Kate

This reminds me of the time the fire alarm went off while you were recovering from FFS. You just walked out onto your balcony and told me you were ready to die instead of walking down 9 flights of stairs

POV: you join a zoom meeting with me.
i am sitting there looking unhappy, with my fingers in my ears. my mic is unmuted. there is a fire alarm sounding.
you leave the zoom meeting

brave of you to trust that a GUI doesn't just run unquoted shell commands

what's in the box? what's in the box what's in the box??
NOTHING the box is EMPTY.
unless you re-run failed builds, and then the box contains what you put there. SOMETIMES

me: hold on to this thing for me please
github actions cache: no problem boss. i've got it
me: you got it?
github actions cache: i successfully confirm i do not got it
github actions cache: hey all your builds failed
github actions cache: also you're a terrible human

samsung s25. needed a new phone recently, this was the smallest i can find that will allegedly stay supported for a while

this is the best visualisation of thinking i've ever seen, it's *exactly* what's going on in my head. i've tried to describe this as a "mental stack" before. go click on it

this worked out way better than i expected, wow

i went outside ten hours ago to go to a cafe and do some coding and on the way there someone waved at me from inside a nearby building and i was like oh that's the guy from the adhd group meetup that happens on ... oh that's today, cool. so i went to the adhd group meetup

love it, that's gonna give a self-consistent palette of sounds. i just got myself a sovage le brasier from a friend, i wonder if that can sound similarly unpredictable

this is such a good use for the plasma voice, sounds great

don't we all

After years and years the Korg Phase8 is finally out. I did a video on it where I treated it *respectfully* but it turns out it likes to be treated *weird*.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpMx...

lol

water test strips. they're colourful af! these each test for various chemicals; alkalinity, carbonate, hardness, nitrate, iron, lead, chromium, mercury, etc. each of these tests has its own spectrum for results, some range in saturation only, some in hue between two or three colours, some in value only. collectively they look like a bunch of pride flags, although not specifically any particular ones. although hardness is blue-to-purple, which is close to the bi flag colours. and iron + cyanuric acid in combination are just about the community lesbian flag colours

glad to see water hardness is bisexual

andrew! what is this drive-by stuff, behave yourself

nothing, just that we've all seen the same thing a million times

i am, i'm very bad at it

(if you reply to this with an xkcd cartoon i will think less of you as a human, it's 2026)

website: Your password must contain a non-alphanumeric character (a character other than A-Z a-Z or the digits 0-9)
me: `
website: NOT THAT CHARACTER
me: _
website: NO
me: @
website: no
me: -
website: no
me: =
me: come on
website: no

what do you want from me?? these aren't even non-printable

HEARTBREAKING: This Woman Thought Her PR Was Already Merged

The alt text in these photos are works of art.

my own photos, maybe decent examples of conveying the feeling of an image. because these are arsty photos, not technical documentation
bsky.app/profile/kate...

welcome! personally if you want my advice, i tend to put the big impact stuff right at the start. as sighted people, that first impression hits us almost without realising. this photo was striking, geometric, magnificent in scale. you mention these, but only later on, but this is what we see first

ah alt text is always extremely welcome! i don't use a screen reader personally. screen readers and braille screens will generally present emoji as text descriptions, "smiling face with smiling eyes" or such. that's why long strings of emoji get tedious and overwhelming

that's easy. if it were intentional, he'd be bad at it

i think it's nice that there are people

big pro for The Outside: it has dogs. inside doesn't have those

this seems to be incorrect from what i've seen. but also if it were true, it's completely fine to be not very good at things 💜