Shrikant

Oh look, it's the monthly installment of the Amy's Baking Company episode of Kitchen Nightmares.

A Swedish footbal fan holding up a sign that says "Abba > Beatles" at the England vs Sweden at the Woman's Euro 2025 quarterfinals

When sledging goes too far...

If search engines had launched today, tech influencers would be falling over themselves labelling the use of search operators like +/-, " ", allintitle, allinurl, site, etc. as "search query engineering" 🙄

I guess that sort makes sense, it's the Spotify logo without the white stripey bits...

I just love this game and the creator so much!

That brief instant when I have to turn off Pi-Hole to see if a website is broken (it's always a digital marketing adjacent site.... :eyeroll: ) because of it makes me feel so icky.

I can't talk to or about anyone named "Mauro" any more without going "SHUT THE FUCK UP MAURO" in my head, why Linus why 😭

SoL: Edited memes Edit the text of an image to create a new phrase. Check out the top pinned post for more information on how to create an image in the correct format.

You might like this subreddit then! www.reddit.com/r/SpeedOfLob...

Snippet of code preceded by the comment: "This is the worst if statement in the history of if statements"

Well I enjoyed it.

Just realised that "Copilot" is an anagram of "Clip Too". Microsoft's marketing team is really missing a trick by not pushing the "AI Clippy" angle!

but it's his favourite word in the dictionary!

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

Today I came up with a new word:

Clunktional

Adjective. Something that's clunky but otherwise functional.

Useful for describing a proof of concept or first (and sometimes final) pass at a solution #rstats #databs

So good, haha!

Having a baby is lot like Brexit:

- it was a marginal 50-50 decision at best
- everything's become more expensive, "but it's not really about money"
- every decision involves all sides yelling at each other as "negotiations"
- freedom of movement has decisively been ended

Someone at work asked me if "dim_users" is a reference to stupid people and now I can't stop thinking about it #DataBS

dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs to accelerate the dbt developer experience | dbt Labs New tech will significantly improve performance, enhance developer ergonomics, and bring rich new metadata to dbt.

Well this saves me a tonne of work bring sdf into my codebase!

www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab...

I start all my LLM chats with "AI, kya bolti tu?" #hindi

When Kier Starmer says "AI" it's the same as a person in the 1970s saying "computers". Just imagine he's saying "computers" and you'll understand the depth of his understanding of the whole thing.

Surely, SURELY, a basic bit of knowledge for experienced engineers joining an established team with a large codebase would be to NOT disregard Every. Single. Convention. of that codebase 🤔

Surely.

Nothing like the first day of a new year to truly test your code's assumptions. #DataBS

I know it's mostly my fault for allowing queries like this on my estate, but a "scroll to searched term" would be nice as well... #DataBS

Neofetch screenshot showing a Raspberry Pi Model B+ and its details.

Very glad for my 12+ year-old Raspberry Pi that just keeps chugging along blocking gunk from my home network!

It's been many years since I last daily-drove a Windows machine for dev stuff, and I still miss Notepad++ when opening random text formats that are not part of a "project".

Zed comes the closest to being that "lightweight, but can do everything" editor replacement, but something's still lacking.

Getting Started with uv, the Python Project and Package Manager | Chris Kornaros Getting Started with uv, the Python Project and Package Manager Introduction uv is an Open Source project by Astral, the makers of ruff, that is self described (and worthy of the title) as an extrem...

Here's a quick write up I did on the new uv package manager by Astral. I walked through setting up a new project, creating the repo with the GitHub CLI, and then using uv to actually manage dependencies. Plus, how to convert existing projects to uv. #DataBS #DevOps

whtwnd.com/chriskornaro...

Okay, I really like WezTerm A guide to configuring WezTerm using its Lua API. Focuses on appearance, keybindings, multiplexing, workspace navigation, and status bar (powerline) setup.

Thank you so much, hadn't quite realised it, but I've been waiting for something like this to be written up to take the uv plunge! (Much like I fully converted to WexTerm and have never looked back, after this post: alexplescan.com/posts/2024/0...)

Tbh it's not that bad having low standards for pop culture quality. It just means there is more stuff that'll make you happy.

I've tried so many times till about 2019 to get started with the OCI free tier and it keeps... stopping me from proceeding at some point. IIRC it was at the point where it sends me an activation link or some such? Maybe I'll give it a go again, looks like they've upped the specs of the free tier!

IMHO this is because waterfall lends itself much nicer to micromanagement..