Oven

What if we kissed in the Lawsons basement where the copy machine lives

Why not BAR it? (gift)

doing research

Conto?

Do you Kyoto?

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

🤣🤣🤣

"If you put aside the huge risk of getting run over and dying then walking straight across a motorway will completely transform how you get to the other side of a motorway"

It’s difficult not to lose faith when so much of the system is rigged against support for Palestine in the UK, but god damn, this feels like a massive, vital win.

Lots of dogs called 'bossu' in Japan I'm noticing

My (Owen) hand holding a coffee cup for Shinkansen Coffee. It's got a yellow train going around the cup with a coffee cup at some of the windows

I dig the cup as well

The vending machines at bullet train platforms play a little song, show a countdown until the coffee is ready and a video from inside the machine showing the coffee being made wtf

A petition on the UK Government and Parliament Petitions website: Ban the Civil Service from using slide transitions in presentations We urge the UK government to ban the use of slide transitions in civil service presentations for their distracting nature. Never in the history of man has it been appropriate to ‘uncover’ or ‘fade out’ a slide, less so when you’re trying to share important information. Microsoft should be forced to make ‘None’ the default slide transition across all government slide decks.

Getting close!

I made the mistake of going on linkedin and I have a complaint:

It's not the govuk frontend toolkit, the govuk frontend kit, the GDS frontend library/kit/toolkit

It's just govuk frontend

Call it what it is or don't name it at all

Me (Owen) sitting next to No Face from Spirited Away on a train looking at my phone

Authentic public transit photo op

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I'm donut?

Why Juice?

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

A drawing of Guile from Street Fighter and Guinan from Star Trek TNG in a crouched fighting stance side-by-side, showing the similarity between Guile's hair shape and Guinan's hat shape

Guile... Guinan... Guilenan

In MOMAT there's a room labelled in Japanese and English as 'a room with a view' and it is literally a room with a big window with a view of Tokyo

Pop up pirate sama!!!

labour have lost the beano. there's no coming back from this starmer must resign

2. The vendiagram of a budget controller who is ok with vibe prototypes to save time and cash and a budget controller who only wants vibe coding is almost a complete circle. I already feel tired just thinking about explaining the difference between the two to a budget controller.

AND ANOTHER THING: I extend this critique to claims that it's good for prototypes. Bad take.
1. A prototype isn't any good if it breaks intermittently. That's not what prototyping is for. Scrappy code and scrappy service ideas aren't the same thing. What are you testing, that the code is bad?

Ok yeah sure whatever but it looks good enough to someone who's not versed in the topic being generated which is what genAI-produced. That's the key with any critique about genAI code: it's just supposed to look correct, not be correct

The scary thing with low-code is that it hides UX and front-end problems, but it still requires lots of effort from full-stack devs. So you end up with an end-product of low quality that is also expensive to maintain and deliver. It's not quick or cheap or good.

Wrestling fucking rules

It's very strong. I held an open pot out for our cat to see what she'd do one time and I've never seen her neck recede so fast and so far