Kieran McHugh

In the UK we should do anti-honours. And the first person to get an anti-Knighthood should be whoever removed all of the fucking padding from the seats on the trains and replaced them with ironing boards.

Biggest red flag for AI generated text is excessive use of present participles 🚩 "highlighting the importance of", "underscoring the relevance of", "avoiding the risks of", "emphasising the need for" etc

Really like this actually. Currently the selected tab in liquid glass looks atrocious - this would be a better approach.

Had anyone tried the Donkey Kong game on switch yet?

I’ve never looked into it properly - some of our work pre dates the compiler. Does it work in dev mode with hot reloading etc?

It’s probably not the best code but our dependency arrays are not always equal to everything used in the function so I assumed the compiler wouldn’t be able to handle that

I think if you’re building a simple app it’s overkill. If like us you’re building a calendar and need buttery smooth mouse interaction performance, a single missing useCallback can cause the whole app to rerender on every mouse move and make it feel atrocious. Just depends on the context really.

A picture of me standing outside 10 Downing Street

So cool to visit 10 Downing Street!

Comic strip: Coworker A (drinking coffee): "Some day we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself" Coworker B (coding at a laptop): Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more! And do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? Coworker A: Uh… no… Coworker B: Code. It's called code

Along the same lines:

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

A screenshot showing I can’t access my DMs on Bluesky until I complete age verification

Oi mate do you have a loisence for those DMs

They will have to do age verification as well, the deadline is in a few days though I think

I enjoyed Careless People! Very relevant for everyone in tech.

Hi Nic, so sorry about this. We’re doing a migration right now and it’s taken longer than we expected. If you need access urgently send me a message and I can help 🙏

So nostalgic about this UI

This feels cursed but I can’t explain why 🤣

Lmao StackOverflow mods are going through and closing questions I asked 10 years ago. They shall not rest until they have eliminated every question on the platform.

I’ve seen an uptick in people on LinkedIn posting pictures of sick relatives and using things like relatives’ cancer diagnoses for content.

It’s kinda nauseating tbh.

Check the slack if you’re still a member!

A picture of me holding a 30 ballon

It’s a big one today! I’ve spent my 20s figuring everything out, and now I’m looking forward to my 30s! 🎈

😬 #wwdc25

Experimenting with Apple's new Icon Composer to see what
@daybridge.com's icon could look like in Liquid Glass. #wwdc25 #wwdc

I’m so bored #wwdc

I learned recently that LittleBigPlanet got hacked and the servers are offline :( that game was so good and didn't deserve to die

Warnery and DiscoBros 💃🏻

Brilliant 🤣

Suggestion: ability to nominate 1 person in the concert crowd as the videographer so everyone else can put their phones away

Haha yep I drew that!

We found that the feedback was people didn’t like the blur, it stopped them seeing useful context in the background. So we moved back to tint. Unfortunately I think it would be impossible to implement this faithfully due to lack of progressive blur support in browsers 😔

Sims 3 soundtrack and coding day 💻

open.spotify.com/playlist/1YM...

I don’t know how I would have got through my recent surgery without LLMs available as a tool, some of the medical concepts were really difficult to understand. They were able to give me confidence I was making the right call.