the theme tune to Golden Girls.

I think the 6-7pm slot on Channel 4 in the early 90s was the apex of American comedy

Donald Trump too…

YouTube video by Bagpuss The Specials – Goat Town

Ah, Ghost Town – I once took ideas from @rathergood.bsky.social and @drivelsieve.bsky.social and ruined this song with some goats #totp

Magit in Emacs is `git add -p` on steroids

It’s worth using Emacs just for that

The quality of the Apple App Store has got so shitty that they can’t believe someone would upload an app that isn’t some sort of scam

When you think about it, it’s kind of obvious that Zippy and the Daleks were done by the same person

Why do you think just in the US?

Worldwide or just in US?

GitHub - Singletoned/tAIdy: Formatter/Linter designed to work well with AI Agents Formatter/Linter designed to work well with AI Agents - Singletoned/tAIdy

I created this so agents can just do `taidy .` and it formats all possible files. Claude Code uses it all the time for me. YMMV

github.com/Singletoned/...

“I’m leaving today”?
“These vagabond shoes are longing to stray”?

AI is amazing for throwaway code, where you have an one-off outcome that you need to achieve that you will never do again

GitHub - Singletoned/tAIdy: Formatter/Linter designed to work well with AI Agents Formatter/Linter designed to work well with AI Agents - Singletoned/tAIdy

I'm 100x on some stuff that I was 0x on before. Mostly side-project tools that I didn't have the bandwidth for

Like Taidy, an omni-linter that formats any type of file: github.com/Singletoned/... (by calling whichever other linters that are installed)

You can solve almost any problem by just lowering your expectations

Yeah, I find it weird how they only offer junk food though. Not even an apple or banana

Have you just given blood? I picked those last time I went

A picture of a man that looks like a pedophile

Dance Me Up is a terrible song even by Gary Glitter’s standards.

And how mind-blowing is it that this person turned out to be a wrong-un

If you have an accountant and it’s low volumes of mail, they are often willing to forward it on. That’s what I do

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

It astounds me that still no one has taken narwhal genes and put them in horses to make genetically modified unicorns

If you think a benefit of homeopathy is hydration, you are just as bad as the guy who thinks eating apples is homeopathy

Is eucalyptus oil particularly good for that type of thing?

Thatcher did have a point when she shut down the mining industry. She may have done it badly, but if she hadn’t, the Labour government after would have shut it down

Ah so frozen ready meals are healthier then?

Do you mean freezing dried pasta and rice, or cooked pasta and rice?

Until recently it was illegal to sell bread in any size other than 400g and 800g

I assumed it was a play on The Man Who Sold The World, until I found out these were Trumpisms.

Trump doesn’t seem like a Bowie (or even Nirvana) fan to me

In the 50s and 60s the credits were at the beginning of the film not the end. Even in 1977 George Lucas got fined for not putting any credits at the beginning of Star Wars