Jonty Wareing

In all honesty I think his selfless kindness slightly changed my life

Conversely we once had a guy comment that our new (much larger) place needed more furniture. My partner mentioned she could do with a filing cabinet for all her paperwork.

Came back after dinner that night to find two filing cabinets on the doorstep and a note saying "good luck in your new house".

Had a pair who barely even mentioned the enormously heavy supercomputer I'd been storing in the hallway but thought getting a slightly awkwardly sized desk out of the house was an unreasonable request

Can it built a working disco torment nexus? No bet.

Previously a junior developer would have said "Jonty, no" to my hilariously bad ideas, but now the LLM says "You're right!" and vanishes down a hole to build my disco torment nexus.

Which is to say: I'm very sorry in advance.

Yep! I'm still trying to decide if I should mix them or have one-per chamber.

If your new-bot sense is tingling, yep

Some words used for the first time in parliament yesterday: boinging, thinspiration, unfriend, kiddo, perkiness

@russ.garrett.co.uk @metabrew.com I'm not sure if we can attend his actual memorial, but would you be up for a London one?

In a pub. As he would have wanted.

FUCK. Rob was incredible, thanklessly struggling against the major labels for the last 26 years to curate one of the most important databases of our age.

I've got some spare gift subscriptions if anyone would like a taster

Anyone saying local journalism is dead hasn't been following London Centric, who are knocking it out of the park on a weekly basis.

Essential reading if you're a Londoner - a subscription I have no hesitation paying.

How am I supposed to sleep after seeing this

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Pfft, why aren't films 63 hours long

dId you just try to use a computer to post or was that an accident

And yet I can't find anything about the rumoured blobbycule

me: gosh look at the time
the time: @526.18 swatch beats

METALSISTEM

Got myself some shed shelving made by a company with a name you can only pronounce in a guttural scream

ALEXA, NOT THE BROWN NOTE

I have a suspicion that it actually failed to properly extract the API details and partially hallucinated one of the endpoints based on old documentation I found online, but I've not had time to sit down and manually verify it yet!

I did this the other week with the Lime app and while Claude seemed to reliably extract the API, it couldn't write a working client for it. Unclear where the failure was.

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My heart longs for the days of early last.fm when I worked on the platform that allowed artists to publish their music for free and engage with the fans. It was SO MUCH FUN.

My garden right now

After an intense day, one conference, three pubs, and a lot of typing:

Open data nerds stopped talking to each other and meeting up. This is bad.

Billions of dollars spent on developing satisfying fidget toys and not one company has produced a simulated degaussing clitoris

New fear just dropped

It did not work

So distracted I just attempted to wash my hands with toothpaste

[narrator voice] While likes never became florps, Twitter did become X. The timeline never moved. It was society going sideways.