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Hey folks, cross-pollinating between accounts a bit.

I built Cryptick; a site for sharing crossword clues with other people, no accounts needed.

It also contains an RSS feed of cryptic clues, updated daily at cryptick.wildvale.co.uk/feed.xml

Take a look at today's COTD, I'd love feedback!

Asking Gemini for the longest word with an odd number of vowels. It responds with a word that claims to have an odd number, but it actually has an even number, and the LLM disagrees with itself in its response.

I still can't believe so many people are bought into AI solving all their problems.

The (Somewhat) Complete Lore of Silksong YouTube video by mossbag

IT'S HERE, MOSSBAG MY GOAT

I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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joining the "no stupid questions" channel and posting "pray, mr. babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'

Gandalf looking confused with the caption "Baseball?"

Waking up this morning and reading my feed

knowing the time horizon of your code is one of the best (only) ways of estimating the true cost of that code.

How @glenjamin.co.uk put it,

"Software that does what people need it to, and can be continually and efficiently adapted to those needs over time"

"efficiency" seems important to add.

Finally clawed my way into 1級 on tenhou with a barnstorming fightback from 7k to 31k points.

Time to get my arse handed to me on a platter in the lower dan rooms, I guess.

#mahjong

There's relatively little LLM training data for niche languages and this causes poorer coding agent performance. I think this is an existential threat for smaller language communities like OCaml.

My talk at the OCaml workshop gave some actionable steps to mitigate that: toao.com/blog/ai-exis...

[extremely bbc news reporter voice] if you think back to the ever given blocking the suez canal, this is similar to that, but on the information superhighway

I wasn't keen on fireworks before, but having a pet has radicalised me.

Ban them from public sale at all times of year.

Screen shot of Minute Cryptic app, with text "you have a 69-clue streak!"

Nice

A little #Silksong flavoured clue, to gear up for the big day this week!

The Hollow Knight retreated, guarding the heart of past duty (4)

#cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

The UK Government will send a test alert to mobile phones on Sunday. This is how to switch it off: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

Before anyone types before thinking: domestic abuse survivors may need this. If you don’t, just scroll on.

A cheeky Sunday morning clue:

Maybe Lily Phillips gives head to leaders of local amateur netball team (5)

#cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Chicken's house gets a little Spanish makeover (4)

#cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Obscure snubbed stars joining naked joust (8)

#cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places

Address one hundred and six deliveries (5)

#cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Fired from political journalism for repeatedly referring to the MP Register of Interests as MPreg

Breaking news: The FA to phase out VAR in favour of LET and CONST

On The Beach Caroline Polachek · Single · 2025 · 2 songs

Close enough, welcome back DJ Ocean

#DeathStranding2

open.spotify.com/album/6KrzhY...

BLOGPOST: A pleasant diversion with #TDD

I was recently nerd-sniped by a blogpost from Ron Jeffries so I tried my hand at the problem myself and wrote up as I went.

Almost all of the blogpost is generated directly from the commit history!

blog.probablyfine.co.uk/2025/03/16/a...

An image of video game character Mario, looking disgusted next to text that reads "Passing tests", followed by a second image of Mario, looking satisfied next to text that reads "Passing the vibe check".

Announcement: I'm going to be running a ground-breaking workshop in vibes-driven development (VDD) for software developers this year!

Look out for a sign-up link in my bio.

brb coining the phrase “vibe authing” and instantly ruining internet security

day ruined, went to the kola peninsula and all they had was pepsi

A screenshot of a terminal running a git command creating a new branch. The screenshot is overlaid with an ominous graphic from the game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, but instead of the usual "Sinister Burden" text it reads "New Branch Created".

getting ominous vibes from the latest version of git

Dead by Daylight Quality of Life Initiative 2025 YouTube video by Dead by Daylight

Today, our Community Director, Eric Pope, and our VP and Executive Producer, José Ramos, unveil a two-phase Quality of Life initiative that should address many longstanding concerns and frustrations experienced by players.

Full details 👇
Forums dbd.game/4b5BQxg
Reddit dbd.game/4hEN4Lr

While it's a bit of a shitty strategy by the killers, it's the sort of tug of war that you never see in 1v4 - imagine if Chess Merchant was actually fun to Vs rather than busted.

Also, weirdly fun? A complete change in how the game was played - constant rotating between healing and pushing gens.