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A crocheted square 25x25cm, yellowing colour, lying flat on a black table. The stitches resemble tiny seashells.

Made a nice blanket square for charity. These will be stitched together by a mate from work. #crochet

Feeling a bit like when Marvin The Martian has something blow up in his face

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probably the most useful thing I've ever read on prompt engineering. I've now integrated this into my subagent based workflow (which I keep in git). www.reddit.com/r/PromptEngi...

This stuff feels like voodoo to someone who started in c and assembly, but I suppose it will feel as natural (with sufficient use) as some of C's fun superpower quirks

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

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About 10 years ago I invented a mobile game now called Hext. I built a prototype mobile web version in Javascript and showed a mate who turned it into a proper mobile app and kept updating it. It's a simple timekiller in the spirit of 2048. Give it a go! apps.apple.com/us/app/hext-...

"Prior to Tuesday's protest, NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley encouraged those planning to attend the rally to reconsider.

"Think again," she said during question time at parliament on Tuesday afternoon.

"Because you are deliberately antagonising the NSW Police."

Oh get fucked.

Hm, looks like Windows is still hot garbage

i should probably apologise in advance to the coworker i just introduced to #factorio

that doesn't even sound like food

Its ok to vibe code Makefiles

In other news TIL that the water in mucus comes from your blood, so don't forget to hydrate if you're making a lot of it.

I could do without the prolonged paroxysms of violent sneezing every damn morning. Feel like im gonna crack a rib doing this.

Did you do it one by one though? And does this include peeling time?

Best selling 12inch single of all time

in other news i think i finally grok typeclasses... went back to #Scala and futzed around, getting our AI to explain some stuff. Scala3's typeclass syntax is nice, it's more clear what the implicit behaviours are for. I now see the relationship to extension methods. Looking forward to this in #Java!

YouTube video by Java Growing the Java Language #JVMLS

this is really important to understand where #Java is going www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7O...

This old sign on King Street, Newtown, shows the attitude of the designers of the road layout. Crazy that in 2026 it's still a traffic sewer.

It's time to remove the clearway and return space to the community.

A meme that says “Ingress Player: It’s a game where you make triangles to beat the enemy team.” The response is “Me:” indicating that the person isn’t interested. The Ingress player next says: “You can also get some PokéStops in Pokémon GO if you get to L12” to which the response is a screenshot from Rick and Morty, where Morty says “You son of a bitch, I’m in”

The tale of how I started playing @ingress.com

I guess it stuck long after as I am nearly L16 for the third time

a hero has risen

#java hot take:
Optional.ofNullable(x).map(x -> func(x)).orElse(null)
is not an improvement over
x != null ? func(x) : null

Announcing Unison 1.0 After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebra...

The Unison programming language has hit version 1.0. www.unison-lang.org/unison-1-0/ - this is an extremely interesting language because it's entirely content-addressable. Everything is hashed and composed of other things that are hashed.

can someone please port Portal to Silicon based Mscs?

all good bro

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered : Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

big #unix news, the long lost tape of the first real version of unix (v4) from 1970, has been recovered www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...

“Declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, doesn’t solve the problem, it just weaponizes the solution. Words have meanings, even under the Bigly Brother regime.” - Snarky Orwell

Public health framed as warfare doesn’t heal anyone. It just gives the state more dangerous tools and fewer questions. Words matter. Especially when force follows them.

#SnarkyOrwell
#BiglyBrother
#DoubleSpeak
#WordsHaveMeanings
#MinistryOfTruth

Beltalowda!

oh damn, Leftfield is playing the Enmore in March

YouTube video by Java All Features in Java 26 - Inside Java Newscast #102

#Java 26 enters rampdown phase 1 today, which sets its feature set in stone. The latest inside Java Newscast goes over the full list (don't click, it's boring):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX5...

When google tried this the wearers were deemed Glassholes