your winrar bag 😭

people will do anything to avoid writing XML

I don't think children should have phones. They should have huge beige desktop computer with "Windows 9x Operating System", "Dedicated 3D accelerator", and "SoundBlaster compatible sound card"

a man is carrying a bag in front of a no parking sign Alt: a man throwing a computer in to a dumpster

i get a dylib error when running wget and my system python interpreter hangs indefinitely, truly thinking different

a 27 thousand line perl script is doing the rounds, i for one am thrilled to see bioinformatics is healing. we are heading back to the good old days

web apps that dont support the back button just need to get in the fucking bin

immeasurable rage as i once again load my tickets to discover the UI of JIRA has changed irrecoverably. i lament modern software

Cute OSM moment: hunting for a local "monument" that I could not spot on streetside photography led me to discover a plaque and tree commemorating the town's first cinema in 1911

get telegraf'd

- gets new sensors
- tries to set up new influx bucket
- realises they are still on influx 1
- discovers there is now an influx 3 to worry about instead

remember when searching the internet worked, that was a cool time

"this appears to be a bug in both JDK 17 and JDK 21" is probably the most cursed resolution i have had to write so far this year

happy monday
may all your jira tickets be well defined

i also caught my first tarantula on animal crossing

another achievement that week was i got up early to place an order for brownies to be delivered to the house after we'd run out of chocolate during the first lockdown

never in my mind did i think it would run for this long

CLIMB-COVID: continuous integration supporting decentralised sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance - Genome Biology In response to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the UK, the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium was formed to rapidly sequence SARS-CoV-2 genomes as part of a national-scale genomic surveillanc...

a blast from the past: happy birthday to majora, deployed on this day five years ago. on its first day it was populated with metadata for over 3000 covid genomes and kicked off a pipeline to homogenise them into the first cog-uk dataset.
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

asking for a friend wondering why the fuck apple contacts is even involved in opening a VCF in 2025

does anyone even use the virtual contact file format any more

photograph of an internal house door with a little window above. Sam can be seen waving through the window. a little breakfast is on a tray outside the door.

happy nanoversary to me! i had totally forgotten that three years ago today i started my nanopore adventure by testing positive for covid and isolating in my office

seagate ironwolf disks seem fine!

hmm i wonder if this is related to wd red plus drives always designed to be on? pin 11 looks like its used for "staggered spinup" which i dont think these drives allow

any sata nerds know if it is expected that a bunch of new sata drives don't report activity indication via pin 11? i've replaced some old drives in my nas and i've lost my blinky lights!

today i painfully discovered sff-8087 cables are directional

BRING SPLASH SCREENS BACK COWARDS

i refuse to believe this was five years ago already

i really thought the fax machine was going to be involved in my adult life

this is the content i have been missing

"Teach our algorithm what you like"
welcome to blueksy
the machine must feed

a hello kitty doll is walking down a street with the word real written on it . ALT: a hello kitty doll is walking down a street with the word real written on it .

salutations felines