Tom Hicks

Wow that does not look like any nappy I have ever seen and I’ve seen I guess literally thousands.

😥 🔫 😡 “CUDDLE THE ROBOT!”

I had my first and only one about a month ago. It said “the risk of flash floods has subsided”

I did not receive one about the risk of flash floods in the first place 😬

If that means you have to use it in a narrower scope then it can still be useful I suppose.

I’m not entirely sure what constitutes “domain-specific” here but I would just add that the domain of software development isn’t really “software” it’s “whatever your software happens to model” which could be anything.

Social sobbing

I asked GitHub copilot thingy something like “help me find a good starting place for this PR as it’s quite big”.

It suggested I start with the PR description.

I died.

Please tell me it has a feature like “34,662 people crying right now”

Which year?

It’s this kind of practical advice like this that I follow you for!

And I love pushing things in corridors! We should be mates!

When a job interviewer asks one of those “tell me about a time when…” questions:

Renewing every year and never doing anything with it?

I can’t even believe you would write this on an electronic device. Some of us are dealing with electrohypersensitivity and the OWW trouble this causes AARGH due to our devices high voltage output, FUCK magnetism and OUCH light emission.

I truly hope SHIT you never have to EEEARGH go through this

Speaker: “It depends”

Host: “on what?”

Speaker: “oh boy…”

I cannot stop reading MCP as Most Contentful Paint

From SVG to Canvas – part 1: making Felt faster This is the first part of a two part series explaining Felt’s switch from SVGs to Canvas. Part 1 focuses on the rendering and performance improvements.

Found the first part of the post

Second part is linked at the bottom

felt.com/blog/from-sv...

We used to use SVGs to render map annotations, but the DOM just isn’t good beyond a certain point.

We now render even more stuff with canvas like comment bubbles and various other UI bits as our framework for rendering has matured and become easier to use.

Ask me anything about perf optimisations!

Felt | The only cloud-native GIS platform Build maps, apps, and dashboards in seconds. Felt is the first and only cloud-native GIS platform, empowering everyone in your organization with GIS superpowers.

Over at felt.com we use canvas 2d for a subset of our map and interactions rendering.

If you go look in the blog there’s some stuff about it that I wrote.

There’s also a ton of optimisations that I didn’t write about!

Royals using “how to behave like a normal human” lesson almost daily during sports tournaments

Was gonna build a website where you could upload a photo and it would tell you if it was someone called Roy or just some buffalo.

I wanted royorbison.com but it's taken because someone else has obviously had the same idea.

If you have a bug and fix it, and you decide you need to try to prevent it from happening again, at no point is "we will have to remember to do/not to do X" an acceptable approach to that.

You absolutely **will** forget to do/not to do that thing.

Who manages the IManagerFactoryBuilderProviderStrategyManager?

I’m not so sure “most famous things” that you can quote from film and TV are happy accidents! That’s doing a huge disservice to writers and their process.

Catalan style is insane and I still haven’t worked it out. It’s something like this:

Let’s have a picnic — said Frog
Is this still the frog speaking? Who knows until you get to the end of this. And what if there’s a sentence break? This could still be frog or narrator — said Toad

I was challenged to use comic sans as my IDE font so I found a monospaced version of it and I’ve kept it ever since.

Wow that sounds exactly like Remix I’m not at all surprised.

What are the real issues?

Besides JavaScript’s behaviour when asked to do String({})!

I thought Farrell did alright today. A few nice, flat passes that inject a lot of pace into the receiver when Russell can sometimes be a bit delicate and floaty.

Just when you thought MAGA couldn’t get any more ridiculous they’re now claiming batteries don’t exist??