Oh fun. My anti virus/malware software says VS Code's GitHub Copilot Chat has a dodgy Base64-encoded script in it!
You'd think GitHub, of all people, would know not to do that!
2025-11-11 21:42:57
2025-11-11 18:04:36
Lesson 12 of my LoopConf talk was “Read your own code”.
Chris Ferdinandi knows this lesson. And the tip on leaving reviewer notes is good too.
2025-11-10 23:15:18
I'm hardly a connoisseur of fine video games, but one of my favourite games on the little PlayDate console is Hyper Meteor, and its now on Steam.
A tiny asteroids-like game, but so much fun, perfect difficulty level, I keep coming back again and again.
I'm gonna wreck a controller playing this gem.
2025-11-07 21:52:00
This is incredible. And funny. If you understand why.
“Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music”
https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html
2025-11-07 21:05:48
After this week's firehose, I’m back on my wanting-to-improve-school-comms train again. I'm utterly convinced that there's a relatively simple solution to 80% of most school comms issues. But I also know that schools are focussed on education and children's care, not comms, and would find process change hard.
As always, teachers and people who work in schools have my utmost respect.
2025-11-06 17:03:53
A very random thing I learned today.
Occasionally this live version of the Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy” pops up in YouTube. I quite like the 90s nostalgia of it.
They’re on the Jon Stewart Show, and at the end he thanks “Howard Stevenberg” and Howard Stern who are “Making out in the corner” for being on the show.
I never knew who “Howard Stevenberg” was. I assumed he was a rock star or movie star. But no…
He’s the world’s fastest reader! 🤯
2025-11-04 23:31:19
All the other talks are up too. Go watch them!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLod7ww284cBGTxkmJqysez86KK_1vCYyB
2025-11-04 23:29:12
Oh, yay! I didn’t think my LoopConf talk recording was going to be free to watch. But it’s out on YouTube.
This was an epic labour of love. I’m so glad I can share it with you.
My 25 Lessons from 25 years of software development in (a little over) 25 minutes.
2025-11-04 08:37:27
I think about code a lot. I've found myself thinking about “accessibility” of code. Code that has affordances for manipulating it, and annotations where it's not clear. Code with the equivalents of labels, alt text and captions. Code whose meaning is clear.
And I'm thinking about how accessibility is good, not just for the physically and/or mentally impaired, but for everyone.
Does thinking about the accessibility of code in that context help us code better?
2025-11-03 08:41:42
I have that most fun of things… a swollen 20,000mAh Li-Ion power bank battery.
Putting that OUTSIDE the house until I can recycle it. 😬
2025-11-01 21:59:47
This is an excellent little pop-up calendar app for MacOS. Free. Love it.